The Brew Site
It’s been awhile since I’ve had any beers from Redhook, the Seattle-based brewery that has changed ownership over the years before landing at Tilray last year, but I’m pretty sure the last beer I had was Big Ballard Imperial IPA. As it happens, Redhook has been expanding its Big Ballard … Continue reading
For the 28th installment of the Farm to Market collaboration beer series from Zupan’s Markets, the Portland specialty grocery chain partnered with Laurelwood Brewing to craft a Hazy Double IPA that is available exclusively at Zupan’s locations. The company’s PR agency sent me samples of this Hazy Double, which is … Continue reading
10 Barrel Brewing expanded its canned cocktail line this spring with the addition of three new products: Disco Lemonade, AMF, and the newest, Golf Tea. I received samples of all three. Here’s the pitch on these: These aren’t the highfalutin, pinkies up, suit and tie types you’d usually expect at … Continue reading
Recently, Seattle-based small-batch distiller Wildwood Spirits reached out with an offer to sample and review a selection of its sprits. I accepted and received three bottles representing a selection of the lineup: Rendition Rye Whiskey, Kur Gin, and perhaps most interestingly, Ginnocence, a non-alcoholic gin. Wildwood touts that it is … Continue reading
The latest beer from Double Mountain Brewery is a collaboration with Perrault Farms of the Yakima Valley, brewed with newer, unnamed hops (all “HBC” numbers) — Grower 397 West Coast IPA. I received a bottle of the new brew recently to review. Here’s the press release with all the details: … Continue reading
Over the spring I’d received samples of three fairly different beers from Cannon Beach’s Public Coast Brewing, one a retooled year-round beer and two seasonal specialties. Time for a review roundup! ’67 Blonde Lager New to the brewery’s core lineup this year, ’67 Blonde Lager is “a reimagined classic of … Continue reading
This Saturday, May 25, the new and upcoming Brewery Xo is hosting a soft opening of its upstairs event space at its location in Toledo, Oregon. Brewery Xo is the project of Jen Kent, longtime head brewer of McMenamins Thompson Brewery in Salem, which I first wrote about four years … Continue reading
Colorado’s Breckenridge Brewery has a new west coast style IPA out, Ridge Runner, which joins is main beer lineup. I recently received samples of the new beer, which is 7.4% ABV, double dry hopped, and available in cans. Press release with details: The Perfect Beer for Toasting The Trail Less … Continue reading
My latest print article for The Bulletin features the side-by-side review I promised of Deschutes Brewery’s Fresh Squeezed Non-Alcoholic against Fresh Squeezed IPA, to highlight the newest NA beer in the company’s lineup. Deschutes’ earlier NA beers were created in Colorado, but with the release of Fresh Squeezed NA, the … Continue reading
New York’s Montauk Brewing recently released its first non-alcoholic beer, N.A. IPA, which joins the lineup of the company’s standards which include a full-strength IPA, pale ale, summer ale, and more. The new NA beer is under 0.5% ABV (the legal limit) and available in 12-ounce cans, a six-pack of … Continue reading