Is This True?
A Google search turned up this item, which seems remarkable both in fact and also because, if it's true, it's really been off my radar:
It seems awfully major for me to have totally missed it. (Though that wouldn't be unprecedented.
Hammerhead Pale Ale, Terminator Stout, Nebraska Bitter: There's plenty of beer varieties being made at the McMenamins brewery in Corvallis. But the company's famous Ruby beer, created in 1985, isn't among them.
The raspberry-flavored beer hasn't been part of the plan for a few weeks now. That's because of raspberry crop failures -- first in the Northwest, then worldwide.
"The number one raspberry producing country in the world is Serbia," said McMenamins brewery manager Rob Vallance. "And they had a horrible, horrible crop as well."
It seems awfully major for me to have totally missed it. (Though that wouldn't be unprecedented.