The Oregon Brewers Festival ’10

Lets start off and talk about the beer straight up. I know i’m not the only one noticing the excessive amount of IPA’s out there. Yes, the IPA is a great beer, I think we’ve had just about every variation of an IPA thrown at us in the past 5 years. It’s time to toss things up and start getting some new styles out to the public. If I visit your brewery, I know you’ve got more then an IPA and Pale ale on tap. Bottle it, distribute it, we’re ready for it.

I understand what I can find in my grocery store is not completely in your control. But at beerfest, I’m tasting your IPA? We go to Beerfest to try new stuff, we go to find that beer that WOW’s us and you send your IPA?. If I wanted to drink IPA’s I would have gone to the grocery store, loaded up on the variety of a million different(yet the same) IPA’s they have there. Instead, I went to Beerfest in hopes of finding something new and exciting and I found the same old….

Overall I felt the beer was disappointing, I counted around 24 IPA’s or so and god knows how many pale ales. There were maybe 3 or 4 of those IPA’s that were unique. However, with all that said, I did still thoroughly enjoy the beer and the festival and I had a great time.

July 27th, 2010

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The Nameless One

So I haven’t done a lot of home brewing in my time and I certainly haven’t done a lot of home brewing consistently. But, I still do have the same crazy love and enthusiasm for it as I did when I brewed that first batch. This pale ale is officially my first beer in which I created the recipe on my own. All I can say about the recipe is, I used a ton of hops. When you buy hops by the pound you get a little generous when adding them to the boil. I’m going for a little bit of sweet/citrus with this beer. Hopefully I don’t over do it with the hops. My goal….to cross a Stone Pale ale and Sierra Nevada, but with more citrus then Sierra Nevada. I’ll see how it goes, it will require some tweaking i’m sure.

I know what you’re thinking….pale is is not very exciting shit but, I want to start simple and slowly get more and more creative.




July 22nd, 2010

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