It's Pub Night

Fresh hop season is the reason I started writing It's Pub Night a few years ago.  The first post here -- a copy of four emails I sent ...

I've been pretty sure for a while that I prefer draft beer to bottled -- it sometimes seems to me that beer loses some flavor in the bot...

Fresh hop beers have exploded in Portland the last few years, and they are also catching on more and more in our sister city of Seattle.  Th...

One of these things is not like the others... Disclaimer: this tasting didn't go how I wanted it to.  Not the results, the tasting it...

This is kind of a slow follow-through, but a couple of weekends ago I helped judge Blitz Ladd's blind tasting competition of Oregon IPA...

For the last couple months I've been playing around with blind-tasting sets of three Double IPAs, a.k.a. Imperial IPAs.  Hopworks Ace o...

Last month Dave and I sat down and blindly tasted three Imperial IPAs . At that sitting, we preferred Hopworks Ace of Spades, followed by P...

Imperial IPA is kind of a ridiculous term: it has no historical significance, and Double IPA is a better description of the same thing. Nev...

A couple years ago I became obsessed with Alts . I was confused by the wide variation of different beers called "alt" -- the blan...