Oregon Beer News, 02/29/2012

Oregon Beer News, 02/29/2012

Oregon Beer News for Wednesday, February 29, 2012. News in beer and brewing from all around Oregon, including events, tastings, festivals, and more. If you have news to share, let me know!

Oregon Beer News, 02/28/2012

Oregon Beer News, 02/28/2012

Here’s the Oregon beer news for Tuesday, February 28—nearly the end of the month but being a leap year we get an extra day tomorrow. As usual I’ll be periodically updating this post throughout the day, so please contact me if you have some news to share. The Lucky Lab … Continue reading

Nibiru Yerba Maté Tripel (Elysian 12 Beers of the Apocalypse)

Nibiru Yerba Maté Tripel (Elysian 12 Beers of the Apocalypse)

At the beginning of the year Seattle’s Elysian Brewing announced a unique series of “apocalypse beers” to be released each month on the 21st leading up to December 21st—the end of the Mayan long count calendar and long heralded as the end of the world by that reckoning (the so-called … Continue reading

Bend: “It’s the water”

Bend: “It’s the water”

One of the reasons why Bend beer is so good? The City of Bend issued a press release today: Bend drinking water wins best tasting award Bend’s water was awarded first prize at the Annual Best Tasting Water Contest held by the Pacific Northwest’s Cascade to Coast subsection of the … Continue reading

Oregon Beer News, 02/27/2012

Oregon Beer News, 02/27/2012

Oregon Beer News for Monday, February 27, 2012. News in beer and brewing from all around Oregon, including events, tastings, festivals, and more. If you have news to share, let me know!

The Ale Apothecary (Bend) is official!

The Ale Apothecary (Bend) is official!

I’m incredibly excited to read this blog post from Paul Arney announcing that The Ale Apothecary (his brewery venture that I wrote about in detail here) is now official and brewing beer! (The blog post was published on Wednesday the 22nd and I had posted the announced the first beer … Continue reading

Worthy Brewing groundbreaking ceremony

Worthy Brewing groundbreaking ceremony

Yesterday (Friday the 24th of February) was a perfect day for the official groundbreaking ceremony for one of Bend’s newest brewery ventures, Worthy Brewing Company—nearly 60 degrees, clear and sunny (contrasted with this morning as I write this, it’s snowing somewhat heavily). Principals Chad Kennedy and Roger Worthington had arranged … Continue reading

No Oregon Beer News for today

I’m sure you’ve all been waiting with baited breath for the Oregon Beer News post today (I know I was!) but unfortunately the day got away from me and I’m getting ready to head over to the Worthy Brewing groundbreaking. I might be back with a news post later or … Continue reading

Oregon Beer News, 02/23/2012

Oregon Beer News, 02/23/2012

Oregon Beer News for Thursday, February 23, 2012. News in beer and brewing from all around Oregon, including events, tastings, festivals, and more. If you have news to share, let me know!

The next Session: Local beer (again but different)

I’m behind on posting this, but the next Session—number 61, taking place on Friday, March 2nd—is being hosted by Matt at the Hoosier Beer Geek and the topic is “What makes local beer better?” The topic I’ve been thinking about is local beer. The term is being used by just … Continue reading