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.
Five medals from the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) were awarded to Bend’s new UPP Liquids en route to being named Best Brewery of the Year in the 251-500 barrel class. But locals are the real winners. Some 8,315 brews were submitted to GABF, America’s most auspicious beer competition, where 250 of the world’s most […]
While blackberries, salmon and hazelnuts are overtly Pacific Northwest, they’re not as uniquely PNW as hops, given that over 99 percent are grown in the region. What’s more, several hop farms in Washington’s Yakima Valley and Oregon’s Willamette Valley are in the soil-scented hands of fifth generation farmers. And now, yes, right now, is the only […]
Tea is the most popular soft drink in the world while beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage on Earth. Given how many adjuncts — non-traditional ingredients beyond malt and hops — are used in craft brewing, it’s almost puzzling how uncommon tea-infused beers are. Wild Ride Brew’s head brewer, Matt Katakura, tastefully bucks that […]
In this episode, we meet Barbara Stone and Nathan Smith from Abstrax, the cannabis and beer industry extract company, to discuss how terpenes are revolutionizing the cannabis, beer, and entire CPG (consumer packaged goods) industries and why Bend breweries get first crack at these innovations thanks to Smith, who’s a local. LISTEN NOW
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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
We sit down with mixologist Camille Cavan— who specializes in mocktails—to discuss all facets of the zero-proof movement from who the various customers are to the range of flavors, pricing, and benefits of going semi-sober, completely sober, or “California sober.” LISTEN NOW Related Stories
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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