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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.

brian@beerodyssey.com
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Abstrax’s Extracts Are on the Nose

Cannabis industry’s flavorists spark new joint for brewers
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I‘d like to open by issuing Abstrax’s national sales manager, Barbara Stone, an apology. In discussing the brave new world of smell and taste wrought by Abstrax’s 100% plant-derived terpene extracts—a terpene being the aromatic compound found in all plant life and notoriously central to the world of cannabis—I provincially asked if dosing cannabis products […]

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Bend Pizza Kitchen Redefines a “Slice”

Bend’s shot at signature pizza topping is pizza’s most controversial topping
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A few years ago our northern neighbor, Portland, was named “The Best Pizza City in the U.S.” by writers who traversed America in search of the best za, beating out such obvious competitors as New York, Chicago, New Haven and newer-to-the-table stalwart, Detroit. Portland achieved this by offering excellent pizza emulating each of those municipal styles. […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend: Brett Thomas

Brewery Director of Sunriver Brewing
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We sit down with Sunriver Brewing’s director, Brett Thomas, to discuss Sunriver’s impressive tenure of quality and consistency that’s led to numerous awards locally (Oregon Beer Awards), nationally (Great American Beer Festival including being the reigning Brewery of the Year) and even globally (World Beer Cup).  As Sunriver prepares to open its fifth tasting room […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend: Michelle Mitchell

Co-Founder of Humm Kombucha
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We sit down with the OG Kombucha Mama, Michelle Mitchell, co-founder of Bend’s own Humm Kombucha, to learn about Humm’s humble beginnings in Mitchell’s kitchen experimenting with brewing kombucha, to how big the kombucha market has become and where it fits into today’s wellness drink landscape. Click here to LISTEN NOW

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Not Even Cheaper by the Dozen-Dozen

Egg prices impact Bend bakeries and cafes, and your wallet
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If a bacon, egg and cheese Hot Pocket is the Cadbury Egg of breakfast pastries, Nancy P’s Cafe & Bakery’s bacon, egg and cheese pocket is the Fabergé egg. On a recent morning in the bakery off Newport Avenue, owner Katy Clabough made mention of the skyrocketing price of eggs. Would all of Nancy P’s […]

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A Quarter Century of Finders Keepers on the Coast

Lincoln City welcomes beachcombers with glass floats and glasses of beer
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As someone who loves exploring all the natural beauty and unique activities that Oregon has to offer, I flogged myself for not even being aware of the Finders Keepers program in the central coastal town of Lincoln City, which lies four hours from Bend by car. Finders Keepers has been attracting beachcombers, whale watchers, wave […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend, Trever Hawman 🎧

Owner + Brewer of Bridge 99 Brewery
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We sit down with Trever Hawman, owner/brewer of Bridge 99 Brewery in northeast Bend’s “Brewers District” to discuss Bridge 99 Taproom’s recent 10-year anniversary and how the taplist has evolved over the past decade including how and why nearly every beer is now gluten free. (But you can’t taste the difference!) And why there’s a […]

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Third Rock Roastery’s Got the Coffee World in Bend’s Hands

One of Bend’s oldest coffee roasters aims to surface from the underground
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Bend has a pretty good number of coffee roasters per capita, but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well; and whatever is being done well, it’s worth having a lot of it. So, the number of roasters ’round here indicates how much we, collectively, love coffee. But most of the caffeine fiends […]

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