Today is Widmer’s Brother’s Day: the day that Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski and Portland Mayor Tom Potter declared a state holiday, and Widmer is celebrating for a good cause: To honor Brother’s Day, Widmer Brothers Brewing has pledged to raise $10,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters by August 11 and is making it easy for those who love their bros to help, with a collection of e-cards at www.widmer.com/brothers. More snarky than sentimental, for each … Continue reading →
It’s the first Friday of the month, and that means it’s time for The Session for beer bloggers across the web! The Session is a group blogging project that any blogger (whether or not they regularly write about beer) can participate in: each month a different “host” is selected and they get to determine the topic that everyone will write about. The posts are published on the first Friday of the month and all the … Continue reading →
Previously I mentioned how we did a day trip over to Eugene for beer. More specifically, it was a trip to (finally) visit The Bier Stein. The Bier Stein is a pre-eminent beer bar and bottle shop; in their words: The Bier Stein is a connoisseur beer store located in Eugene, Oregon. We have been serving great beer since July of 2005, and have the largest beer selection south of Portland and north of San … Continue reading →
St Austell Brewery is celebrating after one of its most popular ales – Proper Job IPA – scooped an award at the UK’s most prestigious real ale festival. Proper Job was awarded a silver medal in the ‘Golden Ales’ category of the Champion Beer of Britain competition at the Great British Beer Festival, held at Earls Court in London. St Austell Brewery was only South West brewery to scoop an award at the event, which … Continue reading →
Just over a week ago we made a quick but infrequent trip over to Eugene for the relative luxury of trip actually devoted to beer: the goal was to visit the Bier Stein (on friends’ recommendation; more on that soon), but they don’t open until 2pm on Sundays so we found ourselves with time for lunch. Since this was ostensibly a beer trip, we stopped in at Steelhead Brewing Company for lunch and brews. My … Continue reading →
