The Brew Site
My latest article for The Bulletin, out a week and half ago, covered the local Great American Beer Festival winning beers and breweries, with a focus on Immersion Brewing, a first-time GABF winner this year with its Poggers fruited sour ale. Immersion has previously won awards at other competitions, including … Continue reading
Located in New Orleans, Urban South Brewery is of course thinking ahead to Mardi Gras next month (although New Orleans “consider Mardi Gras to stretch the entire period from Twelfth Night (the last night of Christmas which begins Epiphany [January 5]) to Ash Wednesday”). Naturally that means releasing Mardi Gras-themed … Continue reading
For my last couple of articles for The Bulletin I’ve talked about summer beers styles. A couple of weeks ago it was the classic American wheat ale, with highlights from Sunriver Brewing and GoodLife Brewing, and this past Sunday I wrote about the prevalence of summertime fruited sour ales that … Continue reading
Bend Brewing Company recently announced the release of its Razztafari Sour Ale in 16-ounce cans, joining other pounder sours Ching Ching and Sippin’ On. Included in that announcement were details of the brewery’s upcoming second annual Sour Fest, taking place this Saturday, May 18. Razztafari, as the name might imply, … Continue reading
This Wednesday, February 22, Cascade Brewing‘s sixth annual Sour Fruit Fest returns to both the Cascade Barrel House and the Raccoon Lodge. It’s a nearly-week-long event as it will run through Sunday the 26th, from open to close. If you’ve wanted to sample a wide swath of the brewery’s offerings, … Continue reading
Kicking off today and running all week during the Craft Brewers Conference is Cascade Brewing‘s Sour and Wild Invitational taking place at their Barrel House in southeast Portland. Each day from the 14th through the 18th from 3pm to closing, the Barrel House will feature pours of amazing sour and … Continue reading
Kick is a collaboration pumpkin ale from Elysian Brewing and New Belgium Brewing and is released under New Belgium’s Lips of Faith series—and as such it is more than just another pumpkin beer. It is, in fact, a pumpkin and cranberry sour ale, 8.5% alcohol by volume, blended with wood-aged … Continue reading
I’ve posted a couple of updates to my roundup of this month’s Sour Beer Session; in particular since it was first published I added links to The Tale of the Ale and A Beer in Hand, plus corrected a missing link from Ramblings of a Beer Runner. Go check ’em … Continue reading
I enjoyed reading The Session contributions this month, I thought it was a successful outing into the world of Sour Beers and I liked the breadth of the posts that came through. In all right now it looks like we have 18 19 contributing sites, though it’s possible I might … Continue reading
It’s the first Friday of the month so that means it’s time (in the beer blogging world) for The Session: a collaborative beer blogging experience where bloggers around the web write with a common theme in mind, with all of these posts compiled into an inclusive roundup for your reading … Continue reading