The Brew Site
My latest article for The Bulletin takes a look at one of Bend’s more under-the-radar breweries that is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year—Oblivion Brewing. I cover a bit of the brewery’s background and its beers, including reviewing the summer seasonal Cultus Sunset India Session Ale, canned for the first … 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
Earlier this year, Hop Valley Brewing of Springfield released and sent me its Triple Double Imperial IPA pack—a mixed six-pack featuring three of the brewery’s imperial IPAs, including its flagship Alpha Centauri, Cryo Stash, and Stash Bandicoot Imperial Hazy. I’ve already reviewed Stash Bandicoot, last year with the company’s Haze … Continue reading
One of my recent articles for The Bulletin takes a look at mead, with a new Central Oregon meadery, Lazy Z Ranch Wines. Lazy Z is producing its own honey from which is produced its Estate Traditional Mead, and it also concurrently released Lavender Blossom Mead, made with local honey … 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
My latest article for The Bulletin (which came out a week and a half ago) and it’s a study in pilsners, a great style to drink during this hot weather. I evaluate two side by side, from Sunriver Brewing and Three Creeks Brewing. When brewed properly, these beers are light … 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
My latest article for The Bulletin takes a look at Kaffir Lime Sea Salt Gose from Spider City Brewing, and considers lime gose as a base for the beer cocktail known as a beerita. It’s perfect for summer! The concept behind the beerita is simple. Start with a classic margarita, … Continue reading
The 805 Family of beers from Firestone Walker Brewing is a workhorse for the company, accounting for more than 50 percent of the brewery’s production. The mainstay is the 805 Original, a light, easy-drinking blonde ale, named for the 805 telephone area code representing Firestone Walker’s region on the Central … Continue reading
Talus is a relatively new hop, formerly known as HBC 692 before earning its name, developed as a daughter of Sabro and commercially released in 2020. In that time it’s earned some recognition for its tropical fruit and some neomexicanus characteristics, this spring Double Mountain Brewery highlighted it in its … Continue reading