The Brew Site
The tinyHaus series from 10 Barrel Brewing focuses on small batch beers brewed on the small innovation and R&D pilot brewery, led by Tonya Cornett. It’s a bit of a playground for the brewers, with the beers releases in limited edition cans; here’s the company’s short description of the project: … Continue reading
Sweet Jane IPA from Double Mountain Brewery is the latest of the brewery’s beers to be released “From the Vault,” as I detailed here, a series featuring recipes from the brewery’s archives making a return appearance. Sweet Jane was originally released in 2017; the brewers tweaked the original recipe a … Continue reading
Cascade Lakes Brewing is getting close to opening its new east Bend pub (though I do not have a final date for that yet), and for the opening the company plans to release a new collaboration beer brewed with Old Standby Brewing of Salem, Helles for Habitat. I wrote about … Continue reading
For Pride Month, Double Mountain Brewery released its annual collaboration beer with Basic Rights Oregon, Basic Rights IPA. A portion of the beer’s proceeds will benefit Basic Rights Oregon, so the more you drink, the more you help! The brewery sent me a bottle to review for which I will … Continue reading
Cascade Lakes Brewing is celebrating Pride Month with a special edition of its flagship Blonde Bombshell that will raise money for Queer Creators’ Collective in Central Oregon. Pride Blonde Bombshell features Pride flag colors, and the release party is taking place June 7 at the company’s west Bend pub (the … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin, published last week, reviews a literal pastry stout from Boss Rambler Beer Club—Ocean stRoll, an imperial stout brewed with actual Ocean Roll pastries from Sparrow Bakery. It’s a collaboration beer with Horus Aged Ales of Oceanside, California, and leans heavily into the Ocean Roll’s … Continue reading
Firestone Walker Brewing calls its Hopnosis IPA a “cold IPA” though it wasn’t immediately clear to me whether the brewery was playing on its use of Cryo Hops, or if more was involved. As it happens, there is more to it than deriving “cold” from “cryo” and FW details it … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin, out last week, takes a look at the latest year-round beer from GoodLife Brewing, High Altitude Lager, and frames that within an overview of the American lager style. “We began with an idea to brew a super-light lager because we (production team) all like … Continue reading
Boston’s Harpoon Brewery recently released two new beers, American-style pale lagers whose sales will benefit military families with $1 per case sold: American Flyer Lager and American Flyer Light. The brewery sent me samples of each beer to review as well. Press release: $1 of each case sold will benefit … Continue reading
Go Ask Talus is the latest single hop IPA from Double Mountain Brewery, featuring (as you might expect) the Talus hop, a relatively new variety formerly known as HBC 692 that is a daughter of Sabro. I received a bottle of this new beer last week in conjunction with the … Continue reading