Black Star Ranch, LLC., owned and operated by the Gamache and St. Mary families in Moxee, Washington, is known for their attention to detail. They take pride in being intimately involved with the day-to-day operation of their farm. This close attention to detail has helped Black Star Ranch be recognized as an elite producer of quality hops by brewers and dealers alike, including several awards from YCH. As the craft brewing industry has continued to grow, Black Star Ranch has been diligent about growing at a pace that will allow them to continue to have the personal touch that has made their hops coveted by breweries around the world. They have grown slowly, intentionally, and steadily in the past few years, and have spent tremendous amounts of capital building up their infrastructure along the way. In the past several years, they have renovated their picking machine and added on to their kiln. “We chose to update our facilities for safety, throughput, and capacity. We want brewers to be able to come see what we do in a safe environment. We also needed to make sure that we could have the capacity needed to continue picking hops in the right harvest windows for quality purposes,” said Ed St. Mary, General Manager of Black Star Ranch. New to the farm in 2019 will be a massive cooling and baling room. St. Mary added, “The cooling and baling room will allow us to continue our quality and conditioning program at Black Star Ranch.”
Posted January 08, 2020