Deschutes/Bitburger: Lager for What Ales Ya
This is such a pleasure to drink. It’s one of those extremely rare things you find usually only after a LONG search through the marketplace: Something For Everybody.
Tag Archives
Archive for: Bend OR
A Cruxian Pursuit: Young Whiskey with an Old Soul
Crux/Pursuit Straight Bourbon Whiskey is a delicious, fascinating, grown-up bottle of American Bourbon and it is absolutely worth the $$$, if any Whiskey is.
Deschutes Black Butte NA: No Alcohol, No Suckage
When something comes along that changes the paradigm of a culture or even a product class, like Deschutes Black Butte NA absolutely has done, the bar, the minimum requirement for quality moves in an almost visible way.
SMH: DB+CHR+VAN+JUBL = OMG!
What comes out of this bottle is rich and palate-painting but where you would normally expect something like this to be impossibly sweet, it really is not. What it IS…is Perfect.
Deschutes Whiskey Butte: The Dangerous Sublime
Whiskey Butte is, ho-hum, just another significant Achievement from a brewery that produces such New Classics as casually as Mozart wrote symphonies.
Deschutes “Jubelale”: An American Icon, Reimagined
Jubelale’s immense popularity sets a tone that lets other brewers experiment with making winter seasonals that go beyond the high ABV warmers of our past and into styles that hold their interest year-round.
Crux Bucks Up the Late Summer Beer Blues
Crux is one of the true American sources for real brewing ingenuity and innovation and with these two new ales, they are really hitting on all cylinders.
Holiday Smack-Up: Crux “Tough Love”: The Dark Side of the Holidays
Tough Love 2020, for all my purposes, is Perfect. It leaves NOTHING to be desired. It’s malty, rich, deep, complex, chewy, BALANCED, food-friendly, complete, and immensely thoughtful; one of the brainiest jobs EVER of crafting a great beer.
The Pour Fool 