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Beer Review: Fremont Brewery – Cowiche Canyon

Posted in Beer Reviews on October 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 

 

Here in the Pacific Northwest, it is Fresh Hop beer season.  With Yakima Valley, which produces 75% of domestic hops, so close there are plenty of fresh hop beers available at this time.  Just moving from Indianapolis to Seattle, I had heard and tried fresh hop beers, but really didn’t pay them a ton of attention.  Well out here, people pay a lot of attention.  Hell there was even a Fresh Hop Throwdown at one of my favorite bars, The Noble Fir.

The first adjective that comes to mind when I smell and taste the beer is “clean.”  The taste of hops is refreshing and pure with minimal bitter aftertaste.  Honestly, and this could be because I’m new to the fresh hop style, this beer reminds me a lot of a less alcoholic Pliny the Elder.  As most of you beer lovers know that’s a compliment.  Unlike Pliny, you can have a couple of bombers without getting too smashed, so that makes me like it even more.  This is yet another excellent beer from Fremont Brewing.

Grade: A

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Beer Review: Shipyard – Smashed Blueberry

Posted in Uncategorized on October 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I tasted this beer on my honeymoon during the Shipyard Brewery tour (which I highly recommend by the way) and thought this was excellent, though the one ounce taste didn’t justify a review.  When my friend gave me a bottle I was very excited. However, the Shipyard Smashed Blueberry, was not as good as I remembered.  The beer is apparently a hybrid of a porter and scotch ale with the obvious addition of blueberry.  While I could taste the porter, I couldn’t quite catch the scotch ale.  The blueberry flavor and aroma was just about right, but there was a pretty apparent boozy taste that just didn’t seem to fit in.  It was hard to drink the full bomber, maybe I would’ve liked it a bit better if I would’ve had a smaller amount.  I didn’t hate this beer, but after having the Blueberry Java Stout from Oaken Barrel, this underwhelmed.  If you do buy this, plan to split it with a friend. PB.

Grade: C+

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