The Brew Site
Wallenpaupack Brewing Comany is a production brewery and brewpub located in Hawley, Pennsylvania, established in 2017. In the recent receipt of sample beers from Bolide Communications, a selection of Wallenpaupack brews were included, with an emphasis on seasonal summer drinking. I also got a follow-up shipment of Smallmouth Low-Cal IPA, … Continue reading
At the end of last month, Deschutes Brewery announced Rip City Lager, its co-branded beer in partnership with the Portland Trail Blazers NBA basketball team. Available initially on draft, the brewery is rolling out cans of Rip City across Oregon and Washington starting September 1st. And, the brewery sent me … Continue reading
I received a big package of beers from Bolide Communications last month, and among them were two German-origin beers: Schöfferhofer Grapefruit and Pomegranate Hefeweizens. Despite being labeled as hefeweizens, I’m calling these radlers since they are blended with their respective fruit juices to achieve low-ABV (2.5%) tipples that I found … Continue reading
Hood River’s Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery continues to produce some excellent beers and, over the past couple of years, ciders as well. I’ve been receiving a number of these ciders, including the most recent, Wickson Crab Cider, released this spring. It’s a single-varietal cider made from Wickson crabapples, a … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin came out this past Thursday, wherein I tackle a topic that continues to take the beer and drinks world by storm: Hard seltzer bubble over beer market. I’d tasted maybe a handful of hard seltzers prior to writing this, so I dove in and … Continue reading
Pelican Brewing launched a new marketing campaign around its Updrift IPA, and accordingly sent me a six-pack of the beer this past week along with some swag. Updrift is 7.1% ABV with 71 IBUs and features Magnum, Galaxy, Citra, and El Dorado hops. Spoiler alert: I popped a can yesterday … Continue reading
Bend’s Worthy Brewing is doing the work in the community to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Last month the brewery tapped its contribution to the Black is Beautiful collaboration beer effort, an 8.5% ABV imperial stout that follows the Weathered Souls recipe with “some house favorites Crisp Pale Chocolate … Continue reading
Double Mountain Brewery‘s Clusterf#*k IPA is back this year, and it’s hazy this time. The brewery sent me a bottle last week to sample. The beer uses Cluster hops, one of the oldest American hops, and not one you see highlighted too often. The brewery’s press release blurbs the beer: … Continue reading
Out today, my latest for The Bulletin, highlighting and reviewing the summer seasonal from GoodLife Brewing, Beach Line Pineapple Pale Ale. Most of us aren’t getting to the beach during the pandemic (you really shouldn’t be traveling, right now, you know?), so my angle in the piece is “GoodLife bringing … Continue reading
Massachusetts-based Clown Shoes Beer sent me a four-pack of its Rainbows Are Real back at the end of June, in part to celebrate Pride Month and in part to announce the beer as its first IPA brewed with terpenes. There aren’t many beers on the market with added terpenes (other … Continue reading