The Brew Site
Switchback Brewing is located in Burlington, Vermont, and offers several core beers with a range of specialties including its DIPA Cat series of double IPAs that highlight a single hop variety. Switchback beers are available throughout Vermont and New England, and the company sent me samples of three of its … Continue reading
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
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
Here are reviews for two recent ciders from 2 Towns Ciderhouse that were released this spring, and for which the company sent me samples. The first, Pristine Peach, is available in the cidery’s new large format stovepipe cans (19.2 ounces), joining Outcider and Strawberade. The other, The Baddie, is a … Continue reading
Hood River’s Double Mountain Brewery revamped the look for its line of ciders this year, one that is inspired by matchbook designs from the 1940s and 1950s according to the press release. Along with the new designs, the brewery slated six ciders for release this year, and sent me three … 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
The 23rd entry into Zupan’s Markets Farm to Market collaboration beer series is a West Coast IPA brewed with pFriem Family Brewers; the private-label beer, like all in the series, is available exclusively at the three Zupan’s locations around Portland. For this IPA, pFriem crafted a modern take on the … Continue reading
This past weekend, Crux Fermentation Project hosted its first Saisons on the Lawn, a mini-festival featuring a lineup of nine saisons from Oregon breweries, taking advantage of a warm spring day (maybe the first we’ve had!) to kick off this inaugural event. As part of the day’s festivities, Crux also … Continue reading