Double Mountain Brewery Ol’ Greg IPA

Double Mountain Brewery Ol’ Greg IPA

Double Mountain Brewery is introducing a new experimental series of IPAs this year, and Ol’ Greg IPA is the first to be released. The brewery sent me a bottle recently, and in addition to the news of the beer, it looks as though 2020 is the year Double Mountain is … Continue reading

GoodLife Brewing 2020 Beer Lineup

GoodLife Brewing 2020 Beer Lineup

Bend’s GoodLife Brewing released its 2020 beer schedule and the nine-year-old brewery has some interesting things on the charts for this year. The core beers are returning, along with the return of The Juice IPA (the G. Love’s Special Sauce IPA from last year), and there are some new specialties … Continue reading

Bend Brewing can releases and half-year calendar

Bend Brewing can releases and half-year calendar

I posted news the other day about a number of Bend, Oregon beer releases, which included Bend Brewing Company and its three upcoming beers in cans. BBC also included a half-year canned beer calendar with the press release. Here’s the upcoming can schedule through June and information from the release … Continue reading

A host of new Bend beer releases

A host of new Bend beer releases

News about new beer releases from four different Bend breweries came down the wire today, so I thought I’d round it all up into one aggregate post. There’s some great stuff coming out of Bend (as usual!) so you’re going to want to be here to check things out. Boneyard … Continue reading

Latest print article: New IPAs from Three Creeks Brewing

Latest print article: New IPAs from Three Creeks Brewing

My latest article for The Bulletin came out yesterday, wherein I focus on Sisters’ Three Creeks Brewing and the new IPAs out this year: Three Creeks Brewing has three new IPAs. (I don’t write the headlines…) For 2020 the brewery entered the new year focusing on hops, releasing several new … Continue reading

Eugene’s KLCC Brewfest returns, with collaboration beers

Eugene’s KLCC Brewfest returns, with collaboration beers

The annual KLCC Brewfest in Eugene returns on February 7 and 8, taking place once again at the Lane Events Center. It’s one of the area’s biggest and longest-running beer festivals, and serves as a fundraiser for Eugene’s public radio station KLCC 89.7 FM. This year’s event looks to be … Continue reading

Purpose-brewed beer: Sufferfest Head Start Stout

Purpose-brewed beer: Sufferfest Head Start Stout

I’ve written about Sufferfest Beer Company before, the California-based company that brews “functional” or “purpose-brewed” beers (read my review of FKT Pale and Shakeout Blonde here), and recently included its Repeat Kolsch in my article on lifestyle beers. Repeat was one of the beers that arrived along with Head Start … Continue reading

Buoy Beer 2020 Beer Lineup

Buoy Beer 2020 Beer Lineup

Astoria’s Buoy Beer Company continues to brew some of the best beer in the state, and today the brewery announced its 2020 beer lineup with details on its first seasonal of the year, Baltic Porter. What I like about this lineup is that while there are a couple of IPAs, … Continue reading

The beer list for this weekend’s High Gravity Brewfest is live

The beer list for this weekend’s High Gravity Brewfest is live

The High Gravity Brewfest at Bend’s McMenamins Old St. Francis School takes place this Saturday, and when I wrote about the event previously, the beer list had not yet been finalized and posted. There are over two dozen beers and breweries represented, with ciders as well, which means plenty of … Continue reading