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Portland’s Breakside Brewery is replacing Salted Caramel Stout in its seasonal beer lineup this year, and the new LIFE Barleywine is taking its place. Not content with simply releasing LIFE, over the next four months the brewery will be releasing five additional variants, showcasing different malts from renowned maltsters. All … Continue reading
My second round of fresh hop beer reviews for this year, with three from Portland this time. Migration Brewing – Fresh Outta Portland Fresh Hop IPA Migration’s first fresh hop of the year uses Strata hops from Goschie Farms, though I didn’t realize until I read this description that they … Continue reading
Portland-based Zupan’s Markets teamed up with Breakside Brewery for the 18th installment in the company’s Farm to Market collaboration beer series, and the result is a perfect style for March: Amber Lager, a Märzen-styled brew. This is at least the second time Breakside and Zupan’s have teamed up on this … Continue reading
Rolling out three more fresh hop reviews as I wind down the season, with beers from Breakside Brewery, Sunriver Brewing, and Three Creeks Brewing to share. Breakside Brewery – Fresh Hop IGA (India Golden Ale) Breakside took it’s IGA (India golden ale) and gave it the fresh hop treatment, with … Continue reading
I fell behind a bit in my quest to document all the fresh hop beers I tried this year with this lightning round-style reviews, but I’m close to finishing up. I don’t know if anyone’s still drinking fresh hops now that it’s mid-November but I still do see some on … Continue reading
Working through more of these fresh hop reviews, with three more here to check out. Breakside Brewery – Fresh Hop IPA Breakside brewed a marathon number of fresh hop beers this year, and I only scratched the surface of what they had to offer. This can was the Fresh Hop … Continue reading
The fresh hop beers are here and if you’re not drinking them yet, you’re missing out! It’s one of my favorite times of the year for beer, and I’m trying to get as many fresh hop beers as I can. Last year I posted “lightning round” style reviews of the ones … Continue reading
Happy Mardi Gras! I hope everyone’s faring as well as can be with the snow and ice that swept through the state; I know some places are still closed so be safe and careful out there. Here’s the news for this Fat Tuesday, which I’ll continue to update throughout the … Continue reading
Happy Friday! Here’s my end-of-week roundup of the various news in beer from around the state for this Friday, January 15, including some COVID-19 county-level updates I’ve seen pop up in my feed. I’ll be updating this post throughout the rest of the day with news as I see it, … Continue reading
Here’s the latest daily news in Oregon beer for Wednesday, January 13, with a number of items highlighting pandemic-friendly practices that I’m pleased to see. Covid has definitely had an interesting impact on rounding up news—there’s less of it, for one thing—so bear with me when/if these posts go live … Continue reading