New Arrivals and Impending Hop Overload

After another lull in new arrivals we've suddenly been deluged with beer in the last few days. Winter seasonals, new cans (Buckbean Brewing from Reno, NV), a couple new imports, and the Sam Smith's gift boxes return for the season.


New Craft Beers:

• Buckbean - Original Orange Blossom Ale: Cream ale with orange flavors
  
• Buckbean - Black Noddy Lager: Schwarzbier (in a can!)
  
• Dogfish Head - Punkin: Strong ale with pumpkin and spices
  
• Mactarnahan's - Humbug'r: Strong, dark ale (tweaked version of Black Watch?)
  
• Pyramid - Sno Cap: American strong ale
• Cascade Lakes - Santa's Lil Helper: English-style strong ale
  
• Cascade Lakes - Skookum Creek Ale: American strong ale
  
• Big Sky - Slow Elk: Oatmeal Stout
• Full Sail - Vesuvius: Belgian-style golden ale
  
• Bridgeport - Hop Harvest: Fresh hop IPA
  
• Anderson Valley - Winter Solstice: Strong cream ale with spices
  
• Shipyard - Pumpkinhead: English-style ale with pumpkins and spices
  
• Stone - Sublimely Self Righteous: Black IPA
  
• Sierra Nevada - Estate: Fresh hop IPA made entirely with ingredients from SN's brewery estate.
  
• Deschutes - Hop Trip: Fresh hop pale ale
  
• Alaskan - Winter Ale: English-style old ale with spruce tips
  

New Imports:

• Aecht Schlenkerla - Urbock in Minikegs: Traditional smoked bock
• Lurgashall - Tower of London: Mead with Scotch whiskey added
• Sam Smith's - Selection Box: This gift set contains one bottle each of the Pale Ale, Nut Brown Ale, and Oatmeal Stout in addition to a logo'd Sam Smith's pint glass and coasters.

Fresh Hop Week in the Biercafe

Holy Hops Batman! We have so many fresh hop beers that I'm not sure how we're going to squeeze them all into a single week unless we load up all 17 taps at once. Even then I'm not sure we can do it, but I'm counting on all you hop heads to help us out.

I can't really say when anything in particular will be on tap (it's not a secret, I just don't know), but we'll be running at least 8-10 of our taps (plus the cask engine) with fresh hop delights all week long. We promise to update the homepage before the cafe opens each day, and we'll send out up-to-the-minute tweets if something blows once the cafe opens.

That said, here's the list of things that are in-house and confirmed for next week:

1. 4th St Fresh Hop - Cascadian Dark Ale
2. Barley Brown's Roadside Fresh Hop - IPA
3. Bridgeport Hop Harvest - IPA
4. Cascade Brewing (aka Raccoon Lodge) Fresh Hop - Cascadian Dark Ale
5. Cascade Lakes Harvest Ale - Pale Ale
6. Deschutes Hop Trip - Pale Ale
7. Double Mountain Killer Green - IPA
8. Fort George CoHoperative - Pale Ale
9. Full Sail Lupulin (Cascade) - Pale Ale
10. Full Sail Lupulin (Crystal) - Pale Ale
11. Full Sail Cask-conditioned Lupulin (Crystal) - Pale Ale
12. Hopworks Fest of Fury - Oktoberfest
13. Laurelwood Hop Bale Ale - Pale Ale
14. Oakshire Conundrum - Cascadian Dark Ale
15. Oakshire Harvest Ale - IPA?
16. Rogue Chatoe Wet Hop - IPA
17. Sierra Nevada Estate Brewer's Harvest Ale - IPA

There's also a few more that we're hoping will make it in time, but I don't want to get anyone's hopes up until they're actually here.

That's it for now. Have fun in Hood River, and if you can't make it out there be sure to stop in here next week for some fresh, resiny goodness.