Deschutes Brewery “The Dissident”: How the Cherry Varies
The Dissident sour walks the fine line between civilized and a firm tongue-punch and that’s just how we like it.
The Dissident sour walks the fine line between civilized and a firm tongue-punch and that’s just how we like it.
Over-indulging in Barleywine is the stuff of police reports, in which the officer tries to think of ways to say “naked, with a feather duster up his ass”.
Here’s what you Need To Know:This is a near-perfect fresh-hopped IPA, best one, in fact, since Deschutes immortal “Hop Trip”.It Continue reading
Double Mountain/Everybody’s “Escape from Indiana” is the best thing I have ever tasted from either brewery – and that is Sayin’ Sumthin’.
Let’s stop seeing the consequences of our continued support of beers like Budweiser and Coors and Miller and Pabst as abstractions. They are NOT.
Yes, the paradigm has changed. NO, that is NOT a harbinger of impeding doom, the oft-whined about “death of craft beer”.
I would have been impressed with these beers if I had found them in Ballard or Portland but finding them in a completely rural, somewhat isolated (albeit WILDLY beautiful) valley in far southwest Washington was a SHOCK.
There is a tangible difference in quality, balance, depth, and unblemished flavor between the best breweries and all those which exist in that continuum of Merely Good. Obec has that.