The Brew Site
Time to get outdoors with Tröegs Independent Brewing and the release of its Trail Day Dry-Hopped Pilsner, a special limited-edition beer benefitting Pennsylvania’s Kittatinny Ridge, with a portion of the sales proceeds donated to the Tröegs Trail Day Fund with The Nature Conservancy. Press release: Tröegs Independent Brewing announces the … Continue reading
Central Oregon-based homebrewers, take note! The Central Oregon Homebrewers Organization (COHO) is presenting a regional homebrewing competition, the 2022 Central Oregon Pro-Am Brewing Challenge, which will pair up winning homebrewers with commercial breweries to brew their winning beers. If you’ve wanted to have a pro brewery brew and release one … Continue reading
The long-running Oregon Brewers Festival is back this year, after being on hold due to COVID-19. The returning format is scaled down from years past, running three days at the end of July with 40 beers from only Oregon brewers; while the beers aren’t listed on the website yet, you … Continue reading
New (summer) seasonal specialties are out from Urban South Brewery, featuring a hazy milkshake IPA and a fruited gose, both inspired by frozen summertime treats. They are currently available across the company’s distribution footprint. Sunshine Haze Dream: A creamsicle milkshake IPA dry hopped with Citra and Comet hops, Sunshine Haze … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin came out last week, and in it I reviewed Tropicano IPA from Crux Fermentation Project—labeled as a “tropical IPA” so I explored a bit of what that means. It’s also one brewed with experimental hop HBC 586, so I touch on that as well. … Continue reading
Last month, Flying Dog Brewery announced that it won a First Amendment victory against North Carolina’s Alcoholic Beverage Commission, over the state agency’s banning of the label for the brewery’s Freezin’ Season Winter Ale label. It’s not the first time Flying Dog has gone to bat over its labels with … Continue reading
The latest release in the collaboration Farm-to-Market beer series from Zupan’s Markets features the Portland grocery chain teaming up with Laurelwood Brewing to release Mega Mammoth Imperial IPA. To kick off the season and the beer, Zupan’s is hosting its Taste of Summer event featuring tastings at its locations today, … Continue reading
Nectar Creek is the revived brand that 2 Towns Ciderhouse brought back, and recently it announced the return of one of the meadery’s old favorites, Sting, a ginger mead. Press release is here: Back by popular demand, Nectar Creek Meadery is reintroducing Sting, a beloved honey and ginger mead beverage … Continue reading
The latest in the Moon Room Series of lagers from Ecliptic Brewing was released last month, and fittingly it was a Maibock. It’s a nicely robust style that’s a nice fit for late spring. Details: Ecliptic Brewing is excited to release the next beer in their new Moon Room Series: … Continue reading
2 Towns Ciderhouse of Corvallis released a monster cider this spring with a whopping 12.5% ABV—Super Bad Apple, the “bigger, badder, bolder sequel” to its The Bad Apple Imperial Cider. I’d posted the details about Super Bad Apple previously, and the cidery had sent me bottles to sample as well. … Continue reading