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A bit of a break from beer with another (canned) cocktail which arrived yesterday, Hochstadter’s Slow & Low Rock and Rye. This is essentially a pre-mixed old fashioned cocktail made with rye whiskey, and I’m always willing to try and write about such things here. Here’s a bit about Slow … Continue reading
This beer and swag package arrived yesterday, courtesy of Elysian Brewing in Seattle. The featured beer is Salute the Sun, a pale ale conditioned on sun-dried black limes, but also included are Rolling Stone Lager (along with “backstage pass,” guitar pick, and more), Contact Haze Hazy IPA, and the company’s … Continue reading
The latest Zupan’s Markets collaboration beer is here, an Imperial IPA brewed with Ex Novo Brewing, and I received two cans of it today. I’m glad to see that even during the pandemic that Zupan’s is able to continue this Farm to Market series; this is the eleventh in the … Continue reading
The end of last week brought a shipment of canned cider to my door: Portland Cider Company Kinda Dry. Not sure if there’s an occasion or just the cidery reminding us that it’s still there (yay!) with the flagship. Description: The cider that started it all. Our take on an … Continue reading
Before the week is completely over—this week I received a bottle of Crux Fermentation Project’s latest [Banished] series limited beer: Bramble Candy Barrel-Aged Blackberry Sour Ale. This definitely looks like an interesting one: After months ripening in red wine barrels with a tangled blend of brettanomyces, lactobacillus, and pediococcus, we … Continue reading
This week I received a six-pack of Worthy Brewing’s latest seasonal, its Tenmile Dry Hopped Lager (which I posted about here). Worthy focused heavily on the sustainability issues with the release of this beer, from the compostable cardboard-like six-pack holder to the water-based digital label printing on the can, and … Continue reading
The latest cider from Portland Cider Company is out, and the company sent me a can at the end of last week: Ciderade, a lemon lime cider with electrolytes. Interesting to see Portland Cider aim for a slice of the lifestyle/functional beverage market. Here’s a bit about it from the … Continue reading
Recently Fishers Island Lemonade reached out to find out if I’d be interested in sampling the company’s signature canned hard lemonade cocktail. Since I’m always willing to try out new categories of drinks and report on them here, I accepted, and four cans of Fishers Island Lemonade arrived yesterday. It’s … Continue reading
Crux Fermentation Project announced earlier this week the release of three new packaged beers: Bubble Wrap Hazy IPA, Battlestar IPA, and Gypsy Coolship No. 2. I was already planning an article for The Bulletin on the Coolship and Crux generously provided me samples of all three beers. Don’t worry—they all … Continue reading
It’s a bit different than the normal beat I cover on this site, but Mancan Wine approached me to see if I’d be interested in reviewing its latest canned wine offerings. I figured why not? So these arrived today, four 250ml cans of California wine: Red Wine: The Red Wine … Continue reading