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'Extreme' Beers Flavor of the Day

July 17: Don Younger, owner of the Horsebrass Pub, serves up a pint of a Framboise, a raspberry-wheat beer, in Portland. Sales of premium beers, such as Budweiser, Miller and Coors Light, have been flat, but craft beers are the fastest growing segment of the beer industry and big or extreme beers are the leading edge where brewers test the limits of price and taste.
July 18: Carl Raskin takes in the full bouquet and flavor of a craft beer during a tasting at his Elegance wine and antiques shop in Grants Pass, Ore.
July 18: Brewmaster Larry Sidor describes the extra ingredients and aging that went into producing the 11-percent alcohol by volume Black Butte XX, known in the trade as a big or extreme beer.
May 6: Sidor takes a whiff of an experimental beer at the Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Ore. Craft breweries such as Deschutes are the fastest growing segment of the beer industry, and many of them are making big or extreme beers that are forcing drinkers to think of them like wine, with higher prices, alcohol and flavor.
May 6: Sidor draws in the aroma of full-flower hops.
July 18: Carl Raskin pours a craft beer during a tasting at his Elegance wine and antiques shop in Grants Pass, Ore.