Oregon has a LOT of beer. Some might even say too much. (Not us.) And our state’s many, many breweries don’t just plop out a style or two and call it good. Nooo—our intrepid, insatiable brewers keep churning out new varieties, seasonal beers, collaborations, and one-offs so that your local beer store’s coolers never look the same for long.
With that in mind, we rounded up a bunch of new, newish, seasonally recurring, and limited-batch beers to make sense of all the bounty Oregon has to offer. We stuck only to bottled beer made in the Beaver State, and tried to cram as many summer seasonals in as we could. Many of these will make for terrific hot-weather beers, but we were surprised by just how many hop-forward ales and IPAs are still hitting the shelves, even as the thermometer climbs upward. Some of the more prickly-tasting IPAs seem like leftovers from winter, but a lot of the crisper ones will work wonderfully at your next barbecue.
So we wet our whistles, and wet them again, and again.