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The Bruery’s fruited wild ale Frucht series returns for 2022, with the latest release taking it in a tropical direction with Frucht: Passion Fruit. Part of the Terreux lineup that focuses on wild and sour ales, Passion Fruit was fermented in oak foeders to develop its distinctive characteristics. Details from … Continue reading
The Bruery takes its pastry stouts seriously enough to even have an entire Bakery Series of beers to celebrate them, and the latest release in the series evokes banana nut muffins. It’s named, unsurprisingly, Banana Nut Muffin, and it’s an 8.1% imperial stout brewed with bananas, vanilla, and walnuts, and … Continue reading
Offshoot Beer Company, the subsidiary company of The Bruery that focuses on hop-forward beers, announced the release of its newest year-round beer: Coast (An Anytime Hazy Pale Ale). It’s something of a more sessionable counterpart to the company’s flagship IPA, Relax, and it’s hitting the market this month. More details … Continue reading
Washington’s Yakima Chief Hops introduced its Cryo Hops® product line in 2017, in which it developed a proprietary cryogenic process for processing hops that separates the lupulin from the vegetative matter to produce concentrated lupulin pellets. According to YCH these have “maximum aroma impact while reducing the negative effects often … Continue reading
Starting in 2008, The Bruery began releasing annual Christmas beers inspired by the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” featuring a variety of strong styles and ingredients. I’ve always admired the ambition behind it, though you’d have had to really plan ahead to save a bottle each year for … Continue reading
Back when craft breweries were just starting to can their beers, Oskar Blues introduced its Ten Fidy Imperial Stout in cans, which I thought was brilliant and quite the novelty. (High gravity imperial stout in a can! No wax-dipped bottle!) These days canning big beers has become much more mainstream, … Continue reading
Everyone knows The Bruery at this point, right? Patrick Rue’s Orange County, California brewery that specializes in experimental and barrel-aged beers? It is one of those west coast buzzworthy breweries that many people are all agog about these past few years. The Bruery recently sent me a bottle from its … Continue reading
While I’ve been mostly offline from the blog, The Bruery sent me a bottle of its latest release from the Bruery Terreux series, Saison Ardennes. It was released in 375ml bottles and this is what the Bruery says about it: Saison Ardennes is a tart saison, hand-crafted to embody the … Continue reading
Stone Brewing is heading up another collaboration beer, this time with Elysian Brewing and The Bruery, and what caught my eye about this particular brew is that it’s a pumpkin beer (of course!). Dick Cantwell of Elysian spills the details about it on the Elysian blog: The boys from the … Continue reading
Even though they’re only a couple of years old, The Bruery in Southern California is the current darling of the Brewinati (did I just make up that word?), and everyone online was raving about their 2 Turtle Doves over the holidays—the second in their ambitious “12 Days (Beers) of Christmas” … Continue reading