Landmark: Double Mountain and Solera and the Fresh Hops
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
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Double Mountain & Everybody’s: Escapism Done Right
Double Mountain/Everybody’s “Escape from Indiana” is the best thing I have ever tasted from either brewery – and that is Sayin’ Sumthin’.
Budweiser vs. American Craft Beer: An Update
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.
American Craft Beer: Confusing Evolution with The Apocalypse
Yes, the paradigm has changed. NO, that is NOT a harbinger of impeding doom, the oft-whined about “death of craft beer”.
Jones Creek Brewing: A Disturbance in The Force
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.
Obec (O-Betz) Brewing: As In Seattle, so in YOUR Hometown
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.
Deschutes “Symphonic Chronic”: Megaphonic
This is a fine can o’ suds, here. As convenience store offerings go, this is the Maserati in a garage full of Kias.
Double Mountain “Go Ask Talus”: Great Beer, Bad Pun
Talus goes from dank to stunningly complex without breaking a sweat. Flavors innate to this flower cavort around your mouth like some barely-controlled naked bacchanalia.
The Pour Fool 