Minnesota’s Indeed Brewing released its beer schedule for 2022 recently, featuring returning classics as well as the introduction of a new double IPA and a hard seltzer pack. Yes, there is also a Pistachio Cream Ale… I don’t believe I’ve seen a beer flavored explicitly with pistachio before. Press release … Continue reading
Ice cider and Old World perry, those are the two new limited ciders announced by Double Mountain Brewery recently, joining the already-impressive list of ciders produced by the Hood River brewery. The ice cider, named Iris, in particular sounds quite interesting, with a treatment that sounds more akin to making … Continue reading
The Bruery takes its pastry stouts seriously enough to even have an entire Bakery Series of beers to celebrate them, and the latest release in the series evokes banana nut muffins. It’s named, unsurprisingly, Banana Nut Muffin, and it’s an 8.1% imperial stout brewed with bananas, vanilla, and walnuts, and … Continue reading
Hot on the heels of its 5000 Barleywine release, Portland’s Ecliptic Brewing announced the upcoming March release in its Moon Room Series of lagers: Märzen. This series celebrates the brewery’s second location, the Moon Room in southeast Portland. Press release: Ecliptic Brewing is releasing the next beer in their new … Continue reading
Way back in January 2020, the first Suttle Lodge Winter Beer Fest took place among the rustic cabins in an open air setting at the Suttle Lodge. It featured a variety of breweries pouring beers from the cabins while guests could drink around firepits in the outdoor campground setting; my … Continue reading
Bend’s Crux Fermentation Project joins the small club of breweries that have released their own whiskey, with the announcement of its Straight Bourbon Whiskey, produced in partnership with Pursuit Distilling. It’s not a whiskey distilled from an existing Crux beer, but brewmaster Larry Sidor did create a custom wash (basically, … Continue reading
Iron Hill Brewery is canning gold—GABF gold medal gold, that is, in the form of its award-winning King’s Gold American Pilsner. The brewery announced the release of the pils in cans, which dropped earlier this month. It’s a pre-Prohibition style lager brewed with corn and is 5% ABV with 30 … Continue reading
Colorado’s Oskar Blues Brewery is launching a new rotating IPA series it calls its Mutant IPA series, which will feature the “latest mutations in hops and hop technology.” The first in the series is Western Mutant West Coast IPA, which aims for a fresh take on the west coast style … Continue reading
Michigan-based Perrin Brewing Company went big on its first specialty release in its 2022 Side Hustle Series, brewing up a fudge cake-infused (really!) pastry stout in collaboration with Beer City Bread Company of Grand Rapids: Imperial Fudge Cake Stout. Details from the press release: Perrin Brewing Company announces the first … Continue reading
Ecliptic Brewing recently hit a milestone, its 5000th beer brewed, and to celebrate, the brewery is releasing that beer this month. Befitting its milestone status, the beer is a special golden barleywine that was aged five months in Ransom Old Tom Gin barrels. 5000 brews is a pretty big milestone … Continue reading