Archive for the 'Buzz Beers' Category
8 p.m. Friday, Oct 31st Roots Organic Brewing Co., 1520 S.E. Seventh Ave.; Halloween party/costume contest/ beer release. You can get beer from a pumpkin as Roots brewer Jason McAdam demonstrates. They’ll be pouring the new Pumpkin Ale from giant…
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, New Pubs, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Roots Pumpkin Ale release and Halloween party
From the Redhook folks: After hearing numerous requests from craft beer drinkers across the country, Redhook Ale Brewery will reintroduce the cult classic craft brew Double Black Stout for a limited time.Originally created by the brewery in 1995, Redhook stopped…
October 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Buzz Beers, Seasonal beers, The Beer Bizz | Comments Off on The return of Double Black Stout
At the 2007 OBF Brewers Parade, Bob Brewer took a Swiss army knife to his beer mug handle so he could hang it from his pocket. Then, being Bob Brewer, he took a photo of it and probably uploaded…
October 21st, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Seasonal beers, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Celebrate with seven years of Celebration Nov. 1st
Brewer Cam O’Connor with his first Portland-brewed beer, Armory XPA, a fine, big, balanced-yet-hoppy pale ale…Thanks to brewer Cam O’Connor and Northwest zone manager Chris Hudson,I can post this week’s tap list at the Deschutes Pub…thanks, gents! 1. Mirror Pond…
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, New Beers, Seasonal beers | Comments Off on Deschutes Pub’s on-tap list for the week of Oct. 20th
From Fraserburgh, Scotland, with attitude… This’ll have you wishing for a witbier: a very special tasting of imperial stouts from Scottish microbrewery Brew Dog. Each of the stouts was aged for several months in a different Scotch whisky barrel…
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Whisky Barrel imperial stouts from Scotland
BridgePort Brewery is releasing its next 22-ounce Big Brew, Raven Mad; an Imperial Bourbon barrel aged porter. BridgePort will be hosting a release party Thursday with free samples of the beer while supplies last. Guests are encouraged to come dressed…
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Meet the Brewer, New Beers, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Raven Mad release party, Thurs. Oct. 23rd
We’ll let some pictures tell the story about Saturday’s Oregon Bounty/ Oregon Brewers Guild Fresh Hop Tastival at Hopworks Urban Brewery… This would’ve been the festival to get to early in the day. By midafternoon, lots of beers had run…
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, beer tastings, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana | Comments Off on Portland’s Fresh Hop Tastival was huge…
It happens all the time — Portland has so many good beer events happening in so many places that you can, as I did yesterday afternoon, head down to the Pilsner Room because you knew they had Phil’s Existential Alt…
October 17th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana | Comments Off on Beervana serendipity…
Rain did not deter determined beer sampling at the recent Hood River Hops festival; In Beervana, the Saturday forecast is partly sunny and very hoppy… Hopworks hosts the Oregon Brewers Guild Fresh Hop Tastival featuring more than 25 fresh hop…
October 15th, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Fresh Hop Tastival beer list
Full Sail’s John Harris made a bunch of Lupulin Ale this year — three batches, in fact, each made with the same malt bill and bittering hops but each with a with a different fresh hop: Rainiers in Lupulin…
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, General Beer Chat, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on All three Lupulin Ales now on tap at the Pilsner Room