The Brew Site
We’ve been to GoodLife Brewing a number of times now, so I feel like I’m past due to write up a review (and missed being the first: the Bend Oregon Beer blog beat me to it with a short post a couple of weeks ago). GoodLife is Bend’s newest brewery … Continue reading
This week Deschutes Brewery and Boulevard Brewing are introducing their collaboration ale—dubbed by Deschutes as Conflux No. 2—in a pair of release parties this week in Bend and Portland at their respective pubs. Tomorrow, the 26th, in fact, both running from 5 until 9pm. You might remember this beer as … Continue reading
Two Saturdays ago it was announced that Below Grade Brewing announced that they would be pouring their beer for the first time in Bend at the Saturday farmers market in NorthWest Crossing (the Bend neighborhood in which they’re based); so, we made plans to hit up the farmers market and … Continue reading
On our way back from Bandon a couple of weekends ago we were passing through Eugene and Springfield and through sheer chance found ourselves literally across the street from Hop Valley Brewing Company. (We had stopped for cheaper gas and were ostensibly planning to swing into Eugene proper to check … Continue reading
Thanks to an article in my local paper, we can connect the dots on Chad Kennedy’s brewery project here in Bend—and they connect up to Roger Worthington’s proposed east side brewery and beer garden. The article is (again) behind a paywall, but I can give you some choice quotes: Plans … Continue reading
Today’s local Bend Bulletin reports that nanobrewery Below Grade Brewing will be pouring their beer this weekend for the first time, at the NorthWest Crossing Farmers Market: Husband and wife Dean and Bridget Wise of Bend will debut the beers they’ve been working on producing through their Below Grade Brewing … Continue reading
I’m not sure how I missed Brewpublic breaking this news five days ago, but a hat-tip to Foyston for pointing me to it: brewer Chad Kennedy is leaving Laurelwood Brewing in Portland and is planning on opening a new brewery in Bend. Yes, another new brewery here. Today Brewmaster Chad … Continue reading
A beer news post over on The New School yesterday talks about a new brewery slated for Eastern Oregon’s Baker City, the Bull Ridge Brewpub. A new 3-part business plan has just been recommended for approval by the OLCC in Baker City, OR (also home of Barley Browns). The Bull … Continue reading
Right on the heels of the news that Brewmaster Larry Sidor is leaving Deschutes Brewery at the end of this year, The Daily Pull today publishes some additional information: Just days after the announcement that brewmaster Larry Sidor will be leaving Deschutes Brewery, Portland Business Journal reports that “Sidor and … Continue reading
Local(ish) beer blogs are buzzing with the news that broke today that Larry Sidor, the Brewmaster at Deschutes Brewery, will be leaving Deschutes at the end of this year. Both a press release and a Q&A session (conducted by Marie Melsheimer who does PR for the Brewery) were sent out … Continue reading