Catching up here and noting some very good beers from Oregon and Washington we tried recently courtesy of our Portland bureau*: Double Mountain’s 12th Anniversary Barrel-Aged Flanders Ale (Hood River, OR), Block 15 Animal Cookies IPA (Corvallis, OR) and Grains of Wrath collaboration with Trap Door Brewing The Hindenburg IPA (Camas / Vancouver WA). The Flanders was a perfect tartness and the IPAs our favourite kind with a focus on the hops, not the haze. The Hindenburg’s newspaper style label was a collaboration with ZZEPPELIN, and who does not love that hop version of a Barnum’s animal crackers box!
*Thanks to Michael, Gretchen and Zoe for these special birthday beers.


















