The Brew Site
This week, I received several seasonal beers from Hopworks Brewery, including the new Tequila Barrel-aged Rindless Watermelon Gose, a version of the company’s Rindless aged for six months in tequila barrels. It was just released this month and made an appearance at The Little Woody in Bend over Labor Day … Continue reading
Deschutes Brewery’s The Dissident returns for 2023, and the brewery sent me two bottles recently—one of this year’s vintage, and one of the 2019 vintage. Why 2019? Because that was when Deschutes last released a version of The Dissident brewed to its original recipe, with cherries, until this year. In … Continue reading
I recently received a four pack of the latest tinyHaus series specialty beer from 10 Barrel Brewing: Out of Focus Peach Hazy IPA. It’s the fourteenth release in the series, and the description says: In our quest to create the ultimate super juiced Hazy IPA, Tonya added White Peach to … Continue reading
The latest seasonal IPA from Double Mountain Brewery is a collaboration beer with Everybody’s Brewing (located across the river from Double Mountain), a west coast IPA dubbed Escape From Indiana. Both brewery owners are originally from Indiana, and have put together a beer featuring New Zealand hops and Thiolized yeast … Continue reading
This week I received several beers from Public Coast Brewing, representing a summertime trio with two seasonal specialties and a year-round standard. They were sent as part of the company’s summer marketing, and accompanied by the press release below. The beers are the year-round ’67 Blonde Ale, what I’d probably … Continue reading
Double Mountain Brewery has a new line of reserve ciders out now, specialty ciders crafted to showcase old world cider traditions and specialty apple varietals. As part of the rollout, the brewery sent me a bottle of Irene Rosé Red Fleshed Cider to sample. Details from the press release: Double … Continue reading
Craftwell Cocktails, the ready-to-drink cocktail brand of 2 Towns Ciderhouse, is releasing a new top-shelf premium cocktail lineup in bottles, featuring four flavors. These premium editions are nearly twice the strength of the original canned cocktails, at 20.5% ABV, and according to the press release they are best served over … Continue reading
For Pride Month, Double Mountain Brewery released its annual collaboration beer with Basic Rights Oregon, Basic Rights IPA. A portion of the beer’s proceeds will benefit Basic Rights Oregon, so the more you drink, the more you help! The brewery sent me a bottle to review for which I will … Continue reading
It’s not beer, but I recently received samples of tonic sodas and mixers from Top Note Tonic, several of which recently won awards in specialty competitions. Several flavors were included in the shipment: the Classic Tonic Water, Grapefruit soda, Bitter Lemon soda, and Indian Tonic Water. These are small(ish) bottles, … Continue reading
A compilation of a number of beers I’ve recently received that I’m behind on posting: Von Ebert Brewing: Pils, Sector 7 Hazy IPA, Volatile Substance IPA Last month, Von Ebert’s Pils won gold at the World Beer Cup in the German-style Pilsener category, and both Sector 7 and Volatile Substance … Continue reading