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| This week our local alt-weekly Willamette Week released their annual beer guide. It includes their picks of the year’s best beers and, for the first time ever, winners of the “Oregon Beer Awards” in 15 different categories. Most people are pretty desensitized to best-of lists these days, particularly in this moment of online listicles. Who cares what WW thinks, so goes the thinking, since we all have our own favorites? I’ve got one foot in that boat, too, but there are a few reasons why this is a good and healthy development.
Let’s start with WW‘s pick for best beer: Upright Engelberg Pilsner. Awards are only effective so long as they’re credible. I absolutely love this pick. It follows pFriem’s Strong Dark (2014) and the Commons’ Urban Farmhouse (2013)–also excellent choices. They’re all good beers, but WW is also effectively using its bully pulpit to identify important beers. Oregon breweries have been trying to make traditional pilsners for decades, and they just never sold … |
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