American-Style or German-Style Sour Ale. Gold: The Dissident, Deschutes Brewery, Bend Extra Special Bitter or Strong Bitter :Gold: Bachelor ESB, Deschutes Brewery, Bend Munich-Style Helles:Gold: Himmelbrau Helles, Laurelwood Brewing Co., Portland Inte…
The Publican newspaper, written for pub managers and pub tenants in the UK, is having a small panic right now because the voting in the current poll on its website is going seriously in the wrong direction – and Publican staffers are now emailing arou…
I arrived in Maryland (right between Baltimore and DC) last night, and boy are my arms tired. I’m here on business, but I plan to make the best of my off duty time, and I already have a google map of some of the places I hope to visit while here. Ch…
This year I’ve attended two of the most acclaimed festivals in the United States, the Great Taste of the Midwest in Madison, Wisconsin and this past weekend the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado. Before leaving for Denver, I had …
Or at least working in one is. According to none other than the Wall Street Journal, New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado is one of the 15 best small workplaces in America. Kim Jordan and Jeff Lebesch, the founders of the company that…
Hello, great readers of Guest on Tap. This is Angelo, local Portland beer writer. I would first like to apologize for not putting a post up here in sometime. I have been jumping headlong into my very own website, BREWPUBLIC. As a contributor to G…
I know I tend to be in the minority in my take of whenever beer is featured on national network shows, because I feel that when it’s not done well, more often than not, the poor information spread out to unsuspecting viewers does more damage th…
I was at Nottingham Beer Festival last Thursday – more on which at a later date – where the SIBA Beer Of The Midlands award was being judged. The results can be found here.I’m a bit skeptical why a monthly special such as Screech Owl is allowed to en…
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…
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…