The Brew Site
For this year’s fresh hop beer season, Double Mountain Brewery teamed up with nearby neighbor Solera Brewery to release Iowa Bar Fight, a fresh hop IPA brewed with fresh Strata hops from Crosby Hops. It was one of three bottled fresh hop selections from Double Mountain this year (another two … Continue reading
This year, Deschutes Brewery’s Reserve Series Flanders-style Oud Bruin (sour brown ale), The Dissident, turns 15. To commemorate the milestone, the brewery returned to the beer’s recipe roots and brewed the 2023 edition with cherries, something it hadn’t done since 2019. First appearing in 2008, The Dissident represented a huge … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin is on pumpkin beer, one of my all-time favorite categories! I profile three Central Oregon pumpkin (or pumpkin spice, in the case of one of them) ales, as well as delving briefly into the history behind the gourd. Pumpkin beer as we know it … Continue reading
Here are reviews of a couple of lighter ales from Public Coast Brewing of Cannon Beach; these are ones the brewery had sent me to promote its seasonal summer offerings, although ’67 Blonde Ale is a year-round beer. Besides the two beers highlighted below, I’d also received Blueberry Wheat Ale, … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin, out a week and half ago, covered the local Great American Beer Festival winning beers and breweries, with a focus on Immersion Brewing, a first-time GABF winner this year with its Poggers fruited sour ale. Immersion has previously won awards at other competitions, including … Continue reading
“tinyHaus” is 10 Barrel Brewing’s “brewery within a brewery,” essentially a 10-barrel pilot brewing system that serves as a bit of a playground for specialty, limited beers that can showcase the brewing team’s creativity. The project is led by brewmaster Tonya Cornett, and releases a number of these beers in … Continue reading
Bell’s Brewery introduced a new beer recently, expanding upon its ultra popular Oberon Ale summer seasonal to include a new version—Oberon Eclipse, a citrus wheat beer introduced for the fall and winter months. It’s part of a push to keep the Oberon brand available year round. And I’ve got the … Continue reading
I received a package from 10 Barrel Brewing this week with a sneak peek of a new (re)branded product line the company is introducing—and late yesterday the official email hit my inbox. The short version: 10 Barrel is rebranding its main year-round IPA lineup under a new HopBurst Family label. … Continue reading
Hood River’s Double Mountain Brewery is one of the most reliably consistent breweries in the state, best known for its hoppy ales while handling other styles, and even cider, with ease. The brewery sent me several samples to review this summer—two beers and a cider—and while my review notes below … Continue reading
It’s fresh hop season once again, and my latest article for The Bulletin, naturally enough, is about the topic. This time around, I take a look at the fresh hop technique of flash freezing the hops with liquid nitrogen and then shattering them to expose as much of the lupulin … Continue reading