The Brew Site
My latest article for The Bulletin is cider-focused with the spotlight on Avid Cider Company, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Avid marks the occasion with a branding refresh and a new imperial cider, Royal Apricot. Royal Apricot joins Golden Delish in the cidery’s Imperial Series, with 8.5% alcohol … Continue reading
The 23rd entry into Zupan’s Markets Farm to Market collaboration beer series is a West Coast IPA brewed with pFriem Family Brewers; the private-label beer, like all in the series, is available exclusively at the three Zupan’s locations around Portland. For this IPA, pFriem crafted a modern take on the … Continue reading
Last week I received cans of a new beer from Deschutes Brewery—Symphonic Chronic Double Dank IPA. It’s an amped up version of the brewery’s Symphonic Chronic, first brewed several years ago, and weighs in at 9% alcohol by volume with 60 IBUs. Interestingly it’s only available in 19.2-ounce cans. The … Continue reading
For most of its existence, Bell’s Brewery had not distributed its beers to Oregon (or the rest of the Pacific Northwest), so for those of us living in the PNW, having the opportunity to drink any of its acclaimed and highly-rated beers meant jumping over a number of hurdles. But … Continue reading
This past weekend, Crux Fermentation Project hosted its first Saisons on the Lawn, a mini-festival featuring a lineup of nine saisons from Oregon breweries, taking advantage of a warm spring day (maybe the first we’ve had!) to kick off this inaugural event. As part of the day’s festivities, Crux also … Continue reading
For my latest article for The Bulletin, I profiled the new, upcoming Tree Beer Fest (which I also wrote about here). The premise—beers made from trees, or more accurately, with ingredients foraged from trees and forests. There may be no brewery more qualified than The Ale Apothecary to host such … Continue reading
Earlier this month, the 9th annual Best of Craft Beer Awards took place here in Central Oregon, and the winners were announced shortly thereafter. Best of Craft Beer has grown quite a bit over the years, and for 2023 more than 2500 entries were submitted and judged. The full results … Continue reading
Three beers from Public Coast Brewing arrived last week—the three spring seasonals that I’d posted about here. Technically it was a four-pack, containing two cans of Uncle Fred’s German Wheat, along with one can each of StackStock Candy Cap Stout and the new Violent Violet Blueberry Double Hazy IPA. I’ve … Continue reading
The headline on this non-alcoholic collaboration beer from Athletic Brewing and Super Coffee is “World’s First Pre-Workout Brew” which I can’t attest to, but the result is Suped Up, an extra dark brew with coffee. More interestingly, in addition to the coffee, the other unusual ingredient contributing to the character … Continue reading
Deluxe Brewing of Albany, Oregon released a new specialty beer this month, a collaboration with the Pink Boots Society as part of the Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day that took place in March. The new brew is April Showers Shandy, a wheat ale with the Pink Boots Blend of hops … Continue reading