Elysian Brewing has a new year-round beer out, a hazy IPA named Jacktail, featuring fruity and tropical hop flavors with 6.1% ABV and 40 IBUs. It joins the company’s lineup on draft and in 12 and 19.2 ounce cans, and I recently received samples to review.
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Amber Lager from Beer Girl
Lighter Lager from Beer Girl
The beers from Beer Girl are lower-alcohol, gluten-reduced lagers with no added sugar, developed by husband-and-wife team Caroline and Griffin Foulk of Wagon Wheel Brewing of California. These are brewed with corn as an adjunct and weighing in with 3.5% ABV.
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Ale-Paca IPA is the Tualatin Valley collaboration beer that was brewed to celebrate the Oregon region’s winter Tap Season, sponsored by Explore Tualatin Valley and available on draft and in cans. Ale-Paca was brewed at Binary Brewing along with 14 other brewers.
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BJ’s Brewhouse has a new limited-edition seasonal beer out now, a collaboration with Sapporo/Stone Brewing, Waterfall Japanese-Style Rice Lager. Brewed with jasmine rice and Sorachi Ace hops, it’s currently available at BJ’s locations nationwide.
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Time for something a bit different and non-alcoholic—soda (or “pop,” depending on where you live). Stiller’s Soda is a relatively new brand of “classic sodas” co-founded by actor and comedian Ben Stiller that recently added its newest flavor, Shirley Cola.
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10 Barrel Brewing is introducing a “light” version of its popular Pub Beer, aptly named Pub Light; billed as a “lighter, baby brother” to Pub Beer, Pub Light is 4% ABV and 99 calories, directly positioned to compete in the American light lager market.
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One of the most award-winning cideries in Oregon is 2 Towns Ciderhouse, with many awards earned across a wide selection of its ciders, and recently it brought home more metal from the LA Invitational Wine & Spirits Challenge.
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Public Coast Brewing is turning 10 this year, and is kicking off a year-long celebration with special beers that “are going to be celebrations of the fan and brewer favorites from the last decade.” StackStock Candy Cap Stout and Peach Cream Soda start things off.
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The second annual all-inclusive beverage fest Bend Brews & Beyond returns to Bend on Saturday, May 23, featuring beers, ciders, and meads, of course, but also a wide variety of non-alcoholic beverages. This year’s edition of the event adds some new features.
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When Von Ebert Brewing released its 2026 beer calendar at the beginning of the year, there was a slot for specialty variations of its award-winning Volatile Substance IPA. This month the brewery announced the release of the first of these—Tropical Substance IPA.
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Let’s get into some beer reviews for Firestone Walker Brewing! Last month the brewery shipped out a variety of beers between its Mixed Pack and a six-pack of Double Barrel Ale to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
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Full Sail Brewing is one of Oregon’s oldest breweries, anchoring the beer scene in Hood River with a number of classic beers, including its Session Lager series, introduced in 2005. Session turns 21 this year, and Full Sail has new variants and retro branding.
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In this day and age it’s quite mainstream for beer to come in cans (it’s not the novelty it once was), but when Double Mountain Brewery recently revealed that it’s (finally) canning its beer and cider, it warrants a closer look.
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I recently received a 6pack of Sunglider Golden Lager from Firestone Walker Brewing, a limited-release beer brewed with sustainable malt and hops. Part of FW's Brewing for Tomorrow initiative, it's brewed with California-grown Butta-12 barley and Salmon-Safe hops.
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I haven't seen that one around town in awhile, but that's a good one too
At the beginning of the year, @portlandcider.bsky.social added Pear Lychee to its year-round lineup, a cocktail-inspired cider created with pear and lychee that had previously been released as a small-batch specialty cider. The company sent me samples to review.
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Happy #stpatricksday☘️! I hope everyone's wearing green and enjoying some Irish-themed beer today and having a safe holiday! Sláinte!
Double Mountain Brewery dipped into its archives for the next beer in its “From the Vault” series, Gravitar Galactic IPA. Originally released as an experimental beer in 2012, brewed with HBC 342 hops; this time around, it’s brewed with Galaxy hops and others.
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The latest release in the “Beer Hug” series from Goose Island Beer is Big Hazy Pineapple Beer Hug, an imperial hazy IPA that joins the ranks of the bear-themed lineup. The series focuses on higher-strength IPAs; Goose Island sent me Big Hazy to review.
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@portlandcider.bsky.social is heading into spring with 2 new imperial ciders joining its lineup—Imperial Blackberry Lime and Imperial Passion Fruit. Blackberry Lime is now part of the core year-round ciders; Passion Fruit is a spring seasonal. Both are 8.4% ABV.
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This year marks the tenth annual Baker’s Dozen Fest which returns to Portland on Saturday, April 11, taking place at The ZED at Zoiglhaus Brewing. This specialty fest features 13 breweries paired with doughnuts from 13 bakeries along with coffee from 13 roasters.
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Beer Girl is a new lifestyle beer brand out of California, featuring low-ABV, gluten-reduced, zero-sugar lagers, designed as a “lighter, more balanced alternative to traditional beer” for people who enjoy beer but not the heaviness or bloat that comes with it.
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Yeti Imperial Stout from Great Divide Brewing is one of the classics of the style, first released over 20 years ago, and is part of the brewery’s core lineup which is somewhat unusual as many breweries opt to release these as specialties or limited editions.
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Right now in Oregon’s Tualatin Valley, Tap Season is underway, celebrating the beer and cider of the region with the Tualatin Valley Ale Trail and a new collaboration beer from 15 of the local breweries, Ale-Paca IPA, available in select taprooms and in cans.
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Portland’s Von Ebert Brewing is an award-winning brewery with a lineup spanning a range of styles, with a strong emphasis on IPA. For 2026 the company introduced a new core beer to the year-round offerings, Reverse Math West Coast IPA, a modern take on the style.
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Firestone Walker Brewing is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026, and to kick of the celebration, the brewery recently sent me a number of beers to review, including the revamped IPA Mixed Pack and a six-pack of its original beer, Double Barrel Ale.
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A roundup of Oregon beer events for this coming weekend, February 20-22.
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Today is the start of the Chinese New Year in which are celebrating the Year of the Horse, and to mark the holiday, Paulaner USA sent me a rather large can of the classic Chinese pale lager, Tsingtao. I opened it up tonight to revisit this easy-drinking beer.
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Reviewing a couple of the non-alcoholic ciders from 2 Towns Ciderhouse, plus a bonus Craftwell Cocktails Cranberry Mule.
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I admire their commitment to refillable glass, but yes, it was time