MORNING FOAM FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 7 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer and cider news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom gunk. …
So your favorite craft brewery just sold to a megacorp. Now what?
More than 4750 fresh-hop beer lovers came to Hood River, Oregon Sept. 24 for the annual Hood River Hops Fest. New for this year’s festival was the Hood River Hops Fest Awards, which included the Best of the Fest and People’s Choice Awards, won by Baerlic Brewing Co. for its Pioneer Fresh Hop Special Bitter and Solera Brewery for its Bunny Lewbowski DIPA, respectively. A panel of 12 professionals also decided on the Oregon Beer Awards for Fresh Hops. Baerlic Brewing Co. was once again tapped for its Pioneer Fresh Hop Special Bitter. It, along with the silver and bronze award winners Sunriver Brewing Co. (D’Bomb) and pFriem Family Brewers (Fresh Hop Mosaic Pale) will be recognized at the Oregon Beer Award ceremony at Portland’s Revolution Hall on February 28, 2017.
Speaking of Oregon and Hood River, Full Sail Brewing won seven best of the U.S. medals at this year’s annual World Beer Awards, the international competition that uses a blind tasting system to choose the very best beers across the globe.
Love hops? Of course. Check the art over at Søciety6 that showcases your favorite hop varietals in all their singular glory.
You’ve spoken, and GoodLife Brewing listened. With the surge in popularity through draft sales, the Bend, Oregon brewery has released its Comatose Imperial IPA year-round in 16.9oz bottles. With over 5 lbs. of hops per barrel, bright fruit, melon and citrus flavors carouse with floral hop hints for a mild bitterness and extra juicy bite that chill you out cold.
James Watt and Martin Dickie, co-founders of irreverent Scottish craft brewery BrewDog, have legally changed their names by deed poll to Elvis. The move comes as the brewery faces legal action from the Suspicious Minds at an American musician’s estate, who are All Shook Up over BrewDog’s kick-ass grapefruit & blood orange IPA, Elvis Juice.
Danes have invented an instant beer powder. It sounds a lot like Tang but for beer.
