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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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Imagine if Cannabis Farms Operated Like Other U-Pick Farms

White Wolf Cannabis Co. wants to heighten consumer education
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Unlike the idiomatic disinterest in seeing how sausage is made, many of us truly love seeing how stuff we love gets made. In Bend the Deschutes Brewery welcomes nearly a million guests annually, who sip Fresh Squeezed IPA in front of the mash tun. The Tillamook Creamery ushers in some 1.3 million visitors who not […]

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Over a Pint: Spider City’s Brady Schaner

Bend’s newest beer judge is also potentially Bend’s newest cicerone
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Brady Schaner is one of the newest Certified Beer Judge certification program’s beer judges and is on track to become Bend’s newest certified cicerone. When he passes the arduous exam, he’ll be our town’s ninth. Most of them work at 10 Barrel Brewing, but Schaner, for the past year, has brewed at Spider City Brewing. […]

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Best Hazy Beer

Deschutes Brewery’s Fresh Haze IPA
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Deschutes Brewery’s Fresh Haze IPA once again tops the podium for Best Hazy. Since the category is in its second year, the beer is undefeated. A hazy, in beer parlance, is specifically an India Pale Ale that is neither clear nor bitter—the hallmarks of the once-popular West Coast IPA. In 2014 you could not find […]

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Do Your Elf a Favor and Journey to the New Kobold

Redmond brewery opens The Lair in downtown Bend
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It takes a bold character to take on the biggest brewery in the region, but that’s what Kobold Brewing has done in opening The Lair—the new Bend taproom of this Redmond-based brewery—directly across the street from the Deschutes Brewery Public House. OK, maybe Kobold isn’t trying to take down Deschutes (especially considering the former brews […]

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Wild Ride’s Wild Ride

Redmond Brewery opens second location in Prineville
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When Redmond’s Wild Ride Brewing was an unnamed project in the planning stage—it opened in 2014—one of the five original co-owners remarked that the process itself was “a wild ride” and the concept stuck. Eight years and one global pandemic later, the ride now flows into Prineville. In addition to the original 20-barrel system, the […]

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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 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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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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