Archive & Best Posts

I am slowly building an archive of the best, most interesting, or most relevant posts on the blog since it was founded in 2006. Please enjoy this collection as it grows!

The IPA Posts

History of American IPA | Craft Beer Before IPAs | Black IPA (2009) | IPA Becomes Favorite Craft Style (2011) | The Dawn of the Juice (2013) | Hop Bursting (Engineering Juice) Part 1 and Part 2 | How “India” Became “American” (2014) | Hop Bursting (2014), Part 1 and Part 2 | Engineering an IPA that Lasts | Dextrose IPAs | Hazies Arrive (2016) | IPAs as US National Tradition | “Cryo” Introduced (2017) | Four Landmark IPAs | Thiols | Non-Alpha Acid Bitterness in Hazies, One & Two | What Rough Beast | “Juicy” and “Hazy” |

Passages

Michael Jackson (2007) | Smoking in bars (2008) | Anheuser-Busch (2008) | Don Younger (1941-2011) | Goose Island’s Sale (2011) | Pierre Celis (2011) | Pete’s Wicked (2011) | Fred Eckhardt (2015) | Pyramid at 30 (2014) | Rogue Founder Jack Joyce (2014) | Fred Eckhardt (1926-2015) | Commons Brewing 2011-2017 | All About Beer Magazine (1979-2018) | Lompoc (1996-2019) Widmer Sold to AB InBev (2019) | BridgePort Brewing 1984-2019 | Portland Brewing 1986-2021 | Hair of the Dog 1993-2022 | Sasquatch Brewing, 2012-2022 |

New Oregon Brewery/Pub Reviews

Lucky Lab (Old Archive) | Roots (2006, RIP) | BridgePort’s Pearl Renovation (2006, now RIP) | Best McMenamin Breweries (2007) | New Old Lompoc (2007, now RIP) | Bailey’s Taproom (2007) | Heater Allen (2007) | Cascade Sour Program (2008) New Taproom (2010 | Hopworks Urban Brewery (2008) | Deschutes Pearl (2008): Beer and Ambiance, Food | Three Creeks (2009) | Upright (2009) | Brewers Union Local 180 (2010, now RIP) | Migration with follow-up (2010) | Coalition (2010, RIP) | Hair of the Dog Tasting Room (2010) | Prodigal Son (2010) | New Nano Roundup (including Breakside, 2010) | Columbia River Brewing (2011, RIP) | Solera Brewing (2012) | Gigantic Brewing (2012) | The Commons (2011, no RIP ) | Arch Rock (2013) | Ecliptic Brewing (2013) | Sasquatch Brewing (2013, now RIP) | Zoiglhaus (2016) | Breakside Slabtown (2017) | Level Beer (2017) | Benedictine Brewery (2018) | Von Ebert (2018) | Modern Times PDX (2018, now RIP) | Great Notion (2019) | Grand Fir (2022) | Living Haus (2022) | Little Beast (2019) |

Meditations

Toward Indigenous Styles | Ben Franklin’s “Beer” Quote | Thoughts on the Doc Wort Experiment | The Novelty Curve | A Night at the Barley Mill | Too Many Breweries in Portland? (2010) | Can a Beer be Perfect? | Could the US Become an IPA Country? | Geo. Washington’s Terrible Small Beer | Entering the Post-Craft World (2011) | Are Flagships Doomed? | The New Breed of Sweet IPAs (2013) | Death of a Tavern | The Brewers Association Evolves (2014) | Zen and the Art of Appreciating Beer | Why I’m Not a Beer Geek | The Paradox of Choice | Whose Culture? One & Two | Beer Came Before Bread | Romantic Facts | Trust Your Judgment | Driving with Van | Has Jim Koch Been Good For Craft Beer? | Alworth’s 9.5 Theses | What if We Just Stop Drinking? | Politics Divide, Beer Unites | Schrödinger’s Brewery | The Coming Carnage |

Satori Award
(Best New Oregon Beer)

2006 Ninkasi Believer (Hoppy Red) | 2007 Full Sail Lupulin (Fresh Hop) | 2008 Cascade Apricot (Sour Ale) | 2009 Upright Four (Saison) | 2010 Prodigal Son Bruce/Lee Porter | 2011 Fort George 1811 (Hoppy Lager) | 2012 Occidental Kellerbier | 2015 Culmination Euphoric (Brett IPA) | 2016 pFriem Sour IPA | 2017 Deschutes Cultivateur (Mixed Fermentation Saison) | 2018 Upright Pathways (Mixed Fermentation Saison)

Styles

Indigenous American (2007) | Black IPA/Cascadian Dark Ales (2009) | Gose (2009) | Braggot (2010) | Grodziskie (2010) | Baltic Porter (2010) | Hot Scotchy | Sour Ales (2011) South African Utwala (2011) | Lost Belgian Ales (2012) | Old American Bocks | Berliner weisse (2013) | Farmhouse ales (2013) | Chicha (2013) | Golden Ale (2017) | Sake (2018) | Glitter Beer (2018) | Kölsch (2019) | Wild Ale (2019)

Reviews of Interesting/Important Beers

BridgePort Supris (First post on the blog, 2006) | Full Sail Amber (2006) | Deschutes Abyss (“Average” 2007) | Senne Taras Boulba (2008) | Deschutes The Dissident (2008) | Bud American Ale (2008) | Sierra Nevada Torpedo (2009) | Widmer Drifter (2009) | MacTarnahan Grifter (2009) | New Belgium La Folie (2009) | Sheaf Stout (2009) | Żywiec Baltic Porter (2009) | Goose Island Matilda (2010) | American Lambics (2010) | Fort George 1811 Lager (2011) | Breakside/Alworth Grisette (2011) | Worthington White Shield (2011) | Deschutes Fresh-Squeezed (2013) Widmer Upheaval IPA (2014) | Únětická 12° | Cartwright’s Original Beer (2016) | Breakside Rainbows & Unicorns (2016) | Harpoon (Boston) | Spontaneous Files: Block 15 | Spontaneous Files: De Garde | Spontaneous Files: Solera | Upright Pathways Saison | Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing | Thiriez’s Biere de Gardes | “Brussels Beer” |

Travel Blogging

Britain 2011: Is Fuller’s Craft?, Adnam’s, Greene King One and Two, Samuel Smith’s, Meantime. | Belgium 2011: Cantillon, Brouwerij Boon, Brasserie Dupont, Rodenbach, Lambicland. | Germany 2012: Altbier, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Schneider, Schlenkerla, Munich, Ayinger, Weizen Revival. | Czechia 2012: Pilsner Urquell, Budvar, Ferdinand, Czech beer. | Italy 2012: Baladin, Parma/Toccalmatto, Como. | Victoria, Canad 2014 Overview, Breweries. | Ireland 2016: Dublin, Irish beer, Michael Ash. | Copenhagen 2016. Danish Hay Beer, Carlsberg Revival Beer, The New Carlsberg. | Mexico 2017. En Mexico, Cerveza Artesanales de México Part 1, Part 2. | England 2019: Juicy Cask, Marble Arch, Future of Cask Ale. | Belgium 2019: Brasserie L’Ermitage, Seefbier, Inside a Belgian Cafe. Austria 2019, Poland 2019, Lithuania 2019. Norway 2021: Farmhouse Brewing in Voss, Brewing Raw Ale in Hornindal, Traditional Brewing Regions. |

Brewer Vignettes

Block 15/Nick Arzner | Schneider/Hans Peter Drexler | De Garde/Trevor Rogers | Budvar/Adam Broz | Cantillon/Jean Van Roy | Fullers/John Keeling | Anheuser-Busch/Jim Bicklein | Italiano/Agostino Arioli | St. Germain/Stephane Bogaert | Samuel Smith’s/Steve Barrett | New Glarus/Dan Carey | Uerige/Michael Schnitzler | Sierra Nevada/Ken Grossman | De Struise/Carlo Grootaert | Allagash/Jason Perkins | BridgePort/Karl Ockert | Rodenbach/Rudi Ghequire | Goschie Farms/Gayle Goschie | Kout na Sumave/Bohuslav Hlavsa | Russian River/Vinnie Cilurzo | Dupont/Olivier Dedeycker | Belhaven/George Howell | Schlenkerla/Matthias Trum | Firestone Walker/Matt Brynildson | Dark Star/Paul Reed | Solera/Jason Kahler | Greene King/John Bexon | Boon/ Frank Boon | New Belgium/Peter Bouckaert | Bayern/Jurgen Knoller | Breakside/Ben Edmunds | LoverBeer/Valter Loverier | Maine Beer Co./Dan Kleban | Verzet/Alex Lippens | Guinness/Stephen Kilcullen | Alesong/Brian Coombs | Alchemist/John Kimmich |

Personal

Thirty Years in Portland | How Long is Fifty Years? | We Have to Find a Beer |