Broken Top Bottle Shop’s 2nd anniversary

Broken Top Bottle Shop’s 2nd anniversary

This coming Tuesday, February 4th, is Bend’s Broken Top Bottle Shop‘s second anniversary—and they are kicking off the celebration today with two days of live music and great beer! Tonight: They have Ninkasi Brewing in the house from 4pm for a beer tasting, pouring Pravda Bohemian Pils Style Lager and Alt; … Continue reading

Oregon Beer News, 01/31/2014

Oregon Beer News, 01/31/2014

Oregon Beer News for Friday, January 31, 2014. 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, 01/30/2014

Oregon Beer News, 01/30/2014

Oregon Beer News for Thursday, January 30, 2014. News in beer and brewing from all around Oregon, including events, tastings, festivals, and more. If you have news to share, let me know!

First annual Best of Craft Beer Awards

First annual Best of Craft Beer Awards

This past weekend I had the privilege to participate in judging for the first-ever Best of Craft Beer Awards, a new competition established here in Bend by Katie Barnett (married to GoodLife Brewing co-owner Ty Barnett) that will be an annual event. There was a good turnout for a first-year … Continue reading

Oregon Beer News, 01/29/2014

Oregon Beer News, 01/29/2014

Oregon Beer News for Wednesday, January 29, 2014. News in beer and brewing from all around Oregon, including events, tastings, festivals, and more. If you have news to share, let me know!

Abyss tasting

Abyss tasting

A couple of weeks ago I invited a few friends and colleagues over for a special vertical tasting of Deschutes Brewery’s The Abyss Imperial Stout; I had been stockpiling the beer ever since it first came out (though I only had two bottles from the first year, 2006) and with … Continue reading

Oregon Beer News, 01/28/2014

Oregon Beer News, 01/28/2014

Oregon Beer News for Tuesday, January 28, 2014. 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, 01/27/2014

Oregon Beer News, 01/27/2014

Oregon Beer News for Monday, January 27, 2014. News in beer and brewing from all around Oregon, including events, tastings, festivals, and more. If you have news to share, let me know!

Burns, Oregon’s first brewery: Steens Mountain Brewing

Burns, Oregon’s first brewery: Steens Mountain Brewing

Compared to the rest of the state, Eastern Oregon is a vast, mostly empty land dotted with small towns, agricultural communities and the wide open space of open range, and accordingly the brewery situation is similarly few and far between. And once you get east of Bend and Klamath Falls … Continue reading

Oregon Beer News, 01/24/2014

Oregon Beer News, 01/24/2014

Oregon Beer News for Friday, January 24, 2014. News in beer and brewing from all around Oregon, including events, tastings, festivals, and more. If you have news to share, let me know!