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ALLSTAR PERFORMANCE Repl Spring & Screw 5pk 44107/44108 President of Beers: #46 - Willamette Week
#46: Belgian-Style Tripel: Bridge Brew Works, Fayetteville, West Virginia
State: Wild, wonderful West Virginia, the most rustic Eastern state. Good olâ West Virginny is home to real wilderness and lots of colorful residents.
Brewery: Bridge Brew Works, named for the massive new River Gorge Bridge that gracing the stateâs quarter. The brewery is run by two very nice guys who are new to commercial brewing but seem plenty ambitious.
Beer: A polarizing Belgian style Tripel, which I actually liked a lot, scoring in the 90s, as other tasters commented that it was âtoo sweet and fruity.â Itâs low score was only four.
Difficulty of Obtaining in Oregon: Very difficult. This beer is only distributed in West Virginia. There are not a lot of beer geeks from the small and rural state active in the beer trading scene. Unless you know someone there who will send it you youâre probably not getting it.
Oregonâs Timberline ski lodge is famous. The only North American ski resort open year-round, scene of The Shining, with 3,600 vertical feet on the side of a gorgeous glaciated peak. On the other hand, West Virginiaâs Timberline has great biscuits and gravy.
Itâs probably news to most Oregoniansâand Iâm sure to some West Virginiansâbut this country actually has two ski resorts called Timberline. Iâll bet here arenât many people in the country whoâve actually skied both, given how small and remote the resort in Davis, West Virginia is, but I have. And despite the Mt. Hood slopes being better by every measureâitâs 14 times as large and three times as tall and its ornate Depression-era lodge has unbeatable atmosphereâIâd be hard-pressed to pick a favorite.
The Caanan (thatâs kuh-NAIN) Valleyâs Timberline is a pleasantly scrappy little resort with slow and unsteady lifts, the Southeastâs longest run, a cruiser called Salamander, and pretty decent snow. By Eastern standards, anyway. And, unlike our Timberline, you can actually ski right up to your cheap rental cabin. That has a hot tub. Did I mention the biscuits and gravy?
Thereâs something special about the hills of West Virginia. Itâs the Western-most Eastern stateâin attitude and appearance, if not geography. Laid-back, friendly folks, tall mountains, fast rivers and a simple life. If Oregon has to share the name of our best ski slopes with anyone back East, theyâre most worthy.
Oh, yes, but about the beer. Well, West Virginians drink their fair share of it, but itâs mostly cheap domestic stuff.
The stateâs laws are utterly ridiculousâtechnically, all beer sold has to be ânon-intoxicating beerâ which until recently meant only up to 6 percent alcohol, but is now 12 percent ABV; bars serve until 3:30 am but you canât buy beer before NFL kickoff on Sundayâand craft beer has grown slowly and unevenly.
But hereâs the thing: outdoorsy states tend to be the beery states. The biggest beer drinking states, per capita, are New Hampshire, Montana and North Dakotaâplaces awash in natural splendor. Places like West Virginia. And craft beer? Well, nationally, the two places with the highest percentage of craft beer drinkers are neighboring Virginia and Washington DC.
Virginians will deny it, but there isnât much seperating the two states, which split up because West Virginia was too progressive for their neighbors. If Virginians have gone crazy for craft beer, their cousins to the West will, too.
Give it a little time. Until then, there's this...