Archive & Best Posts


 
All Posts By Month/Year
 

I am slowly building an archive of the best, most interesting, or most relevant posts on the blog since it was founded in 2006. Please enjoy this collection as it grows!




New Oregon Brewery/Pub Reviews

Lucky Lab (Old Archive) | Roots (2006, RIP) | BridgePort’s Pearl Renovation (2006, now RIP) | Best McMenamin Breweries (2007) | New Old Lompoc (2007, now RIP) | Bailey’s Taproom (2007) | Heater Allen (2007) | Cascade Sour Program (2008) New Taproom (2010 | Hopworks Urban Brewery (2008) | Deschutes Pearl (2008): Beer and Ambiance, Food | Three Creeks (2009) | Upright (2009) | Brewers Union Local 180 (2010, now RIP) | Migration with follow-up (2010) | Coalition (2010, RIP) | Hair of the Dog Tasting Room (2010) | Prodigal Son (2010) | New Nano Roundup (including Breakside, 2010) | Columbia River Brewing (2011, RIP) | Solera Brewing (2012) | Gigantic Brewing (2012) | The Commons (2011, no RIP ) | Arch Rock (2013) | Ecliptic Brewing (2013) | Sasquatch Brewing (2013, now RIP) | Zoiglhaus (2016) | Breakside Slabtown (2017) | Level Beer (2017) | Benedictine Brewery (2018) | Von Ebert (2018) | Modern Times PDX (2018, now RIP) | Great Notion (2019) | Grand Fir (2022) | Living Haus (2022) | Little Beast (2019) |


 

Satori Award
(Best New Oregon Beer)

2006 Ninkasi Believer (Hoppy Red) | 2007 Full Sail Lupulin (Fresh Hop) | 2008 Cascade Apricot (Sour Ale) | 2009 Upright Four (Saison) | 2010 Prodigal Son Bruce/Lee Porter | 2011 Fort George 1811 (Hoppy Lager) | 2012 Occidental Kellerbier | 2015 Culmination Euphoric (Brett IPA) | 2016 pFriem Sour IPA | 2017 Deschutes Cultivateur (Mixed Fermentation Saison) | 2018 Upright Pathways (Mixed Fermentation Saison)


Styles

Indigenous American (2007) | Black IPA/Cascadian Dark Ales (2009) | Gose (2009) | Braggot (2010) | Grodziskie (2010) | Baltic Porter (2010) | Hot Scotchy | Sour Ales (2011) South African Utwala (2011) | Lost Belgian Ales (2012) | Old American Bocks | Berliner weisse (2013) | Farmhouse ales (2013) | Chicha (2013) | Golden Ale (2017) | Sake (2018) | Glitter Beer (2018) | Kölsch (2019) | Wild Ale (2019)





Brewer Vignettes

Block 15/Nick Arzner | Schneider/Hans Peter Drexler | De Garde/Trevor Rogers | Budvar/Adam Broz | Cantillon/Jean Van Roy | Fullers/John Keeling | Anheuser-Busch/Jim Bicklein | Italiano/Agostino Arioli | St. Germain/Stephane Bogaert | Samuel Smith’s/Steve Barrett | New Glarus/Dan Carey | Uerige/Michael Schnitzler | Sierra Nevada/Ken Grossman | De Struise/Carlo Grootaert | Allagash/Jason Perkins | BridgePort/Karl Ockert | Rodenbach/Rudi Ghequire | Goschie Farms/Gayle Goschie | Kout na Sumave/Bohuslav Hlavsa | Russian River/Vinnie Cilurzo | Dupont/Olivier Dedeycker | Belhaven/George Howell | Schlenkerla/Matthias Trum | Firestone Walker/Matt Brynildson | Dark Star/Paul Reed | Solera/Jason Kahler | Greene King/John Bexon | Boon/ Frank Boon | New Belgium/Peter Bouckaert | Bayern/Jurgen Knoller | Breakside/Ben Edmunds | LoverBeer/Valter Loverier | Maine Beer Co./Dan Kleban | Verzet/Alex Lippens | Guinness/Stephen Kilcullen | Alesong/Brian Coombs | Alchemist/John Kimmich |