Previewing the 2022 Fuji to Hood Beer List

Hood to Fuji 2019 breweries. (image courtesy of Fuji to Hood) 7/5/2022 Portland, OR – After 4 long years Fuji to Hood is back with a block party held outside of Culmination Brewing in northeast Portland’s Kerns neighborhood. Conceptualized as a collaboration between sister cities Portland and Sapporo, Japan, Fuji to Hood expanded out of […]

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Hass Launches Kettle Redi Light-Stable Bitterness Hops

A new way to bitter beer is now available from Haas, as the global hop company launches Kettle Redi hops. This new way of bittering, will offer light-stable bitterness no matter how your beer is packaged. Making its pitch towards breweries that use lighter color or clear bottles, Haas is offering its Kettle Redi hops […]

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Thank you Stone Brewing

Years ago, I penned a blog putting Stone Brewing and owner Greg Koch up on a pedestal for being a positive force and possibly the biggest influence for the latest wave of popularity in craft beer. I was privately taken behind the woodshed by an elder statesman of the industry who was insulted by me […]

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Collecting Flavour – Tim Atkin – Master of Wine

Every trade has its sartorial call-signs. The wine trade plays host to the fraternity-of-the-red-trouser, its membership made up of legs that appear to have filled, loafer-to-belt, with decades of luncheon claret. Whether it’s these, pins, badges or wine tour t-shirts (LADS ON TOUR LOIRE 2022 – LAUREAU – DOMAINE DES FORGES – DESELVAUX – #CHENINIGANS), […]

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