A scene from our annual New Year’s Eve beer tasting. Each year, my family gets together and we have a tasting so that I can introduce them to new and interesting beers. What started as a couple of us and a couple of bottles has now ...
Vlad the Imp Aler (10.3% ABV / 6 IBU): This strong NW sour is a blend of strong blonde quads and tripels aged in oak and Bourbon barrels, then further blended with spiced blondes and left to condition for an additional five months. Click he ...
The clouds have come in, the rain is trickling, and if you’ve been listening to the wind, it’s been whispering: Bourbonic Plague. If you’ve got a beer geek friend (and who doesn’t here in Portland), you’ve pr ...
Well, it is the end of 2009 and, as is customary at the end of any year, the media has thrown at us 2009 year in review after 2009 year in review. Recaps of the past year’s events fill almost every television station, every website an ...
Cascade Brewing has always been on the list of breweries to shoot, but for some reason they ended up near the end. Well, we finally climbed over the West Hills over to check out their operations. They are definitely doing a lot of unique th ...