Happy Wednesday! Here is the news in beer from around Oregon for this hump day, July 11. As usual I’ll periodically update this post throughout the day with any additional news as I find it; check back from time to time for the latest.

Hopworks Urban Brewery (Portland) is hosting a beer release for two new beers today at all of its locations: Make Haze While the Sun Shines and Honey Lager. “On July 11th, we are excited to release the 5th installment of our 2018 Rotating Hazy Series as well as our newest in the Win-Win beer series. Both Honey Lager and Make Haze While the Sun Shines are soon to be your new summer favorites. Come by all three pubs at 5pm to be the first to try these exciting new limited release beers. Honey Lager – The newest beer in our Win-Win series, our Honey Lager is a crisp and refreshing lager fermented dry with blueberry honey from our B Corp friends at GloryBee – a company with a strong environmental commitment to research colony collapse disorder. Also available in limited 22oz bottles. 5.2% ABV. Make Haze While the Sun Shines – Hazy IPA brewed with organic wheat malt and loads of Citra, Organic Lemon Drop, and Organic Cascade hops for a big lemon and tangerine flavor. Also available to go in limited 16oz cans. 7% ABV.”

McMenamins Thompson Brewery (Salem) has its monthly limited-edition beer tasting today, where you get a chance to meet brewer Jen Kent. From 5 to 7pm taste the specialty beer and pick Kent’s brain about what inspired it and how it was brewed.

Deschutes Brewery (Bend) is throwing a Cheers to 30 Years Tap Attack at Bend’s newest food truck pod, On Tap, tonight from 5 to 7pm: “Please join us on Wednesday, July 11th from 5-7pm at On Tap for a celebration of Deschutes Breweries 30 years of making legendary beers right here in beautiful Bend, Oregon! Deschutes brews on tap for the evening will be Twilight Summer Ale, Fresh Squeezed IPA, Fruit Fight Hazy IPA, Black Raspberry Sour, Hummzinger Kombucha Radler, 3 Blind Vice Bavarian Hef, and Wayfarer Cider. There will be several Deschutes brewers on site to answer all your questions and plenty of sweet swag to raffle off. Show up in your best vintage Deschutes apparel to show your love!”

Rogue Ales (Newport): Hot Tub Scholarship Lager is back, available from July through October: “Since 2014, Rogue Ales & Spirits has donated a portion of the sales of Hot Tub Scholarship Lager to the Jack Joyce Scholarship Fund, established in honor of the late founder of Rogue Ales & Spirits, to help students at Oregon State University’s Fermentation Science program pay for their education. In total, the Jack Joyce Scholarship has awarded $245,000 to 21 future fermenters.”

Culmination Brewing (Portland) has a favorite back on tap: “Hazy Cryo Phaedrus is back and on tap. Cryo Citra and Mosaic Hops shine in this juice forward pineapple bomb.”