The Brew Site
My latest article for The Bulletin, which came out last week, profiled All Trails Lead to Bend, a barrel-aged imperial stout collaboration between Crux Fermentation Project and two of Bend’s liquor stores, Trailhead Liquor and Bend South Liquor. Occasionally, these projects extend beyond breweries into other areas of the industry. … Continue reading
The state of Colorado has no shortage of craft breweries offering festive holiday beers, and for today we have a big one from 6 and 40 Brewery of Lakewood, Christmas Tree Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, a warming ale with 11.2% alcohol by volume that spent a fair amount of … Continue reading
Portland’s Hopworks Brewery always has a fun lineup of seasonal beer specialties, and this year the brewery sent me its fall selection: the tequila barrel-aged version of Rindless Watermelon Gose, the returning Great Gourds of Fire Pumpkin Ale, and of course Fresh Hop Abominable, the fresh Centennial-hopped version of its Abominable … Continue reading
To finish out 2022, Zupan’s Markets teamed up with Ferment Brewing to release the 22nd collaboration beer in the chain’s Farm to Market beer series, named No. 22 Stout. (I don’t know if all the “22”s were intentional?) It’s a big barrel-aged stout, with 14.3% alcohol by volume, aged in Colorado … Continue reading
I’m a week behind on posting this, since my latest article for The Bulletin was out last Thursday, but my second-to-last print article of the year reviewed this year’s edition of Crux Fermentation Project’s Tough Love Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout. It’s a good one! Crux Fermentation Project celebrated its 10th anniversary … Continue reading
With The Little Woody having taken place this weekend, I did a deep dive on a single barrel-aged beer from 10 Barrel Brewing: Joyous Limbs, a sour ale aged 10 months in a genever barrel from Oregon Spirit Distillers. Genever is the juniper-flavored traditional liquor of the Netherlands, similar to … Continue reading
The annual Little Woody Barrel-Aged Beer Cider & Whiskey Festival returns this Labor Day weekend, taking place once again at the Deschutes Historical Museum and featuring barrel-aged specialties from a selection of local and semi-local breweries and cideries. It starts Friday, September 2 at 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. for VIP) … Continue reading
The Dragon’s Milk Reserve series from Michigan’s New Holland Brewing showcases the company’s signature bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout with limited reserve editions highlighting specialty flavor combinations. The brewery’s latest for 2022, Reserve 2 (or 2022-2 for short), is based on stroopwafel cookies with coffee, which sounds rather decadent. The description … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin, which was published last week, covers Not Your Usual Barrel-Aged Stout, the collaboration beer from Bend Brewing Company and Newport Avenue Market (with a bit of Bohemian Roastery thrown in the mix); it’s a coffee-infused barrel-aged and blended imperial stout. Newport Avenue Market’s beer … Continue reading
Bend Brewing Company collaborated with Newport Avenue Market and Bohemian Roastery to release a special beer, Not Your Usual Barrel-Aged Stout, a strong stout aged in bourbon barrels and conditioned on coffee. The beer was released last Friday and is on the market now; here’s the press release: Iconic Bend-based … Continue reading