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No. 8: Culmination Brewing Green Room Black Lime Kölsch Ale

The Greatest Beers I Drank This Year

Our beer critic’s favorite beers of 2018.

Strange Loop’s Debut Beer May be the Smash Single of the Summer

It’s is the carbonated equivalent of a single the trio posted to Bandcamp without telling anyone.

The Future—and Present—Is Bright at Ruse Brewing’s New Home

Few places shine as brightly as the new location of Ruse Brewing. The long-awaited home of brewers Shaun Kalis and Devin Benware’s Culmination Brewing-incubated brand has massive western-facing windows and a knotty wooden bar.

Baerlic-Migration’s New Brut IPA Is the “Champagne of Hops”

Hi-Li is a tightly wound spring of flavor.

The Best of What’s Left of Portland Beer Week

The “week” kicked off June 7, but there’s still plenty left on the docket.

The Five Hottest Beer Trends of the Season

Summer guzzlin’

Culmination’s Unorthodox Brews Are Some of the Best in the State

Two years ago, Culmination started as fast, furious and eclectic as any brewery in Portland—with one of the city’s best IPAs in Phaedrus, a Burton ale called Trumpet Major that was one of our favorite 10 beers of 2017, and a wild range of sours, browns and farmhouses.

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