Three more mini-reviews for my at-home fresh hop drinking! Featuring beers from Ex Novo Brewing, Hopworks Urban Brewery, and another from Crux Fermentation Project. Fresh Hop Eliot IPA – Ex Novo Brewing This is the fresh hop version of the brewery’s flagship Eliot IPA, featuring Centennial hops from Goschie Farms. … Continue reading
Sad news for Prineville, Oregon’s first brewery since 1906: Ochoco Brewing Company announced on Facebook this evening that this Saturday, October 10, would be its last day. Ultimately, it was the COVID-19 pandemic that took its toll, and Ochoco becomes the first Central Oregon brewery to close due to it. … Continue reading
Yes, summer is over and we’re into fall and Oktoberfest and pumpkin season, but did you get a chance to check out Harpoon Brewery‘s Fantasy League mix pack of low alcohol lifestyle beers? The brewery had sent them to me to sample and I found them to be suitably easy-drinking … 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
GoodLife Brewing has offered its Bavarian Lager on draft for some time now, a take on a German-style Helles lager with a Pacific Northwest spin, and the brewery announced recently the year-round availability of the beer in cans. And last week the brewery provided me with a six-pack to sample. … Continue reading
Last week I received a package of samples from Partake Brewing, which specializes in non-alcoholic beers that span several popular styles. Among the five cans are Blonde, Pale, IPA, Red, and Stout. Keen eyes will notice the cans say, 0.3% alcohol by volume; that does fall below the legal definition … Continue reading
Did anyone else watch the presidential debate this week? That alone would be enough to post the review of this beer, but with everything else going on these past several months… yeah. It might be why Double Mountain Brewery Hazy Clusterf#*k IPA is the perfect beer to be drinking right … Continue reading
I wrote earlier today about the New Belgium Brewing Voodoo Ranger Thirty Games, wherein NBB has two new IPAs in the Voodoo Ranger series and want consumers to vote on which will be the first Rotator IPA for 2021. The brewery sent both beers for me to sample and share … Continue reading
This is late to post, but I just received the sample beers yesterday: Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing is asking consumers to help choose the next Voodoo Ranger Rotational IPA by voting on a number of aspects of the new beers in what the company is calling the Thirsty Games. September … Continue reading
Arrived yesterday afternoon: a mixed 12-pack of 10 Barrel Brewing Crush series beers, and a six-pack of the new Nature Calls Mountain IPA. My timing is off: theoretically I should have received these before September 27, which was National Crush a Can Day, but I’d been late in replying to … Continue reading