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It’s time to properly start considering winter beers. Bend Brewing Company announced this week the return of its Sno’d In Winter IPA, on draft and in cans, and revealed it has signed with Point Blank Distributing for distribution in the Portland area. Sno’d In is a piney, spicy IPA with toasted … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin highlights the newly-canned Bavarian Lager from GoodLife Brewing, and digs into the Helles lager style to understand how its different from pilsner. Helles lager, like other pale lagers, is all about subtlety and balance. To casual (and even experienced) drinkers it may be indistinguishable … Continue reading
Time for another entry in my fresh hop mini-reviews for this year. It’s sort of been filling the void left from the various beer festivals being cancelled. At any rate, fresh hop beers from RiverBend Brewing, Wild Ride Brewing, and Fort George Brewery to salivate over. Millenials Hate Centennials Fresh … Continue reading
Here’s a Halloween-themed beer review to help get you in the mood for the spooky season: Rogue Ales Dead ‘N’ Dead, a barrel-aged version of Dead Guy Ale aged in Dead Guy Whiskey barrels. This one was actually the 2019 edition, sent to me ages ago by the brewery, and … Continue reading
Three more fresh hop beer mini-reviews for your reading pleasure! Two from Redmond breweries, and my other homebrewed fresh hop ale. Let’s go! Triumphant Fresh Hop Pale Ale – Wild Ride Brewing Though Wild Ride only packaged Journey to a New Strata-Sphere this year, I was able to pick up … Continue reading
Here are the next three fresh hop beers I drank and scribbled some notes about. All beers were picked up in cans to enjoy at home, naturally. In this batch are some nice beers from Breakside Brewery, Matchless Brewing, and Fort George Brewery. Fresh Kids Fresh Hop IPA – Breakside … Continue reading
Pelican Brewing Company announced the release of a new seasonal, Midnight Malt, a porter made with cocoa nibs, and sent me a six-pack to try last week. Pelican has been releasing a number of new packaged beers in recent months (which makes sense in the age of covid) but I … Continue reading
Three more mini-reviews for my at-home fresh hop drinking! Featuring beers from Ex Novo Brewing, Hopworks Urban Brewery, and another from Crux Fermentation Project. Fresh Hop Eliot IPA – Ex Novo Brewing This is the fresh hop version of the brewery’s flagship Eliot IPA, featuring Centennial hops from Goschie Farms. … Continue reading
Yes, summer is over and we’re into fall and Oktoberfest and pumpkin season, but did you get a chance to check out Harpoon Brewery‘s Fantasy League mix pack of low alcohol lifestyle beers? The brewery had sent them to me to sample and I found them to be suitably easy-drinking … Continue reading
When I saw that Wild Ride Brewing and Caldera Brewing had teamed up to brew PB & J, a peanut butter and marionberry ale, I knew that I had to pick some up and that it could be fun article for The Bulletin. Hence, the beer made it into the … Continue reading