Cascade Lakes Brewing is getting close to opening its new east Bend pub (though I do not have a final date for that yet), and for the opening the company plans to release a new collaboration beer brewed with Old Standby Brewing of Salem, Helles for Habitat. I wrote about this in my latest article for The Bulletin, out this week.

It’s a German-style Helles lager brewed with Old Standby Brewing Co. of Salem, and $1 from every pint sold will benefit Habitat for Humanity.

Ryan Holt of Old Standby teamed up with Cascade Lakes brewmaster Ryan Schmiege in early March, and they brewed the lager at Cascade Lakes’ brewery in Redmond. Old Standby is a small operation, and in 2022 Holt launched a project to team up with other breweries to brew beers for charity.

Holt calls this his Brewlanthropy project, and he has collaborated with eight other breweries, including Bend’s The Ale Apothecary earlier this year.

I haven’t yet had a chance to taste this beer (not until the new pub opens) but I did include some notes from Cascade Lakes’ Ryan Schmiege (along with the photo at the top of this). It sounds like an interesting yet straightforward lager working checking out!