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(Courtesy Cascade Brewing)
Yikes it’s officially fall…And brewers are addressing the season with a variety of intoxicating new beer offerings that should pair brilliantly with the cooling weather.
Casual Friday (Portland, OR) Cascade Brewing has a new collaborative release that they did with Vancouver, Washington’s Trap Door Brewing. Crafted by blending Cascade’s s experimental Bret Blond Ale with Trap Door’s Hazy IPA, Casual Friday is possibly our first Sour Hazy IPA ever.
A Euphoric Return (Durango, CO) – Marking the unofficial start of ski-season, Ska Brewing has returned one of its most popular limited releases that’s a conceptual partnership with Colorado-based Venture Snowboards which began over 15 years ago. Basically Ska does the beer and Venture crafts a custom snowboard using the brewery’s distinctive artwork. Considerably darker than one would expect for a beer of this style, Ska Euphoria Pale Ale is a 6.2% ABV winter seasonal with an uber-sturdy malt backbone and subtle caramel sweetness.
Nor Ways (Amherst, MA) – Amherst Brewing and Night Shift Brewing have joined forces to brew a new limited release using Kveik, an ancient Norwegian yeast which is currently the talk of the industry… Brewed with with locally sourced Warthog Wheat from Valley Malt in Hadley, MA and yeast from Norway that’s been nurtured for eons, Drop the Chain is an 8.1% ABV Double IPA that inn adition to the exotic yeast, was hopped with Mosaic, Citra, Citra Lupulin Powder and El Dorado.
Fresh Hop Season is ON! (Seattle, WA) – It’s fresh hop season in the Pacific Northwest and Stoup Brewing will is releasing a draft and crowler limited release using Triumph hops that were harvested at Sodbuster Farms, Willamette Valley, Oregon and trucked directly to boil. Stoup Triumph Pale Ale is a 6.8% ABV exercise in ‘freshness’ as an art form. “We are spoiled here in the PNW being so close to the hop fields,” said Robyn Schumacher, brewer at Stoup Brewing. “It’s amazing to get to run out to the farms for hop pick-ups, say hello, then drive back to the brewery to brew that same day.”
