My latest print article for The Bulletin features the side-by-side review I promised of Deschutes Brewery’s Fresh Squeezed Non-Alcoholic against Fresh Squeezed IPA, to highlight the newest NA beer in the company’s lineup.

Deschutes’ earlier NA beers were created in Colorado, but with the release of Fresh Squeezed NA, the brewery announced that it had installed the BrewVo technology (the news release noted that Deschutes was the first brewery of scale to do so). This allows the company to move production in-house here in Oregon, and Fresh Squeezed NA is in fact its first non-alcoholic beer to be brewed in Bend.

The brewery sent me samples of the new near beer recently, so I decided to conduct a taste test of it against the original Fresh Squeezed IPA. Both beers are brewed with the same ingredients and focus on the Citra and Mosaic hops that give Fresh Squeezed its signature tropical juice-like characteristics.

However, Fresh Squeezed NA has less than 0.5% ABV with 45 IBUs, while the original is 6.4% ABV with 60 IBUs.

The article contains my full review notes for both beers, but in general I found Fresh Squeezed NA to be a good example of a non-alcoholic IPA, though there are more differences between the two than I found when I reviewed Black Butte NA.