The Brew Site
Lager Fest, the all-lager beer festival hosted by Buoy Beer Company in Astoria, returns once again this May. Buoy has teamed up with over a dozen breweries for the event to pour a wide variety of lagers. There will be live music and a tie-in with Astoria’s Run on the … Continue reading
Each year, Crux Fermentation Project releases Doublecross, its dark Belgian-style strong ale, a big specialty brew that weighs in at 11% ABV with 21 IBUs. Brewed as a winter seasonal, it fits right into the holiday season but it’s strong enough to hold up to aging for drinking any time … Continue reading
California’s Firestone Walker Brewing wants you to consider a couple of their beers for St. Patrick’s Day this year: Hopnosis IPA and Parabolita, a salted caramel barrel-aged stout. The company sent me samples of each this week, arriving just in time for the holiday. Here’s the pitch for each beer … Continue reading
Today I received the latest release in the tinyHaus limited beer series from 10 Barrel Brewing, Marionberry Cheesecake Sour. It’s release #011 in the series, and the first of 2023; it’s an “imperial” Berliner Weisse with 6.1% alcohol by volume. The description on the brewery’s website (“upcoming release” on the … Continue reading
I’m late on posting this news, but Ecliptic Brewing and Boneyard Beer recently teamed up to brew StaRPM, an India pale ale combining the two respective breweries’ flagship beers, Starburst IPA and RPM IPA. The beer is out and available now in 16-ounce cans. Here’s the press release: Portland’s Ecliptic … Continue reading
Hood River’s Double Mountain Brewery is revisiting past beers in its From the Vault series, and last week the brewery sent me the latest release in the series: Sweet Jane IPA, first brewed back in 2017. As with other specialty beers, the brewers paired the beer up with a Spotify … Continue reading
For the last several years (since 2020), Double Mountain Brewery had put its annual anniversary block party on hold, but that ends this week—on Saturday, March 18, Double Mountain is celebrating its sixteenth anniversary with the return of its block party. 4th Street in front of the brewery will be … Continue reading
It’s been a busy week for sample deliveries and I’m not done posting about them yet! One of the packages that arrived was from Seattle’s Schilling Hard Cider—two cans of the company’s latest imperial cider in its Excelsior lineup, Excelsior Pineapple. Nicknamed “Spaceport,” it’s the fourth in the Excelsior lineup, … Continue reading
The 23rd beer in the Farm to Market collaboration series from Zupan’s Markets is out, and it’s a collaboration with pFriem Family Brewers—a West Coast IPA available now at all three of Zupan’s locations. The PR agency sent me samples of the beer this week to coincide with the release. … Continue reading
I’ve still got a backlog of beer review notes, so why not grind through more of the pumpkin beers (plus a cider)? Here are three more reviews on the various pumpkin brews I enjoyed last fall. Abomination Brewing – Midnight Snack From what I can tell, Abomination Brewing is a roaming … Continue reading