Congratulations to Oregon’s GABF 2020 winners!

Congratulations to Oregon’s GABF 2020 winners!

I have to admit, I was out of touch with this year’s Great American Beer Festival with everything going virtual. So I was unaware that the GABF’s first-ever virtual award ceremony was taking place last Friday afternoon, so I missed a bunch of it. (Poor excuse for a beer blogger, … Continue reading

Beer TV: How Oregon Beer Became a Thing

Beer TV: How Oregon Beer Became a Thing

Here’s a blast from the past from OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting), a 12 year old episode of “Oregon Experience“: How Oregon Beer Became A Thing – Feb. 13, 2019 (originally 2007) – 29:00 Here’s one from our archives. Today Oregon is one of the world’s great places for beer, but … Continue reading

Oregon’s winners at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival

Oregon’s winners at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival

The Great American Beer Festival wrapped up on Saturday, the highlight of the day being the annual awards ceremony for the competition. Everyone is of course posting the results, and a complete list of all of the winners is here. I live-tweeted the Oregon winning results during the livestream of … Continue reading

Congrats to Oregon’s winners at the 2017 GABF

Congrats to Oregon’s winners at the 2017 GABF

The Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony took place today, announcing the winners of a competition that has a rather amazing set of logisitics behind it for a beer judging event: First off, huge congratulations to all of the winners this year: to be able to stand out among nearly … Continue reading

An Advent Calendar for Oregon beers

An Advent Calendar for Oregon beers

For the month of December I understandably have Christmas beers and Advent calendars on my mind. One of the things I thought would be neat to do in conjunction with the annual Advent calendar would be to also have individual state versions; that is, select 24 holiday or winter beers … Continue reading

Oregon Beer News, 12/02/2016

Oregon Beer News, 12/02/2016

Oregon Beer News for Friday, December 2, 2016. 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, 11/29/2016

Oregon Beer News, 11/29/2016

Oregon Beer News for Tuesday, November 29, 2016. News in beer and brewing from all around Oregon, including events, tastings, festivals, and more. If you have news to share, let me know!

GABF 2016: Oregon award winners

Saturday morning, October 8, the 2016 Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony revealed this year’s winners for one of the largest and most popular beer festivals around. Big congratulations are always in order for all of the winners, but naturally since I live in Oregon I always like to highlight the … Continue reading

Oregon Beer Awards 2016 – Call for Submissions

Oregon Beer Awards 2016 – Call for Submissions

The second annual Oregon Beer Awards, the statewide competition organized by Portland’s Willamette Week, is fast approaching this January, and the organizers have a call out for submissions now. This competition is somewhat unique in that it is only featuring Oregon breweries, and that there are only 14 categories to be … Continue reading

Oregon Breweries bring home 19 GABF medals

Oregon Breweries bring home 19 GABF medals

The Great American Beer Festival was going on this past week, culminating in the big awards ceremony yesterday for the competition portion of the festival, with 275 coveted medals awards among 242 breweries. The numbers were impressive this year (“Winners were chosen from 6,647 competition entries (20 percent more than … Continue reading