My final article of 2023 for The Bulletin came out just before Christmas, and in it I profiled a new holiday beer from Wild Ride Brewing—Jingle Hop Winter Red Ale. Released at the beginning of the month, Jingle Hop was brewed at Wild Ride’s Prineville brewery by Prineville brewer Matt … Continue reading
Cranking out the fresh hop reviews slowly but surely! These three are all from Central Oregon breweries. Three Creeks Brewing – Conelick’r Fresh Hop IPA Three Creeks’ annual fresh hop IPA is brewed with fresh Centennial hops, and is always one I look forward to. It’s an award winner as … Continue reading
I fell behind a bit in my quest to document all the fresh hop beers I tried this year with this lightning round-style reviews, but I’m close to finishing up. I don’t know if anyone’s still drinking fresh hops now that it’s mid-November but I still do see some on … Continue reading
I’ve been writing beer articles for The Bulletin for five years now and somehow I hadn’t gotten around to writing about brown ale—until this week. My latest article is about the brown ale style with a focus on Wild Ride Brewing’s new Barracuda Brown Ale: Wild Ride Brewing Company recently … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin that came out this past week takes a look at hazy pale ales. I’ve noticed this spring a number of local breweries introducing new (or returning) hazy pales, some seasonal, some year round; I don’t know if it’s a trend but I thought it … Continue reading
Allagash Brewing has declared its annual Saison Day, for today, April 14, 2021, and while this isn’t Oregon-specific news, you can join the digital Saison Day celebration with Allagash at 5pm EST / 2pm PST. Is there any saison-specific Oregon beer news for today? If so I’ll definitely highlight it … Continue reading
Here’s some late afternoon beer news from around Oregon for you to help get through this Thursday. As usual I’ll be periodically updating this post through the rest of the day, so come back occasionally to see if there’s anything new!
Time for another entry in my fresh hop mini-reviews for this year. It’s sort of been filling the void left from the various beer festivals being cancelled. At any rate, fresh hop beers from RiverBend Brewing, Wild Ride Brewing, and Fort George Brewery to salivate over. Millenials Hate Centennials Fresh … Continue reading
Three more fresh hop beer mini-reviews for your reading pleasure! Two from Redmond breweries, and my other homebrewed fresh hop ale. Let’s go! Triumphant Fresh Hop Pale Ale – Wild Ride Brewing Though Wild Ride only packaged Journey to a New Strata-Sphere this year, I was able to pick up … Continue reading
When I saw that Wild Ride Brewing and Caldera Brewing had teamed up to brew PB & J, a peanut butter and marionberry ale, I knew that I had to pick some up and that it could be fun article for The Bulletin. Hence, the beer made it into the … Continue reading