In this episode of Grand Craft Beer, cicerone Brian Yaeger welcomes Vance Wirtz, brewer at McMenamins Old St. Francis.

While almost everyone knows about hidden rooms and bars, not everyone knows OSF has a brewery on-site, but hidden from view. It’s where Vance turns his lager-centric mash paddle to making everything from Bamberg-style smoked lagers to Vermont-centric Hop Pillow D.H.I.P.A. He also gives listeners a sneak peak of the 11th annual High Gravity Fest hosted at OSF on January 13, 2024.

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This article appears in Source Weekly January 4, 2023.

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer: Vance Wirtz, Brewmaster McMenamins Old St. Francis 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
January 10, 2024

<h1>LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer: Vance Wirtz, Brewmaster McMenamins Old St. Francis 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />January 10, 2024</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">I</span>n this episode of Grand Craft Beer, cicerone Brian Yaeger welcomes Vance Wirtz, brewer at <a href="https://www.mcmenamins.com/old-st-francis-school" target="_blank">McMenamins Old St. Francis</a>.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/grand_craft_beer_011124.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/grand_craft_beer_011124.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-54863" /></a></figure> <p> While almost everyone knows about hidden rooms and bars, not everyone knows OSF has a brewery on-site, but hidden from view. It's where Vance turns his lager-centric mash paddle to making everything from Bamberg-style smoked lagers to Vermont-centric Hop Pillow D.H.I.P.A. He also gives listeners a sneak peak of the 11th annual <a href="https://www.mcmenamins.com/events/249709-11th-annual-high-gravity-brewfest" target="_blank">High Gravity Fest</a> hosted at OSF on January 13, 2024.</p> <p><b>Listen now</b>:</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/gcb-stfrancis-vance-final" title="GCB StFrancis Vance FINAL" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">GCB StFrancis Vance FINAL</a></div> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/listen-grand-craft-beer-vance-wirtz-brewmaster-mcmenamins-old-st-francis-20463543/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=54862&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/listen-grand-craft-beer-vance-wirtz-brewmaster-mcmenamins-old-st-francis-20463543/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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