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Good Beers 2015

This past year was an odd one for me–a good portion of the best beers I tasted came from breweries beyond Oregon. I spent six weeks on the road, traveling to 24 cities in 18 states (plus DC), and managed to drink a beer or four at each stop. What I enjoyed is illustrative of what’s available in American craft brewing right now. We can’t really hope to keep abreast of the beer scene anymore, with upwards of a hundred thousand different brands being made last year. (Rough math: if the 3,800 breweries last year made an average of 26.3 different brands–which sounds about right–we had 100k beers in 2015.) The best we can do is sample and hope to have found a few big winners. Here are mine.

  • Block 15 [forgotten name] saison. One of my first events was at Block 15, at their new Taproom outside of town. It’s a great facility and they pour a nice selection of the kind of beers I think of when I think of Block 15–saisons, sours, barrel-aged beers. I had a couple beers that evening, including a

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