Fancy seeing me here! After all, the place can hardly hold 11% — I’m scraping the rafters. Makes for a good view, and it’s clear when a room needs what I’ve got in spades: fruity, dank, and devilishly hoppy flavor. Your night is looking up. Savor it and don’t blink because I like to vanish in a puff of lupulin dust.
Sierra Nevada's Ken Grossman is without doubt the most important man in craft beer history. He was a passionate homebrewer but found buying hops hard as not many were available to hobbyists in the late 1970s. He drove all the way from Chico in California to Yakima Valley and begged the hop growers for a variety of hops.