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These are the beers that I wish I could taste for the first time.
I posted a few weeks back about the opening of the eastside and sour Cascade Barrel House. Now they have “Facebooked” this info: “Beck Berry has been released! This blend of tripels and strong blondes were lacticly fermented and aged more than a year with blackberries in oak. We then did a secondary inoculation with a recently isolated plumbers strain of Brett called Beckamoyces Aasskraquii. Some sour cherries were blended in to give this beer some pucker.”
Upright Brewing of Portland is really following their own path. First they numbered their beers and now they are making “style-less” beers.
They say it better, “Upright specializes in farmhouse-inspired brews which are historically working man’s beers and so in the vein of the Punk Rock Warlords who wrote and played music for the poor and disenfranchised, we have decided to leave this brew both nameless and style-less and open to the interpretation of the thinking mans yob’s.”
The popular and inventive folks at Cigar City have a new offering made with…raisins, cinnamon and vanilla beans.
I hope all the spices don’t obliterate the brown ale base.
I will be honest. The main reason I am highlighting this beer is the name. It is my late dad’s name and it’s my middle name. Thankfully, Weyerbacher is a respected brewery so the name won’t be spoiled by bad beer. I may have to buy a few of these
File this under, might work. Two distinct flavors that may fight each other to a standstill. The coffee is called Guji Natural and is roasted by a by Koppi of Sweden. The hops in the other corner are Tomahawk. And it was brewed at Mikkeller’s default brewery De Proef.
Brewdog has something that will put high ABV to shame as a pursuit. It is beer as art according to the separate (from the main) website.
“Abstrakt is a new type of beer brand, we will only ever brew and release a beer once
Abstrakt will release a very small number of limited edition batches per year
More art than beer, Abstrakt will brew directional, boundary pushing beers: blurring distinctions and transcending categories
All Abstrakt beers are bottle-conditioned, individually numbered and known only by their release code, e.g. AB:01″
They have released and sold out of three beers already with more on the way.
VANILLA BEAN INFUSED BELGIAN QUAD 10.2%
TRIPLE DRY HOPPED IMPERIAL RED ALE 18%
IMPERIAL ALE AGED OVER 2 YEARS IN WHISKY CASKS WITH RASPBERRIES AND STRAWBERRIES 10.5%
The 03 sounds delicious. Which one would you shell out 10 or more pounds for?
Just when you think every ingredient under the sun has been used in craft beer along comes “Matzahbrau” from Ambacht Brewing of Hillsboro, Oregon.
Using Matzah (Matzo), a cracker-like unleavened bread made of white plain flour and water. Two pounds of Matzah is used in a 20 pound grain bill for this brew.
Then the beer is bottle conditioned with honey. So this might be a sticky sweet little bomb of a beer. Can’t wait to try it.
Drakes Brewing from San Leandro first did a re-design of their core beers which are really good. Then the first bomber special, Denogginizer rolled into stores.
Now, we get the 2nd in the 22oz series! An imperial red. Even though, I am fast tiring of the “imperial”ization of beers as the only creative outlet, I will give this new Drake’s offering a go.
One day I will have a beer named after me!
“Saraveza beertender, Tyler Vickers, and beertender turned manager, Jonathan Carmean, are well loved among their patrons and fellow industry pals…(really, what’s not to love?!?) Recently, they’ve received the ultimate props from local favorite, Upright Brewing. Named Tyler the Elder and Jonathan the Younger, these tribute beers will be found at Saraveza on Wed. Oct. 13th, with the man at Upright, Alex Ganum himself!”
I saw this blurb tucked into one of John Foyston’s weekly articles for the Oregonian and said, “WHAT?”
“Rogue Nation; eight crabs gave their lives in the brewing of Dungeness Crab Porter”
I have had oyster stouts but this is the first time I have ever heard of crab in a beer.
