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It’s National Drink Wine Day today, which I hope everyone is enjoying (even if it’s not beer—unless it’s barleywine, right?). In the meantime, here’s the news in Oregon beer for this February 18, which will continue to be updated through the rest of the day. Cheers and cin-cin!
‘Tis still the holiday season, at least through January 7, and it’s a great time to be drinking these dark seasonal ales from Pelican Brewing. The brewery sent samples of both, and in the same vein as the IPAs introduced this year, these are solid, well-brewed beers worth exploring. Let’s … Continue reading
Next year, 2021, Oregon’s Pelican Brewing is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and to celebrate, the brewery released its 2021 brewing calendar. On the docket: three new year-round beers, and four special collaboration beers brewed with “Pelican Alumni” to be released each quarter. We first visited Pelican way back in 1998, … Continue reading
It’s a truism these days that every craft brewery should have an IPA (usually more than one), so much so that it’s notable when a brewery doesn’t offer one. The trick, of course, is that since there are so many IPAs available, they really need to be brewed well to … Continue reading
‘Tis the season for the winter and Christmas beers to start being considered, and to that end Pelican Brewing sent out its annual holiday seasonal—Bad Santa Cascadian Dark Ale. You’d better watch out, you’d better not cry, you better not pout and here’s telling you why—Bad Santa has arrived. Brewed … Continue reading
Pelican Brewing Company announced the release of a new seasonal, Midnight Malt, a porter made with cocoa nibs, and sent me a six-pack to try last week. Pelican has been releasing a number of new packaged beers in recent months (which makes sense in the age of covid) but I … Continue reading
Pelican Brewing in Pacific City announced the release of a new year-round IPA, Cape Crasher, and last week a six-pack arrived on my doorstep from the brewery to sample. Technically, the brewery is calling this a PNW (Pacific Northwest) IPA, so not hazy or juicy and such. Here are details … Continue reading
Pelican Brewing launched a new marketing campaign around its Updrift IPA, and accordingly sent me a six-pack of the beer this past week along with some swag. Updrift is 7.1% ABV with 71 IBUs and features Magnum, Galaxy, Citra, and El Dorado hops. Spoiler alert: I popped a can yesterday … Continue reading
Pelican Brewing Company is one of the Oregon Coast’s premier brewing operations, first opening its iconic on-the-beach brewpub in Pacific City in 1996, and since expanding into Tillamook with a production brewery and restaurant and Cannon Beach with a brewpub. This week, the brewery announced details on the opening a … Continue reading
Pursuant to our recent visit to Public Coast Brewing in Cannon Beach in May, I mentioned that I’d made the extra time to be able to explore Cannon Beach rather than having to rush. In particular I’d wanted the chance to visit Bill’s Tavern & Brewhouse, the OG brewpub in … Continue reading