Deschutes “The Abyss”: Just F&#%ing Perfect

  Last night, a great friend of mine, a winemaker and bon vivant and terribly well-traveled academic type, sent me Continue reading →

Deschutes “Red Chair”: NWPA, Defined

A Brief Note from a Fool:  Starting with this post, written on New Years Day 2017, The Pour Fool is Continue reading →

Full Sail, pFriem, Fish Brewing, etc.: The CDA Emerges from Darkness

Just What IS a Cascadian Dark Ale? Cascadian. Dark. Ale. Three words which, taken one by one, are fairly easy Continue reading →

Deschutes’ Revelation: Sagefight…and a couple more!

I’ll admit it: between some family demands and the election, (and the thousand cuts that age visits upon the bones) Continue reading →

Crux Fermentation Project “Better Off Red”: The New Sour Attitude

    It will come as no surprise to know that the origins of sour beers came about by accident. Continue reading →

Deschutes “Hopzeit”: Cross-Cultural Cool

It’s hard for me to stay in denial about the fading of summer when football starts, trees start to turn, Continue reading →

Crux Fermentation Project “Freakcake”: Freakin’ Perfection

    I said, in 2014, that Crux Fermentation Project “Freakcake” is the best Belgian-style American ale ever made…and my Continue reading →

Deschutes Down ‘N’ Dirty & Big Rig: Back From The Future

These are beers you’re going to see at picnics and softball games and rafting trips and bicycle races and around Continue reading →