Valley brewer giving new option for non-alcoholic drinks

Brewer Ryan Hansen has perfected his trade implicit the past decennary but recovered a look for occurrence with home-brewed hop water.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Call it a "next to beer" experience. Hazard's Hop Water is offering those who similar a non-alcoholic beverage a caller option.

"We person our classical citra, lime and mint, passionateness effect and grapefruit," says brewer Ryan Hansen.

Brewer Ryan Hansen has perfected his trade implicit the past decennary but recovered a look for occurrence with home-brewed hop water.

"I didn't privation to vie with each of the section breweries due to the fact that we person specified a large brew country here, nor did I person the superior to commencement that," helium said.

Eight months later, you tin find Hazard's Hop Water online, nationally distributed and successful prime section restaurants.

"The caller procreation coming on are conscionable drinking little trade beer, truthful we're truly trying to thrust that question pursuing the footsteps of Liquid Death," Hansen said.

The non-alcoholic beverage inactive requires a brewing process that takes astir a week.

"We inactive spell done the aforesaid steps of boiling that h2o and steeping the hops astatine a definite temperature, and it goes into a vessel to ferment to get the biotransformation of the hops," Hansen said. "It's not similar a non-alcoholic brew that whitethorn person the intoxicant removed. This doesn't person it to statesman with."

Initially selling to golfers looking to hydrate connected the course, Hansen says the health-conscious assemblage is proving to beryllium the bulk of his clientele.

"It's hydrating, it's virtually bully for you due to the fact that hops are bully for you and it has nary sugar, nary calories, nary carbs," helium said.

Since Hazard's Hop Water is inactive a deed connected galore section play courses, helium plans connected releasing an Arnold Palmer flavor.

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