Odell & Yakima Chief Hops Collaborate On Krush Pils Cans

Today I have a new collaboration pilsner lager and it’s coming from Odell Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado. This is Krush West Coast Style PIls and it will be a west coast-style pilsner lager brewed in collaboration with Yakima Chief Hops. The beer will feature Krush YCH 803 hops and it will roll in at a sessionable 4.7%-AbV. Look for Odell Krush to be packaged in these 16oz cans and stay tuned for release info.

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Label Text Odell Brewing Krush Pils.

“Level up your lager game with Krush West Coast Style Pils. Yakima Chief Hops. Featuring Krush YCH 803 to layer the perfect hop bitterness with lush stone fruit and zesty citrus. Crystal-clear and crisp, this crushable Westy will keep you coming back for more.”

About Yakima Chief Hops:

At Yakima Chief Hops, we make it our mission to tell the stories of the family-owned, independent hop farms from which we source our hops, as we work to strengthen the connection between growers and brewers. We recognize that with this mission comes the shared responsibility to ensure that both YCH and our growers complement and positively reflect one another.

That is why we intentionally partner with family hop farms that share the same values that are deeply rooted within our heritage. We are proud to say that our core values are woven throughout our organization, from the way our growers farm their fields to the culture that is created within our offices. It is why brewers choose to buy our hops. Our company values are contained within our PRIDE statement as follows:

VALUES
Our grower owners and their family hop farms are as unique as the varieties they cultivate, each having their own history,

traditions and personalities. We strive to embrace and share these unique stories with the brewing community, as our
customers remember each farm for their own distinct qualities.

To learn more about becoming part of YCH’s network of hop growers, please contact us at [email protected]

PASSION
FOR PEOPLE, PRODUCT, PLANET AND PROCESS.
RESPECT
TEAMWORK AND COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY.
INTEGRITY
TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN ALL WE DO.
DEDICATION
TO SAFETY, QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY.
EXCELLENCE
AN EMPHASIS ON INNOVATION AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT.

YAKIMA CHIEF HOPS PIONEERS

For six generations and counting, the family farms that makeup Yakima Chief Hops have been driven by the desire to help the entire the community thrives by constantly improving beer’s greatest ingredient, the hop.

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3D FARM / BC HOP FARM
FEATURED HOP GROWER
Founded: 1940s
Base: WOODBURN, OREGON
Owned By: BRUCE, BILL & CHARLIE DAVIDSON
Website: www.yakimachief.com

Bruce, Bill and Charlie Davidson are the proud owners and fourth generation hop farmers of 3D Farm and BC Hop Farm Ltd. Their family farming operations began in the 1940s when their father, Jim Davidson, purchased 100 acres of farmland in the Willamette Valley and planted 10 acres of hops, all of which had to be hand-picked. In 1975, Jim purchased the first Dauenhauer picking machine along with three dryers and a Gasseling layer and baler. Working alongside their father, the three brothers purchased the farm in 1983 and continued to expand operations. In 1995, 3D Farm expanded to its current facility with two Dauenhauer machines, seven dryers, and a dedicated cooling and baling room. They have now expanded their production to more than 600 acres and nine varieties.

The Davidsons embrace sustainability and contribute to the hop industry’s environmental preservation efforts by utilizing solar panels as a renewable energy source. They also operate a grinder used to process hop plant waste created throughout the harvest season, which is then returned to the hop yards as compost. Outside of the fields, Charlie has served on the Board of Directors for Hop Growers of America and the Oregon Hop Commission.

About Odell Brewing:

Founded in 1989, Odell Brewing was started by Doug Odell, his wife Wynne, and his sister Corkie. Over thirty years later, the culture of family and collaboration still thrives, fostering a brewery full of beer-centric people. It is this passion for beer that inspires Odell Brewing to create quality, hand-crafted, innovative brews.

Proudly Colorado
With the Rockies as our backdrop, Colorado has always been home. Visit our flagship brewery in Fort Collins or our Denver small batch brewhouses in the Five Points and Sloan’s Lake neighborhoods.

Independent Since ’89
The Odell family founded a brewery full of beer-centric people back in 1989. Odell Brewing is employee owned and committed to its independence for generations to come.

Investing In The Planet
We’re operating the largest carbon dioxide recapture system in Colorado craft beer, eliminating 1.4 million pounds of carbon emissions annually. Our commitment to process improvement saves over 10 million gallons of water per year.

Crafting Community
We contribute to hundreds of nonprofits annually, empowering their work in our communities. Each year, our co-workers volunteer over 2,000 hours and host over 50 non profit fundraisers.

Independent since 1989. 100% Employee Owned.
In 2015, the Odell family founders sold the majority of the company to its co-workers (now co-owners) in a combined management buyout and an Employee Stock Ownership Program. Since the beginning the people who helped build Odell Brewing Co have acted like owners. This just made it official.

Early Days

Late 1970s | It all Starts with Scrubbing
Doug Odell’s Passion for craft beer started in the 70’s with his first job at San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Company scrubbing the mash tun.

1981 | Becoming a Homebrewer
After his time at Anchor, Doug moved to Seattle where he continued to homebrew, perfected some recipes and met his wife Wynne.

1985 | From Honeymooning to Brewing Bliss
While honeymooning in the UK, Doug and Wynne were inspired by the many small breweries that were successfully selling flavorful real ale, and decided they wanted to take Doug’s passion commercial.
1989 | Building Roots

Doug and Wynne were looking for the perfect town to start their brewery. Doug’s sister Corkie was living in Fort Collins and sold them on the cozy college town, which unlike Seattle, didn’t have any other craft breweries.  The three of them joined forces to open up the brewery in 1989.
Today

The original brewery was located in a 1915 grain elevator just a few blocks from where the current brewery sits. Their first commercial release was Odell’s Golden Ale brewed with all malt and a modest hop build. 90 Shilling came along soon after, and remains the brewery’s top selling flagship.
 

Sometimes we can’t believe it’s been 30 years. When you have something as good as we’ve had at our brewery, life just flows.

Doug, Wynne & Corkie
Co Founders
The Art of Brewing

We take great pride in the pioneering advances we’ve made in developing innovative beer styles and brewing techniques. From the intensive study of hopping techniques to the comprehensive analysis of historic beer styles, we’ve identified the optimal assemblage of beer characteristics in each of our handcrafted brands.

Malting & Milling
Malted barley and wheat runs through the mill to be slightly crushed reveal the barley’s starchy endosperm, a converted fermentable. After milling, the grain is carried through an auger up into the mash tun.

Mashing
In the Mash Tun malt and water are mixed together in hot water for a half-hour, which causes the innermost sugars of the mash to spill out resulting in a sugar water called wort.

Lautering & Boil
The wort then goes into the Brew Kettle to be boiled for 90 minutes, while the spent grains go to a local dairy farm to serve as cattle feed. We add hops at different times during the boil to create a bitter mixture with a floral aroma.

Hop Back
When we’re making a beer that requires a little extra hoppy-ness, we turn to our infamous Hop Back. Here, the wort is strained through a bed of whole-flower hops. This adds the fresh, lively hop character you’ve come to enjoy in Odell IPA, Drumroll, Myercenary, and Mountain Standard.

Fermenting
Next the wort heads to the fermentor. We add a yeast that consumes the sugars to produce alcohol and CO2. After a week at 67°F we give the brew another two weeks at 34°F.

Dry Hopping
For beers that require a little something extra in the hop department we dry-hop them by shooting a cannon full of hop pellets right into the fermentor.

Filtering
Rather than filter our beers, we centrifuge them by spinning the beer at very high speeds. This removes the heaviest particles while leaving the essential hop oils and fine proteins to create a beer with better hop flavor, aroma, and improved mouth-feel and body.

Packaging
The finished beer is packaged into bottles, cans, and kegs. Every minute our packaging lines produce 2 kegs, 120 bottles, and 310 cans! This beer is kept cold in our off-site warehouse before it’s sent out for distribution.

Brewing Ideas into Life
All of our packaged beer is brewed on our 135 barrel, custom Braukon Brewhouse. However, many of these packaged beers started as just an idea on our 5 barrel Pilot System. Experimentation and innovation is at the heart of how we brew. Everyone at the brewery is invited to brew a beer on our Pilot System and share it with the locals at our taprooms,
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