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This week marks my final beer column for the Source. After just over four years, I move out of Central Oregon and move on in my career. (I could keep on writing this section, but it would start talking a lot more about Japan and Vermont than Bend, and my editor would likely complain.) Since […]
To the Central Oregon resident who only occasionally pays a trip to Portland, it can often seem like the city grows a couple new breweries with every visit. Such is the feeling that pervaded at a recent visit to Beer O’Clock, a hip Pearl District taproom which serves as a showcase for whatever’s new and […]
Time to clear some space in the ol’ beer shed. Just in time for consistently cold weather, Bendites will get to enjoy not one, not two, but three big-name barrel-aged beer releases in November. Available right now at Deschutes Brewery‘s pub on Bond Street is the 2018 version of The Dissident, an “oud bruin” (old […]
Considering that Rogue Ales produced nearly 100,000 barrels in 2017 (according to Brewers Association figures) and distributes its beer, cider, soda and distilled spirits to 50 U.S. states—and worldwide from Thailand to Norway, local Oregonian beer nerds still sometimes treat the brand as something of a joke. Much of this is backlash from the Newport-based […]
It is now well into the fall season, and everyone who enjoys a good ale knows that the cooler weather means only one thing: Fresh hop ales, barrel-aged stouts, tart fruit bombs, pumpkin beers! Six years and several generations’ worth of trendy beer fads ago, pumpkin-flavored beers were one of the main catalysts that drove […]
Since its launch in 2010, Untappd has been the smartphone-owning beer nerd’s best friend—apart from happy hour and a reliable ride back home. Boasting over seven million downloads and nearly four million active accounts, Untappd is a free social network focused entirely on craft beer. The basic idea couldn’t be simpler: Download the app, drink […]
Craft beer is now so mainstream that even in downtown Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world, there is a barrel house. “This city consumes more alcohol per capita than anywhere else in the world,” says Corey White, general manager of Banger Brewing off of Vegas’s Fremont Street Experience. “But in the past few […]
The advertising slogan for the 2018 Great American Beer Festival sums it up better than anyone else could: “4000+ Beers. 800+ Breweries. Mind Blown.” Held by the Brewers Association in Denver last weekend, GABF is a beer fest like nothing one’s seen in Central Oregon. Instead of paying for tokens that are exchanged for beer […]
Compared to Bend’s booming beer scene, Portland’s dozens of craft sites and all the many wineries of the Willamette Valley, Oregon’s capital city has never been known as a hotspot for craft beverage fans. Despite being the second largest city in the state, Salem only really had two breweries of note for many years—Gilgamesh and […]
There’s no doubt that craft beer is a nationwide trend—one that now has many regional specialties. Look at the ultra-trendy New England IPA, for example, or the tart and sour Berliner weisses that are endemic all across Florida. Up here in Oregon, however, we have fresh hops every fall—the regional gift that keeps on giving. […]
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