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Can’t pass up the opportunity to post more fresh hop beer news! Hopworks Urban Brewery released Fresh Hop Abominable Ale late last month (I just posted a short review with it yesterday), and last week announced its other two fresh hop beers of the season: Fresh Hop Ace of Spades … Continue reading
Summer is winding down but there’s still plenty of time to drink the summertime seasonals from Hopworks Urban Brewery, three of which the company sent to me to sample. Let’s just jump right in to the reviews! Ace of Spades Imperial IPA I am a fan of old-school imperial IPAs, … Continue reading
The pandemic continues, which really puts the kibosh on fresh hop events for another year (though there are some still going on), but at least breweries are still brewing these oh-so-fresh harvest ales. That of course means it’s time for my annual Central Oregon roundup of fresh hop beers, tracking … Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that Deschutes Brewery first released The Dissident 13 years ago; at the time, it was a revolutionary beer for the brewery that had its roots in English styles. The most recent variant of The Dissident out now is Peach, and I wrote about it this week … Continue reading
Island Brands USA is a South Carolina-based beer and marketing company that markets its premium brand of lagers as a lifestyle brand that fits in between “factory” and craft beer; right on its homepage, it tells you: Island Brands produces clean, better for you, super premium beer, set at a … Continue reading
Out this week, my latest article for The Bulletin examines the specialty Herd Mentality series from Sunriver Brewing, in which Sunriver has been playing with variants to its popular Cocoa Cow Chocolate Milk Stout. I write about the current release, Cherry Vanilla Cocoa Cow, and touch upon the previous two. … Continue reading
First: Yes, it’s still too early for Oktoberfest. But breweries are starting to roll out their various Oktoberfest-styled beers, and this week I received two cans of one of the originals, Oktoberfest Bier from Germany’s Paulaner. This is in the “modern” festbier style, the lighter, golden colored, more drinkable beer … Continue reading
So, Tsingtao. The import rights were recently picked up by Paulaner USA, which sent out samples, surfacing a beer that I hadn’t considered for quite some time. I don’t believe I’ve even seen Tsingtao on the market anytime in the past few years. So, even as a green bottle pale … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin came out last week, I write about the differences subtle variations to beer recipes can make, and had a chance to highlight a couple of beers from Bridge 99 Brewery. Bridge 99 offers both its Headwaters Hefeweizen and (currently) Blood Orange Hefeweizen, which is … Continue reading
The latest beer release from Double Mountain Brewery is a collaboration with Gigantic Brewing—Wondertwins IPA, a (for lack of better designation) kveik IPA. The beer is out now, and the brewery sent me a bottle this week. Here’s the accompanying press release: Meanwhile, back at the hall, we schemed with … Continue reading