The Brew Site
Double Mountain Brewery released its first seasonal of 2022 last month, Sally Can Wait, a Dark Export Lager, and as part of this year’s seasonal lineup, each beer will have a QR code to scan that will take you to a Spotify playlist compiled by the brewers, specifically for each … Continue reading
Each winter, Buoy Beer Company releases its barrel-aged barleywine, Love, Lost at Sea, and for 2022 is the fifth year of LLaS from the brewery. The beer came out on Valentine’s Day and Buoy also offered a vertical tasting of past years’ vintages during that weekend. Details from the press … Continue reading
New York’s Southern Tier Brewing Company, well-known for its imperial beers and pastry stouts, has also long offered 2XIPA, its core double IPA, along with a variety of other “2X” brews (such as 2XMAS, its Christmas winter warmer, 2X Stout, 2X Presso, and so on). For 2022 the brewery amped … Continue reading
Tröegs Independent Brewing has a new seasonal IPA out in its Hop Cycle series, fitting into the “spring” slot of the series: Hop Horizon, a juicy IPA. It’s out now, on draft and in package. Details: Tröegs Independent Brewing announces the release of Hop Horizon, its new IPA to usher … Continue reading
The Bruery’s hop-forward beer division, Offshoot Beer, recently announced the return of Visions, its seasonal double dry-hopped hazy IPA. It was a popular beer last year so was an obvious candidate for a 2022 release. Press release: If single dry-hopping is good, then double dry-hopping is even better, and Offshoot … Continue reading
Some Pennsylvania beer was sent out to me this week, from Iron Hill Brewery: a six-pack of the brewery’s newly-canned King’s Gold American Pilsner. As part of the package, a toy gold medal and several chocolate gold coins were included, to highlight the beer’s gold medal-winning resume. A blurb from … Continue reading
This week I received samples of cider from 2 Towns Ciderhouse—two six-packs of its new Cosmic Crisp® cider variants that the cidery launched in its Cosmic Explorer Series. These are imperial ciders with 8% ABV, with Cosmic Crisp apples as the base cider. First is the Imperial Blueberry: Crafted with … Continue reading
Minnesota’s Indeed Brewing released its beer schedule for 2022 recently, featuring returning classics as well as the introduction of a new double IPA and a hard seltzer pack. Yes, there is also a Pistachio Cream Ale… I don’t believe I’ve seen a beer flavored explicitly with pistachio before. Press release … Continue reading
For those that might not be aware, Block 15 Brewing is located in Corvallis, Oregon, which is also the home of Oregon State University, the state’s largest university. OSU also happens to have a strong Fermentation Science program. Many graduates of that program go on to become brewers, and it’s … Continue reading
Ice cider and Old World perry, those are the two new limited ciders announced by Double Mountain Brewery recently, joining the already-impressive list of ciders produced by the Hood River brewery. The ice cider, named Iris, in particular sounds quite interesting, with a treatment that sounds more akin to making … Continue reading