NW hot weather beer thread.

I find goses to be awesome summer beers.

 

My Summer beers are usually Fort George's Quick Wit and Rueben's Gose.

I really miss the days of having De Garde's Bu Weisse being all over town for $4.99 a pop.

 

I test drove some warm weather beers today, since I was out on my bike and the weather was...uh...warm.

Upright Saison Vert was a charmer, crisp and light and citrusy, but with enough depth to be interesting.

The Weihenstephaner/Sierra Nevada hefeweizen collab Braupakt was tasty af, but a touch heavy for warm weather drinking. This is not a drawback. It was a very tasty beer I would be happy to drink again. And it looks like a hazy IPA, so you can flex those style points in front of all the other haze bros.

Bale Breaker's Raging Ditch was probably the only blonde ale I've had in the past 10 years or so that I would order again. A very tasty blonde that finishes with a good hop smack.

Today's winner: Saison Vert.

 

Spelling aside, user name checks out.

 

When I checked in at Upright yesterday on Facebook, I wrote:

"The new bar is lovely. So is the Saison Vert (not "vurt") on this warm afternoon."

The number of people in real life who call me "vurt" or know me as "vurt" is kind of an amazing number.

 

As do we all. I used to wake up on Sunday mornings and make Bu-mosas.

My go to hot summer beers in no order:

Occidental Hefe
Breakside Pils
Pfriem Pils
Weihenstephaner Braupakt
Oakshire Sun Made
Bend Brewing Ching Ching

 

Floodland’s Grails and Waysigns was a fantastic hot weather beer the other day. Same with Holy Mountain’s Misere Au Borinage. Both low ABV, tart and super crushable.

 

Had a 32 oz growler of Ex-Novo Perle Haggard Pils yesterday. Really nice stuff.

 

Put some mandarin oranges, vanilla bean and a touch of maple agave in a french press and ran some Modern Times Order of Hermes (Super Berliner with pineapple, passion fruit & dragonfruit) through it.

Delicious summer drink. Really recommend these fruited Berliner Wiess in general. Nice balance, no flavor profile too overpowering.

 

Love a good gose from Reuben's or Fremont. Chuckanut lagers are always appreciated this time of year (even the dark ones). Can't think of a standout Wit locally off the top of my head atm but wouldn't mind one here and there to add a little spice of Belgian flavor. Tropic Haze from Silver City is my IPA for summer.

 

Dang, I'm gonna have to keep an eye out for all these. I can't get 6 packs from many places locally (cuz Albertson's selection sux). I tend to imbibe on draft when out (or my beers at home). Only really good summer drinker I've found around town (Eugene) is ColdFire's Pilz. Other than that there isn't much I like. Ninkasi's Helles Belles is way to bitter for the style. Manifest is making some really interesting and delish berliners, but none packaged. I really enjoy a good Wit or Bavarian Hefe, and love session strength Saisons. I tend to brew them all since I can't find any easily accessible here in town (or at least affordable and tasty).

 

I'll 2nd the Ft. George Quick Wit!

 

My local (Portland area) favorites:

Breakside Pilsner
54'40" Cascadia Kolsch
Ecliptic Starburst IPA

Happy to see one or two wit recommendations here. I've been looking.

 

Oops, that's Kascadia Kolsch. With two K's.

 

Thought I could throw this here: http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/iron-horse-brewery-releases-new-beer-giving-away-a-honda-ruckus/
Looks like it would also fit the bill for this summer.

I'm sure you are all after that Ruckus, though.