Pyramid to Release Barleywine, Other Forthcoming Beers

Pyramid Barleywine

Pyramid Brewing Co. has been working on a new barleywine that will surely come as a delight to craft beer lovers across the country. Currently the beer is just in its trial stages, according to Pyramid’s Portland brewery manager Doug Hodges. “Kim Brusco just did a trial for us in Seattle, and we just got a sample here yesterday” says Hodges. The official beer to be released will be brewed this summer at their Berkeley location and will be featured as a part of their fall variety pack slated to release on August 1, 2012. “There will be a limited amount of draft for the alehouses” Hodges adds, informing us “The trial was pushed along pretty quickly, not given much time to age. We mostly wanted to make sure we could Read More…

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Halloween Prose.

Here’s an older post that we figured we’d bring back. Have a fun night!

Hoppy Halloween! Sudsy Samhain! Festive Fall! Merry Malting!

Losing leaves are the nakeding trees. Seasonal yeastwork. Plants’ vascular adapting and converting like sugars during fermentation. Fractal trees and complex flavors. Beer and rain begin to simultaneously increase on the gravities in which they pour. Boos and brews and cloud formations sometimes replaced by just one giant cloud. Dark mornings, darker nights increase. It can be harder to get warmed. But it is welcoming to be near a heat source. Perhaps soon looking forth to the next solstice bringing light back. Spicy seasonals, Oktoberfests, gourd brews, other fruit beers, doppels, dunkels, hearty browns, ambers, and even barleywines. Beware of ghouls and stale piwo. The light will return just as the longer warmer days, but now is the entrance to darker, bolder, and more assertive times. Enjoy the long spells of grey, contracted daylight hours, and even snowfall could conjur the need for items something spicy and robust. Enjoy the life of colorfully distinct seasons in Beervana. The changes we certainly welcomed and find necessary and most importantly, an undeniable excuse to brew, drink, and demand different kinds of beer.

I hope my beer is not a headless one. That would gravely scare me. Unless of course, it is brewed to style. Pumking verticals and eerily anticipating the sun falling beneath the horizon. Some are mused by horror films. The wicks of candles burn and bodies turn. Sweat shirts, sweaters, and cuddling pets. Sometimes it feels this season is the best. Skeleton crops blow in the wind. Spiders. frogs, rats, and others work hard to prepare for the winter. Cold beer now and cold morning soon enough. Trick or treat, smell my feet, give us something good to drink.

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This post was written by Angelo on October 31, 2011

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Video: Hopworks Lovenbrau Toast to Brewer Ben Love

Hopworks Urban Brewery‘s 2011 BIKETOBEERFEST on Saturday September 17, 2011 was a fun and festive day filled with lots of tasty beer (many fresh hops), live music, and art (the breakdancers were incredible!). One highlight of the day was the presentation of a gigantic beer dubbed “Lovenbrau” to Ben Love. After four years with Hopworks, it was announced that Love will be leaving the brewery to open his own brewery called Gigantic Brewing with former Rock Bottom brewmaster Van Havig.

To view photos from HUB’s 2011 BIKETOBEERFEST click here.

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This post was written by Angelo on September 26, 2011

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Rogue Farms Hop & Harvest Festival @ Chatoe Rogue

Celebrate the fall harvest in Independence, Oregon for this special three day party. Close to Rogue‘s Chatoe hopyards, this family friendly fest features events such as a tractor pull, hot air balloon launch, ghost walk, square dancing, hop farm tours, and a firework display…Oh, yeah, and there will be a beer garden with tasty Rogue brews on tap like their pumpkin beer and brews made with freshly harvest hops. For complete details click here.

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This post was written by admin on September 25, 2011

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Rogue Farms Hop & Harvest Festival @ Chatoe Rogue

Celebrate the fall harvest in Independence, Oregon for this special three day party. Close to Rogue‘s Chatoe hopyards, this family friendly fest features events such as a tractor pull, hot air balloon launch, ghost walk, square dancing, hop farm tours, and a firework display…Oh, yeah, and there will be a beer garden with tasty Rogue brews on tap like their pumpkin beer and brews made with freshly harvest hops. For complete details click here.

Rogue Farms Hop & Heritage Festival


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This post was written by admin on September 24, 2011

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Rheinlander Oktoberfest at Gustav’s

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This post was written by admin on September 24, 2011

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Lager Yeast Origins Linked to Argentina

Orange Beech Tree Galls - Lager Yeast Origins - Photo from LA Times, Diego Libkind

The true origins of the bottom-fermenting yeast used to make lagers have long remained a mystery. Lager beer origins are typically credited to Germany around 600 years ago, and lager yeast origins are often credited to Europe as well. Scientists previously discovered that lager yeast, Saccharomyces pastorianus, was a hybrid of two yeast species: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (used to make ales, wine and bread) and some other, unidentified species. According to recent University of Madison-Wisconsin research reported in the LA Times and other sources, the elusive origins of the bottom-fermenting lager yeast may be from tree fungi in Patagonia, Argentina. Read More…

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This post was written by Aaron on September 24, 2011

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Rogue Farms Hop & Harvest Festival @ Chatoe Rogue

Celebrate the fall harvest in Independence, Oregon for this special three day party. Close to Rogue‘s Chatoe hopyards, this family friendly fest features events such as a tractor pull, hot air balloon launch, ghost walk, square dancing, hop farm tours, and a firework display…Oh, yeah, and there will be a beer garden with tasty Rogue brews on tap like their pumpkin beer and brews made with freshly harvest hops. For complete details click here.

Rogue Farms Hop & Heritage Festival


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This post was written by admin on September 23, 2011

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Oktoberfest and Grand Opening @ Occidental Brewing

Occidental Oktoberfest

Occidental Brewing Company, a new brewery and taproom in St. Johns, Portland, Oregon, will celebrate the release of its Oktoberfest beer in the courtyard of Cathedral Park Place on Saturday, October 1, 2011 from noon to 10PM. This celebration of German-inspired brewing will be  complete with German cuisine from the neighboring Cathedral Park Kitchen and live music from Chervona and other guests. Admission is free. In addition to the Festbier, Occidental’s other brews will be available for purchase.

Occidental Brewers Ben (left) and Dan EnglerFurther, many small businesses and artists’ studios in historical Cathedral Park Place will hold an open house in the afternoon from 1 to 5PM.
Cathedral Park Place is located next to Cathedral Park in the shadow of the St. Johns Bridge at 6635 N. Baltimore Ave, down the hill from downtown St. Johns. Once you’re in the neighborhood, just follow the signs for the boat ramp until you see the big orange building.

For more information on Occidental, its lineup of German-style beers, and uncle-and-nephew brewers Dan and Ben Engler, please visit occidentalbrewing.com or call 503 719 7102.

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This post was written by admin on September 22, 2011

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German-inspired Occidental to Host Oktoberfest and Grand Opening

Occidental Oktoberfest

Occidental Brewing Company, a new brewery and taproom in St. Johns, Portland, Oregon, will celebrate the release of its Oktoberfest beer in the courtyard of Cathedral Park Place on Saturday, October 1, 2011 from noon to 10PM. This celebration of German-inspired brewing will be  complete with German cuisine from the neighboring Cathedral Park Kitchen and live music from Chervona and other guests. Admission is free. In addition to the Festbier, Occidental’s other brews will be available for purchase.

Occidental Brewers Ben (left) and Dan EnglerFurther, many small businesses and artists’ studios in historical Cathedral Park Place will hold an open house in the afternoon from 1 to 5PM.
Cathedral Park Place is located next to Cathedral Park in the shadow of the St. Johns Bridge at 6635 N. Baltimore Ave, down the hill from downtown St. Johns. Once you’re in the neighborhood, just follow the signs for the boat ramp until you see the big orange building.

For more information on Occidental, its lineup of German-style beers, and uncle-and-nephew brewers Dan and Ben Engler, please visit occidentalbrewing.com or call 503 719 7102.

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This post was written by Angelo on September 22, 2011

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