In the early days of craft beer, hopping was limited to bittering hops, flavor hops and aroma hops, added early, late and later in the boil.  Then dry hopping became very popular, particularly with IPAs.  As hops came to dominate the craft beer discussion, brewers began experimenting with all manner of hopping techniques in an effort to extract new, interesting and stable hop flavors and boost the overall hoppiness in their beers.  What are all these hopping techniques and what do they do?

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Van Havig has been brewing for over 29 years: a couple in Minnesota, a few in Maryland and finally in Oregon for the last 24 years.  He has worked in 500,000 BBL/yr breweries down to 1500 BBL/yr brewpubs, and in 2012, he founded Gigantic Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon which is a 4500 BBL/yr small brewery with a couple of tap rooms.  In 2011 he won the Inge Russel Best Paper Award from the Master Brewers Association of the Americas, served on the board of the Oregon Brewers Guild for 12 years, with two years as president, and is currently the scholarship committee chair of the Hop Quality Group.

Mark Bjornstad is the President and Co-Founder of Drekker Brewing and Brewhalla. Born and raised in the Fargo-Moorhead area, Mark has a particular love and affection for the unique, old and weird side of Fargo. It was that special love that ultimately drew Mark back to Fargo in 2010 after living outside the area for many years. Knowing there was a need and an opportunity in Fargo for something fun and exciting, Mark co-founded Drekker Brewing in 2013 along with co-founders Jesse Feigum FYGUM, Darin Montplaisir and Mason Montplaisir MonPLAYZUR. Fast forward 10 years and it’s hard to tell if life is a dream or some magical alternate universe for Mark. Drekker has become a force of the unnatural and reaches around the globe. Mark now spends his days making messes, apologizing to his wife for their wild and fun little boys and mostly being inspired by the amazing team of talented weirdos at Drekker.

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Called the “Bob Ross of beer” by Imbibe magazine, Em Sauter is an award winning cartoonist, author, beer judge, journalist and public speaker based in the US and is the founder of the website Pints and Panels which teaches visual drinks education. She has an MFA in cartooning from the famous Center for Cartoon Studies, is an Advanced Cicerone®, holds WSET Level 2 in Spirits and Wine and is an BJCP certified international beer judge who has judged high-profile competitions on every continent but Antarctica. She is the co-host of the All About Beer podcast along with Canadian drinks writer Don Tse.  She has contributed to Forbes, Brewers and Distillers International, Craft Beer and Brewing, Vinepair, Outside, The Alcohol Professor and more. She is the author of four books on beer.