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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.
While a lot of today’s craft beer focuses on the new new, there’s always been a thread in beer realizing that what’s old is new. When Monkless Belgian Ales opened in 2014, it was the first local brewery to focus on old, Belgian style ales. When Porter Brewing launched in 2018, it became the first […]
During the pandemic these last two years, we’ve bid farewell to a number of cherished eateries but welcomed some new faves, too. Until now, the same could not have been said about breweries, for although we’d lost a few outside of Bend, it’s been the area’s longest period without a new brewery since 10 Barrel […]
Adam Driver once joked that Dry January “means you just don’t take a bath.” When the month-long test of self-wellness was invented, by modern-day abolitionists, I suppose, I’m sure their hearts and livers were in the right place. It’s believed that more than 10% of Americans will lay off the hooch, the vino and the […]
I‘m not even sure if serious wine lovers enjoy mulled wine, but I can assure you beer lovers love “winter warmers.” These are ales that are typically brewed to higher gravities, meaning punchier in the ABV department so as to fight off Jack Frost. While we can start to get excited that the 8th annual […]
It’s a bit of culinary irony that maple syrup is synonymous with fall foods but is harvested during the spring thaw. That said, it’s precisely when colder temps set in that maple trees themselves begin to feed on their own sap as a way to provide the sustenance they need to make it through wintertime. […]
You’d never know it based on the scant bitter offerings on tap (or, way better, on cask) around Central Oregon, but decades before craft breweries became IPA factories, most microbreweries served ESB. It’s safe to presume that today’s beer drinkers know what an India Pale Ale is—which is to say, a beer completely defined by […]
If nothing else, the folk-rockers Violent Femmes have ensured that angst-ridden teens over the last four decades have been able to count to 10. Ten being for everything, everything, everything, everything. But that’s hardly all they’ve accomplished and I would know because I have well-worn copies of their 10 studio albums plus all their side […]
I discovered Forth Distilled Goods the way most Bendites who are already hip to them have: at the Northwest Crossing Farmers Market. That market is now closed for the season but fear not, if you’re looking for that tasty, canned Bourbon Smash, co-founder Joey Pleich offered you a sample of, you can soon find it at […]
Congratulations are in order for Three Creeks Brewing in Sisters and Bend’s own Deschutes and Worthy breweries for bringing home a gold medal and two silvers, respectively, at this year’s version of the Beer Olympic Games, the Great American Beer Festival Competition. In this era of cancel culture, where anything and anyone is in danger […]
Are you a whiskey lover who can’t make that pilgrimage to Kentucky or Scotland anytime soon? Instead of a flight to Louisville or Edinburgh, enjoy a flight of Oregon single-malt whiskeys. Or ryes. Or any of the other types of whiskey that will be available at the premiere of the Oregon Whiskey Fest taking place […]
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