Japance Off Sake Saison

The story of Japance Off really began in a hop field in the Alsace region of France in 2014. I was lucky enough to be able to visit with some hop growers and distributors there on a trip to evaluate a hop called Aramis. The growers in the region were having a hard time. Weather and crops were ok, but the recent buyout of Anheuser Busch had meant that they lost most of their hop contracts for the major hop that they had been growing for centuries – Strisselspalt. The distributor was scrambling to sell alternate hops in different areas and Aramis was a hop that the brewery I was working with at the time had just signed a large contract for. The distributor wanted us to visit not only to form a relationship and evaluate Aramis,... Show Less