The Brew Site
I stopped in to Deschutes Brewery last night (the Bend Pub of course) for the official Jubelale release and artist signing, something I’ve done for the past few years: the Brewery gives out free poster prints of that year’s label, and the artist is on hand to chat and sign … Continue reading
Deschutes Brewery‘s seasonal Winter Warmer, Jubelale, is one of my all-time favorite seasonal beers, and most years I wax rhapsodic about it and this year is no different. Yes, I know it’s only mid-September and this (and other such seasonals) should really be making their appearance in November, but unfortunately … Continue reading
Continuing in the trend of getting packages of beer while being out of town, Deschutes Brewery sent along this year’s Jubelale: One of my favorite winter beers (though showing up in September, I know), and this year’s label is really cool: to celebrate Jubelale’s 25th year, Bend artist Kaycee Anseth … Continue reading
Deschutes Brewery’s Black Butte XXIV: their anniversary ale, an Imperial Porter brewed with dates, figs, chocolate nibs, and 25% aged in bourbon barrels. At 11% alcohol by volume, it is essentially a doubled-up version of regular Black Butte Porter with all those fun additions, and this bottle is the one … Continue reading
This came today: Deschutes Brewery’s Black Butte XXIV anniversary ale, an imperial porter brewed with chocolate, dates, and figs. Which I have sampled and written a bit about here. It’s a good beer, and I’m looking forward to opening up this bottle.
Today was Deschutes Brewery’s big release of this year’s anniversary ale, Black Butte XXIV—with bottles for sale all day, a special menu, and samples starting at 5—we swung down to try the new beer in a kind of “pregame” for the OBF tomorrow. I didn’t pick up any bottles (yet) … Continue reading
Last night we got down to Deschutes Brewery‘s 24th anniversary party at the Bend Pub for a little over an hour, and I snapped a few pictures, visited with some of the Deschutes folks, drank some beer, and ran into some friends. It was fun, they had a packed crowd … Continue reading
I will admit it (and I may have said this before): Cascadian Dark Ale is not my favorite style. For me it’s too much of a weird clash of dark, roasty, possibly astringent malt character with the floral, herbal bitterness of the hops—and too often, they’re not brewed well enough … Continue reading
A quick note to acknowledge the drinking of the Twilight Summer Ale that was sent to me by Deschutes Brewery, though I didn’t do a formal review of it this year—I figure past reviews from 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 have pretty nailed it. Suffice to say this is (still) … Continue reading
I picked up these three at Deschutes Brewery the other night: Collage, AKA Conflux No.1, the Deschutes/Hair of the Dog collaboration beer. It comes in 12-ounce bottles and costs $11 per bottle(!). I’ll be drinking one, and putting the other two away for awhile.