The Brew Site
Just before the holiday, Deschutes Brewery sent me bottles of the latest Reserve Series beers for 2018: The Abyss and The Dissident. Both proven excellent beers, and always ones I appreciate receiving. I actually haven’t tried either of these yet this season (ironically, I was at Deschutes’ Bend Pub last … Continue reading
Silver Moon Brewing is releasing a new beer in its barrel-aged two pack format this year, a Brett-infused blonde ale named Contrarium. The beer hasn’t been released yet—the release party is this upcoming Wednesday, November 21—but the brewery gave me the two pack which I picked up the other day. … Continue reading
Michigan’s New Holland Brewing is re-branding its flagship beer, the barrel-aged imperial stout Dragon’s Milk, and as part of the rollout (which includes a new website) the brewery launched the “Share a Legend” story contest which encourages people to submit a personal story about the beer for a chance to … Continue reading
Did you know that Deschutes Brewery bottled a Baltic Porter? Neither did I, but I just received a bottle of it in the brewery’s “Just Tapped” series along with two bottles of this year’s Jubelale. This year’s Jubelale label does not feature a local artist, but is an amalgam of … Continue reading
Last week I met and had a beer with Lindsay Wiley, a communications manager with AB-InBev’s High End division who is based out of 10 Barrel Brewing here in Bend. Nothing earth-shaking to report, other than 10 Barrel is now canning Pearl IPA as a standalone package—i.e., not as part … Continue reading
The fall seasonals from Deschutes Brewery arrived at the house today: Hopzeit Autumn IPA and Chasin’ Freshies Fresh Hop IPA. Both excellent beers I’ve enjoyed in recent years, and I’m quite sure I’ll enjoy this year. (I’ve already had Hopzeit on tap at the Bend Pub—it’s good.) Chasin’ Freshies is … Continue reading
Sufferfest Beer Company‘s mission/tagline is to offer up beer brewed by athletes, for athletes; or, as it says on the website, “Born out of the needs of athletes and adventurers, we make award-winning functional beer for those who go the extra mile.” I’d not heard of this brewing company before, … Continue reading
A care package from Two Brothers Artisan Brewing out of Warrenville, Illinois arrived today, contained two bottles of Atom Smasher Oktoberfest and Sidekick Pale Ale. I don’t know much about the brewery at all so it’s always fun to sample new-to-me brews, and I’m always ready to drink Oktoberfest this … Continue reading
The 33 Bottles of Beer tasting notebooks produced by 33 Books has a new special edition that just came out—the Fresh Hop Edition. And one just arrived in the mail today for me. Billed as a “journal for hop-forward beers,” this variant on the standard tasting journal is appropriately green … Continue reading
Yes, the time has come for Deschutes Brewery to release a hazy IPA! Actually they’ve already released a number of them, but this one is the first to be packaged: Fresh Haze IPA. The brewery sent me two cans this week. I like the play on “Fresh Squeezed,” both in … Continue reading