Cascade The Vine Release

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Just a quick post on a new beer release. Cascade Brewery / Raccoon Lodge released their new white grape sour called The Vine. I haven’t had a chance to try any of the new bottles yet, but Ron and Curtis opened an early bottle of this at a sour tasting a while back and it [...]

Zwickelmania

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Zwickelmania, Oregon’s statewide brewery open-house event on Oregon’s 150th birthday, was in my opinion a raging success. Sadly our great state appears to have been birthed on Valentines day (Feb 14th for clarification to some), only meaning that she was probably conceived sometime mid-June 1858. Maybe it was the excitement of the birth of Minnesota, [...]

Raccoon Lodge Taplist

Monday, January 5th, 2009

This is a bit late, but in case anyone is in the Beaverton area it would be a good idea to drop into the Raccoon Lodge. As of last Friday they had both Sang Noir and Vlad the Impaler on tap. If you didn’t get a chance to try these at the Holiday Ale Festival, [...]