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This fall, Crux Fermentation Project reintroduced its Crux Stout into retail packaging, in the 16-ounce can format. Crux Stout is the brewery’s original American stout, which was released in bottles when Crux starting packaging, but for whatever reason the bottled format didn’t sell well with consumers (likely because it was … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin, out this week, features an exotic wood-aged imperial pastry stout from 10 Barrel Brewing, Soul Candy. It’s a limited-release specialty from the company’s Tiny Haus innovation brewery, and the focus is on the wood—Amburana wood, from Brazil. The latest is Soul Candy, an imperial … Continue reading
Judging by the contents of my beer fridge, it’s definitely holiday ale season. Among those beers are samples I’ve received of various Oregon breweries’ winter ale efforts, and interestingly, hoppy red ales make a not-insignificant showing. Here are my reviews of three winter red ales I received of late. Widmer … Continue reading
One of the recent beers from Bend’s Crux Fermentation Project is Strange Behavior, a hazy IPA brewed with kveik yeast as the brewery’s fall seasonal (available through December). The brewery has been dabbling with kveik fermentation, as many others are, and it seems that hazy IPAs are the primary application … Continue reading
Finally made it! My final fresh hop “quick notes” review of the year! All in all I counted 36 different fresh hop beers I tried this year. That’s not to say I might not have more—there are still some on the shelves—but I’m done writing these up at this point; … Continue reading
Rolling out three more fresh hop reviews as I wind down the season, with beers from Breakside Brewery, Sunriver Brewing, and Three Creeks Brewing to share. Breakside Brewery – Fresh Hop IGA (India Golden Ale) Breakside took it’s IGA (India golden ale) and gave it the fresh hop treatment, with … Continue reading
I fell behind a bit in my quest to document all the fresh hop beers I tried this year with this lightning round-style reviews, but I’m close to finishing up. I don’t know if anyone’s still drinking fresh hops now that it’s mid-November but I still do see some on … Continue reading
Washington’s Yakima Chief Hops introduced its Cryo Hops® product line in 2017, in which it developed a proprietary cryogenic process for processing hops that separates the lupulin from the vegetative matter to produce concentrated lupulin pellets. According to YCH these have “maximum aroma impact while reducing the negative effects often … Continue reading
Over the summer, Double Mountain Brewery and Gigantic Brewing teamed up to release a collaboration beer—Wondertwins IPA. I received a bottle, and ended up behind in posting reviews. The good news is, Wondertwins is still on the shelves so you can still pick it up to try it out yourself. … Continue reading
Over a month ago, Elysian Brewing Company sent out its Pumpkin Pack of its four core pumpkin beers, to accompany a virtual media tasting designed to get some press on the seasonal specialties as well as promote the brewery’s annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival (which took place at the beginning … Continue reading