The Brew Site
My latest article for The Bulletin that came out yesterday is about The Ale Apothecary‘s new tasting room, a long time coming, which is now open. I give a bit of backstory behind the brewery and also highlight Sahati a bit, the Finnish-inspired ale that Paul Arney brews using a … Continue reading
Over Memorial Day weekend we took a family trip down the southern Oregon Coast to Bandon, a small town of about 3,000 on the Coquille River 24 miles south of Coos Bay. It wasn’t ostensibly a beer trip, but naturally opportunities to explore a bit of the beer scene presented … Continue reading
The annual Cheers to Belgian Beers festival kicks off today in Portland, and this year there are a number of Central Oregon breweries present and pouring. Here’s the relevant bit from the press release: The upcoming Cheers to Belgian Beers Festival in Portland will feature at least 70 Belgian-style beers brewed … Continue reading
It’s been a little while since I’ve done a news roundup for my local breweries, so here’s the latest—some of which I’ve covered in my Oregon beer news posts or elsewhere. And some is new! Deschutes Brewery is progressing on multiple fronts as usual—one of the largest craft breweries in the … Continue reading
My latest print article for The Bulletin hit today: Two birthday bashes at Bend Box Factory. Immersion is celebrating their first anniversary this weekend (as part of Beer Week), and next weekend (the start of June) Atlas Cider is celebrating their fourth. Both Immersion and Atlas are located at the Box … Continue reading
This week’s article for the Bend Bulletin’s GO! Magazine is on the tenth anniversary of 10 Barrel Brewing, and the anniversary party coming on Saturday, May 13. I take a bit of a retrospective which includes the Anheuser-Busch acquisition, as well as talking about the beers and the event itself. … Continue reading
Bend’s Crux Fermentation Project is kicking off their 2017 [BANISHED] barrel-aged beer series this week with the release of In The Pocket, a Brettanomyces aged and blended imperial saison. From the description in the press release (below) it sounds amazingly complex, and some of my contacts at Crux are already waxing … Continue reading
Deschutes Brewery is already planning to open a brewery in Roanoke, Virginia, by 2021, but since that’s still a few years off, they announced today their plans to open a tasting room in downtown Roanoke by late summer. They’ve posted some details on their website about the Roanoke brewery and … Continue reading
The Willamette Week’s annual Oregon Beer Awards took place in Portland last night, the culmination of a statewide round of judging and voting over the past couple of months. (I was on the voting panel, in which I got to nominate and then vote (remotely) in a number of categories … Continue reading
Bend’s Worthy Brewing is experimenting with hops for the month of March. In conjunction with Indie Hops (which Worthy owner Roger Worthington founded) and Oregon State University, they have four new hop varieties to play with, and they brewed four identical pale ales each using one of these new hops. Starting … Continue reading