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Newport, Oregon’s Rogue Ales & Spirits pivoted its distillery into producing hand sanitizer late last month, making it available for first responders and other essentials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rogue’s “Helping Hand Hand Sanitizer” has been donated to fire departments from Newport, Toledo, Waldport, Yachats, Depoe Bay, and Lincoln City, … Continue reading
Are you familiar with candy cap mushrooms? These fungi are unique among edible mushrooms due to their intense aromatic quality of maple syrup. From a culinary standpoint, this makes them well-suited for use as a flavoring in desserts and sweet dishes. Candy caps are being used in a similar fashion … Continue reading
Rogue Ales dropped its 2020 beer release schedule today, featuring a lineup of dozens of beers with a number of new offerings. One of the notable new beers is a foeder-aged sour ale in Côtes du Rogue, and then there’s Shavasana, a granola blonde,” and the hoppy duo of Newport … Continue reading
Arrived this week in a nice wooden box with a fancy glass: this year’s edition of Rogue Ales Santa’s Private Reserve. For the past several years, the style and recipe of this beer has changed and for 2019 the brewery incorporated candy cap mushrooms into this strong ale. Per the … Continue reading
With Thanksgiving on top of us, it’s time to plan out your beer selections for the big day. There are a number of ways to approach beers for Thanksgiving. For instance, do you match beer style to menu? Do you have particular favorite beers you always have to have? Or … Continue reading
Two suitably Halloween-themed packages arrived last week: Two bottles of Hollow Jack’d Imperial Pumpkin Cider from 2 Towns Ciderhouse in one, and a Dead Guy Ale themed package from Rogue Ales: The Rogue package included one bottle of Dead Guy Ale, one bottle of Dead ‘N’ Dead (Dead Guy aged … Continue reading
Happy Friday! This last day of May/first weekend of June is looking to be a beautiful one, weather-wise, perfect for patio drinking and outdoor events! Here’s the roundup of news and events for the weekend in the Oregon beer scene; as always, I’ll be updating this post throughout the day … Continue reading
Here is the news in Oregon beer for this Monday, May 20, to kick off a new week. As usual, I’ll be updating this post throughout the day with the latest news as I find it, so check back often; and if you have news to share, please contact me … Continue reading
TGIF! Are you ready for the weekend? If you’re around Central Oregon there are a bunch of things going on with COBW kicking off for ten days—I’ll be rounding up the various events for each day so plan your schedule accordingly. There is also other Oregon beer news to cover … Continue reading
Happy hump day! We are working our way through the week and if you’re a Trail Blazers fan then you just saw an amazing game last night (and probably consumed a good amount of beer in the process). Cheers to Rip City! And here’s today’s Oregon beer news to catch … Continue reading