http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/hop-harvest-video-coverage-from-yakima/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:30:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/hop-harvest-video-coverage-from-yakima/comment-page-1/#comment-33050 Chad S. Roberts Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:55:31 +0000 http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/?p=3095#comment-33050 Hey, that's my stuttering self in that video too! Whee! Hey, that’s my stuttering self in that video too! Whee!

]]> http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/hop-harvest-video-coverage-from-yakima/comment-page-1/#comment-1558 Patrick Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:46:18 +0000 http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/?p=3095#comment-1558 I liked the first video... it's always exciting seeing the hop harvest. The second video seemed somewhat one-sided - like the reporter didn't do their due diligence and just bothered to call up one brewery. I guess TV reporting often isn't intended to cover the full story so maybe that was intentional. I think some breweries aren't locked into contract prices, and some have better contract prices than Snipes. And I'm not sure which Seattle brewery he claimed went out of business because of high hop prices (anyone know?) but it seems hard to believe that solely the hop prices made them go out of business. There are plenty of breweries that thrived and grew during 2007-2008 so it's more about quality of beer and marketing of it that will determine a brewery's fate. I liked the first video… it’s always exciting seeing the hop harvest. The second video seemed somewhat one-sided – like the reporter didn’t do their due diligence and just bothered to call up one brewery. I guess TV reporting often isn’t intended to cover the full story so maybe that was intentional.
I think some breweries aren’t locked into contract prices, and some have better contract prices than Snipes. And I’m not sure which Seattle brewery he claimed went out of business because of high hop prices (anyone know?) but it seems hard to believe that solely the hop prices made them go out of business. There are plenty of breweries that thrived and grew during 2007-2008 so it’s more about quality of beer and marketing of it that will determine a brewery’s fate.

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