Tag Archives: Deschutes Brewery

To Age or Not To Age

I am a bit of a packrat personality: I tend to collect things and in recent years this has turned towards beer (go figure). When I’m buying beer (particularly specialty beer) I have an impulse toward buying extra to “put away”—to cellar the beer with the idea that it will change (hopefully for the better) [...]

The Bend Beer Scene, Part 1

If you’ve taken a peek at my about page you know that I live in Bend, Oregon: right smack in the middle of the state, the largest city in Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains. Bend is unusual in a number of ways; first, it’s relatively geographically isolated: the nearest Interstate is two hours away, [...]

Deschutes Jubelale Vertical (’07, ‘08, ‘09)

The last couple of years I’ve been doing some (small-scale) cellaring of beer, putting some away each year to save for… well, I haven’t figured out exactly what yet, other than to open up the occasional bottle for special occasions. (In the back of my mind I have an idea that I might have a [...]

Northern California Rare Beer Roundup – November 2009

The season’s heirloom tomatoes are all but kaput, I’ve busted out a goofy white hat to wear under my biking helmet, and our cat’s affections (I’ve done some back-of-the-envelope calculations) are inversely proportional to our house’s temperature. Some things change, but rare kegs and bottles remain incapable of drinking themselves. This is your November 2009 NorCal Rare Beer Roundup.