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My latest article for The Bulletin, which came out last week, profiled All Trails Lead to Bend, a barrel-aged imperial stout collaboration between Crux Fermentation Project and two of Bend’s liquor stores, Trailhead Liquor and Bend South Liquor. Occasionally, these projects extend beyond breweries into other areas of the industry. … Continue reading
The state of Colorado has no shortage of craft breweries offering festive holiday beers, and for today we have a big one from 6 and 40 Brewery of Lakewood, Christmas Tree Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, a warming ale with 11.2% alcohol by volume that spent a fair amount of … Continue reading
For today’s Advent beer pick we’re heading to Austin, Texas to visit Southern Heights Brewing. During the winter months Southern Heights offers up a Russian imperial stout named Hoodie Weather, a beefy ale brewed with vanilla, chocolate, and coffee, and weighing in at 10.31% alcohol by volume. The description says: … 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
To finish out 2022, Zupan’s Markets teamed up with Ferment Brewing to release the 22nd collaboration beer in the chain’s Farm to Market beer series, named No. 22 Stout. (I don’t know if all the “22”s were intentional?) It’s a big barrel-aged stout, with 14.3% alcohol by volume, aged in Colorado … Continue reading
I’m a week behind on posting this, since my latest article for The Bulletin was out last Thursday, but my second-to-last print article of the year reviewed this year’s edition of Crux Fermentation Project’s Tough Love Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout. It’s a good one! Crux Fermentation Project celebrated its 10th anniversary … Continue reading
The Dragon’s Milk Reserve series from Michigan’s New Holland Brewing showcases the company’s signature bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout with limited reserve editions highlighting specialty flavor combinations. The brewery’s latest for 2022, Reserve 2 (or 2022-2 for short), is based on stroopwafel cookies with coffee, which sounds rather decadent. The description … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin, which was published last week, covers Not Your Usual Barrel-Aged Stout, the collaboration beer from Bend Brewing Company and Newport Avenue Market (with a bit of Bohemian Roastery thrown in the mix); it’s a coffee-infused barrel-aged and blended imperial stout. Newport Avenue Market’s beer … Continue reading
Today’s beer selection for the Advent calendar is a departure from the normal Christmas and winter beer theme—for today is my birthday, and my “tradition” nearly every year I’ve been doing this calendar is to select a “birthday” beer for the day, typically something big and special. After much thought I picked … Continue reading
This week, I’ve got three strong beers for my Tuesday Tastings reviews, fitting since we’re solidly into winter and strong, warming brews are what you want to drink on those chilly days. I’m even going international, with a beer from Canada. Coronado Brewing Stupid Stout 2015 This is the 9% … Continue reading