No Sleep Till Brooklyn Brewery: Black Chocolate Stout On July 4, 1994, when Manhattan Brewing was closed for the holiday, brewer Garrett Oliver brewed a version of Black Chocolate Stout in the empty brewery. Oliver fumed over Manhattan Brewing cancelling all their employees’ health insurance without telling them, so when Brooklyn Brewery co-owner Steve Hindy came a calling, Oliver listened. Three weeks later, after Oliver poured his Black Chocolate Stout for Hindy, the deal was done. The amount of Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout brewed in 1994, their first year in business, dwarfed all the sales for imperial stout in
Who opens with a 30-barrel system? Matchless Brewing Co. in Tumwater, Washington, that’s who. Award-winning brewmaster Patrick Jansen — who helped lead Three Magnets Brewing Co. to prominence — opened Matchless June 24, 2017, with Grant Bolt, and quickly built a reputation for its wide variety of top notch beers. Shortly after opening, Matchless brought home five medals at the Washington Beer Awards. The brewery reached its production capacity of 2,000 barrels in the first. It’s rare for a craft brewery to excel, and win awards, for all beer styles. Matchless does. Today, Peaks and Pints presents a flight of
No Sleep Till Brooklyn Brewery: Sorachi Ace Saison The Brooklyn Brewery and Ecliptic Brewing tap takeover is going down Monday, April 1 inside Peaks and Pints’ little lodge in Tacoma’s Proctor District. It’s true. Ecliptic picked Peaks and Pints to showcase their newest Cosmic Collaboration series, “5 Beers for 5 Years,” in which the Portland brewery collaborates with five other esteemed breweries to brew five celestial concoctions, then taking each collaboration on separate tours supported by tapped craft beer from both breweries. Brooklyn Brewery certainly didn’t tell famed Brewmaster Harris no; the two breweries brewed an amazing Tangerine Farmhouse Ale
Probably more than any other country, Belgium holds particular prominence to folks around the world who enjoy beer. This young (1830) small (11 million people) country has centuries of brewing traditions built into its history. Belgium’s brewing tradition goes back well over a thousand years. In 1822 Joos Frans Lindemans married a desirable farmer’s daughter called Françoise Josine Vandersmissen. And so the Lindemans family came to own a farm called, Hof ter Wegen. There was farming blood in Joos Frans’ veins, but his sights were set somewhat higher. He was soon mayor of the small town of Vlezenbeek and in the evening, after
Morning Foam: Future Primitive Green River IPA, Dwinell Country Ales, Built To Spill GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Friday, March 29, 2019 — Perry Farrell turns 60 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy has the forecast for the Ray Westberg Trail. PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS GREEN RIVER IPA, Future Primitive Brewing: Future Primitive Brewing opened last year in White Center. The ownership group includes Mike Baker of Artisanal Imports, Dean Hudgins and Ian Roberts of The Pine Box, former Elysian brewer Kevin Watson and Larry Soloman. Their Green River IPA — named after the actual river, as well as the
Beer is delicious. The brewed beverage has been part of human life for at least 5,000 years. In fact many historians believe that the cultivation of grains and subsequent development of beer and bread led to something we all like better than craft beer: civilization. When consumed in moderation, beer provides a relaxing, tasty and filling diversion from the stresses of everyday life. In the heat of summertime, ice-cold ale goes a long way; in winter, a frothy stout served at room temperature can give one energy and nutrition. Being a beer lover in America has never been better. The
Morning Foam: Georgetown Rocketman, Stone vs Keystone, Cat Valley GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Thursday, March 28, 2019 — Lady Gaga turns 33 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy has the forecast for the Lake Serene and Bridal Veil Falls area. Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while watching a pigeon jam to “Blurred Lines.” PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS BUSHIDO BROWN, Loowit Brewing: A dry hopped double brown ale with robust notes of toffee, cocoa, and caramel accompanied by a balanced hop bite accentuated by the generous dry-hop. 6.8% ROCKETMAN, Georgetown Brewing: Rocketman’s cloudiness can make this style easy to
Andrew Foreman enjoys a Double Mountain Cool Camp IPA at Peaks and Pints in Tacoma. Andrew Foreman Cool Camp: Little Gee Lake Created by colliding tectonic plates, and carved by glaciers and ice, Washington state offers about 1,600 high lakes at elevations of more than 2,500 feet above sea level in western Washington. The fishing is spectacular in these high elevation gems but the experience is punctuated by beautiful, natural campsites, hiking, and breath-taking vistas. Andrew Foreman’s campsite at Little Gee Lake “I catch a book trout every time drop a line
Beer lovers and bakers have always stood by their respective culinary passions — but far fewer of us have put the two of them together. It’s a magical combination. The right beer and cookie pairing is outstanding because it allows you to enjoy more of both elements. Milk washes away or rounds off the edges of a cookie, but beer, especially milk stout, brings out something unexpected from a chocolate chip cookie. A milk stout has a heavier roasted flavor, almost toasted, which compliments the sweetness in the cookie without overpowering it. A milk stout is also a little bit
Morning Foam: Matchless Bedlam, celebrity beer instagrams, Only The Nip IPA GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Tuesday, March 26, 2019 — Steven Tyler turns 71 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy has the forecast for the trailheads at Longmire in the Mt. Rainier. National Park. PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS BADLAM, Matchless Brewing: Brewed for Edison City Alehouse’s fourth anniversary, this peated whiskey barrel-aged barleywine is all about the peat. 12.2% SKAGITY IPA, Stoup Brewing: Stoup brewed this IPA with Skagit Pilot Pale Ale malt, Triticale malt and Caramel Triticale. Triticale is a wheat and rye hybrid, which gives the beer
Enlightenment is a vibrational state of being that’s constantly balancing, with pure love and wisdom expressed together. If you think spiritual awakening will fix you, make you a nicer person, or happier, or more “spiritual,” or sexier or skinnier or more appealing and fun, that’s not it. And it won’t. There are, indeed, many helpful (and many not so helpful) tools. But in Peaks and Pints’ experience, there is, across nearly all sacred traditions, but one humble suggestion: Give up trying to get it, and then you get it. Simple, really. Oh, and also drink more hard cider. Welcome to
Peaks and Pints has unveiled the official bracket for its Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pilsners, a voter-based public tournament seeking to crown the best pilsners brewed in the Pacific Northwest. Patterned after the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, the Tournament of Beer features 64 pilsners from Washington and Oregon, all seeded by public vote in February, and separated into four geographical regions: Seattle/Greater King County, Washington state, Portland/Greater Multnomah County and Oregon with one pilsner per brewery. These top 64 vote getters — the cream of the crisp — will compete Monday through Friday at tournamentofbeer.com, April 5-27. Through
Morning Foam: Pike Tripel Kriek, Matt Bonney RIP, Parkway Barleywine Week GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Monday, March 25, 2019 — Elton John turns 72 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy has the forecast for hiking the Summit Lake Trail in the Clearwater Wilderness. Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while watching a furniture dance aboard a Viking Sky cruise ship. … PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS PIKE TRIPEL KRIEK, Pike Brewing: Pike head brewer Art Dixon second-fermented Pike Monk’s Uncle, the Seattle brewery’s Belgian-style tripel, on tart cherries in Chateau Ste. Michelle chardonnay barrels. Pike Tripel Kriek is a mixed fermentation
You fancy, Kasteel De Cuvée du Chateau Fancy Pants Sunday Kasteel De Cuvée du Chateau The Kasteel beer line has been at the heart of Castle Brewery Van Honsebrouck in Izegem, West Flanders — a family run Belgian brewery primarily known for its characterful top-fermented beers. The Kasteel range largely mirrors the rich Belgian beer tradition as it includes a blonde, a dark beer of the dubbel type and a tripel. But, Cuvée du Chateau is the crown jewel within the Kasteel range since it was first brewed in 2010. It found its inspiration in the
Weekend Beer Hustle: Orval Day 2019, Washington Cask Beer Festival, Poke and Pints THE LOWDOWN ON WHAT’S ON TAP THIS WEEKEND >>> SOUTH SOUND WEATHER REPORT Saturday: Partly sunny with slight chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid to upper 50s. Chance of rain showers in the evening: 10%. Chance my Liberty Flames team pick goes all the way: 0%. Sunday: Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny. Clueless about Monday. Follow me on the Peaks and Pints Twitter feed! — Peaks and Pints Weather Guy SATURDAY, MARCH 23: ORVAL DAY 2019 Please visit
Logsdon Farmhouse Ales was started by Full Sail founding brewer and yeast master Dave Logsdon who has a special affinity for traditional Belgian-style farmhouse ales. When he launched the Hood River, Oregon brewery, he planted an orchard on the property with Belgium-imported Schaerbeekse trees. These trees grow the sour cherries necessary to craft authentic kriek beers. Dave Logsdon has since retired from full-time day-to-day operations, with John Plutshack and his wife Jodie Ayura managing brewery operations with Head Brewer Shilpi Halemane and Assistant Brewer Mark Pearson running the beer side. Today, Peaks and Pints presents a flight of Logsdon’s beer
Morning Foam: Tangerine Space Machine IPA, Super 8 film beer, The Sky Giants GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Friday, March 22, 2019 — Reese Witherspoon turns 43 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy says rain and snow at Crystal and White Pass this weekend. Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while touring Philadelphia via KODAK Super 8 film hand processed in Dogfish head SuperEIGHT beer. PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS TANGERINE SPACE MACHINE, New Holland Brewing: A New England style IPA with a huge nose of tangerine and a little hop in the background. The mouth feel is juicy and full
Washington is the second largest wine producer in the country, and Woodinville is where it pours. With more than 800 winemakers in the state, more than 100 wineries in Woodinville, and more 90-plus rated vintages than any wine region in the world, Woodinville is where one wines. Woodinville is also home to many craft breweries, which are often crowded with oenophiles washing away their red teeth with hoppy IPAs. In celebration of Peaks and Pints Lodge Meeting with Woodinville brewery 20 Corners Brewing Co. tonight, we present an all-day beer flight of beer straight outta Woodinville that we call Craft
Morning Foam: 20 Corners coaster houses, Orval Day, playful FURS show GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Thursday, March 21, 2019 — Eddie Money turns 70 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy says it’s a good day to head up to the Mt. Pilchuck Lookout. Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while watching a Salem man catch a thief. … PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS POG PAU HANA TROPICAL IPA, Hellbent Brewing: In Hawaiian, “pau hana” (pronounced “pow hawna”) means “work is finished,” so let the tropical hop party begin with this IPA infused with a POG blend (passionfruit, orange, guava) for layers
May 30, 2015, Hellbent Brewing Company opened in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood. Our love affair with Hellbent began that day as we soaked in sunrays and IBUs sunk in a couch in the brewery’s back parking lot. Good times. It wasn’t until a sample bottle of Dang! Citra IPA made it to our 2016 Thanksgiving dinner that we pledged our undying love. The hops smacked the tryptophan with toasted caramel, bright grapefruit and orange. Dang! It’s a cloudy, full-flavored IPA. Hellbent Brewing owner and head brewer Brian Young will discuss post-fermentation during the brewing process tonight during out SudsPop Beer
Morning Foam: Gigantic Hellboy, SudsPop, Legally Blonde GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Wednesday, March 20, 2019 — Spike Lee turns 62 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy says it’s a beautiful day to hike the Klickitat Rail Trail. PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS HELLBOY, Gigantic Brewing: To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the publication of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, Gigantic and Dark Horse Comics collaborated on Hellboy, a maple syrup pancakes beer, based on award-winning cartoonist Mike Mignola’s legendary character. It’s a brown ale infused with massive amounts of maple syrup. It really does taste like maple syrup pancakes. 6.66% NIGHT DIVIDES THE
Peaks and Pints 4-Pack for a sunny day It is so warm and perfect for a normally chilly March it made you look around Tacoma and sigh in a swooning, maybe-the-world-isn’t-as-miserable-as-you-thought kind of stunned bliss even as you scanned past the weather section and saw that other states are still digging out from subzero and flooding and super windy wind they-can’t-feel-their-eyeballs frigidity, even as you realized this burst wouldn’t last and you would soon be returning to showers, showers, showers any day now. Hie thee to today’s Peaks and Pints 4-Pack suggestion. … TEST FLIGHT EXPERIMENTAL IPA, Hellbent Brewing: Sabro
As Ben Love and Van Havig worked toward opening Gigantic Brewing Co. in Southeast Portland, they came up with a plan to draw people to their brewery smack dab in a industrial wasteland behind Reed College: Be cool. When they opened Wednesday May 9, 2012, they were cool. Their taproom had a college clubhouse vibe. They brewed amazing one-offs. Their label art, signed by the artists, could hang in museums. And, they would brew with the coolest rock stars. Of course, Havig and Love had the pedigree. Havig spent 16 years brewing at Portland’s Rock Bottom, and Ben Love held
Morning Foam: Wicked Hazy Bubblah, March IPA Madness, CattyShack IPA GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Tuesaday, March 19, 2019 — Bruce Willis turns 64 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy says it’s a good week to be on the Sunrise side of Mt. Rainier. Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while watching a real fight on top of a bus. PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS WICKED HAZY BUBBLAH, Matchless Brewing: The Tumwater brewery gives us a juiced-out, fluffed-up, auto-tuned haze bomb with Galaxy, Waimea, and Topaz hops. No fruit was harmed this time but they can’t say the same for clouds
Peaks and Pints cider flight Tacoma Hard cider, when done right, can be as good as beer or wine. Better even. Think about what we’re working with here. Beer starts as starchy water. Wine starts as grape juice. Hard cider starts as apple juice. There are 7,000-plus apple varieties to choose from in various colors, shapes, and flavor profiles. Further, apples thrive across America. Cider was one of the most popular drinks in America from colonial times to the 20th century. In 1920, the 18th Amendment went into effect, Prohibition started, and cider was cast to
Morning Foam: Amarillo Revenge, Oregon Brewers Festival, freezing Mads GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Monday, March 18, 2019 — Queen Latifah turns 49 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy says Mailbox Peak is perfect for climbing. Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while watching Bohemian Flightsody. PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS NITRO SALTED CARAMEL PORTER, Cascade Lakes Brewing: OK, it’s not a cleverly named beer, but the name certainly describes this porter. The flavors are dominated by bitter dark chocolate and salted caramel. The malts are present and you do pick up some sugary sweetness in the aftertaste. Let it warm up
The first India pale ales originated in Great Britain as a modestly hopped pale ale, with just a little bit more hops flavor than other beer. Then American brewers started using newfangled hops such as Cascade, which Anchor’s Liberty Ale and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale use to great effect, giving the beer big citrus aromas and flavor. Then Lagunitas Brewing founder Tony Magee brewed his Lagunitas IPA in the mid-1990s, invented the West Coast IPA, which is all about the hops. Next came Vinnie Cilurzo — who went on to co-found Russian River Brewing — who brewed the first double IPA at
Tonight, sales executives for 21st Amendment Brewery and No-Li Brewhouse will bring their passion to Peaks and Pints when they host “80’s Rock Lip Sync Battle” from 6-9 p.m. In addition to tapping their craft beers, the two will perform their favorite lip sync routines in between sets of Peaks and Pints guests performing his or her favorites for major awards. That’s all fine and dandy, but even more important is the fact that Peaks and Pints will pour several of the two brewery’s craft beer. In fact, we can’t wait until the 6 p.m. start. Enjoy an all day
Yes, the iconic drive-in movie theater and miniature golf restaurant are long gone, but, thankfully, craft breweries are now a focal point for tourism for Clark County’s largest city, Vancouver, Washington. That’s right. Oregon may have Beervana, but Clark County has Brewcouver. A mere five years ago, beer enthusiasts of the ’Couve had only two or three local breweries to visit, including Heathen Brewing, Loowit Brewing and your buddy Ted’s shed in Hazel Dell. Now, Clark County hosts 22 breweries, including the five in Peaks and Pints beer flight today, Craft Beer Crosscut 3.13.19: A Flight of Clark County. Craft
Morning Foam: Dogfish Fruit-Full Fort, top 50 breweries, CatVideoFest GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Wednesday, March 13, 2019 — William H. Macy turns 69 today!] Peaks and Pints Weather Guy has the trail conditions for Poo Poo Point today. Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while watching a Kelly Clarkson fan freak out. … PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS FRUIT-FULL FORT, Dogfish Head: This is an aggressive attempt to punch up the fruit flavor in the brewery’s standard Fort — itself a Belgian style strong ale featuring raspberries. Additions of blackberry, elderberry and boysenberry (along with the original raspberry) pair with
Ecliptic Brewing 5 Beers for 5 Years: Brooklyn Brewery in Tacoma Back in early February when Peaks and Pints broke bread, or rather broke “Potato Paillasson, Smoked Sturgeon, Caviar,” during Ecliptic Brewing Co.’s “A Cosmic Brunch,” we pondered what to give the Portland brewery on their forthcoming fifth anniversary. If memory serves right, the first anniversary gift is paper, followed by cotton, lace, Grey Poupon and saxophones. Handing famed craft brewer John Harris a saxophone is weird; the man is steeped in Oregon’s rich craft brewing history. After beginning as a brewer at McMenamins’ breweries, he moved to Deschutes where
Happy National Milky Way Day! In 1923, Frank C. Mars created the Milky Way candy bar in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was named after a malted milk that was popular during its release. It sold more than $800,000 in its first year. There are two versions of the Milky Way bar: in the United States, the bar is made of chocolate-malt nougat topped with caramel and covered in milk chocolate; global Milky Way bar, the Mars Bar, is more similar to the 3 Musketeers bar, with no caramel topping. Peaks and Pints leans more toward the U.S. version as we dig
Morning Foam: Crux Freakcake, George Washington beer, urban evolutionary biology GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Tuesday, March 12, 2019 — James Taylor turns 70 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy has the snow report for Mt. Baker. Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while watching something so very strangely satisfying.
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PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS FREAKCAKE, Crux Fermentation Project: Ever since its debut in 2013 with the Tough Love barrel-aged imperial stout, Crux’s [BANISHED] series has represented the most avant-garde experimental side of the brewery. This year’s version of Freakcake [BANISHED] has hit Peaks and Pints’ Western red cedar tap log.
Morning Foam: Booming Rollers, Alesong & Friends, Lounder Than A Randall GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Monday, March 11, 2019 — Lisa Loeb turns 51 today! Peaks and Pints Weather Guy has the forecast for the Olympic National Park today. PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS BOOMING ROLLERS, Modern Times: To Peaks and Pints, Booming Rollers was named after those big, slow building, yet totally cruiseable waves that are perfect for longboarding. Only in this case, those easygoing sets are chest-high waves of Citra, since that’s exactly how Booming Rollers IPA goes down. It was a mellow longboard ride that kept giving
Peaks and Pints cider flight Tacoma It’s Monday, which means Peaks and Pints celebrates the taking of apples and pears and making them alcoholic and drinkable via a cider flight. Today, we focus on Portland, Oregon. While Portland is known for having more breweries than any other city in the world, amazing wines from the nearby Willamette Valley and a host of craft distilleries, the latest beverage trend in town is definitely hard cider. Sure, the city has a penchant for drinking, but maybe also because of Portland’s proximity to some of the world’s best apples that
You fancy, New Belgium La Folie Grand Reserve: PX. Fancy Pants Sunday: New Belgium La Folie Grand Reserve: PX Hailing from Andalusia, a large autonomous region of hills, rivers and farmland bordering Spain’s southern coast, Pedro Ximénez, also known also as “PX,” is a white wine grape varietal used in both a blending component and in its own right a varietal wine, which is an intensely sweet, dark, dessert style sherry wine with flavors of figs, molasses, roasted nuts and exotic spices. Pedro Ximénez was originally grown in the Montilla-Moriles DO region of southern Spain, and
Peaks and Pints Six-Pack 3.10.19: Happy March! You don’t hear it, do you? Bend an ear. No pitter-patter on the tin roof. Look outside. For a brief moment, it’s not chilly or drizzling. It’s not foggy or sleeting. The flagrantly unpleasant winter weather outside, weather that has slammed the South Sound since you kissed that stranger on New Year’s Eve, is on hold for a brief second. It’s 49 degrees outside Peaks and Pints World Headquarters. Beach day! Let’s grab a sixer and head to the beach! THE BREWED ABIDES, Pelican Brewing: Peaks and Pints drank this milk stout from
Weekend Beer Hustle: Black Malt Micro Fest, Peddler turns 6, Killer Ale release THE LOWDOWN ON WHAT’S ON TAP THIS WEEKEND >>> WEATHER REPORT Saturday: Mostly sunny in the South Sound. Highs in the mid to upper 40s. Nighttime lows near 30. Choc. milk finally stained teeth. I wanted to whiten them but got a tan instead. Sunday: Sunny, highs in the mid to upper 40s; lows near 30. Follow me on the Peaks and Pints Twitter feed! — Peaks and Pints Weather Guy SATURDAY-SUNDAY: Peaks and Pints Black Malt Mini Festival Enjoy a mini festival every Saturday and Sunday
Grain: the lifeblood of beer. Malt is grain that has been converted into sugar. That sugar is consumed by yeast to create alcohol; a process called fermentation. Grain becomes malt, which becomes beer. There are a wide variety of malts that brewers can use, all of which fall into two broad categories: malts, which can be steeped (good for extract brewing), and malts, which need to be mashed (all-grain brewing required). Roasted malts are any malts or grains that are roasted to a very high degree. The main purpose of roasting malts is to create unique colors, flavors, and aromas through intense Maillard reactions, the chemical reaction of amino acids and reducing
In ancient Europe, brewing was almost exclusively a woman’s role. The medieval times, however, brought about the frequency of brewing in monasteries to accommodate travelers, and as time passed, the number of female brewers dwindled, brewing in the home became rare, and commercial taverns became a predominantly male domain. Today, while women have since shed the label of “alewives,” they are continuing to infiltrate what has since become an XY-dominated scene by owning and running breweries. Women leading craft beer businesses certainly isn’t unusual. You likely know the names of the women in beer pioneers, such as New Belgium’s Kim
Morning Foam: The Twang Junkies, Great Notion party, Holy Mountain Demonteller GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Friday, March 8, 2019 — Micky Dolenz turns 74 today! Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while, thank gawd, watching the Jonas Brothers Carpool Karaoke. … PEAKS AND PINTS DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS DEMONTELLER, Holy Mountain Brewing: Holy Mountain Brewing Company is built on a foundation of oak. More than half its beers are aged in oak barrels at some point on their way to your glass. That careful aging process means that sometimes the date the beer is released is not as important to co-founders and
Hops are a perennial vine with the scientific name Humulus lupulus, which means “small wolf,” a reference to its aggressive climbing nature and tendency to take over other nearby plants. There are more than 120 different hop varieties used today. To be a true fan, the appeal of hops has to be more than just bitterness. Hops offer a range of flavors and aromas that resemble herbs, pine, tropical fruits like grapefruit and tangerine and more. Citra hops, well, the name says it all. A relatively new hop on the scene (released in 2008 by Hop Breeding Company of Yakima),
Morning Foam: Women’s Adventure Film Tour, Da Shootz!, new Block 15 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Thursday, March 7, 2019 — Bryan Cranston turns 62 today! Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while watching a cat and owl battle for the couch. … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJpLrKqsMV8 PEAKS AND PINTS BEER HIGHLIGHTS EMERGING SUNSHINE, Block 15 Brewing: Emerging Sunshine is a crisp golden IPA bursting with citrus, mango, and floral notes from Northwest grown Strata, Amarillo, Citra, and Centennial hops. Its crisp 2-row malt base is gently rounded out with additions of flaked barley and honey malt, while fermentation with American ale yeast lends Emerging
Putting fruit in beer isn’t new. The Mesopotamians were brewing with fruit thousands of years ago. But here in America, the first modern fruit beer was made 32 years ago at McMenamins’ first brewpub in Hillsdale, and featured some blackberries growing up the back fence. Fruitheads really didn’t have their day until Dogfish Head busted out Aprihop in 1999 with the tagline, “A fruit beer for hopheads or an IPA with a fruit problem.” Yes, some fruit beers can be palette-fatiguing after a sip or two. But fruit beers can also be as subtle, layered, and structured like fine wines,
