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This Saturday, November 22nd, is Deschutes Brewery‘s annual Garage Sale—where they sell off discontinued merchandise at great prices. Shirts (tees, sweatshirts, cycle jerseys), glassware (pint glasses, four ounce taster glasses, often cool tulips and other stemware), hats, and probably a few other goodies. This year as an added bonus, there’s … Continue reading
Mmmmm, Jubelale… one of my favorites from Deschutes. This is one of the beers I look forward to every year, and the release of Jubelale is the herald of the winter/holiday season. Or at least the herald of seasonal beers… I’ve already written a bit about this year’s Jubel from … Continue reading
I’ve written a lot about Deschutes Brewery over the years—beer and event reviews, speculation, news, and even posted press releases (which I can’t take credit for). I won’t link to everything, but I thought I’d at least point to other reviews I’ve written. Jubelale (2004) Jubelale (2005) Hop Trip (2005) … Continue reading
Deschutes Brewery has been making Hop Trip since 2005, making this year’s the fourth iteration of the fresh hop ale. Which also makes the Brewery one of the old hands in the still-young "fresh hop" category. This year’s version is really good—as I wrote in the Brewery’s Fresh Hop Tasting … Continue reading
Much has been written already about Deschutes Brewery’s The Dissident—for instance, here, here, and here—and indeed, there is much to write about. This is easily the boldest beer Deschutes has ever brewed, for a number of reasons: It’s the first beer they brewed with wild Brettanomyces yeast. This is a … Continue reading
This week is Theme Week here at The Brew Site, and all this week I’m going local and devoting the blogging to Central Oregon’s largest microbrewery: Deschutes Brewery. Regular readers know that I write a lot already about Deschutes—and why not? They’re local, they’ve been around since 1988, and they … Continue reading
Next week (already!) will be Theme Week here at the Brew Site, and as I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m going to devote the week to Central Oregon’s largest microbrewer, Deschutes Brewery. Nor will this be the last time I dedicate a Theme Week to a brewery; I opened … Continue reading
Even though these beers and this type of post isn’t really a Halloween thing, receiving beer is sort of like trick or treating so I thought I’d include them in Halloween Week, what the heck. The first is a six-pack of Newcastle Brown Ale. You may remember I ran the … Continue reading
Moorhouse’s Black Cat is an English Dark Mild style of ale, and lives up to its Mild promise: it’s only 3.4% alcohol by volume, the truest kind of session beer one could ask for. It’s certainly an about-face from the trends in American microbrewing, where (generally) bigger is thought to … Continue reading
After all this time writing this blog I can’t believe I’ve never reviewed Rogue’s Dead Guy Ale, but Halloween Week is as appropriate a time as ever. By and large, I consider this to be Rogue’s flagship beer, and certainly one of their best-known. It’s a 6.5% alcohol beer, brewed … Continue reading