How We Lead
Driven by innovation, collaboration, and an uncomporomising commitment to be the global leader in quality and customer satisfaction.
Raising the Standard for Quality, Innovation, and Sustainability.
Leadership at Yakima Chief Hops is directed by ambition and proven through action. We’re redefining excellence with rigorous third-party certifications and our Green Chief® Program, delivering transparency from field to finished product. Powered by industry-leading Research & Development, sensory science, hop breeding, and evolving growing practices, we help brewers stay on the cutting edge. Backed by measurable sustainability progress, our standards, science, and stewardship are shaping the future of hops.
Quality Begins in the Field
Breeding Innovation from Field to Flavour
Our partnership with Yakima Chief Ranches puts us at the forefront of hop breeding science. With a mission to develop pest and disease-resistant brands, provide value and excitement for the brewing industry, and bolster efficiency on a farm level, Yakima Chief is perfectly positioned to deliver quality and consistency across the supply chain.
Partners in Progress
From breeder to grower through supplier to brewer, the Yakima Chief Ranches partnership supports our mission of connecting family farms with the world’s finest brewers.
Focus on Resilience
By directing breeding efforts towards disease and pest-resistance, higher-yielding fields, and consistency in aroma, we strengthen the long-term stability of the hop supply brewers rely on.
Where Flavour Grows
We know that brewers need their hops to consistently produce flavour-forward consumer favourites. We are proud to breed bold, distinctive hops for every style and purpose.
Advancing Hop Quality with Sensory Science
Quality and innovation are the foundational blocks of everything we do here at Yakima Chief Hops. Our Sensory Analysis Program was born of these values, ensuring quality throughout the production and brewing processes, identifying and describing novel varieties and products, and promoting sensory education throughout the industry.
From Farm to Flavor: Innovation that Works
We continuously evolve how we grow, process, package, and deliver hops in an industry fueled by creativity and competition. Through research and collaboration, we develop solutions-driven hop products that improve efficiency, unlock bold flavors and aromas, and deliver real results. From industry-changing innovations like Cryo Hops® to setting new standards for CO2 reclamation, we are constantly pushing forward.
Research & Development
Our internal Research & Development team is constantly exploring hop science to discover cutting-edge hop products and brewing solutions.
Sensory Science
As pioneers in hop sensory with an industry-leading team, we provide brewers with valuable tools and critical data.
Growing Practices
Green Chief is our farm-quality and sustainability management program, designed to establish strong baselines, guidelines, and practices for traceability, harvest food safety, data collection, and reporting.
Footprints Programme
Footprints® is the comprehensive brand management programme of standards and practices set forth by Yakima Chief Ranches to ensure our hops are grown and harvested with the highest level of consistency, purity, and excellence.
Hop Breeding
We maintain quality from propagation to pint by partnering with Yakima Chief Ranches, a leader in hop breeding and management. This collaboration ensures access to top-quality, innovative hop varieties.
Food Safety
Yakima Chief Hops ensures food safety at all facilities through its Green Chief Program, CGMP compliance, an ISO-integrated HACCP system, and ISO 22000 certification.
Sustainability Methods
We advance sustainable hop production using regenerative farming practices, CO2 recapture, solar energy, waste and water reduction, and efficient data management systems.
Yakima Chief Ranches
For more than 30 years, Yakima Chief Hops and Yakima Chief Ranches have worked as two distinct companies united by a shared purpose: building a seamless, grower-driven supply chain rooted in family farms and world-class hops. Yakima Chief Ranches focuses on breeding innovative hop varieties and advancing farming best practices, while Yakima Chief Hops develops groundbreaking products and connects brewers to those family farms. Together, the partnership covers the hop industry from propagation to pint, delivering the quality brewers expect while strengthening the Pacific Northwest hop-growing community.
Featured Products
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Cryo Hops®
Created through our patented cryogenic separation process, Cryo Hops contain nearly twice as much lupulin as T-90 pellets, packing an intense contribution of aroma and flavor. Cryo delivers more hop intensity with less volume, enhancing efficiency and maximizing impact at every application.
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HyperBoost®
HyperBoost is the answer for brewers who want a flowable concentrated oil that can be poured directly into the fermenter. This highly concentrated product contains more than 40% hop oil, delivering amplified variety-specific aromatics to your brew.
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DynaBoost®
This oil-enriched product was designed to pour easily at room temperature directly into the whirlpool. Standardized at 20% hop oil, DynaBoost is wort-soluble, delivering amplified variety-specific aromas with less trub material impacting your waste stream, and more wort heading to your fermenter.
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Cryo Fresh®
Cryo Fresh pellets combine farm-fresh hops with Cryo Hops technology, allowing brewers to capture the vibrant green flavor of Fresh Hop beer year-round. Fresh, concentrated lupulin pellets deliver all the bright character of hop harvest, with none of the mess.
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CO2 Extract
Produced using supercritical CO₂ extraction, this pure hop resin extract offers increased alpha utilization in the kettle, as well as variety-specific hop character when used in the whirlpool. It has a significant shelf life and minimal storage requirements.
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American Noble Hops™
American Noble Hops are premium low-alpha pellets made exclusively of bract leaf material. Lupulin is separated from the plant matter during our patented cryogenic process, resulting in a "de-bittered" pellet that closely resembles traditional noble hops, preserving the unique characteristics of each variety.
More Than a Box of Hops
While our feet are in the fields, we keep our minds on the planet and the future. As a 100% grower-owned, multi-generational company, it’s nearly impossible for us to overlook the impact of every decision we make, our impact on the environment, our communities, and future harvests. Beyond delivering exceptional hops, we’re committed to leaving the land and the industry better than we found them. Download our Impact Reports to see how we are advancing our sustainability goals.
