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Barrel-aged beers are the bear hugs of the beer world.
Between Alan Sprints’ retirement collaborations, Breakside and Baerlic trying out new blends, and Fort George and Ferment brewing ahead, things are looking promising for Pacific Northwest barrel-aged beers.
Pictured: A group photo from the first year of Fuji to Hood, in Portland. In 2019, the second year of the festival was held in Japan and was called Hood to Fuji. Festival organizers plan to continue alternating locations every other year. courtesy of fuji to hood Not only does 2022 mark the return of […]
Ferment’s new Hana Pils: a Japanese-style rice lager bittered with French Strissel Spalt, Slovenian Celeia, and German Hüll Melon hops. Courtesy of Ferment In February, Ecliptic’s owner and brewmaster John Harris announced a forthcoming Moon Room special release series devoted to lagers. It took its name from the Ecliptic location that opened in fall 2021, […]
WIDMER BREWING Admittedly, it’s a funny thing about winter beers. There’s a reason beer sells like mad all summer long; it makes for ideal cold refreshment when the mercury’s high. But when temps dip, brewers bust out “winter warmers,” or beers that are typically brewed to higher gravities, meaning punchier in the alcohol by volume […]
Admittedly, it’s a funny thing about winter beers. There’s a reason beer sells like mad all summer long; it makes for ideal cold refreshment when the mercury’s high. But when temps dip, brewers bust out “winter warmers,” or beers that are typically brewed to higher gravities, meaning punchier in the alcohol by volume (ABV) department […]
Come for the views, stay for Mountain View’s refreshing beers. Brian Yaeger Parkdale, Oregon may only have a population of 324, but it has a brewery population of two. What makes this spot at the top end of the Fruit Loop ripe for boasting the most breweries per capita? For starters, both Solera (established 2012) […]
Jolby / Oregon I Am / COLT For those who love the great outdoors and craft brews, a new project has your name written all over it. Eight Oregon breweries, including Portland’s Von Ebert and Little Beast, have each created beers called The Oregon I Am in support of the Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts […]
Farewell and thanks for all the beer.
Oregon brewers—and Oregon beer drinkers—have always been early adapters, which explains why you don’t have to search very hard to find a local beer infused with cucumber. That’s right, we’re still ahead of the curve on the cucumber craze that still hasn’t quite seemed to materialize. Summer’s a fine time for these cuke brews, which […]
Sitting on Revolution Hall’s roof deck while sipping a glass of the Commons’ Urban Farmhouse—a brewery not more than a disc golf par-five from the former high school—Charlie Hyde talks about his forthcoming Bodega Beer Co. set to open by year’s end catty-corner from here. That also makes it directly across the street from Beer, […]
Inner Southeast Portland has evolved into a mecca of breweries.
A rundown of Oregon’s cucumber beers, just in time for summer.
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