Hopped Up Premiere Screening at the Historic Everett Theatre

2911 Colby Ave,Everett WA 98201

14 October, 2021

Description

“Hopped Up” A documentary about hops and craft beer is a feature length documentary about how Yakima Valley hops changed beer forever. The Hopped Up documentary, shot over a 5 year period, follows the hops cycle from dormant fields covered in snow to the round the clock scurry of activity during the 6 weeks of fall harvest. It also delves deeply into the technology of breeding and processing hops from the lucrative private breeders to the USDA public breeding program. Could this golden age of hops and craft beer be in peril? From over production, to climate change to a tightening supply of immigrant workers, the industry is ripe for change. Can it sustain itself for another 100 years? With interviews from farmers, hop distributors and breeders, beer culture notables, and craft beer industry experts this documentary paints a detailed and complex story of the most popular beer sensation that’s taking over the world one IPA at a time. This story travels from Oregon’s Willamette Valley, the birthplace of modern hops to Washington’s Skagit Valley for custom grown grains to the Yakima Valley, currently the largest producer of Hops in America and roughly 1/3rd of the world’s hops.