The Brew SiteI know it’s a little early to be announcing this one, but I’m going through my email and trying to be good about checking out and posting items people have sent me… Rogue Ales: Brewer’s Memorial Ale Fest (Benefiting the Humane Societies of Oregon) Join us in Newport at the … Continue reading
Seattle’s Elysian Brewing is going the next step with the pumpkin beer trend: their Second Annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival. On three separate days at three of their locations, they’ll be holding festivities and serving ten different pumpkin beers: Night Owl Pumpkin Ale The Great Pumpkin Dark O’ the Moon … Continue reading
Recently I’ve run across a few more links to beer events, and I figured I’d dump them here for everybody to share. There’s BeerAdvocate’s events calendar, of course. The Beer Festival Calendar appears to be fairly comprehensive. Realbeer.com has a big one, too. All About Beer has theirs online. PubCrawler … Continue reading
The 2006 winners of the Great American Beer Festival were picked and announced Saturday, and Oregon breweries, along with California, Colorado, and Wisconsin, cleaned up. The Belmont Station blog handily posted just the Oregon winners in the various categories (saving me the trouble of weeding them out!). Here’s a quick … Continue reading
Yeah, I know I’m a little late running this Press Release, but the GABF is still going on today, so I figured, why not? If you’re at the GABF, then check out the Oregon brewers. The 25th Anniversary of the Great American Beer Festival will be September 28th through September … Continue reading
Good grief, when I mentioned that the Lyke 2 Drink blog would be (sort of) live blogging the Great American Beer Festival, I figured he’d file a blog entry or two for each day… but in reality, he wrote 11 posts yesterday! He’s a machine! Two I’ll hightlight are the … Continue reading
As promised, some more substance to this Oktoberfest thing. We’re smack in the middle of Oktoberfest right now; it runs from September 16th through October 3rd this year. This seems to be a source of confusion for people, since the name "Oktoberfest" seems like it should, naturally, fall entirely in … Continue reading
The Great American Beer Festival starts Thursday! This year it’s running from the 28th through the 30th at the Denver Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. It’s also the 25th anniversary of the Festival. There are going to be seminars, beer tastings (naturally!), book signings, beer and food pairings, and of … Continue reading
It pretty much snuck up on me: today is the official start of Oktoberfest! It runs 18 days this year, until October 3rd. I need to pick up some appropriate beer! Anyway, just a placer blog post as I thought of it; I’ll follow up later with more actual substance. … Continue reading
Just a reminder/notice to the locals (and anyone else coming to Bend) that tomorrow is the start of the Bend Brew Fest. It’s the third annual one, and it’s looking good this year: over 60 beers from over 30 brewers, entry is free though the mug is $5 (the first … Continue reading