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Brian Yaeger

Brian Yaeger is a beer author (including "Oregon Breweries"), beer fest producer and beer-tasting instructor at COCC. Because he’s working on doughnut authorship, you’ll find he occasionally reviews our local doughnut scene. Yes, he absolutely floats all summer long with a beer in one hand and a doughnut in the other.

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Which One’s Your Jam?

Jelly-filled donuts from area bakeries are put to the test
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From Berlin’s Berliners to Polish Paczki, fruit-filled fried balls of dough are a hallmark of springtime, owing in large part to the Lenten tradition of clearing out sweets and fats from cupboards. Religious traditions aside, these colorful treats come in a variety of fruit flavors, so for this season’s doughnut roundup, instead of deciding which […]

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Bend’s Best Tacos y Cervezas

Not Bend’s five best tacos, or five best beers, but five “best of both”
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Cinco de Mayo, to many Gringo-Americans, is simply an excuse to drink more-than-usual amounts of margaritas. Just like you don’t need St. Paddy’s Day to drink Guinness, you don’t need Cinco to drink copious quantities of Corona. To that end, no one needs an excuse to eat tacos. But we know you’re gonna anyway, so […]

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Bend Brewfest Gets a Refresh

Christmas doesn’t come early, but Brewfest does
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The world is spinning again and that means beer festivals can return. While beers pair extremely well with tacos (see this week’s Chow story for more on that), they also pair perfectly with friends, strangers and (what should be) a warm, sunny day. Bend Brewfest returns May 13 and 14, but not to the amphitheater. […]

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Boss Rambler Gets Its Own Brewery

Boss Rambler’s IPAs and slushie beers find a new home at the old Riverbend brewery
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Boss Rambler Beer Club has pulled off a lot in its brief run that, this Saturday, April 16, celebrates three years since opening its doors on Galveston. (The beer debuted a year before the taproom.) That means two-thirds of the operation overlapped a world-paralyzing pandemic. To survive, Boss Rambler did what virtually everyone did: pivot. Originally […]

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Bend’s Avid Cider Levels Up

A new future with Michigan’s Blake’s Hard Cider
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When Samantha Roberts and her then-husband Dan McCoy attended Bend Brewfest in 2011, something eyebrow-raising struck them: the longest line for samples didn’t belong to a single brewery, but rather to the lone cidery in attendance. Roberts was no stranger to hard cider. She’d gotten hooked on the stuff in her mother’s native England, where […]

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Zwickelmania Offers Beer Lovers Hopportunity to Peek Under the Hood

Complimentary samples abound at Oregon brewery open houses
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Feb. 26’s Oregon Brewers Guild’s 14th annual Zwickelmania may seem slightly confounding since the event is all about getting everyone to crowd into every craft brewery in the state, and we’ve been told for the last two years not to crowd into anywhere. So if you want to try a bunch of beer—wait, let me […]

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Bend’s Best Apple Fritters

Is there any doughnut phatter than a fritter?
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When looking for a doughnut style befitting a winter roundup, the hearty apple fritter seems like the obvious choice. These are usually the largest option in the most impressively grand display cases. They’re bigger in both diameter and height and the chunky appearance serves as sort of an optical Braille that lets you know: this […]

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Over a Pint: Crux’s Cam O’Connor

An occasional Source Weekly series, inviting brewers and beer geeks to talk about the biz of brewing
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I frequently interview brewers and occasionally socialize with them. But those conversations tend to revolve around a new beer release or festival or trends. So one day I thought, let’s get to know brewers (or winemakers, distillers, bakers, chefs, or anyone who makes our lives tastier) more holistically. To do this, I invite someone out for […]

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