This annual list began as a way of giving visitors to Portland a place to land when they were searching for breweries to visit. This year, when visitors are absent, it's more like an appeal to preserve our best and brightest.
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George Floyd was killed a month ago today. In the aftermath of his death, many companies are trying to figure out how to respond.
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Now, of course, amber and brown ales are rare—blonds proliferate. This seems barely worth mentioning, since it mirrors the trends everywhere else, but consider this: The radicals at the forefront of this evolution in Belgium were Trappist monks. In particular, the ones brewing at Westmalle.
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For the past decade, the release of a new IPA contains within it the hint of promise: this is something you’ve never encountered before; it may blow your mind. But the release of two highly promising new IPAs raises a different specter: have we reached terminal IPA?
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Few things are as fun and enlightening as being confronted by unmarked glasses of beer and only your senses to tell you what’s inside.
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We’re bumping along toward a future we can’t predict in the middle of an angry fight over which road to take. I keep waiting for the picture to clear so we at least understand what needs to be done, but it just keeps getting muddier.
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How did the Pacific Northwest develop such a robust brewing scene so early? How was it practically born with a taste for hops? And where was the first craft-era IPA brewed? The answers all lead to Yakima and one of the great characters in craft brewing.
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A video clip of John Keeling discussing Fuller’s Vintage Ale—a lost fragment discovered this morning.
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Over the weekend, protests broke out across America, ostensibly over the murder of George Floyd. But amid a collapsing economy and growing death toll, there’s so much to protest.
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