Black Star Ranches
Hop GrowerWashingtonVarieties Published: 0
Grower Data
- State
- Washington
- City
- Moxee
- County
- Yakima
- Family Ownership
- The Gamache family
- Merchant Affiliation
- Yakima Chief Hops grower-owner (joined 2019; archived YCH growers page, October 2026); Black Star Ranch LLC on the YCR roster
- Notes
- A Yakima Chief page exists at /about-us/growers/black-star-ranch but returned HTTP 429.
- Verified
- Checked Against a Primary Source
- Verification
- source page opened and read
- Source Url
- washingtonbeerblog.com
- Other Sources
- brewbound.com
web.archive.org
web.archive.org - County Source
- looked up from city
Varieties This Grower Publishes as Grown
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No variety has been published for this farm yet.
2026 Medal Beers That Name This Farm
Brewery Named This Farm. The brewery published this farm for the hop shown. This is a direct link with its own source.
No brewery of a 2026 medal beer has named this farm.
2026 Medal Beers That Use Hops Grown Here
Grown by. These beers use a hop variety this farm publishes as grown. It does not mean the brewery bought from this farm.
No 2026 medal beer uses a variety this farm grows.
Breweries With a 2026 Medal Beer Linked to This Farm
Each brewery links to its page, with how the farm is linked.
No brewery with a 2026 medal beer is linked to this farm.
Hop Merchants
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| Yakima Chief Hops | merchant and cooperative | Yakima WA | 100% grower-owned; 14 grower-owners on the archived October 2026 growers page (15 family farms as of 2019) | Product lines listed on the archived site: fresh hops, whole leaf hops, hop pellets, Cryo Hops, Cryo Fresh, aged hops, American Noble Hops, CO2 extract, organic hops, HyperBoost, DynaBoost and hop blends. Facility locations are not stated on the pages read. | Simcoe, Citra, Mosaic and Loral are managed by Yakima Chief Ranches (archived Yakima Chief page) | Brulotte Farms appears on the archived April 2026 list but not on the October 2026 list; Westwood Farms appears on the October list. Grower names and owners only; per farm variety lists were not archived. Archive copies used because the live site shows a bot challenge. | web.archive.org | Checked Against a Primary Source |
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| Yakima Chief Ranches | breeder and brand manager | Yakima Valley WA | Owned by three Yakima Valley farms: Perrault Farms, Loftus Ranches and Carpenter Ranches; began in the late 1980s as the Carpenters, Smiths and Perraults; a Hop Breeding Company member | Micropropagation: meristem viral therapy, tissue culture multiplication, greenhouse conditioning and delivery of potted plants to grower fields in an 8 to 10 week cycle (archived November 2025). Footprints brand management program. | Brands listed on the archived brands page: Ahtanum (YCR 1), Citra (HBC 394), Dolcita (HBC 1019), Ekuanot (HBC 366), HBC 682, Idaho 7 (J 007), Krush (HBC 586), Loral (HBC 291), Mosaic (HBC 369), Palisade (YCR 4), Sabro (HBC 438), Simcoe (YCR 14), Talus (HBC 692), Warrior (YCR 5) | Publishes a roster of 41 farms it works with (Washington 22, Idaho 7, Oregon 12), up from 43 farms in a March 2023 snapshot. The roster is not broken down by variety, so it is the closest published grower list for the managed brands but not a per variety licence list. Beginning in 2011 with the three owners it expanded across the three states. | web.archive.org | Checked Against a Primary Source |
Research Notes
Black Star Ranches is recorded here from the sources listed below, and only as those sources state it. A blank field means no source checked states it.
Location
Moxee, Yakima County, WA. The county is derived: looked up from the city, not stated by the farm.
Ownership-and-history
- Family or ownership: The Gamache family
Varieties-as-published
No variety list for this farm was found in the sources checked.
Supply-chain
- Affiliation as published: Yakima Chief Hops grower-owner (joined 2019; archived YCH growers page, October 2026); Black Star Ranch LLC on the YCR roster
- Listed as a source farm of Yakima Chief Hops in the merchants file
- Listed as a source farm of Yakima Chief Ranches in the merchants file
Notes
A Yakima Chief page exists at /about-us/growers/black-star-ranch but returned HTTP 429.
Sources
- https://washingtonbeerblog.com/four-more-family-farms-join-yakima-chief-hops/
- https://www.brewbound.com/news/yakima-chief-hops-welcomes-four-new-grower-owners
- http://web.archive.org/web/20261009213521/https://www.yakimachief.com/about-us/growers
- http://web.archive.org/web/20260710201349/https://yakimachiefranches.com/history/