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Bend’s Silver Moon Brewing released its 2020 beer schedule this week, as well as announcing its 20th anniversary this year. There are some new beers joining the line up, including a collaboration series for the vicennial. (In fact, “Vicennial” would be a great name for a 20th anniversary beer…) Here … Continue reading
Are you familiar with candy cap mushrooms? These fungi are unique among edible mushrooms due to their intense aromatic quality of maple syrup. From a culinary standpoint, this makes them well-suited for use as a flavoring in desserts and sweet dishes. Candy caps are being used in a similar fashion … Continue reading
Portland-based Green Zebra Grocery recently took a page from the Zupan’s Markets playbook and teamed up with a local brewery to collaborate on a custom “house” private label brand of beer: Green Zebra IPA. Level Beer worked with the grocery chain to craft this first India pale ale, and Green … Continue reading
Seattle’s Reuben’s Brews announced its 2020 beer lineup today, featuring a new year-round beer joining the core offerings and several series and seasonal updates. Not surprisingly, IPAs of various kinds make up a big part of the schedule, and there’s plenty of good stuff coming for the year. Here is … Continue reading
My first article for the new year in The Bulletin is out today, in which I examine a new up-and-coming style: Learn more about Italian-style pilsner in 2020. I tackle the roots and history of the style and review Milano Italian Lager from Boneyard Beer, an authentic rendition. Dry hopped … Continue reading
The beer release calendars continue, with Hopworks Urban Brewery revealing its 2020 lineup. Interestingly, HUB is going the opposite direction as other schedules I’ve seen, opting to focus on a core lineup of four year-round beers and three seasonals, all in cans. There are of course other beers HUB will … Continue reading
Rogue Ales dropped its 2020 beer release schedule today, featuring a lineup of dozens of beers with a number of new offerings. One of the notable new beers is a foeder-aged sour ale in Côtes du Rogue, and then there’s Shavasana, a granola blonde,” and the hoppy duo of Newport … Continue reading
Sunriver Brewing Company has released its beer schedule for 2020, and the plan for beers going into distribution (the ones on the calendar) is pretty hop-heavy. Outside of the core year-round lineup, the calendar is split into “Haze Factory” (hazy IPAs), “Double IPA Factory,” and “Also Limited” which overall is … Continue reading
Bend, Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery released its 2020 beer release calendar, revealing changes to its core lineup as well as some new offerings for the year ahead. One of the interesting changes is what’s not in the schedule. Notably: Inversion IPA has been dropped from the year-round core lineup. This is … Continue reading
We’ve made it! The final day of the Advent beer calendar, with our final beer pick for Christmas Eve! For this Christmas 2019 I’ve selected a Belgian classic from Brewery Huyghe: Delirium Noël. This Belgian Christmas ale is 10% alcohol by volume a perfect treat for the day. The description … Continue reading