tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230418112024-03-08T09:15:59.708-08:00Red, White, and Brew<i>Peoples, places, and beers</i>Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-22191080555339806322019-03-03T07:51:00.001-08:002019-03-03T07:53:43.165-08:00Beer Birthday: Jay BrooksToday is the 60th birthday of beer writer Jay Brooks. He is the co-founder of last month's successful #FlagshipFriday campaign and author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/California-Breweries-North-Series/dp/0811711587" target="_blank">California Breweries - North</a>. Jay is a veteran beer writer (but I'm removing the titles of the publications last used in this celebratory post because they're all out of print, but let's focus on the happy like that fac that...) his column <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/jay-brooks" target="_blank">Brooks on Beer </a>appears in the San Jose Mercury News. He has contributed to the Oxford Companion to Beer as well as Playboy Magazine. He is the co-founder of SF Beer Week (which I'm planning on working into my iCal for 2020 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of). To anyone who follows the brewing industry, none of this is news. But for years, a convivial component of his Brookston Beer Blog has been celebrating brewers and those in the beer community on their <a href="http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/category/birthdays/" target="_blank">birthdays</a>. So please...join me in wishing Jay a very happy birthday.<br />
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Beer bloggers Jay Hinman, Chris Cohen, Steve Shapiro, Jay Brooks, moi, Bryan Kolesar<br />
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Outdoor Speakeasy: Me, Brian Lenzo, Jay Brooks (whose blog I copied this from), and pre-Golden Road Meg GillBrian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-6362237924432847832014-07-29T01:31:00.000-07:002019-03-03T07:52:46.153-08:00Ed the Neighbor Reviews: Sam Adams<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Hullo -</span><br />
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The Beer Fairies Came. When I came home from work on Friday, the Beer Fairies left a box from Sam Adams (not the mayor). <span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">They brought a Winter Lager,a Cherry Chocolate Bock, a Juniper IPA, and a Merry Maker Ginger bread Stout. </span><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">My question to you: ship it, store it, or drink it?</span></div>
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I'd given a brewery--New Belgium--your address to start sending packages to, so not sure why the Sam Adams one showed up there but they send quite a few. I know another sample was just shipped by them but guessing that went to 3754. I should send them a note asking them to hold onto it...it's the beer they release once a year that retails for $200. No, I'm not making a joke.</div>
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After your last e-mail, I wasn't going to bother you with beer deliveries until I was ready to write my reviews (New Belgium is going to have a tasty spring, that's for sure!), but Sam Adams sent a 22 oz. Double Bock (no fancy name or nothin'). According to their promotional materials, it one of their first "big beers" and has an ABV of 9.5%. Do you want me to hang on to that one until your return? It's a limited edition, so I doubt there will be any professional benefit from hanging on to it, but it might be nice for your palate. </div>
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From the It's a Travesty Files, I'm just now getting around to launching a new series called "Ed the Neighbor Reviews" wherein our neighbor back in Portland...Ed...does me the courtesy of enjoying beer samples that arrive while we're living in Amsterdam (and squirreling away the big bottles that look like they'd benefit from some cellaring or whatever room he's storing them in). I intend to pick up these beer reviews when we're back, but here's the "first" (to be posted, not emailed to me, and I'll start uploading his backlog of reviews). In fact, it's a preview, not a review. Note, when I add editorial comments, they'll be denoted by "ed." who is not to be confused with Ed.<br />
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Thanks so much for your recent delivery of your <a href="http://beerpulse.com/2014/07/oats-mcgoats-samuel-adams-and-brewery-rickoli-release-collaboration-beer-3377/" target="_blank">Oats McGoats Stout</a>. Despite its silly name (ed.: clearly a reference to the commercial staring James Earl Jones and Malcom McDowell [1] that inspired that bromance flick with Paul Rudd [2] but also it's been done before by <a href="http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16866/92707/" target="_blank">The Bruery</a> and <a href="http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/three-notchd-oats-mcgoats/245365/" target="_blank">Three Notch'd</a>), it's in the fridge right now and I'm looking forward to taking it out for a test drive, if you will. I'm a sucker for stouts and it's a nice break from the steady rain of IPAs that have been inundating the Northwest. Once I've had a sip or two, I'm sure I'll be racing to my computer to post an online review; however, I do have one little question: who the hell is the target audience for "reduced gluten" beer? Are you aiming for the sophisticated connoisseur, who appreciates the earthy, spicy flavors, but might be distracted by the heavy aftertaste of a full gluten beer? Or are you hoping to catch the eye of the gluten intolerant stoutophile who suffers from days of stomach churning diarrhea from a full gluten beer but might enjoy your reduced gluten stout enough to tolerate a few terrible hours alone in a bathroom stall? Please let me know, and I'll adjust my review accordingly.<br />
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<br />Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-14027246193949821322014-07-05T11:28:00.002-07:002014-07-05T13:17:57.586-07:00Your last beer<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The beer community. That’s my favorite phrase. It juxtaposes
the two greatest concepts: beer and community. Beer lovers love beer, sure, but
a beer enjoyed alone isn’t nearly as good as one shared among friends new and
old, basically extended family. Cities across the country and around the world
grow their own beer communities comprised of brewers, publicans, beertenders,
bloggers, quaffers—anyone who wants in. The family is ever-expanding as more
people discover the world of better beer and of course as more people raise
children as part of the industry and/or scene. The first story I had published
in a beer magazine was all about <a href="http://allaboutbeer.com/article/kids-in-the-brewhouse/">second generation
craft breweries</a> featuring the likes of Sierra Nevada, Bell’s, and New
Glarus. As a fairly new father myself, I’m pleased this is a culture I get to
raise my toddler in. But like all families and communities, sometimes we lose
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Fraggle—the name absolutely everybody knew him as and the crusty punk certainly rocked—suffered a stroke last week and did not recover. A
passionate beer geek (and vegan and punk and socialite), he and his former partner
<a href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2010/03/oaklands_month-old_beer_revolu.php" target="_blank">opened Beer Revolution</a> in Oakland, injecting a huge dose of awesome into the
San Francisco East Bay community. It was and remains a place to explore new
beers and congregate, really delve into, discussion about beer (and other
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marches, people age, accidents occur, and other tragedies strike the community,
we will lose more family members. I’m fondly remembering the great Bill Brand, the legendary Don Younger, and recently departed Jack Joyce. Little-known fact: the first beer item I had
published in print was the obituary for Karl Strauss. Even more tragic are the
recent, untimely deaths of brewers’ kids like Dick Cantwell’s son (Nap, 18), and
Brendan Moylan’s son (Sean, 27). I didn’t even know those boys but as a father
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People often ask what’s your favorite beer, or if you can
only have one beer on a desert island, what would it be? It’s a silly question
because beer lovers have hundreds of favorite beers and none of us ever sign up
for a three hour tour at sea. But just like one of my truly favorite beers, <a href="http://www.moonlightbrewing.com/the-beers/death-taxes">Moonlight
Brewing’s Death & Taxes</a>, those are things none of us escape. How many
of us have a wicked awesome beer cellar going? Mine has case upon case. I
always say I plan on enjoying every single beer before I go. But I can’t help
wondering if Fraggle had a stellar stash of his own. That dude loved sours and
big, strong ales—stuff that woulda been amazing long down the line. It’s
macabre, but I wish he could’ve known, just an hour before he started to slip,
so he could’ve selected what his very last beer would be. Like I said, it’s a
really dark thought, but perhaps one worth thinking the next time we stare into
our beer cellars or fridges or closets. “What do I want my last beer on Earth
to be?” I think many folks have something uber special we hold onto for that
mythical special occasion. Weddings come and go. Landmark birthdays arrive in
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God I could go back one week (and supernaturally travel back to my Beeradise in
Portland then bank south to Oakland) and uncork that bottle of Cantillon Fou’
Foune, or Horal’s Oude Geuze Mega Blend, or probably that 2010 Cascade Vlad the
Imp Aler to share with Fraggle. But I do know that when I go home, the first
bottle I’m going to crack open is that 2007 The Abyss and polish it off with my
wife (and let my son dip his finger in it). We’ve all heard to live each moment
as if it’s your last but I think that’s a terrible idea for the very reason
that it might be true. Having said that, I can get down with enjoying each beer
as if it’s your last. Just pray we all have a million more last-beers and a
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Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-77177280354278029992014-06-27T08:55:00.001-07:002019-03-03T07:52:46.163-08:00Title TK #EBBC14<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 17.563634872436523px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Pre-conference pub crawl's set list (HUGE thanks to Reuben Gray from @TheTailofAle for organizing):<br />1) <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=230128167113956" href="https://www.facebook.com/GalwayBayBrewery" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Galway Bay Brewery</a> Stormy Port Porter (cask) at <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=302808239788603" href="https://www.facebook.com/thebrewdock" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">The Brew Dock</a><br />2) <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=558434920853012" href="https://www.facebook.com/jwsweetman" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">J.W. Sweetman</a> Porter (cask) @ Dublin's only proper brewpub<br />3) <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1412375322311028" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rascals-Brewing-Co/1412375322311028" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Rascals Brewing Co.</a> Ginger Porter <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=159654777391036" href="https://www.facebook.com/Farringtons1696" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">The Norseman</a> as well as...<br />4) <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=158932464154333" href="https://www.facebook.com/OHarasIrishStoutsAndAles" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">O'Hara's Irish Craft Beers</a> Leann Folláin ("Imperial" dry Irish stout, 6%)<br />5) Someone's amber ale. Forgot name of bar. Remember that only porter they had was <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=103505493030242" href="https://www.facebook.com/foundersbrewing" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Founders Brewing Co.</a> but I'm in Ireland not Mich (and why don't they ship to Oregon dangit?)<br />6) <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=352400873236" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Porterhouse-Brewing-Company/352400873236" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Porterhouse Brewing Company</a> Plain Porter @ their public house.</div>
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Brewing beer responsible for setting up first farming society/civilization</div>
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How many craft breweries in Ireland? Not even close to 50, not counting the UK's Northern Irish breweries that operate under different regulations. 43 brewing companies (including contract brewed ones) on the island. Another 20 coming soon. Closer to 30 physical brewing facilities.</div>
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51 in the Republic and 15 in N. Ireland according to Ratebeer.</div>
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Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-12753356349450877142014-06-25T17:05:00.001-07:002014-06-25T17:05:17.550-07:00European Beer Bloggers Conference ahoy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been so busy with beer writing deadlines that I realize I need to take a deep breath and enjoy a beer (or several) just for the sake of it. Living in Europe as I've been doing for the past several months has been very cool and loaded with new experiences and ex-beeriences. I've had locally crafted beers in Portugal, Germany, France, and, oh yeah, Belgium. I had a Danish asparagus beer in Denmark. And then, of course, all the Dutch beer I've been exploring here in the Netherlands from our home base in Amsterdam. One place I've always wanted to go to is Ireland: it looks beautiful, I love porters and stouts and Irish whiskey and redheads and those thick, wool sweaters. So when the <a href="http://beerbloggersconference.org/europe/agenda/" target="_blank">EBBC announced it'd be held in Dublin</a> this year, I had to go.<br />
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What's more: I love Guinness. That's right, a dyed-in-the-wool, avowed craft beer drinker who always champions the little guy has always been particularly fond of the nitrogenated, creamy, roasty, NOT-filling, dry Irish stout regardless of the fact that it's brewed by <a href="http://www.diageo.com/en-row/ourbrands/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Diageo (including</a> other Irish juggernauts Harp and Smithwicks plus Kenya's Tusker, Jamaican Red Stripe, and Bailey's, Smirnoff, etc.). <i>Guinness for strength. My goodness my Guinness</i>. All that stuff. It's not that I once dated an Irish ginger or partied into the night with the guys (and gal) from Flogging Molly drinking pint after pint after pint of the stuff. It's just good drinkin'.<br />
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Most importantly, I'm looking forward to spending a weekend geeking out and being a geek among an entirely new set of beer lovers who, I'm ashamed to admit, I'm almost entirely unfamiliar with (I've gotten nerdy with <a href="http://pencilandspoon.com/" target="_blank">Mark Dredge</a>, I've admired <a href="http://zythophile.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Martyn Cornell</a> from afar, and I've recently and virtually become a fan of Dublin's <a href="http://taleofale.com/" target="_blank">Reuben Gray</a>. All new faces, all new beers, all new places, all new everything. I'm eager to sip, to learn, to befriend.<br />
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The work beers and deadlines can wait til the party's over.<br />
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Before I relocated for a bit from Portland to Amsterdam, I was invited to do a collaboration beer at <a href="http://www.otbrewing.com/" target="_blank">Old Town Brewing</a>. All brewer Bolt Minister asked me was if I wanted to brew an IPYae with him since, as I love pointing out, my son's initials are I.P. and his last name is Yaeger. He has a soft spot for stuff like that since he and his wife, Amy, have a son not much younger than our IPYae. Brainstorming about what this IPA would look and taste like, I confess that the results could've been less than stellar since the recipe I suggested was conceptual, perhaps not practical. I wanted an OG of 1.0612 (IPYae's b-day is Jan. 6, 2012). I wanted the early hop additions to be Nugget since he is our little nugget and that's what I have growing in our yard. I wanted two middle additions to be Zeus to match the double-Z's in Izzy's name. I seem to recall we finished and dry-hopped with Cascade so that the last hops I tasted before we moved would be classic West Coast/Northwest flavor.<br />
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Anyway, the resulting beer was truly delicious. It had a light/medium body, earthy/floral first sip but strong grapefruit finish that lingered pleasantly. It's my understanding that the house IPA, now called Shanghai'd, was redesigned shortly after and that it bears some similarity to that pro-am batch. I mention all of this because A) I can't wait to return and try a pint of Shanghai'd. And I'm bummed that I'll be missing Old Town's pre-Pro lager called Nina that will be tapped to commemorate Old Town Pizza's 40th anniversary. (The brewery opened in 2012.) The anniversary party is this Tuesday. To commemorate the occasion from afar, I'm actually going to share two passages from my chapter on OTB in my upcoming guidebook, <i>Oregon Breweries </i>(even though something like this is simply not done.) Because the story of any brewery is really the story of the people behind it, here are the passages about the owner and the brewer.<br />
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Old Town Pizza owner Adam Milne didn’t have a hand in establishing
the company back in 1974. Heck, he was just a kid then. In fact, the original
location is the one in Old Town Portland but the owners had opened a few
others—now all gone. Little Adam held his ninth birthday party at one in Eugene.
Imagine what you’d do if you found out a beloved place from your childhood was
about to shut down. If you were in a position to save that ice cream parlor or
bowling alley, you’d salvage it, which is what Milne did in 2003.</blockquote>
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After that paragraph, I add ominously, "He wasn't alone," but let's save something for those who buy the book. Fast-forwarding, I write about brewmaster Bolt Minister. And maybe I could mention here that I'm up for some focus-grouping. Do y'all like the music break in the middle? Lemme know if that stays or should end up on the digital editing-room floor.</div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Bolt (Bolton is a family name) says his philosophy is, “Like
what you drink, drink what you like.” He’s not one for crazy beers because
drinking beer is something you should “enjoy with your friends, your community,
your bar mates. It shouldn’t be a self-indulgent activity where you take
yourself too seriously.” The philosophy carries over to all facets; he’s a fan
of Classic Country a la George Jones, not steak-less sizzling New Country. (He
put on a George Jones Tribute beerfest as a wake for “The Possum” and we’ll see
if I’m successful in getting him to host a Tom Jones Living Tribute beerfest
for “The Voice.”) Bolt’s previous brewing experience at a few other Northwest
breweries came at pubs that likewise emphasize community and casual dining. I
agree with him in that a pizzeria is not the kind of place you come with your
family or buddies only to ignore them while paying exclusive attention to
what’s in your glass. “When you geek out you miss out,” he added.</blockquote>
So I raise my glass from afar and wish old Old Town Pizza and new Old Town Brewing continued success over the next 40 years.<br />
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I don't generally repost press
releases from breweries, but sometimes they say what I'd otherwise shy away
from. Almost a year ago, I tongue-in-cheekily blogged about the death of IPAs
because of how fractured the marketing had become. Numerous more
"series" of hop-forward beers from larger craft breweries have not
made me drink my words. Yet...little did I foresee where future marketing
efforts would lead:<o:p></o:p></div>
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For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></div>
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Media Contact: Miley Papazian, Q/West<o:p></o:p></div>
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503.401.8888 / <a href="mailto:molly@r-west.com">miley@q-west.com</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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BRIDGEPORT BREWING LAUNCHES HEAD-TURNER HOP CZARINA WOMEN’S
IPA<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brand Celebrates Intensely Hoppy “Double-you” IPA and
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PORTLAND, Ore.—01 April, 2014 – BridgePort Brewing Company,
Oregon’s oldest craft brewery, has added a new Hop Czar IPA Series to its
lineup of handcrafted brews. The original Hop Czar Imperial IPA, first released
in 2008 as a limited edition brew, was an adventurous and boldly hop-centric
brew for BridgePort. But as the enthusiasm of hop-happy beer drinkers grew, it
quickly proved to be much more than a niche ale among men and women but mostly
men. Hop Czar soon became the brewery’s flagship beer. Inspired by the original
Hop Czar’s arousing phalanx of experimentation, the Hop Czar IPA series will
feature three hop-forward craft beers, each brewed in Portland and released sequentially
throughout the year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The original Hop Czar was born out of virile
experimentation, pushing limits of hoppy flavor and aroma,” said Jess
Edgerton, BridgePort’s brewmaster’s wife. “With the new Hop Czar IPA Series,
our brewers have the chance to continue experimenting with the Willamette
Valley’s incredible hop varietals to engender three new and gender-specific IPAs
this year.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The second offering in the series after the Citra Guy-Hopped
IPA that showcased the intense musk and flavor of the Citra hop varietal is the
Hop Czarina Women’s IPA, a curvaceous WIPA. This new brew adds a decidedly
feminine twist to a masculine original, combining the intricacy and intimacy of
seductive malts with a buxom dose of Sparkly Crystal, Xena, Warrior Princess,
and Lady Liberty hops from Paradise Island. Belgian candi sugar and spice were
added in the whirlpool.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although Brewmaster Edgerton and his team of brewers are creating
three adventurously hoppy IPAs in the spirit of the Hop Czar Imperial IPA, Jess
Edgerton continued: “This Women’s IPA is the only one makes beer more
approachable for the ladies. The candi sugar and spice lends a nice, sweet
balance. Overall, it’s a little bit smoother, less rugged, a little more
approachable.” Jess added, “Today’s beers are designed for a dudelier
dem-bro-graphic that intimidates gals away from craft beer.” Evidence lies in
actual beers made with bull testicles, cod pieces, and sausage fests. “Other
beers are designed to go with male-centric activities like social engagements
with friends, attending sporting matches, and life-affirming celebrations. This
WIPA pairs perfectly with cute shoes, and totally cute tops.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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About Hop Czarina Double-you IPA<o:p></o:p></div>
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IBUs: 36-24-36<o:p></o:p></div>
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ABV: 8.008135%<o:p></o:p></div>
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SRM: 2 (platinum blonde)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ingredients: The Hop Czarina Double-you IPA contains Sparkly
Crystal, Xena, Warrior Princess, and Lady Liberty hops for a dainty citric
taste and seductive malts and velvety oats for a more sweetly, if top-heavy,
flavor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Description: With lower alcohol content designed to reflect
women’s shorter statures and oodles more sweetness than the original, Hop
Czarina Double-you IPA is a safe and approachable ale, featuring a range of
complex ideas and qualities marketers never imagined in female customers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To taste this release in the Hop Czar IPA Series,
visit BridgePort Brewery, located at 1313 N.W. Marshall Street in Portland,
Oregon or look for it wherever BridgePort beers are sold.<o:p></o:p></div>
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About BridgePort Brewing Company Celebrating 30 years in
2014, Oregon’s oldest craft brewery continues to evolve from a microbrewery to
a regional leader committed to producing high quality craft ales. Lead by Brewmaster
Jeff Edgerton, the team of BridgePort brewers prides itself on using hops from
an hour away and clear glacial water from Mount Hood. The BridgePort family of
ales includes IPA, the Hop Czar IPA Series, and Kingpin as well as a
forthcoming Queenpin, an Empirical Ruby Ale. BridgePort Brewery is located at
1313 N.W. Marshall St. For more information, call 503-241-7179 or visit <a href="http://www.bridgeportbrew.com/">www.bridgeportbrew.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-59726921824215990242014-03-03T15:22:00.001-08:002014-03-03T15:22:12.581-08:00Beer Birthday: Jay BrooksToday is the 55th birthday of beer writer Jay Brooks. His guidebook, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/California-Breweries-North-Series/dp/0811711587" target="_blank">California Breweries - North</a> (Stackpole Books), came out last year (even though we started our respective tomes around the same time.) Jay is a veteran beer writer (Celebrator Beer News, All About Beer, BeerAdvocate, etcetera etcetera) whose column <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/jay-brooks" target="_blank">Brooks on Beer </a>appears in the San Jose Mercury News. He has contributed to the Oxford Companion to Beer as well as Playboy Magazine. He is the co-founder of SF Beer Week (and it breaks my heart missing it even if it was because I live in a foreign country now). To anyone who follows the brewing industry, none of this is news. But for years, a convivial component of his Brookston Beer Blog has been celebrating brewers and those in the beer community on their <a href="http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/category/birthdays/" target="_blank">birthdays</a>. So please...join me in wishing Jay a very happy birthday.<br />
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Brewmaster Craig Cauwels, yours truly, the Beer Chef Bruce Patton, the birthday boy<br />
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Beer bloggers Jay Hinman, Chris Cohen, Steve Shapiro, Jay Brooks, moi, Bryan Kolesar<br />
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Outdoor Speakeasy: Me, Brian Lenzo, Jay Brooks (whose blog I copied this from), and Meg GillBrian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-81536488537445701622013-10-21T16:12:00.002-07:002013-10-21T16:12:21.680-07:00Farewell Beervana, Hello BiervanaThis is my last week as a Portland resident. For just a couple of years, give or take. I basically love everything about living in Portland, not the least of which is the dynamic beer culture. And what I've discovered firsthand is that it isn't relegated to just the city nicknamed Beervana but the entire Beaver State, given that in the last year I've visited literally every single brewery big and small near and far for my forthcoming guidebook, Oregon Breweries (Stackpole, 2014).<br />
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Having said that, there are a few I've missed. Not missed so much as not been able to return to every corner of the state since production breweries, nanobreweries, and brewpubs are opening at a gut-busting rate. Forty this year so far, and it's only mid-October. Yesterday I attended the soft opening of Ecliptic Brewing from one of the most vaunted veterans in Oregon brewing, John Harris (Starting with McMenamins in 1985, then launching Deschutes in 1988, and brewed at Full Sail for the last 20 years.) Given that some of Oregon's best-known brands--Hammerhead Pale, Mirror Pond Pale, Black Butte Porter, Top Sail Imperial Porter--have his signature all over them I can't wait to see what he'll concoct at his brand new brewpub. Whether or not his Procyon Pale and Arcturus IPA, the first two beers from Ecliptic, enter the Oregon canon of ales is anybody's guess, but unlike those halcyon days, the canon is also open to anybody (and seemingly everybody).<br />
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Which brings me to Biervana. My family leaves Friday for Amsterdam, where of course The Netherlands borders two of the greatest beer cultures the world has ever produced: Germany and Belgium, Reinheitsgebot and anti-Reinheitsgebot, respectively. I cannot wait to start exploring regions where centuries-old brewing heritage is starting to meet 21st century innovation. I'm not huge in Kölsch, but I still can't wait to experience <i>stange</i> after <i>stange</i> of them in Cologne. Similarly, I've become a Lambic lover, and will be in celestial sour celebration in Brussels.<br />
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But that will have to wait until I finish the aforementioned guidebook. It's gonna be weird, bittersweet, writing about Oregon beers and breweries from overseas. Though doing such will help alleviate one of my greatest challenges, which is including chapters on every single brewery in Oregon. The first of my Achilles heels was Tandem Brewing out in Ontario, Idaho, er, Oregon. It's the dangling participle of Oregon's state line since it's the only town on Mountain time, not Pacific. And even though I schlepped out there for Beer Valley Brewing, it's now home to a 10-gallon (yes, ten Gallon, not barrel) brewery tucked inside a juice bar crammed inside a coffee shop. And like I said, there are a small handful of other Tandems on my list now.<br />
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Moreover, while it was a treat to visit Ecliptic that opened in Portland right before I blow this bacon-wrapped, barrel-aged popsicle stand, I'll miss the grand openings of Portland's next newest breweries. In Sellwood there will be <a href="http://arbellabrewing.com/" target="_blank">Arbella Brewing</a>, delayed due to an auto accident involving one of the founders. Goose Hollow is possibly going to be receiving <b>Culmination Brewing</b> from Tomas Sluiter who recently left <b>Old Market Pub</b> to launch this high-tech nano pub. A pair of nonprofit breweries are coming for altruistic beer lovers: <a href="http://www.exnovobrew.com/" target="_blank">Ex Novo</a> (I met the founder, Joel, at a crawfish boil and he happened to mention that soon his homebrew wasn't going to be just homemade beer) and of course the brewing arm of the <a href="http://www.oregonpublichouse.com/" target="_blank">Oregon Public House</a>. Speaking of ten-gallon breweries, <a href="http://www.lateadditionbrewing.com/" target="_blank">Late Addition Brewing</a> is looking forward to outgrowing theirs and up to a two-barreler, meaning six-times the batch sizes. But there are so many more, too: <a href="http://www.moonshrimpbrewing.com/" target="_blank">Moonshrimp</a> from the guy who sees the success <b>Harvester</b> and its brand new pub expansion are having in the world of gluten-free beers, <b>Royale</b> from the guys behind Green Bottling, the <a href="https://twitter.com/CrookedBottle" target="_blank">Crooked Bottle</a> from the team behind the Homebrew Exchange, and in the same vein, the homebrew shop/taproom <a href="http://uptownmarketpdx.com/brewery/" target="_blank">Uptown Market</a> on the Portland/Beaverton border is scratching and clawing to get their brewery going. And let's not forget our friends from Ohio, <a href="http://fatheadsbeer.com/" target="_blank">Fat Head's</a>, who are headscratchingly leapfrogging over the Midwest and Rockies to open a pub in <a href="http://www.ohio.com/blogs/the-beer-blog/the-beer-blog-1.273124/fat-head-s-to-open-brewpub-in-portland-ore-1.399801" target="_blank">"a pretty hip area"</a> we call the Pearl.<br />
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And those are just the ones around Portland from the list of FIFTY new breweries-in-planning...that I happen to know of. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/BifrostBrewing" target="_blank">Bifrost</a> in Corvallis. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Awesome-Ales/386925891418479" target="_blank">Awesome Ales</a> in Silverton (well, contracting out of there for starters, but aiming for Portland). From Bend to North Bend (which is actually Coos Bay on the coast), and from Roseburg to Rhododendron (take that, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Bunsenbrewer" target="_blank">Bunsenbrewers</a> in Sandy!), the beer culture of Oregon knows no bounds. And that means I'll be extremely busy visiting them all once we're back in late 2015 for Oregon Breweries, 2nd Ed.<br />
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Until then, I'll miss all the IPAs and fresh hops and NW Sour ales and braggots and organic Brett'ed cider hybrid ales that will be tapped around here in the near future, but they're not going away so long as y'all promise to not drink it all before our return. And considering Portland already enjoys the most breweries, highest consumption of craft beer per capita, and other impressive stats, may just happen. But I'm keeping my frites dipped in mayo crossed, just in case.Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-82449860991070118962013-07-08T01:00:00.001-07:002013-07-08T01:20:43.352-07:00The Session #77: What's the Big Deal with IPA?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just typing those words has Pavlovially created a shaker
glass’s worth of saliva thinking about all that delectable, hoppy elixir. The
reason is so simple. I, like most beer lovers who predominantly patron the
smallest 99.8% of the brewing industry when and where I buy beer, enjoy
hop-forward beers in much the same way oenophiles take pleasure in
fruit-forward (grapey) wines. Hops are beer’s domain. Plenty of other drinks
contain malt or have flavors nuanced by yeast, but only beer genuflects at the
altar of hops. So it’s quite natural that the hoppiest of the hoppy—IPAs and
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But Justin Mann over at Justin’s Brew Review, who is a
confessed IPA drinker yet has noticed a splintering in the craft beer world by
some like Adrienne So who deem today’s craft beers <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drink/2013/05/hoppy_beer_is_awful_or_at_least_its_bitterness_is_ruining_craft_beer_s_reputation.single.html">“just
way too hoppy,”</a> asks for the July installment of The Session and in his
best Jerry Seinfeld blog-voice, <a href="http://justinsbrewreview.blogspot.com/2013/06/announcing-session-77-ipa-whats-big-deal.html">What’s
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It’s a subject I’ve spent time thinking, discussing, and
writing about, most recently over at The New School wherein I facetiously
proclaim <a href="http://www.newschoolbeer.com/2013/04/ipa-is-dead-white-chocolate-is-not.html">IPA
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Obviously, it’s anything but. In fact, here in hop heaven
Oregon, the IPA category accounts for 25.2% of the Oregon beer market. More than 1 out of every 4 beers bought and drank in the Beaver State—total, not just among craft beers—is an India Pale Ale. Nationally, at the GABF, American IPA has been the most-entered category for a dozen years. No. 2? Imperial IPA. 4th? American-style Strong Pale Ale, which is scarcely different that IPA. And rounding out the top 5 is American-style Pale Ale, which, let’s admit it, is still more IPAesque than a British IPA.<br />
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Clearly, the IPA category is the behemoth of the craft beer industry, and is only picking up speed. Just as the three rules of real estate are location, location, location, it’s fair to say the three rules of craft beer are IPA, IPA, and IPA. For the sake of variety, maybe you could say IPA, Double IPA, and Imperial IPA. See, drinkers are hop-silly for IPA and as such, brewers make more and more of them. Maybe it’s due to the blessings of living in Beervana, but it’s not uncommon to enter a brewpub that has multiple iterations on tap, or walk into a beer bar and find out that it’s IPA tap takeover week where well over a dozen handles are devoted to IPAs. For serious.<br />
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To hop breeders, this is music to their beers. Despite dozens of existing magnificent flowers on the market ranging from classics such as Goldings, Saaz, and Cascade along with fresh new aromatic faces including Citra, Mosaic, and perhaps my favorite Simcoe, dozens if not hundreds more will become available and the result will be that <a href="http://allaboutbeer.com/live-beer/brewing/ingredients/2011/11/hop-forward?singlePage" target="_blank">hop-forward</a> beers like IPAs will remain fresh. God bless all the single-hoppped IPAs that allow brewers to showcase the breeders' work and give consumers the chance to drink something educational and, ideally, tasty.<br />
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won’t sound its own death knell if too many producers obfuscate what IPA even
means. I’m sure the BIPA (Bacon IPA) is in someone’s fermenter as we
speak. But between that other BIPA (Black IPA) and White IPA and Smoked IPA and
Coffee IPA and Apricot IPA and...it’s safe to say India Pale Ales can get out
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But that’s to be determined in the future. In the now, IPA dominates the better beer biosphere. Every style says something different, be it stouts, saisons, or sour ales. (Stouts say “chocolate or coffee in beer is awesome.” Saisons say “sophistication.” Sours say “extreme in the way IPAs were years ago.”) And then there’s Pilsners, which say “easy-drinking refreshment.” Of course, Pilsner is also rapidly becoming the anti-IPA and I think its current surge in popularity (among craft brewers, not among global industrial breweries, mind you) is due both to newcomers to the craft beer table as well as wizened IPA drinkers who are ready to mellow out on over-hopped beers. But for now, and likely forever, IPAs say “hops! Because a world full of hopheads who love the citrusy, piney, fruity, earthy, resinous, and herbaceous flavors and aromas that are made possible through <i>Humulus lupulus </i>can’t be wrong.”</div>
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Two and a half years ago, I'd started to blog about the last of our (Half Pint's and mine) beer dinners. They were always great fun. Ostensibly focusing on the pairing of beer and food to fit some goofy theme, but as with all dinner parties, really just about enjoying great company for a sit-down meal. I'd started to blog about it as I did all or most of them, but somehow only got so far as three paragraphs. So I'll start with those and then wrap it up somehow, since I'm never punctual, but I always finish writing my stories:<br />
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"Until just a few weeks ago, I was in possession of not one, not two, but three bottles of Cantillon Blåbær. (Apparently, a blåbær isn't a blueberry after all but a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jensvins/4938346450/">billberry</a>.) It's a beer that uber beer geeks go bonkers for except that most of them haven't had it--it's that rare. As part of <a href="http://allaboutbeer.com/live-beer/appreciation/2010/05/gray-marketwhite-whale/">a story I did</a> on beer trading where the mag assigned me to track down 3 near-impossible to obtain beers and then write about the experience, I obtained bottles of the 2005, '07 and '09 vintages from a "ticker" in Copenhagen who I sent 2 large boxes of beers he's never had from small American markets. Who knew driving through Arkansas for the first time would pay off?<br />
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So, before we moved out of San Francisco, I had a few friends over to open 'em all side by side and suggested that they should each bring a dish made with blueberries. <a href="http://beerbybart.com/">The vegetarians</a> brought blueberry lasagna! <a href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2010/04/range_of_beers_at_public_house.php">Two other chefs</a> brought duck confit w/ 2 different blueberry sauces and <a href="http://www.femaleist.com/2010/11/27/2005-2007-2009-blab%C3%A6r-blueberry-pairing-dinner/">another couple </a>prepared grilled chicken (and salmon) with blueberry-jalapeno sauce. I made a blueberry-lemon buckle. I've never had buckle before.<br />
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Oh man was it awesome. The beers (including other blueberry beers; there was one that Half Pint and our friend Gail made over a year ago that Gail later added blueberries and wild yeast to it...and it was great). The food. The friends. Good times."<br />
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Not sure why I never hit publish. Probably because I intended to write up the beers themselves! So I'll cheat now and past Tiila's review from her <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110202202315/http://www.femaleist.com/" target="_blank">now-defunct blog</a> (she did get pregnant and just gave birth to a daughter, Aurelia--congrats Tiila & Dave!!--so that's perfectly acceptable). In her words:<br />
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The 2005 Cantillon Blåbær poured a clear, golden orange amber. It looked like beautiful sparkling resin. It smelled like slightly sweet grapes, touch of berry, touch of cereal and horseblanket funky sour. It tasted incredibly sour, pucker lemon, funky-cole-madina, lots of oak with a touch, and I mean a touch of berry. It was good. I was aching for a bit more fruit; but don’t get me wrong, Cantillon has an amazing capacity to create incredible back-of-your-throat sour puckers, which a lot of people love and crave. And it was good; I just wanted a bit more complexity and fruit flavor like in some of their other beers like their Lou Pepe Kriek.<br />
The 2007 Cantillon Blåbær Batch II poured the most beautiful color I have ever seen in a beer. I wanted to just stare at it all night long. It was this incredibly sparkling, brilliant ruby red with a touch of aubergine. Absolutely gorgeous. It smelled like a bucket of tart blueberries. It tasted like tart cranberries, tart blueberries, oak and back of your throat pucker sour. This had the complexity I was looking for. The beer starts tart to sour and then metamorphose into ripe and tart blueberries with the oak rounding out the transition. Beautiful. Elegant.<br />
The 2009 Cantillon Blåbær was the weakest link of the evening. It poured a cloudy, murky mahogany. It smelled like mulled cider mixed with berry pie. It tasted a little apple cider-y, with hint of cinnamon, sour green apple and cranberry. Was there a touch of bandaid as well? Hopefully, this was just an off bottle. It was not much to my liking, but I didn’t want to pour out this rare beer. It actually helped when it was paired with the blueberry buckle. The spices in the beer helped to bring out the crumb topping in the buckle.<br />
How can one top a Blåbær vertical? Well, you probably can’t but next we had Dark Horse Brewing Company Tres Blueberry Stout. This beer poured a deep, dark chocolate. It smelled like blueberry pie and roasted malt. It tasted like sweet blueberries, melted dark chocolate and roasted malt. Blueberry maple syrup malt- tasty.</blockquote>
As a post script, right after moving to Portland, the notorious House of Sour, Cascade Barrel House, released a blueberry beer that seemingly took a stab at our friend Blåbær that they called <a href="http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/cascade-raccoon-lodge-blauw-van-der-jon-berry-blue-berry/134377/" target="_blank">Blauw Van Der Jon Berry</a>. Fruitier, less complex, but overall amazing and I have a few vintages of Cascade Blueberry now that another blueberry-themed dinner might not be far off.<br />
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Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-90064773866861617402013-05-14T10:24:00.001-07:002013-05-14T10:25:03.102-07:00Portraits of dead soldiers left in yard #2: Blackberry SparksOn the heels of introducing this new series of snapshots of discarded malt beverage vessels from my yard, here's a rather more expected discovery. See, ever since moving into a house on a corner across from a Fred Meyer, beer bottles and cans of every style and price point appear out front. Such is the inspiration behind this new series.<br />
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Here we have something a bit more expected, Sparks brand malternative, with a twist. A twist of blackberry that is. It seems the intoxicatee minds not the ban on caffeinated alcoholic beverages, and since this souse can't obtain 4Loko, he or she but most likely he fell back onto a pint-sized can of <a href="http://www.sparks.com/" target="_blank">Sparks</a> Blackberry brewed by <a href="http://www.steelreserve.com/" target="_blank">Steel Brewing Co.</a>, a subsidiary of MillerCoors. Classy, Adolph Coors and Frederick Miller.Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-61540538776594830112013-05-13T22:44:00.001-07:002013-05-13T22:46:54.242-07:00Portraits of dead soldiers left in yard #1: BridgePort India Pale AleYears ago, while driving through Missouri, I got a call, but not on my cell phone. It was Nature. So I pulled over. That's when I first pondered the nature of beer litter. The ditch was full of empties, a bad sign considering it was the middle of nowhere and that meant the drivers discarding them were clearly driving under the influence. But then I noticed that, without exception, all the dead soldiers with macro brewed lagers, often of the budget variety such as Busch Light and Keystone Ice. I even wrote about it in my book, which you can find on pages 83-84. I'd mused, "Does that mean that domestic beer drinkers are more prone to littering and craft beer drinkers understand that trash belongs in trashcans, or better yet, recycling bins?"<br />
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Ever since moving into a house on a corner across from a Fred Meyer, a Kroger-owned one that stocks and sells more craft beer than any supermarket in the nation or so I've been told, I've changed my tune. Beer bottles and cans of every style and price point appear by our fence, in our yard, piled on the stairs, or sometimes stashed in a tree out front. Such is the inspiration behind this new series: Portraits of beers left in yard.<br />
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We begin with the noble <a href="http://www.bridgeportbrew.com/drink#?cb=india-pale-ale" target="_blank">BridgePort India Pale Ale</a>, the trailblazer for Oregon's most popular style of beer, and craft brewing in general. Whoever littered it high within this tree proves he or she but more than likely he knows from full-flavored beers rich with hops. He could maintain his wits by drinking this sessionable 5.5% beer, but perhaps this was the last in his 6-pack and didn't have enough sense not to plant it in my front yard.Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-84160733518490031482013-04-01T08:05:00.000-07:002013-04-01T08:08:00.765-07:00Portlandia Bröø Vërks in the works<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Andrew Singer and Jonathan Krisel, producers of IFC’s hit TV show, <a href="http://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia">Portlandia</a>,
announced that series stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are launching a
brewpub on NE Killingsworth adjacent to <a href="http://inotherwords.org/">In
Other Words</a> feminist bookstore frequently spoofed on the program in the “Women
and Women First” sketches. The space, vacated by The Record Room, formerly
served as a cherished vinyl lounge offering craft beer until Portlanders eschewed
vintage LPs and shifted en masse to digitally formatted recorded music mirroring the trend away from bikes toward mopeds and motor-assisted bicycles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Emulating In Other Words’s not-for-profit status, the
brewpub, to be called <b>Portlandia Bröø
Vërks Und Das Public Haus</b>, will operate as Portland’s first nonprofit pub.
As news leaked, <a href="http://oregonpublichouse.com/">Oregon Public House</a>
quickly opened overnight to capitalize on the concept, moving so quickly it’s
as if the operators had been planning it for <a href="http://www.newschoolbeer.com/2011/02/oregon-public-house-aims-to-be-worlds.html" target="_blank">over two years</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The series creators and actors announced their opening
line-up of draught beers, named after characters and phrases the satirical show
popularized. Put a Bird on Wit is a sourpuss of a Belgian Witbier. (In related
news, Armisen and Brownstein are <a href="https://untappd.com/beer/154114">suing
Flat Tail Brewing</a> from Corvallis for copyright infringement). Portlandia
Pils will be their super-hopped summer Pilsner. (In related news, Armisen and
Brownstein issued a Cease & Desist to <a href="http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/laurelwood-portlandia-pils/176973/">Laurelwood
Brewing</a>.) Pickle That IPA will not be on tap, but rather available only in
tallboy cans with the slogan "<a href="http://www.wecanpicklethat.com/">we
can Pickle That</a>." And they have mixologized a Martini Saison called
Dream of the ‘90s is Olive in Portland, dry-hopped with three locally sourced,
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The brewpub is executive produced by Lorne Michaels.<o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-18035147593543679252013-03-05T13:36:00.001-08:002013-03-05T13:36:45.107-08:00Neglected Portland-area Breweries: Off the Rail (R.I.P.)Portland has some 50 breweries and counting, 70 if you count all of Portland Metro. Many are world-class, even out-of-this-world, but not all. If we're being honest, a handful generally have no Beer Geek Brownie Points, deservedly so or not. Here's Pt. VIII in an ongoing series that included <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/05/yes-tugboat-brewery-i-flippin-love-it.html" target="_blank">Tugboat</a>, <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/01/neglected-portland-breweries.html" target="_blank">Philadelphia's</a> Steaks & Hoagies, <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/03/neglected-portland-breweries-maxs-fanno.html" target="_blank">Max's Fanno Creek</a>, <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/03/neglected-portland-breweries-broadway.html" target="_blank">Broadway Grill & Brewery</a> (Old Market Pub), <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/04/neglected-portland-breweries-widmer.html" target="_blank">Widmer Bros</a> (note the post date), <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/04/neglected-portland-breweries-columbia.html" target="_blank">Columbia River Brewing Co.</a>, and <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2013/01/neglected-portland-breweries-mash-tun.html" target="_blank">The Mash Tun</a>: Neglected Portland Breweries.<br />
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Forest Grove’s <a href="http://offtherailbrewing.tumblr.com/">Off
the Rail Brewing Co.</a> has powered down after a dozen years of brewing up
Black Sabbath inspired beers. None of their beers contained copious illicit
drugs or bats, but beers like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbxfe7DMxVo">War Pigs</a> Wheat and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d3WOX2s41Q">Over the Mountain</a> Stout
at least indicate what was blaring in the 12-barrel brewhouse run by brewer Dan
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“We kept to ourselves,” said Antoinette, which explains why
the Bragdon family—their kids have all done time at the brewery—were phantoms
of the local beer scene despite self-distributing to many neighborhood watering
holes. For my local, that meant Nick’s Famous Coney’s in the Hawthorne
District, which always had Over the Mountain Chocolate Stout on tap. Silver
Dollar Pizza downtown was a reliable source for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdD1yrOCwnY">Sweet Leaf</a> Amber, while
two of The Waypost’s five taps in the Eliot neighborhood recently proffered
Coal Porter and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZyVZFJGX5g">Paranoid</a>
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In the end, the Bragdons didn’t point to lagging sales but
said it was a “personal decision. It wasn’t business.” In an era with
increasing competition from ever-opening breweries (around 175 in Oregon) and
ever-expanding ones at that, OTR Brewing self-distributed to accounts from
Portland to Corvalis. “(The brewery was) more of a passion and a hobby. Dan and
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I’d learned about the closure at the beginning of this year,
but per Antoinette’s request, kept mum. When the story involves medical issues
warranting emergency responders as well as a son returning home after being
stationed in Afghanistan, getting the scoop on a rare Oregon brewery closure
matters very little. Perhaps what’s most telling is that in the two months
since, absolutely nobody seems to have noticed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-84933133131258787372013-03-03T01:08:00.000-08:002013-03-03T01:22:29.761-08:00Beer Birthday: Jay BrooksToday is the birthday of beer writer Jay Brooks. Jay is a veteran beer writer (Celebrator Beer News, All About Beer, BeerAdvocate, etcetera etcetera) whose column <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/jay-brooks" target="_blank">Brooks on Beer </a>appears in the San Jose Mercury News. He has contributed to the Oxford Companion to Beer as well as Playboy Magazine. His guidebook, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/California-Breweries-North-Series/dp/0811711587" target="_blank">California Breweries - North</a> (Stackpole Books), comes out later this summer. He is the co-founder of SF Beer Week (and it broke my heart to miss it for this first time in its fourth iteration last month). To anyone who follows the brewing industry, none of this is news. But for years, a convivial component of his Brookston Beer Blog has been celebrating brewers and those in the beer community on their <a href="http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/category/birthdays/" target="_blank">birthdays</a>. So please...join me in wishing Jay a very happy birthday.<br />
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Brewmaster Craig Cauwels, yours truly, the Beer Chef Bruce Patton, the birthday boy<br />
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Outdoor Speakeasy: Me, Brian Lenzo, Jay Brooks (whose blog I copied this from), and Meg GillBrian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-86980327202932446252013-01-07T11:30:00.003-08:002013-01-08T01:43:43.950-08:00Neglected Portland Breweries: The Mash Tun<div>
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<strike>Sometimes I beat myself up for not having been to every single brewery in town</strike> I used to beat myself up for not having visited every single brewery in town. As of tonight: no more! But before we begin, if we're being honest, the ones that took me the longest to hit are the ones that generally have no Beer Geek Brownie Points. Here's Pt. VII in an ongoing series that included <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/05/yes-tugboat-brewery-i-flippin-love-it.html">Tugboat</a>, <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/01/neglected-portland-breweries.html">Philadelphia's Steaks & Hoagies</a>, <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/03/neglected-portland-breweries-maxs-fanno.html">Max's Fanno Creek</a>, <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/03/neglected-portland-breweries-broadway.html">Broadway Grill & Brewery</a>, <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/04/neglected-portland-breweries-widmer.html" target="_blank">Widmer Bros</a> (note the post date), and C<a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/04/neglected-portland-breweries-columbia.html" target="_blank">olumbia River Brewing Co.</a>: Neglected Portland Breweries.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhejB8cxPBuZh0a9pbbdNfAz5Ya2ZCrlhOrvtGCLEkvg5rqJuC53ufvHPXqAe8OnYU7Xp5REU0KNpOaXL4-FoLwMBR08m1AMpesUdhdKowjWnf3r-eiGCOK7mrOgVVApTpg2fiAGQ/s1600/photo-2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhejB8cxPBuZh0a9pbbdNfAz5Ya2ZCrlhOrvtGCLEkvg5rqJuC53ufvHPXqAe8OnYU7Xp5REU0KNpOaXL4-FoLwMBR08m1AMpesUdhdKowjWnf3r-eiGCOK7mrOgVVApTpg2fiAGQ/s320/photo-2.jpeg" width="320" /></a>The reason for the visit wasn't actually so I could finally haul my butt into the solitary brewing company based in Portland--<a href="http://themashtunbrewpub.com/" target="_blank">The Mash Tun</a>--that I'd yet to visit, although naturally that did influence the decision. No, Half Pint and I went (along with our friends John and Anna who pronounces her name not like the latter half of banana but like the end of the Spanish word for tomorrow, and I confess we refer to them as Johnna in our house) because our son I.P.Yae turned 1 on Sunday and I pledged to escort him to 50 breweries by his first birthday. (Actually, I aimed for 52 and with wifey's help, we achieved our feat!)<br />
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So onto the experience. The Mash Tun, brewing since 2005 thus making it a veritable veteran of Beervana, gets zero lip service but it has something better than blog-love: patrons. The place with no sign above the entrance just around the corner on NE 22nd Ave from it's Alberta address (there's a beer garden that's certainly hopping in non near-freezing weather) was packed on a chilly Friday night. Our waitress was very sweet and attentive, but we could tell she wanted us to order when we kept saying we were waiting for a fourth (fifth; sorry IPYae). The interior is mostly wood (well, obviously the brew house visable through picture windows is stainless) including a pool table in the center and a dart board tucked behind the front door. Lots of hanging plants are a nice, lively touch.<br />
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Check in on <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-mash-tun-brewpub-portland" target="_blank">Yelp</a> and your first pint's FREE. Not that you'd walk out of here dropping a lot of coin; the prices are reasonable. Anna, John, and I all opted for the Keelhaul IPA, billed as "herbal and citrus" hop flavors with "sweet and nutty" maltiness, but I got lots of lemon notes and didn't mind the lack of ballyhooed malt backbone (though at 7.2% ABV it's there). Half Pint of course got the Penfold Porter, then got it again. Good malt-driven cocoa flavor.<br />
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Curiously, no one got a burger. I nearly went for the Dragon Burger, but even as a chiliphile I've had two jalapeno dishes this week and both set my mouth en fuego so I played it safe and got the cheesesteak that beckoned. It had Half Pint's and John's number, too. Decent. No mistaking it for actually hailing from the City of Brotherly Love, or even <a href="http://www.foodcartsportland.com/2011/08/13/cheesesteak-nirvana/" target="_blank">Cheesesteak Nirvana</a>.<br />
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We all opted for another round. Johnna stuck with the IPA. Half Pint as I mentioned ordered another Porter, this time an actual half pint. I do something I rarely do: ordered a cream ale. Concordia Cream Ale entails flaked corn so I worried that while I wanted light, I'd also get sweet, but the beer is saved by sufficient local aroma hops to make it palatable to beer lovers and at 4.5%, perfect for lightweights like me.<br />
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All in all, the Mash Tun is like Cromagnon Man on the human evolutionary chart--a good snapshot of how far brewpubs had come since the early '80s to the mid-aughts and then gets frozen in time. Maybe it's the caveman in me, but I think this analog brewpub is a pretty good respite in this digital age. And the packed place proves we paleos travel in packs.Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-80798737067882103842012-11-26T15:14:00.000-08:002019-03-03T07:52:46.172-08:00Cask ADIAIt's a good thing smaller, authentic, independent breweries have adopted the term "craft brewery" over the antiquated "microbrewery." The way some of them operate is anything but indicative of how the little guys play ball. Trademark suits have become as common as the California Common.<br />
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I use the vaunted "Cal-Common" reference because, much like Anchor Brewing igniting the entire craft beer industry (first post-Prohibition all malt beer, first IPA, first barleywine, etc, etc.), it introduced the first craft beer trademark--<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_beer" target="_blank">Steam™--in 1981</a> before the 2,000-plus "new kids" had even germinated.<br />
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<span style="color: #333333;">What started out simply enough as a way for
two stellar brewers--Adam Avery from Avery Brewing in Colorado and Vinnie
Cilurzo from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/russian-river"><span style="color: #3e72a7;">Russian
River</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Northern
California--to settle a caused by both breweries offering Belgian Strong Ales
called "Salvation" turned into the blend of both beers and the
resulting "Collaboration, Not Litigation." That was just the
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<span style="color: #333333;">Collaboration beers may just be the epitome
of why the craft brewing industry is so awesome. Other competitive businesses
revolve around games of one-upmanship—<i>OUR product is 15% bigger, twice as
refreshing, and 100% sexier</i>—but today’s independent brewers are
collectively deciding that what’s good for one is good for us all. The result?
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Our baby boy's no stranger to the beerfest circuit. I like to say Oregon has 53 beer fests because there's seemingly more than one a week. But this was his first time at the big dance. Great American Beer Festival. And in no small way, he has the GABF to thank for his existence. His mom, Half Pint, went for the first time in 2008 when my book came out and hustled outside the <a href="http://www.craftbeer.com/pages/stories/brewers_banter/show?title=great-american-beer-festival-a-beer-bookworms-paradise" target="_blank">Beer Enthusiast Bookstore</a> to help sell a ton of books. She drove out with me again the next year and by the time we got to Denver, she was <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/09/beer-odyssey-ii-homebrewers-edition.html" target="_blank">my fiance</a>. Next year, she was there as my wife. Since we love measuring our life events in terms of GABFs, it's only fitting that we returned this year as parents. And even more fitting that we've turned into chopped liver.<br />
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Obviously, he didn't do any beer sampling, but he did enjoy the sampler flight...of pancakes from Snooze. And he picked up an awesome li'l Yeti onesie from <a href="http://greatdivide.com/" target="_blank">Great Divide </a>Brewing on our walk back (photo T/K).<br />
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But that was hardly the only brewery he hit. I double checked to make sure we could bring him on the media bus tour. I heard the guide on the other bus was in disbelief someone brought a baby. He wasn't alone. But first... First stop of the tour, <a href="http://www.mountainsunpub.com/" target="_blank">Mountain Sun's Vine Street Brewery</a>. Brand new and tapping 21 -- TWENTY-ONE -- house beers. I definitely thought the IPA and Saison were right on. And it's a hippy-dippy hangout of a brewpub.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next stop: the new <a href="http://www.rivernorthbrewery.com/" target="_blank">River North Brewery</a>, beers made w/ a Belgian yeast strain</td></tr>
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And concluded the tour at Colorado's first brewpub, <a href="http://www.wynkoop.com/" target="_blank">Wynkoop</a> for the tail end of the Pints for Prostates Rare Beer Tasting IV. (Saving the best photo for last if you want to scroll down.) Since Wynkoop released their very real "Rocky Mountain Oyster-Stout" in time for GABF, now's a good time for a short video break.<br />
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Not everyone who goes to Denver feels this way, but we feel the real highlight of GABF is the fest itself. Beyond the endless one-ounce samples, it's the one place you're likely to bump into old and new friends and members of the beer family at large. Look: IPYae's first fist-bump with Charlie Papazian.<br />
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While standing in the bookstore, Izzy met Jack McAuliffe, the man who opened the very first microbrewery post-Prohibition! That was 36 years ago. GABF is on its 31st year. While this naturally was Izzy's first, it was only Jack's second time attending, his New Albion Brewery having gone under before GABF was even a thing.<br />
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Author <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156033593?ie=UTF8&tag=beerodys-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312383142" target="_blank">Maureen Ogle</a> did much for revamping interest in those early days of microbrewing and clutching Jack back from obscurity. As Izzy's beery godmother, I think no one looked forward to meeting him more than her. Who else could get her to crawl around on the floor?!<br />
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Finally, considering the small population of babies in attendance (the age requirement is 21+, obviously, but also -2), I think they were all widely photographed. Izzy's bib perhaps gave him <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5YClmS3umk" target="_blank">added flair</a>. Most people dug seeing a little baby and told us as much. But I got a kick out of walking a few paces behind Half Pint and hearing drunk kids remark, "Who the (hell) brings a baby to GABF?!?"<br />
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We do. And unlike their parents, we were very proud of how he handled himself.<br />
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<br />Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-9742654136144782072012-09-05T01:10:00.002-07:002015-10-27T00:42:51.247-07:00The Session #67: How many breweries in 2017?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My buddy Derrick Peterman over at <a href="http://beer-runner.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-session-67-announcement-how-many.html" target="_blank">Ramblings of a Beer Runner</a> hosts this month's <a href="http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/the-sessions/" target="_blank">The Session</a>. Man it's been awhile since I've joined the fray. Derek opens:<br />
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<i>There's been much cheering and fanfare reverberating throughout the brewing community about the latest brewery numbers recently released from the <a href="http://www.brewersassociation.org/" target="_blank">Brewer's Association</a>, who counted exactly <a href="http://www.brewersassociation.org/pages/media/press-releases/show?title=brewers-association-reports-2012-mid-year-growth-for-u-s-craft-brewers" target="_blank">2,126 breweries in the United States</a>.</i></blockquote>
The theme he suggests us beer bloggers blog about is:<br />
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<i>Where is it all going? The growth shows no sign of stopping and the biggest problem most breweries have is that they can't brew beer fast enough. But can the market really absorb all these new breweries?...Tell us how many breweries the Brewer's Association will count five years from now in 2017, and why you think it will be that number.</i></blockquote>
Answer: 5,001.<br />
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Oh, I should extrapolate? Well, it's like this. Yes, there are well over 2,000 breweries already. The Brewers Association further purports that there are <a href="http://www.brewersassociation.org/pages/community/ba-blog/show?title=u-s-brewery-count-passes-1700" target="_blank">over 1,600 BIP (breweries in planning)</a>! True, not all of them will brew in the light of day (and to be sure we will see a huge bump in the number of failed/shuttered brewing concerns, but it will long be outpaced by new and succeeding ones). But blink and the number of brewery-opening hopefuls has already risen, so let's just say that by early 2014 when all their i's are dotted and they've navigated the alphabet soup of ABCs and TTBs, etc, there will be nearly 4,000.<br />
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"Impossible!" you say? Why? A <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/156770/Majority-Drink-Alcohol-Averaging-Four-Drinks-Week.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=Alcohol%20-%20USA%20-%20Wellbeing" target="_blank">recent Gallup poll</a> concluded that Americans prefer beer to wine 39% to 35%. So it stands that there should be 4% more breweries than wineries, right?! (Hey, I'm a wordsmith, not a mathematician.) OK, but really, my point is that it'd be logical that since more Americans prefer beer to wine, there should be more breweries. Or at least the same amount. Fine, how about at least HALF as many!? But no, as it stands today, there are <a href="http://www.wineinstitute.org/resources/statistics/article124" target="_blank">7,626 bonded wineries</a> in the USA. That's fewer than 28% as many licensed breweries as bonded wineries.<br />
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So where are the remaining 2,875 breweries going to come from that I'm predicting will open by 2017?<br />
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Tiny, nano, pico, "boutique," retirement-plan, post-law-career, I've-always-loved-homebrewing-and-all-my-friends-said-I-should-go-pro breweries. One of the biggest arguments against the success of more packaging breweries is that shelf space remains finite. So clearly we cannot have nearly 3,000 new "regional" breweries concocting over 15,000 barrels apiece. But people love supporting local and that's just not a fad or trend that will dissipate. Once people get a taste for serious, flavorful, characterful beer, they do not revert back to the industrial, commoditized swill. And if my hometown of Portland can support 50 breweries--yes, 50 breweries in a city with just over 1/2 a million folks--then so can other progressive towns. And if littler hamlets such as Asheville, Bend, and Grand Rapids can support over a dozen breweries, then who's to say many more with less than a 1/4 million residents can't do the same?<br />
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Craft beer consumers are savvier than they've ever been. The mid-90s bust needed to happen; too many bogus breweries needed to have bullshit called upon them. But now, there's a more knowledgable and talented pool of prospective brewers/brewmasters. The AHA estimates that <a href="http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/government-affairs/talking-points" target="_blank">there are a million homebrewers</a> in this country. I'm one of them and I have zero aspirations of going pro. But if only 0.002875% of them do seriously plan on making an avocation their vocation, then welcome to a world with over 5,000 breweries.Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-19348911505466207572012-08-31T09:44:00.001-07:002012-08-31T09:44:14.169-07:00Dunkel saved by his church keyGetting press releases and samples of actual beer is nice. Getting releases for gizmos and doodads aimed at beer-lovers often merely strikes a chord of amusement or befuddlement. Such was the case when the folks behind the <a href="http://thepoptag.com/shop/personalized-dog-collar-id-tag-bottle-opener/" target="_blank">Pop Tag</a> landed in my inbox wagging their tails about a bottle opener converted into a dog tag so that the ability to open your beer "is just a whistle away" and that "It gives a whole new meaning to man’s best friend!"<br />
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Cute, but I still likely would've filed it under Delete, had my cuddlesome canine not gone on a walk unescorted that day. I got a terse phone call from my wife alerting me to his whereabouts since it's her number on his tag. If you're a pet owner: consider if you've moved or changed numbers since you had a dog tag engraved.<br />
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Before I accepted the offer of the sample, I asked if there was any danger of the opener portion somehow catching the scruff of a dog's neck.<br />
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The ID tags come with a removable silicone bumper so that it won't hurt if Dunkel is running and the tag is bouncing around!</blockquote>
I thought that was a rather fetching idea. They know Dunkel so well. Dunkel, since he's been mentioned here but never properly introduced despite rescuing him over two years ago, is a German Shorthair Pointer mix. Given his provenance and coat, and the fact that I couldn't come up with a better German beer style name for him, his full name is Dunkel Weisse. (A dark wheat beer that also means dark-white, like his coloring.) He only gets called that when he's in trouble. Which brings me to something else the folks at Pop Tag said.<br />
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We wouldn't want Dunkel to wander off and only be able open the beer of the kind stranger that finds him!</blockquote>
Perfect timing to test this tag out! Yesterday I got a phone call from some folks saying he was in the patio area (biergarten?) of Pepino's, Half Pint's favorite Mexican take-out spot two blocks away. The new tag, with my current number, saved his life. And yes, I did offer to buy them a beer and/or burrito but they'd just finished their lunch. Dunkel Weisse is safe back home, firmly in the dog house.<br />
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Boston Beer Co., makers of <a href="http://www.samadams.com/" target="_blank">Samuel Adams</a>, announced today a partnership with Berkshire Mountain Distillers--their in-state brethren purveying adult beverages--to create two whiskies literally made from two different Sam Adams beers including the flagship Boston Lager.<br />
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The story was picked up by several news outlets including the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120618-710153.html">Wall Street Journal</a>. It's a new frontier for craft brewers and distillers to be sure. But the press release chose its words carefully to insinuate, but not state, that Jim Koch is the Christopher Columbus discovering this new world (though maybe that's an apt comparison since Chris gets the credit but hardly "discovered" an already inhabited frontier).<br />
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As I'd reported in a<a href="http://draftmag.com/features/charbay-turning-beer-into-booze/" target="_blank"> Draft Magazine story</a> in 2010, "Whiskey is a distillate made from 'low wash' or 'distiller’s beer,' meaning it contains the same malted grain, water and yeast that all beer has. The difference is that the beer we drink is bittered, usually with hops." The story was about Charbay, a winemaker and distiller in the San Francisco Bay Area using various beers, predominantly from local Bear Republic Brewing, to turn into whisky whereby master distiller Marko Karakasevic uses " a copper alembic pot (to make) cuts to the distillate to ensure only the hearts—the most desirable liquid—and not the heads or tails, remain." (That other stuff is the reason moonshine has a reputation for making you go blind.)<br />
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Oddly, the WSJ story also notes that Boston Beer isn't the first brewing company to get into the microdistilling biz. (Those who've tasted Utopias, first introduced in 2002 and clocking in usually at 27% alcohol but more like 54-proof, would say they're already selling cognac or something close to it.) It says that Rogue from Oregon, "for example," started distilling in 2003. Other breweries-cum-distilleries include Dogfish Head and Ballast Point. But I'm curious why they didn't just point to Anchor. Established in 1896, it famously launched the craft/micro brewing revolution in 1965 when Fritz Maytag salvaged the brewery. The microbrewing renaissance didn't begin until over a decade later. Maytag did the same with whiskey and craft distillation in 1993 when Anchor Distilling was born.<br />
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The first time I'd interviewed Fritz, he said, “In the eighties when all the competition came in the brewing world, some of the fun went out of it. Then I found out that no commercial American whiskies were made in a traditional manner. When I heard that, I realized, we’re going to make an all-malt, pot-distilled rye whisky aged in uncharred barrels. You don’t put hops in it, but whisky is really distilled beer.”<br />
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The Boston Beer Co. deserves a tremendous amount of credit as an early pioneer in the good ol' days of better beer. Starting in 1984, Koch put a better product in front of millions of Americans and had the gumption (and advertising moolah) to convince them they could be drinking a better tasting beer. They now release 40-some-odd active beers a year. And while they were the company behind Hard Core Ciders, they've things up quite a bit with Angry Orchards brand ciders. Can their foray into the world of winemaking be far behind?<br />
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Perhaps they're waiting until 2015ish to see how the whiskies do.Brian Yaegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809280960510780621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23041811.post-9898486131420689292012-05-19T00:56:00.001-07:002012-05-19T01:00:32.077-07:00Freelance update, spring 2012Most writers, beer writers and otherwise, are really good at keeping their websites and blogs up to date on their published stories. Not me. So while I've done this a couple times before <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/02/freelance-update.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://beerodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/06/freelance-update-summer-2011.html" target="_blank">here</a>, here's the latest:<br />
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Starting with <b>All About Beer</b>, one of my favorite stories I've written to date was on <a href="http://allaboutbeer.com/live-beer/brewing/ingredients/2011/11/hop-forward?singlePage" target="_blank">hop breeders, the people responsible for creating tomorrow's hops today</a>. When you think about how much research goes into a story and that only the tip of the iceberg makes its way into print, I loved learning all this stuff myself. And, living in Portland, rather than call these botanists and farmers on the phone, I visited several of them in Washington's Yakima Valley and Oregon's Willamette Valley, sometimes in or next to the test fields. It also marks one of the rare times that a title I came up with was actually used. "Hop Forward." Get it? (Yeah, I know, of course you did.) There's also the <a href="http://allaboutbeer.com/learn-beer/reviews/book-reviews/2011/09/craft-beers-of-the-pacific-northwest/" target="_blank">book review</a> for my BFF (Beer Friend Forever) <a href="http://beergoddess.com/" target="_blank">Lisa Morrison</a>'s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1604690895/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beerodys-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=1604690895" target="_blank">Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest</a>. It's not online yet, but I review the new book from Stone Brew'ers in the current issue, and am working on a brand new one for a future issue that's deliciously entertaining.<br />
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For the<b> Beer Traveler column</b>, recent themes have included <a href="http://allaboutbeer.com/live-beer/travel/beer-travelers/2011/07/burgers%E2%80%99n%E2%80%99beers?singlePage" target="_blank">Burger'n'Beer </a>towns (ie: LA and KC), <a href="http://allaboutbeer.com/live-beer/travel/beer-travelers/2011/09/river-rafting?singlePage" target="_blank">River Rafting </a>destinations (Bozeman, MT; Santa Fe, NM, and the Chatooga River between Athens, GA & Greenville, SC), beer-proximate <a href="http://allaboutbeer.com/live-beer/travel/beer-travelers/2011/11/national-parks?singlePage" target="_blank">National Parks</a> (FL's Biscayne Bay, KY's Mammoth Cave, and OR's Crater Lake), and island hopping or, rather, <a href="http://allaboutbeer.com/live-beer/travel/beer-travelers/2012/01/these-islands-are-hopping?singlePage" target="_blank">hoppy islands</a> (US Virgin Islands; Sydney, Aus; Victoria, BC).<br />
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I said it before and it warrants repeating, but for AAB's website blog <a href="http://beersoup.allaboutbeer.com/author/brianyaeger/" target="_blank">Beer Soup</a> (where I've been joined, delightedly, by <a href="http://beersoup.allaboutbeer.com/author/winbassett/" target="_blank">Win Bassett</a>) far from being a Beer Soup Nazi, I'd like to think of myself as a Beer Soup Fuzzy Squirrel, offering adorable little nuts and nuggets of my quantum thoughts about anything beery. I'm generally good about FB-sharing & Twitter RT'ing them. Some favorites since last update include a snarky look at #IPA Day & hop-induced <a href="http://beersoup.allaboutbeer.com/2011/08/beware-ipa-day-celebrants-brewers-droop/" target="_blank">brewer's droop</a>, what it'd be like to have a <a href="http://beersoup.allaboutbeer.com/2011/09/keg-on-your-coffin/" target="_blank">keg on my coffin</a>, wondering <a href="http://beersoup.allaboutbeer.com/2012/01/black-is-the-new-black/" target="_blank">how much more black</a> beer can get, and most recently, perhaps a glimpse at the next quasi-healthy beer trend: <a href="http://beersoup.allaboutbeer.com/2012/05/is-purine-the-new-gluten/" target="_blank">low-purine beer</a>.<br />
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Back to beer traveling, how much fun did I have "researching" this story on the <a href="http://www.realfoodtraveler.com/2012/03/tackling-bend-oregon%E2%80%99s-ale-trail/" target="_blank">Bend Ale Trail</a> for <b>Real Food Traveler</b>? Four days and we didn't even get to every brewery in the area! We did, however, find ourselves looking at the calendar to figure out how soon we can go back to Bend.<br />
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The story I did for <b>Beer Wes</b>t also wound up as the cover. <a href="http://www.beerwestmag.com/the-magazine/feature-beer-in-la-la-land/" target="_blank">Beer in La-La Land</a> was a rare personal story (in part). I don't hide my love-hate relationship with my birthplace of LA. As far as being a "beer town," let's just say it'll never be in danger of winning Papazian's <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/grand-rapids-asheville-share-beercity-usa-2012-title" target="_blank">Beer Town USA poll</a>. Having said that, next time I'm down, I have more to look forward to visiting than just my nieces.<br />
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In the pages of <b>DRAFT</b>, I reported on what, or really who, is driving the <a href="http://draftmag.com/features/copenhagen-rising/" target="_blank">Danish craft beer scene</a>. My favorite thing about this piece? I get to see for myself, seeing as there'll be a Yaeger family trip to Scandinavia this summer. First stop: Copenhagen.<br />
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There's a new drinks-oriented magazine called <b>Sip Northwest </b>and I wrote a couple stories, neither of which seem to be online. For one of them, they sent me and my buddy The Greek to Victoria, BC for the Great Canadian Beer Fest and a dude's beercation where we hit something like 6 breweries (all by foot). I also spotlighted several of the PacNW's nanobreweries.<br />
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Speaking of <a href="http://drinkmemag.com/2011/08/nano-breweries/" target="_blank">nanobreweries</a>, that was the subject for <b>Drink Me</b>'s "craft" issue. For the "legal" issue, I wrote about <a href="http://drinkmemag.com/2011/10/strong-beer/" target="_blank">strong beer</a> (I'm guessing they pirated the accompanying image, just like I'm doing.) I'm blanking, but I think it was the "elements" issue for which I observed that, "The human body is almost 62% <a href="http://drinkmemag.com/2012/01/like-water-for-beer/" target="_blank">water</a>, and we can all agree that people are pretty important. The Earth’s surface is 75% water, and clearly, the planet is very important. Beer is roughly 93% water, so clearly it must be the most important thing in the world." (Oh, and I was asked to do something <a href="http://drinkmemag.com/2012/02/canned-beer/" target="_blank">on cans</a>.)<br />
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Finally, for <b>Willamette Wee</b>k, I contribute the <a href="http://www.wweek.com/portland/by-author-1358-1.html" target="_blank">Oregon Beer News</a> online column (I give up on trying to break stories when there are more top-notch beer bloggers here than you can shake a <a href="http://www.brewboard.com/index.php?showtopic=82822" target="_blank">Stickebier</a> at. I also get to do the errant beer review, like this one on my new style obsession: <a href="http://wweek.com/portland/article-18970-drank_little_sister_.html" target="_blank">ISA</a> (India Session Ales, which are low-alcohol IPAs for lightweights like myself).<br />
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It's not as bad as being blind or deaf, but I think having Celiacs Disease or in any way allergic to gluten would suck. Because beer is glutenous.<br />
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One in 133 Americans are in some way gluten-intolerant. Drink normal beer and they will surely
get sick. As such, there is a growing market for <a href="http://www.celiac.com/articles/222/1/Gluten-Free-Alcoholic-Beverages/Page1.html">gluten-free
beers</a>. Instead of traditional cereals like barley, they’re generally made
from sorghum and/or buckwheat. Tragically for the glutarded, most are
unpalatable. I've tried several styles of GF beer on tap at the Deschutes pub, and I wouldn't offer a pint to my worst enemy.<br />
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So naturally, I balked when I just got a press release from Craft Brew Alliance (the umbrella under which Widmer Bros. falls, at which the Omission brand of GF beers is brewed), announcing:<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Garamond, serif;">Mayor Sam Adams will declare May 16 to be Gluten-Free Beer Day in Portland, Ore. The official ceremony will be held at City Hall, and we invite you to witness Adams deliver the proclamation to supporters of gluten-free beer, including the latest addition to Portland’s established gluten-free beer scene, Omission Beer.</span></blockquote>
Now, Portland’s first and only entirely gluten-free brewery, <b>Harvester</b>, adds chestnut
flour and tons of hops to make their GF beers genuinely tasty. The just-launched <b>Omission</b>
brand of authentic flavored beers (they're made from real barley malt but filtered to
the point it features <a href="http://www.glutenfreedietitian.com/newsletter/how-much-gluten-is-20-parts-per-million/">less
than 20 parts per million</a> making it as gluten-free as N/A beers that are
0.5% ABV or less) are also entirely quaffable. But do we really need a Gluten-Free Beer Day?? I always say that PDX has 53 beer festivals, meaning you're sure to find some c-ale-abration more than once a week. But GFBD? C'mon, Sam Adams, hasn't that already been lampooned by Portlandia?<br />
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