The Brew Site
My latest article for The Bulletin considers strawberries and rhubarb, prompted by a new beer from Cascade Lakes Brewing, Strawbeery Rhubarb Sour. It’s strawberry rhubarb pie season, after all, and I also delve into rhubarb a bit as well as getting the background on the beer. Brewmaster Ryan Schmiege shared … Continue reading
The summer beers are flowing, and Ferment Brewing recently announced the release of two new summery/tropical brews of its own: Summer IPA and A Tropical Loose Objective Lager. Both highlight hops that bring tropical fruit character, and both are available in cans. Press release: Ferment Brewing in Hood River today … Continue reading
New Orleans-based Urban South Brewery has operated its Houston taproom and R&D brewery since 2020, which also features its own lineup of Houston specialty brews. Recently, the brewery announced that it was bringing three of its fan favorite New Orleans beers to Houston for the first time. Details from the … Continue reading
Here’s a beer festival worth checking out: the Fuji to Hood fest celebrates Oregon and Japanese collaborations and returns to Portland on Saturday, July 16. It takes place at Culmination Brewing and will be primarily outdoors, with 18 beer collaborations and one each cider and distiller collaboration. General admission is … Continue reading
New York’s Brewery Ommegang is among the latest to join the collaborative fundraising effort with non-profit Soldiers’ Angels to brew a special IPA for the organizations Hops for Heroes initiative. The brewery will release its version of Homefront IPA with all proceeds supporting veterans, service members, and their families. Press … Continue reading
Last week I received a four-pack of the latest beers in the Dragon’s Milk Reserve series from New Holland Brewing, labeled 2022-2. This limited-edition series takes the bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout and blends it up with specialty ingredients to release new variants. This 2022 Reserve 2 variant is a riff … Continue reading
Some non-beer/beer-adjacent news from Bend’s 10 Barrel Brewing, as the company introduced a canned sparkling wine recently. The company’s Sparkling Rosé and Sparkling White join the other non-beer canned offerings of hard seltzer, cider, and cocktails. Details from the press release: Bend-based 10 Barrel Brewing is excited to welcome canned … Continue reading
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