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 […]
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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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
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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What the Beer Lover in Your Life Wants from Sudsy Santa
Find holiday cheer at these five purveyors of Bend brews
Beer lovers are actually the easiest people to shop for, provided you don’t get them a suitcase of Michelob Ultra or an eighth pair of boxers with a bottle cap pattern. With so many local breweries, you can’t go wrong but here are a few sure-fire ways to gift right. Belgium is famous for inventing […]
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Big Ed’s is Bend’s Biggest Secret Bakery
From year-round sourdough to seasonal cider doughnuts
A couple weeks ago, I focused my quarterly doughnut roundup on fall favorites, specifically apple cider doughnuts. The only places that make them at this moment are Too Sweet Cakes and Sisters Bakery. Or so I thought, until a reader mercifully informed me that Big Ed’s Artisan Breads makes this autumnal delicacy (available only late September […]
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Bend Earns Reputation as Beer Mecca
More Great American Beer Fest medals return to Central Oregon than Portland
Each year, confident American craft brewers send their beers to Denver, Colorado, to be judged at the most prestigious competition in the country, if not the world: the Great American Beer Festival, produced by the Brewers Association. For this year’s 38th annual competition, 8,836 beers were submitted covering all 50 states. As always, California came […]
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Bend’s Best Autumnal Doughnuts
Bonus points for offering apple cider sweet treats
Fall calls for doughnuts that taste like, well, fall-scented candles. They often offer the allure of sweet baking spices like cinnamon and nutmeg and alternate from vanilla icing to buttermilk glaze. But while Central Oregon isn’t Vermont or even Central Washington, it’d be nice if more of our doughnut purveyors would sling sugar-crusted cake doughnuts […]
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Hemp Beverages Reach New Summit
Pacific Hemp Beverage Summit Explores THC drinks Friday at Silver Moon
Just three months ago, I wrote about the three Bend beverage makers who noticed how the 2018 federal Farm Bill spelled out that products containing 0.3% dry-weight volume of THC are legal to produce, distribute and sell. It essentially translates to being able to consume drinks that boast a low-key 2 milligrams of hemp-derived (but […]
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Grand Craft Bend: Craft Kitchen & Brewery’s Funny Business
Come for the beer and BBQ, stay for the experimental comedy
G rand Craft Bend podcast talks to Courtney Stevens, co-owner of Bend’s Craft Kitchen & Brewery about launching the brewpub with her husband, Mark, and hosting tons of events including open-mic stand-up comedy, where Courtney sometimes performs her own material. Listen now: Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Grand Craft Bend: Craft Kitchen & Brewery
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Radlerfest Returns to Quench Late-Summer Thirst
Five breweries in NE Bend’s Boyd Acres welcome wheeled guests with $6 pints of eponymous beer cocktails
Summer doesn’t officially end until September 22, and with the current heat in Bend, that is patently obvious. For the second year in a row, five breweries in the so-called Brewers District — the Empire Avenue corridor east of Highway 97 — will have a radler on tap on Saturday, September 14 from 1-7 p.m. […]
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Terranaut Beer Sets Sail in Bend
New brewery moves into the tiny brewhouse that was 10 Barrel Brewing’s maiden voyage
Terranaut Brewing is Bend’s second new brewery in the last five years (including Van Henion). If it feels like Bend already has a bunch of breweries, that’s in part because in the five years prior, nine had opened. While Terranaut is most certainly new, it comes with a vaunted pedigree in brewer and co-owner Bryon […]
