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Here’s a fun new IPA from Double Mountain Brewery, in which the company collaborated with Bend’s own Van Henion Brewing: Velvet Wallpaper IPA. Fittingly, it’s a west coast style IPA, playing to the strengths of both breweries, and takes its name from the same velvet wallpaper pattern present at both … Continue reading
Colorado’s Breckenridge Brewery is one of the craft breweries over the past decade that was bought by Anheuser-Busch (in 2016) but then changed hands again last year, as AB sold a number of them to Tilray Brands. Breckenridge was among eight beverage brands in the sale, which also included Widmer … Continue reading
My recent article with The Bulletin is a roundup of what I’m calling springtime IPAs—no particular style, just IPA newly released in the past several months. It’s a way to showcase a few of the new beers that hit the market this season. I highlighted five beers, with a bit … Continue reading
Talus is a relatively new hop, formerly known as HBC 692 before earning its name, developed as a daughter of Sabro and commercially released in 2020. In that time it’s earned some recognition for its tropical fruit and some neomexicanus characteristics, this spring Double Mountain Brewery highlighted it in its … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin tackles West Coast IPA as seen through the lens of Three Creeks Brewing and its latest canned beer—Dankness IPA. The longer version of the name, as it appears on draft at the Three Creeks pub, is Dankness on the Edge of Town IPA, riffing … Continue reading
Dead Guy Ale is the flagship beer from Rogue Ales, and over the years Rogue has released a number of variations—Double Dead Guy, Dead ‘N’ Dead, Dead Guy Whiskey all come to mind—but a surprise package arrived late last week with a new one that I hadn’t yet heard about: … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin came out last week, and in it I reviewed Tropicano IPA from Crux Fermentation Project—labeled as a “tropical IPA” so I explored a bit of what that means. It’s also one brewed with experimental hop HBC 586, so I touch on that as well. … Continue reading
For the longest time I somehow managed to not drink any beers from one of the most famous New England-style IPA breweries—indeed, contender for inventing the hazy, NEIPA style—The Alchemist of Vermont. This even despite the fact that cans of both Focal Banger and Heady Topper starting showing up periodically … Continue reading
Von Ebert Brewing’s flagship IPA, Volatile Substance, had a great 2021. In the Oregon Beer Awards in May, it won gold in the American IPA category, edging ahead of two IPAs from Sunriver Brewing. Then in September, it followed that up by winning gold at the Great American Beer Festival … Continue reading
One of the recent beers from Bend’s Crux Fermentation Project is Strange Behavior, a hazy IPA brewed with kveik yeast as the brewery’s fall seasonal (available through December). The brewery has been dabbling with kveik fermentation, as many others are, and it seems that hazy IPAs are the primary application … Continue reading