The Brew Site
My latest article for The Bulletin is out today: Two Words: Beer Delivery. There are two approaches I took with this article: first, trying out the local beer delivery options with everything under COVID-19 lockdown; and, I wanted to highlight the fact that breweries such as Boneyard Beer and Barley … Continue reading
Bale Breaker Brewing is bringing some COVID-19 relief to Yakima, Washington, in teaming up with non-profit I Heart Yakima to release You Are Not Alone Hazy IPA, with all profits donated to the We Are Yakima fund. This will support the local food and beverage industry impacted by the coronavirus … Continue reading
2 Towns Ciderhouse in Corvallis recently received approval to start producing hand sanitizer for the COVID-19 crisis, and began large-scale production at the end of April. The cidery joins the growing list of others pivoting into manufacturing sanitizer, a crucial necessity especially for health and other front line workers during … Continue reading
I’m a week behind posting this bit of brewery pandemic support news, but that’s okay—it’s good news for the Columbia Gorge area around Hood River. Double Mountain Brewery established the Double Mountain Foundation to help support employees impacted by COVID-19, and seeks to expand to cover other hospitality workers in … Continue reading
Here’s kind of an amazing story on COVID-19 pandemic support with an angle I wouldn’t have foreseen: California’s Sierra Nevada Brewing is able to help a local hospital with coronavirus testing by producing viral transport medium in its lab. Here’s the press release the company issued yesterday: Sierra Nevada Brewing … Continue reading
Way back in 2006, I originally published The Beer Hacker: Best of the cheap beers? which has since become one of the most-viewed pages on the site. The premise is this: I examined website ratings data to determine the best of the inexpensive, macro-brewed beers on the market. The beers … Continue reading
I’m a few days late posting this, but this is such a great cause: Deschutes Brewery is brewing a beer to support the LGBTQIA+ community, Bubbles & Brunch. Deschutes Brewery, a tried and true brand celebrating thirty two years of craft brewing this June, announces a limited release to embrace … Continue reading
Time to catch up on more beer reviews for your pandemic reading! Today’s review is of Lucubrator Doppelbock, from Occidental Brewing in Portland. Lucubrator is a winter seasonal from the company, released in November, and this past winter saw the beer packaged in 16-ounce cans for the first time. I’d … Continue reading
Before the week is completely over—this week I received a bottle of Crux Fermentation Project’s latest [Banished] series limited beer: Bramble Candy Barrel-Aged Blackberry Sour Ale. This definitely looks like an interesting one: After months ripening in red wine barrels with a tangled blend of brettanomyces, lactobacillus, and pediococcus, we … Continue reading
The Session ended over a year ago, but these are unusual times, and Alistair Reece over at Fuggled proposed a special quarantine edition for old times’ sake: Yes you read that right, for a limited time only (quite possibly just this once, or maybe a few times depending on response) … Continue reading