The Brew Site
Bend’s Deschutes Brewery released its annual winter ale, Jubelale, last month, a perennial favorite that features a new, original piece of artwork for the label. This year, the brewery changed its selection process (detailed the press release below) and the artwork is by Stephanie Littlebird Fogel featuring a winter moonscape. … Continue reading
Bend’s Crux Fermentation Project consistently puts out good and interesting beer, and one of the more interesting undertakings that the brewery has engaged in the past several years is its coolship program. Crux built its own mobile coolship, a broad, shallow, open-top vessel that looks something like a giant cake … Continue reading
Even more Bend fresh hop beers to share, with a wider variety of hops than last time (since the previous three were all hopped with Strata). Bridge 99 Brewery – Fresh Hop IPA Bridge 99 brewed one fresh hop beer this year, with fresh Cascade and Chinook hops from Tumalo … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin, out this week, tackles triple IPA and GoodLife Brewing’s Lava Cave Triple IPA in particular. Stylistically, there isn’t much to distinguish triple IPA from barleywine. Both feature large amounts of malt, hops and alcohol. Barleywine focuses on rich malt character and full body with … Continue reading
Hood River’s Double Mountain Brewery is once again releasing its Fa La La La La Winter Ale in six-packs for 2021, and this week the brewery sent me a bottle along with the release. Fa La La La La is a hoppy, malty red ale brewed with Centennial hops, and … Continue reading
More, more, and yet more fresh hop quick notes! This edition features three Bend breweries (all acquired in the course of writing this article), and all Strata hops. Strata has been a popular fresh hop this year, the most common one used in the local brews (followed by Centennial). Let’s … Continue reading
This is one of the more random bits of pumpkin beer news from Elysian Brewing that came down the pipe: Elysian is going full Halloween and teaming up with Seattle’s Georgetown Morgue, billed as its premier haunted house, to offer beer delivery of its pumpkin beer variety pack in time … Continue reading
I received a surprise package from Three Creeks Brewing yesterday, containing both of the brewery’s fresh hop beers: Conelick’r Fresh Hop IPA, and Sabro Fresh Hop Ale. I’ve had and reviewed Conelick’r already of course, but I’m happy to drink more; and the Sabro is a draft-only beer that looks … Continue reading
Another batch of fresh hop lightning round beer reviews to enjoy on this Friday! Cheers! Migration Brewing – Fresh Outta Portland Fresh Hop IPA I remember really enjoying Fresh Outta Portland last year, and was not disappointed with this year’s edition. It’s the fresh hop version of Migration’s flagship Straight … Continue reading
Chipping away at my review notes; almost halfway through the fresh hop beers I’ve tried this year so far (though I’ve still got more to try). Here are the next three! Crux Fermentation Project – Pert Near Fresh Hop IPA Crux was the first Central Oregon brewery to release a … Continue reading