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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.

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Grand Craft Bend: Bevel Beer’s Nate & Val Doss

Taking Bevel’s 5th anniversary, segue from disc golf to craft beer, and modern hop-forward beers
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Grand Craft Bend podcast talks to Bevel Craft Brewing‘s co-owners Nate and Valerie Doss as we discuss Bevel’s 5th anniversary party this weekend, their segue from professional disc golfers to pro brewers, and something called a “tropical cold IPA” debuting at the Bend Bands & Brewers Bash on June 28. LISTEN NOW: Source Weekly – Bend, […]

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Bev Curious? There’s a Fest for That!

Silver Moon Brewing hosts second annual BevFest Saturday
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Beer has a problem. Actually it has many problems, perhaps the largest of which is kids these days. Statistically, young adults are eschewing beer, either because it’s got alcohol or carbs or both. But still, we all gotta drink. In this era of “functional beverages,” the fact is, every beverage serves a function from waking […]

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Why You May Be Seeing More Amaro

Italy’s herbal bitter liqueurs are making cocktails complicated
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Italian Amaros are so bitter that they’re named after the Italian word for bitter. To that end, the plural for amaro (“bitter”) isn’t really amaros, it’s amari. And while bitterness doesn’t seem like a selling point for adult beverage enthusiasts, let’s not forget that the IPA — a craft beer style distinguished by hoppy bitterness […]

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Bend’s Best Glazed Doughnuts

Raised glazed doughnuts’ superiority stems from simplicity
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From old-fashioned rings to maple bars to apple fritters, we’ve blind taste-tested a litany (and a gluttony) of Bend’s best doughnuts, leaping around from flavored icing to fanciful toppings. But like the kids on my son’s basketball teams that I’ve coached, we spent so much time heaving trick shots that we’ve neglected the fundamentals. So […]

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The NA Beer Boom is a Boon for Local Breweries

If you’re drinking less beer, you’ll soon have more near-beer options
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Move over Dry January and Sober October because non-alcoholic beers (and mocktails) continue to gain market share year-round. In fact, non-alcoholic beer keeps enjoying record growth year after year, up some 30% in 2023 for a reported market segment worth over $360 million. While one brand, Athletic Brewing, commands roughly one third of that market, […]

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Morning Story Reflects New Owners’ Doughnut Twists

Redmond cafe gets Asian-American makeover
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Any shopkeeper will ask you how your day is going, but Tanankam “Yee” Thanitithanand wants to know your morning story. Moreover, she wants to help make it a sweet one. It’s why she, and her Oishi Japanese Restaurant partner Naruemon “Molly” Stephen, renamed Halo Donuts to Morning Story when the pair took over the doughnut […]

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La Pine’s Legend Cider Reopens

An expanded taproom featuring 27 taps for La Pine’s only cidery
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Legends never die. But one, La Pine’s Legend Cider Co., is being reopened. Born in The Dalles in 2016, and still sourcing its unfiltered juice from the Columbia Gorge on both sides of the state line, Legend relocated to La Pine in 2018. After five years it had outgrown its original location and is now […]

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Monkless Prepares to Open The Abbey

Belgian beers will soon have a pious new home, sans frites
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Monkless Belgian Ales has been crafting Belgian-style beer since 2014 and slinging mussels with frites plus Liege waffles at its Monkless Brasserie since late 2019. Now, owners Robin and Todd Clement are bringing their abbey-style ales to, well, their very own Abbey. Just as it’s not uncommon for brewers to jump from one brewing company […]

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Hoppily Ever After

Founding breweries after finding love: A Valentine’s Day tale
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Mark and Dana Henion met at brewing industry events in Eugene when he worked at Ninkasi and she worked at Oakshire back in 2012. Two years later, along with mutual friend John Van Duzer—who began working with Mark at Deschutes Brewery in 1994—they started working at Boneyard. The following year Mark and Dana got engaged. […]

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