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Beer for the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes and Forests

Crux is one of eight Oregon breweries taking part in a collaboration aimed at supporting the state’s land trusts

Mountains, rivers, lakes and forests have long been tools to promote beer brands. Now beer is being used to promote them. Eight Oregon breweries including Bend’s own Crux Fermentation Project have each created beers called The Oregon I Am in support of the Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts. A land trust is a nonprofit organization […]

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Worthy Brewing’s Organic Farm ▶ [with video]

Add communal farming to the brewery’s list of cool side projects

Visitors to Worthy Brewing can’t help but notice the hopyard is looking a bit barren. It’s not that the land proved infertile. Quite the contrary; it’s being repurposed into a new organic farm, the latest venture for the Worthy Garden Club, the brewery’s nonprofit highlighting sustainable practices. The new farm “came on suddenly,” says Lisa […]

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Cinco Cervezas for Cinco de Mayo

Instant fiesta: Just add any of these local Mexican-style beers

Isn’t it loco to think that we have Austrians to thank for Mexican lagers? German immigrants greatly influenced non-indigenous brewing in Mexico, but the quintessential Mexican lager is a style more formally known as Vienna lager because in 1864 Napoleon imposed an Austrian-born emperor. Though he was executed by Mexican forces in 1867, Austrian brewers […]

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