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.
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
I get that brunch is a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch, but breakfast is a compound word, meaning any meal in which you break your (typically overnight) fast. So, feel free to stop pretending you need to wait til 10 am to order a bloody Mary or mimosa and do what the crowds at any of […]
Zack Ottesen may have only been tending Five Fusion’s bar for just over a year, but he’s transitioned the Japanese-centric resto into one of Bend’s most destination-worthy bars, as evidenced by one of his earliest concoctions, The Botanist, being selected as Central Oregon’s best specialty cocktail in our Best of Central Oregon reader’s poll. And […]
Most doughnuts are frosted, but the frost from our first big winter storm severely derailed the first seasonal doughnut-off of the year. Since chocolate has only been an element of two past roundups, we selected the chocolatiest option there is: devil’s food cake with chocolate frosting and, if offered, topped with chocolate sprinkles. But no […]
Last week’s guests on the Grand Craft Beer podcast, Shannon McMenamin and General Manager Rob Vallance, discussed launching the homegrown beer empire’s foray into podcasting to reveal the hidden stories—much like many of its properties’ hidden bars—behind 40 years of putting out beer, putting on concerts, and putting Cajun tots on the map. This is […]
E ven as someone who does most of his cocktail drinking at home, equipped only with my limited bottles and unlimited whimsy, I’m really digging Bend’s boom in cocktail bars and revamped menus. For starters, they provide experiential research, which explains my attempts at homemade shrubs, syrups, extracts and infusions. From housemade fruit-infused vodkas to […]
As Maui residents are still rummaging through the rubble of the wildfires that incinerated the town of Lahaina in August, the scene is an all too familiar visage, just in a place no one expected. After all, Hawaii is a lush paradise. So how is the community of craft brewers responding? Just like they did […]
I have interviewed hundreds of brewers, dozens of whom told me that they got their start when someone bought them a Mr. Beer homebrew kit. I’ve interviewed scores of doughnut bakers, yet Erick and Kate Capellino, the husband-and-wife team behind the new Bend Yay, are the first to tell me they got their start “when one […]
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