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Von Ebert Brewing Releases Its First Fresh Hop Beers of the 2026 Season

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Von Ebert Brewing

Portland’s Von Ebert Brewing is rolling out its first fresh hop beers of harvest season, starting with Fresh Hop Volatile Substance NW IPA. The beer uses Simcoe hops from Coleman Agriculture and leans into smashed berry, sticky pine resin, and sweet citrus.

In mid-September the brewery will follow with Fresh Hop Sector 7 Hazy IPA, made with Krush hops from Perrault Farms. That one is built around ripe pineapple, ruby red grapefruit, and sweet green melon.

Both beers will be available at Von Ebert’s three Portland-area locations and at Northwest bars, bottle shops, and grocery stores in 16-ounce cans and on draft until they run out.

“We’re lucky to be in the Northwest making beer where nearly all of America’s hops are grown,” said brewmaster Sam Pecoraro. “This geographic advantage allows us to celebrate fresh hops in a way other breweries can’t. We’re also able to partner with local hop growers right in our backyard.”

Taproom deals and a bigger can lineup

At all three Von Ebert locations, 20-ounce mugs of Clubhaus Lager — a World Beer Cup gold-medal American light lager — are $3 all day. At the North Mississippi taproom at 825 N. Cook Street, regular Volatile Substance NW IPA is $5 from noon to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The brewery also sells non-alcoholic hop sparkling waters, hard seltzers, hard punches, and hard teas.

The North Mississippi production brewery has lifted capacity from about 4,000 barrels a year toward 20,000. Von Ebert is more than halfway there, with more beer going into 12-ounce and 16-ounce cans and distribution now reaching Oregon, Washington, Colorado, California, and Japan.

About Von Ebert Brewing

Tom M. Cook and Tom S. Cook founded Von Ebert Brewing in Portland in 2018. The name honors family matriarch “Grandma Ebert,” who emigrated from Germany through Ellis Island. Von Ebert loosely means “House of Ebert,” or “House of the Boar.”

The brewery has stacked World Beer Cup medals in recent years: gold in 2025 and silver in 2026 for Clubhaus American Light Lager, gold in 2023 for its German-style pilsner, and bronze in 2024 for Vienna lager. Fresh hop season is when that Northwest setting shows up most clearly — hops from nearby farms, packed into cans while they still smell like the field.

For more information, please visit https://www.vonebertbrewing.com/

Cellarest Beer Project Releases Bimble, a Coffee Blonde Lager With Riverbend Malt and Coffee Library

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Cellarest Beer Project

West Asheville’s Cellarest Beer Project has released Bimble, a 4.8% coffee blonde lager brewed with North Carolina malt from Riverbend Malt House and a custom coffee blend from Coffee Library. The beer is on draft now at Cellarest. Sixteen-ounce four-packs are expected at the brewery in the coming weeks.

Bimble is the third chapter of Riverbend’s pallet coffee program. In 2025, the Asheville maltster started thanking full-pallet malt customers with a Coffee Library blend, because brewery mornings usually start with coffee. Brewers liked the first two blends enough that Riverbend invited Cellarest — a brewery that has used local ingredients since it opened — into the third one.

How the coffee blend was chosen

Riverbend and Cellarest cupped coffees at Coffee Library and landed on two lots: a naturally processed Brazilian Catuai from Cerrado Mineiro in Minas Gerais, grown at about 1,100 meters, and a washed Mexican coffee from Zangolica, Veracruz, grown between 1,250 and 1,700 meters. The Brazil side brings almond, brown sugar, and milk chocolate. The Mexico side brings cinnamon, cocoa, and baking spice.

“I wanted to encourage more cocoa and depth to the Mexican coffee’s brown sugar and cinnamon notes, and the Brazilian seemed to provide that,” said Cellarest co-founder and director of fermentation Mark R. Goodwin.

“The Mexico coffee provides that nice warm, subtle spice and the Brazil enhances the creaminess and cocoa, chocolate notes,” said Noah Marines, head roaster and certified Q Arabica grader at Coffee Library.

What’s in the beer

Bimble is built on Riverbend Southern Select, Great Chit, Vienna, and Double Kilned Munich malts, hopped with Willamette, and fermented cold with Cellarest’s German lager yeast in an acacia wood foudre. The glass shows fresh coffee, cocoa, cinnamon, and brown sugar up front, then light toffee and honey-biscuit notes from the malt.

The name fits. To bimble is to wander without hurry. That is how three Asheville businesses — maltster, roaster, and brewery — arrived at this beer.

About the partners

Cellarest Beer Project was co-founded in 2020 by North Carolinians Harrison Fahrer and Mark Goodwin. The carbon-neutral West Asheville brewery is known for wood-fermented lagers and mixed-culture beers and uses North Carolina malted grain in every beer.

Coffee Library is an Asheville specialty coffee company focused on blend architecture, private-label roasting, and hospitality programs.

Riverbend Malt House, founded in Asheville in 2010 by Brent Manning and Brian Simpson, was the first craft malthouse east of the Mississippi. It connects Southeastern family farms with breweries and distilleries that want local malt instead of commodity grain.

Follow Cellarest Beer Project on Instagram and Facebook for can-release dates. Media questions about Bimble or Riverbend’s pallet coffee program can go to Emily Hutto at Rad Craft Beer.

For more information please visit https://cellarestbeer.com/

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Cingari Family Markets and Half Full Brewery Release Limited-Edition Pumpkin Ale for Fall 2026

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Cingari Family Markets

Cingari Family Markets is ringing in fall with a store-exclusive pumpkin ale brewed by Stamford neighbor Half Full Brewery. The 6.0% ABV Cin

Cingari Family Markets Pumpkin Ale went on sale Monday, September 7, 2026, and will stay on shelves for a limited time while supplies last.

The medium-amber seasonal ale is made with real pumpkin, cinnamon, and nutmeg. It is meant to drink easy with Friday night football, yard work, or the first fire of the season — a Connecticut fall beer from two local companies that have collaborated before.

“We love finding new ways to bring the flavors and traditions of the season to our customers, and this collaboration with our Stamford neighbors at Half Full Brewery does exactly that,” said Thomas Cingari Sr., president and CEO of Cingari Family Markets. “This is a beer made for fall in Connecticut.”

Half Full founder Conor Horrigan said the same: “There’s something special about brewing a beer that feels like fall in our own backyard.”

Where to find it

The beer is exclusive to Cingari Family ShopRite stores:

  • Brookfield
  • Commerce Street, Stamford
  • Derby
  • Fairfield
  • Farmington Avenue, Bristol
  • Norwalk
  • Shelton
  • Shippan Avenue, Stamford
  • Southbury

At a glance

  • Brewery: Half Full Brewery, Stamford, CT
  • Style: Pumpkin ale
  • ABV: 6.0%
  • Color: Medium amber
  • Flavor: Pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg
  • Availability: Limited release starting September 7, 2026

About Cingari Family Markets

Cingari Family Markets began in 1929, when Italian immigrant Salvatore Cingari bought a school bus, loaded it with produce and pasta, and started delivering groceries door to door in Stamford, Connecticut. In 1943 he opened the first Grade A Market in Stamford, promising that “Grade A” was the only quality he would sell. His sons Dominick, Rocky, and Sam joined the business, and in 1960 they turned an old ice cream factory into a 4,400-square-foot supermarket. For decades the family grew under the Grade A name before joining the ShopRite cooperative in 1991, pairing neighborhood roots with the buying power of Wakefern, the country’s largest retailer-owned grocery co-op.

Four generations later, the company still runs as a family business. Cingari Family Markets now operates about a dozen Connecticut stores — ShopRite locations across Fairfield and neighboring counties plus two Grade A Markets in Stamford — with Thomas Cingari Sr. as president and CEO. The family is known for fresh and prepared foods, private-label products, store remodels, and local giving through the Cingari Family Foundation. A new Danbury ShopRite is also in the works. From a produce-filled school bus to a regional supermarket group, the story has stayed local: Connecticut stores, still owned by the family that started them.

For more information, please visit https://cingarifamilymarkets.com/

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Oskar Blues Brings Back Deviant Dale’s Imperial IPA for a Limited 2026 Run

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Oskar Blues Brewing Company

Oskar Blues Brewery is bringing Deviant Dale’s Imperial IPA back this month — the hop-heavy cult favorite that last made a splash around 2017.

The 8% ABV imperial IPA is available nationally through November 1 in 12-ounce six-packs and on draft. It is already pouring at the brewery’s taprooms in Longmont, Colorado, and Brevard, North Carolina.

A loud, old-school West Coast imperial IPA

Deviant Dale’s is built for drinkers who still want pine, grapefruit rind, and resin instead of the softer, fruit-forward IPAs that dominate shelves today. The brewery describes it as full-bodied and assertive, with citrus and pine on the nose and a long, bitter finish.

Older tasting notes and brewery copy put it at about 85 IBUs, with a copper color and heavy Columbus dry-hopping. It is the kind of beer that once felt almost too much — and that is the point.

“Maybe we got a little too weird for 2017, but we’re not afraid of weird at Oskar Blues,” said Aaron Baker, brand director. “Deviant Dale’s is a great IPA with a ton of personality — it’s big, it’s loud, it’s really flavorful — and we’re excited to have it back.”

The beer also has hardware. Deviant Dale’s won a silver medal in the American IPA category at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival.

Where it fits in the Dale’s lineup

Deviant Dale’s joins the wider Dale’s family:

  • Dale’s Pale Ale (the original craft beer in a can)
  • Dale’s Light Lager
  • Double Dale’s IPA
  • Dale’s American IPA
  • Dale’s Easy IPA
  • Designated Dale’s NA Pils

Oskar Blues helped launch the craft-can era in 2002 when founder Dale Katechis started packing Dale’s Pale Ale into cans. The brewery now operates in Colorado and North Carolina and is part of Monster Brewing Company.

About Oskar Blues

Oskar Blues started in 1997 as a Southern-style grill and blues hall in Lyons, Colorado, opened by Alabama native Dale Katechis. Beer was an afterthought at first. Katechis began brewing in the restaurant basement in 1999, and Dale’s Pale Ale — a hop-forward American pale ale he had first made as a homebrewer at Auburn — quickly became the house beer. In 2002, after a fax from a Canadian equipment company offered a small can seamer, Oskar Blues did something almost no American craft brewery would consider: it packed Dale’s Pale Ale into aluminum cans. That move, mocked at the time, helped prove cans could protect hoppy beer, travel better than bottles, and belong in the outdoors. Dale’s became a national name, and Oskar Blues is widely credited with launching the craft-beer-in-a-can era.

Growth followed the can. Production shifted from Lyons to a larger Longmont, Colorado, brewery, and in 2012–2013 Oskar Blues opened a second major facility in Brevard, North Carolina, to reach East Coast drinkers with fresher beer. The company later joined the CANarchy craft collective and, in 2022, became part of Monster Brewing Company. Today Oskar Blues still brews in Colorado and North Carolina, with Dale’s Pale Ale at the center of a wider Dale’s family that includes imperial IPAs, lighter lagers, and non-alcoholic beer — a long way from a small Lyons restaurant that once just wanted its own house pint.

For more information please visit https://oskarblues.com/

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Zieglerfest 2026: MadTree Brewing’s Oktoberfest Tradition Returns to Oakley

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Cincinnati’s Oktoberfest season kicks into high gear on September 12 when MadTree Brewing throws open the doors of its Oakley Taproom for Zieglerfest, the brewery’s own homegrown celebration of German beer, food, and full-lederhosen fun. Named after Ziegler, MadTree’s award-winning Oktoberfest Lager, the event has become a Cincinnati tradition in its own right — and it’s only the centerpiece of a full month of Oktoberfest programming at the brewery.

Photo by Madtree Brewing

The day kicks off at 10 a.m. with a registration-required Bingo session, followed by a Red Dog dog event at noon (leash up “das good boy” and bring them along). From 3 to 7 p.m., the live German band Hopfenbläser takes the stage while steady hands compete in the stein-holding competitions — Cincinnati’s own test of who can hold a full liter mug out at arm’s length the longest without spilling a drop. German beer, food, and prizes run all day long. Beyond September 12, MadTree’s Oakley Taproom transforms into a full Bier Haus and Biergarten all month, pouring an exclusive Oktoberfest flight of four German-style beers: Ziegler (Oktoberfest Lager), Ein Traum (German IPA), The Fourth Stein (Helles), and Old Stick (Altbier), alongside food specials like the Ziegler Chicken Sandwich, Ziegler Wings, and giant Bavarian pretzels. MadTree will also carry the celebration downtown, pouring beer at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati September 17–20 at Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove, with 1% of purchases benefiting the Cincinnati Parks Foundation.

Address: 3301 Madison Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45209
Website:
https://madtree.com/oktoberfest-beer-hall/