The 20-stop national Beer Bible book tour begins on Sept 23, and we’ve planned events every beer fan will enjoy. Have a look at the schedule and save the date.
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An exceptional new brewery opened in Bellingham a year ago, and they specialize in rustic styles, including Franconian lager. But my fave was a Polish lager.
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We now accept the fairly rigid classification of beer styles offered by groups like the GABF and Cicerone program. Where did they come from, and who decided how they should be organized? The short answer is Michael Jackson, but the longer answer is more intriguing.
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Beer styles are an agreement, shorthand to describe something we think we all understand. But scratch the surface even a little bit, and you fall into an epistemological void. Three examples this week illustrate their paradoxes and predicaments.
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A quintuple IPA arrived in my mailbox and promised to answer a question I’ve long wondered about: is there a point of diminishing return on IPAs, where hop intensity can no longer increase with the strength of a beer? The answer lay within.
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As the pandemic launches into its fifth and potentially most-virulent wave, politicians are stepping back. Private retail businesses are left to make decisions about how to police their customers, and the fallout might last years. It’s a bad situation.
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Pliny was a bright light in the fog. Despite its hurricane of flavors, it was more focused, refined, and elegant than other IPAs of the day. With the benefit of time, we can see that it reset expectations about what was possible, pointing to the future we now inhabit.
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Workman Publishing is being sold. The Publisher of The Beer Bible also owns Storey, an imprint with a number of excellent beer titles. It’s probably not good news.
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For people like me devoted to the culture, craft, and history of good beer, mass market products are like clouds passing through a blue sky. Once the new products were dry beer and wine coolers and now they’re alcoholic sodas and seltzers. They will be passing overhead forever because people like them.
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Of all the interesting stuff that has appeared at this site over the past 15 years, nothing was more important than the forty-odd posts from brewers and one cidermaker that constitute the Coronavirus Diaries series that ran on the site from March 2020 to this May. They’re now available as a book.
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Molson Coors announced it was ceasing production of a bunch of minor brands it owned, including one that hurts Oregonians’ hearts: Henry Weinhard’s Private Reserve. It was a beer that helped make the city Beervana, but also a remnant of a dying era.
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Three months ago, we were all excited to be entering a time when life could go back to something approaching normal following 15 months of a pandemic. But now cases are spiking again, and it’s time to take drastic action to prevent a return to shutdowns and death.
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This annual list began as a way of giving visitors to Portland a place to land when they were searching for breweries to visit. It includes the best breweries working in a number of different styles, so any beer fan will find at least one or two recommendations for breweries they’ll love.
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In the latest article in the Sightglass Series, I’ve spoken to a number of women in the beer industry to highlight how their creative expressions have changed the way we make, market, write about, and of course, drink beer. It’s a process entirely of addition, and we are all the beneficiaries of their work.
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Much-anticipated Steeplejack Brewing opened to the public in Northeast Portland yesterday, becoming in an instant the most impressive place to drink a pint of beer in the city. Here are my first impressions of the space and the beer, along with a photo essay of the remarkable spaces.
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Boston Beer overestimated growth for its Truly brand of hard seltzers and is getting roasted in today’s business sections. But are the writers declaring the “hard seltzer craze has come to an end” right? Is hard seltzer really dead?
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Portland has so many breweries that many get lost in in the scrum. Yet while they may not be as buzzy as Great Notion or Breakside, some of these lesser-known breweries have a lot to celebrate. Here are seven of the best underrated breweries you should check out.
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In a shocking expose of regional weirdness, Kate Bernot reveals that Montanans love love love Scotch ale. Can this be so? And if it be so, what weirdness lurks elsewhere?
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Every beer contains a whiff of history. Traditional Berliner weisse, which went extinct in the mid-aughts before enjoying a revival years later, contains more than a whiff. Yesterday, at Portland’s Zoiglhaus brewery, I sampled both the ghost and its reincarnation.
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As my perambulations take me around the beautiful sort-of post-Covid City of Roses, I have been finding a number of great beers to try. Today we have a look at stouts at Assembly, hoppy wild ales at Little Beast, and cask summer ales at Upright.
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