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 →

Deschutes (with a HoTDog): An Annual Avalanche of Ale Art

THREE (okay, FOUR, one a collaboration) insanely great beers from Deschutes…these arrived within about fifteen days and I took my 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 →

The Fool’s Fridge: Besides Deschutes, What DO I Drink?

Here is email Number 100, in a series I’ve now been receiving for the past eight years… “Aside from your 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 →

Deschutes “Pinot Suave”: Game Changer

arc “Pinot“: (French) describing a family of wine grapes that are closely related genetically across both grape colors, red and 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 →

The 15 into 16 Bounty of Deschutes: Dissident, Hop Trip, Hop Henge, Red Chair, EHop, And MORE!

At various points during this exhausting fall into winter, packages would arrive via FedEx from a fella named Brett Counsellor Continue reading →