Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| There’s been entirely too much chat about the business of beer: let’s talk about beer itself for a change. Today’s selection comes to us from Hood River, where Double Mountain founder and orchard-owner Matt Swihart has been making tasty fruit beers for several years. His pièce de résistance is Devil’s Kriek, a wild cherry ale that bubbles away under a Brettanomcyes cap over in one corner of the brewery throughout the year. He may actually have topped himself with My Little Runaway, however, which is one of the best beers I’ve tried in recent memory.
There’s not a ton of info about Runaway except that it was fermented with the Ardennes yeast, made with Van and Bing cherries and “a tiny stolen blend of next year’s Devil Kriek to commingle as sweet, refreshing cherry ale with the ghost of bitterness.” (Someone at the brewery has lately gotten poetic with the press releases.) I considered trying to track down more info, but sometimes the less you know, the more you taste, so I let my m … |
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