The Brew Site
My most recent print article for The Bulletin, out the week before last, spotlights a pair of summer specialties from Kobold Brewing—Hyperborean Expedition, a dry-hopped lager, and Searing Smite, a spiced stout brewed with five different chili peppers. You might wonder how a chili-spiced stout works as a summertime beer, … Continue reading
Three more fresh hop beer mini-reviews for your reading pleasure! Two from Redmond breweries, and my other homebrewed fresh hop ale. Let’s go! Triumphant Fresh Hop Pale Ale – Wild Ride Brewing Though Wild Ride only packaged Journey to a New Strata-Sphere this year, I was able to pick up … Continue reading
My latest print article for The Bulletin is out today: The year ahead in beer. In it I offer up a short overview of the turbulent year that was 2019 in the beer industry, and then look to trends for 2020—as predicted by local brewers and industry pros. In particular, … Continue reading
TGIF! Are you ready for the weekend? If you’re around Central Oregon there are a bunch of things going on with COBW kicking off for ten days—I’ll be rounding up the various events for each day so plan your schedule accordingly. There is also other Oregon beer news to cover … Continue reading
Spring is in the air, and Kobold Brewing of Redmond is celebrating with Fruhlingfest, a German springtime beer fest this Friday and Saturday. Details from the email newsletter: This weekend we’re going to throw a party at The Vault Taphouse. Spring is here and we are ready to go. Michael … Continue reading
No “real time” Oregon beer news for the end of the week, as I’m heading over to Public Coast Brewing for a media event today. However here are few highlighted events coming up for this (long) Mother’s Day weekend: Thursday: Tin Bucket in Portland kicks off its weekend-long 6th anniversary … Continue reading
Happy Friday! It’s a busy weekend with Star Wars Day (May the Fourth) on Saturday, Cinco de Mayo on Sunday, and a number of anniversaries to keep you occupied. Here’s the rundown of the news and events for this first weekend of May, which I’ll be updating throughout the day … Continue reading
Happy Thursday! The end of the week is in sight and that calls for a beer. Or beer news! Here’s the Oregon beer news for this February 21; as usual I’ll be updating this post throughout the day with the latest news as I find it, so check back often. … Continue reading
I hope you had a lovely Valentine’s Day and are ready for the Presidents’ Day weekend! Here is the Oregon beer news going into the weekend and the last half of the month; as usual, I’ll be periodically updating this post throughout the day on Friday so check back in … Continue reading
Happy Monday! Valentine’s Day lands this Thursday, so lock down your (beer) plans and open up those chocolate stouts (or fruit lambics). And here’s the news to kick off this Monday, February 11. I’ll be updating this post throughout the day as well, so check back occasionally for the latest. … Continue reading