Willamette Week

1. The Beer of the Year: Breakside Brewery Fresh Hop Simcoe

In the summer of 2014, Edmunds was driving to Seattle with a new member of his crew at Portland’s Breakside Brewery, and conversation turned to the upcoming hop harvest. Edmunds was dissatisfied with the green, vegetal character found in most fresh-hop beers—beers made with hops tossed in the kettle while they’re fresh-picked, instead of being … Continue reading 1. The Beer of the Year: Breakside Brewery Fresh Hop Simcoe

2: Framboise White by Block 15

Along, hot summer made for a bumper crop of Willamette Valley berries.

3: Coffee-Cardamom Barleywine by Upright

Upright Brewing’s coffee-cardamom barleywine tastes like no other beer that’s ever existed.

4: Cucumber Sour Berliner Weisse by Oakshire

Every Oakshire kettle-soured beer is an experiment. Each new ale uses a different fruit, malt bill and hop profile.

5: Laurelweizen by Laurelwood

In Southern Germany, Laurelweizen would be a breakfast beer.

6: Vicious Mosquito by Sunriver

Vicious Mosquito is an easy-drinking hop bomb.

7: Bloody Mary Beer by Lompoc

Red beer comes in two distinct and unrelated styles.

8: Double IPA by Pfriem Family Brewers

Josh Pfriem is the rare brewer whose mastery runs the full gamut of styles.

9: Midnight Moonlight Black IPA

Whatever you call it, no one in Oregon has done better with the style than Hunsaker with his Midnight Moonlight Black IPA.

10: Roggenbier by Heater Allen

Mitt Romney had a binder full of women. Heater Allen brewer Lisa Allen has a binder full of beers.

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