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Sunriver Brewing teamed up with Portland’s Von Ebert Brewing to craft a collaboration beer that will be released later this month: Prospectivus IPA. As a west coast IPA it’s a style that plays to both breweries’ strengths, and will be hitting the taps starting next week. Here’s the press release: … Continue reading
This is a first in receiving beer samples: having a couple of crowlers (32-ounce cans) shipped to me, which were filled on Monday and arrived yesterday. The beer? New Holland Lightpoint Functional White Ale, the new low-carb, low-cal lifestyle beer from the Michigan brewery. I’m guessing the “White Ale” portion … Continue reading
Okay, this is hilarious (and real). Deschutes Brewery announced today the release of a “mega beer” for the upcoming National Protein Day on February 27. It’s a lifestyle beer but at the same time, sort of the “anti-lifestyle” beer in terms of the low-cal, low-carb craze. The idea is akin … Continue reading
The annual Best of Craft Beer Awards judging took place this past weekend here in Bend, and earlier this week the award winners were posted. It’s a big list—they use the 2019 Brewers Association style guidelines, which list 157 styles—so I won’t post it all here. Suffice to say, there … Continue reading
Double Mountain Brewery is introducing a new experimental series of IPAs this year, and Ol’ Greg IPA is the first to be released. The brewery sent me a bottle recently, and in addition to the news of the beer, it looks as though 2020 is the year Double Mountain is … Continue reading
Corvallis’ 2 Towns Ciderhouse just released the 2019 vintage of its Serious Scrump, its imperial English cider, and the company sent two bottles to me for review. This is an 11% ABV cider made with “ice juice” — here’s what the cidery says in the press release: In quintessential 2 … Continue reading
Hop heads rejoice: McMenamins Cedar Hills Pub in Beaverton is set to host its first brewfest this Saturday, February 8, with its inaugural Cedar Hills Pub IPA Festival. This joins the family of McMenamins festivals with a hoppy focus, and will feature variations on IPAs from 22 McMenamins breweries. (Future … Continue reading
Bend’s GoodLife Brewing released its 2020 beer schedule and the nine-year-old brewery has some interesting things on the charts for this year. The core beers are returning, along with the return of The Juice IPA (the G. Love’s Special Sauce IPA from last year), and there are some new specialties … Continue reading
I posted news the other day about a number of Bend, Oregon beer releases, which included Bend Brewing Company and its three upcoming beers in cans. BBC also included a half-year canned beer calendar with the press release. Here’s the upcoming can schedule through June and information from the release … Continue reading
Last weekend the Suttle Lodge hosted its first-ever beer festival with its Winter Brew Fest, featuring a number of regional breweries pouring beers from the Lodge resorts rustic cabins in an outdoor campground setting. The Lodge and resort is located on the shore of Suttle Lake, a popular recreation and … Continue reading