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flavours of the season from deschutes: BLACK BUTTE XXIV Our 24th Anniversary Release is back in black with a couple of new additions this year including fresh Daglet dates and Mission figs. You'll still get flavors of dark chocolate and Bourbon roasty goodness but after one sip...you'll be hooked. Grab a few bottles for aging and one for now! Cheers to 24 years of Deschutes beers! RESERVE SERIES 11.0% ABV | 55 IBU's Availability: Now in 22-oz bottles and draft in limited quantities     THE DISSIDENT Pucker up, sour fans...it's time for the return of our favorite Flanders-style brown ale. As our only bottled wild yeast beer, we use fresh tart pie cherries from Oregon and Brettanomyces to give this beer unique flavors and aromas that will have you singing, "Wild Thing" by The Troggs. Snag a bottle while they last and savor the sour! RESERVE SERIES ~10.5% ABV | ~30 IBU's Availability: Very limited in 22-oz bottles beg...

and for saturday night's pre-party tipple, i chose deschutes brewery's hop trip part of the bond series of hop-forward beers, its the october-december offering and since i love the hop in the dark so much i figured i'd better try the other two offerings as well! deschutes has this to say about the bond series:   Inspired by the original Deschutes Brewery & Public House on Bond Street in downtown Bend, the Bond Street Series highlights a handful of our hop-forward beers that began at "the pub." These local favorites, both old & new, truly display Deschutes Brewery's diversity and creativity.  Available in 22 oz bottles and draft only. hop in the dark is a black ipa offered may to september: Can an IPA be black?  Semantics aside, this noir version adds deep roasted malts to alter the hue and slightly smooth the edges.  What emerges is something deeper, less orthodox, and all its own. “We’ve brewed 22 batches of this beer at both our Bend and ...

one last post about hopscotch 2010! i was lucky enough to be given a ticket to attend an invite only seminar on "history of deschutes and what the future holds" which involved getting several tasters of jubilale and hop trip while listening to the very entertaining lance mitchell, marketing manager for deschutes some of the high points: the jubilale was intended to run out between christmas and new year's but its so popular that it will be sold out by around december 6th so if you want some for christmas, you'd best be picking it up now! deschutes was founded in 1988 in bend, oregon by gary fish, who wanted to serve local foods and local beers to the locals it wasn't an easy road getting to where they are today 21 years ago all the beer got contaminated and they had to pour all of it out on christmas day and start over their new brew system is german it is 28 feet wide the road to bend is only 30 feet wide, so they got a police escort deschutes...