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Hophead Imperial IPA has long been a classic, award-winning DIPA from Bend Brewing Company, first winning a gold medal at the 2006 GABF. Created by Tonya Cornett, it was her first GABF medal since starting at BBC in 2002. It remains a world-class beer, a solidly bitter IPA full of … Continue reading
Newport, Oregon’s Rogue Ales & Spirits pivoted its distillery into producing hand sanitizer late last month, making it available for first responders and other essentials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rogue’s “Helping Hand Hand Sanitizer” has been donated to fire departments from Newport, Toledo, Waldport, Yachats, Depoe Bay, and Lincoln City, … Continue reading
Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River continues to knock its beers (and ciders) out of the park. I’ve still got a bottle of the Wickson Crab Cider in the fridge, but the last beer I had was The Other Matt IPA, the latest in its Brewer Experimental Series that the … Continue reading
This week I received a six-pack of Worthy Brewing’s latest seasonal, its Tenmile Dry Hopped Lager (which I posted about here). Worthy focused heavily on the sustainability issues with the release of this beer, from the compostable cardboard-like six-pack holder to the water-based digital label printing on the can, and … Continue reading
I’ve never received PR from Lone Star Beer before, but the Texas-based company is launching a new seasonal beer, a Mexican-style lager named Rio Jade. In conjunction with that launch, the company is also kicking off its “Keep The Lights On Y’all” initiative to help support the Texas bar and … Continue reading
Pardon the pun in the title… but RazzBerry, from Portland Cider Company, is a pretty good cider. It’s the cidery’s new summer seasonal and I received a couple of cans last month—right as the whole pandemic lockdown was coming down. Portland Cider has been releasing some really nice, well-crafted ciders … Continue reading
From the Tampa Bay area, Florida: 3 Daughters Brewing (which we got a chance to visit back in 2016 for that year’s Beer Bloggers Conference) has been giving back to the community with free hand sanitizer to the public, and free beer for Florida’s frontline heroes in the face of … Continue reading
My latest print article for The Bulletin is finally out today (there’s been a bunch of shuffling due to coronavirus and such), highlighting Crux Fermentation Project’s three new beers (new as of a month ago) with a focus on Gypsy Coolship No. 2: Bubble Wrap has been the brewery’s top … Continue reading
Hopworks Urban Brewery in Portland is collaborating with the Looptworks Foundation to raise money to produce face masks by selling a special case of beer they’re calling the “Homebound Hero 24 Pack.” $5 from the sale of every case will go to Looptworks, crafting the masks for Central City Concern—details … Continue reading
During this COVID-19 pandemic we’re seeing a lot of good coming from breweries that are able to help and give back to the community (I’ve started a list of Central Oregon ones here as well as starting to share more pandemic support stories), and 10 Barrel Brewing here in Bend … Continue reading