As recently as a few years ago, obtaining bottles from Goose Island’s Bourbon County Brand Stout lineup of barrel-aged wonders wasn’t very tough. Just go to Chicago, stop by the Binny’s liquor store nearby their brewpub, and stock up. InBev, a new and enormous barrel-aging facility, and—most of all—hype has changed all of that. Nowadays, […]
Even with all the blockbuster buyouts and takeovers making headlines in the beer business as of late (the latest: Ballast Point in San Diego, purchased by Corona distributor Constellation Brands for a cool $1 billion), there’s still one overriding theme across the industry: It’s growing, and growing fast. That was the message brought across last […]
Ben Engler, co-founder and brewer at Occidental Brewing in northeast Portland, got into the beer biz the way a lot of people do—after working a stint at Tacoma brewpub Engine House No. 9 and getting laid off from his job in Seattle, he didn’t have much else to try. “I was bouncing around, looking for […]
Quick! What’s the most expensive beer you can think of? Samuel Adams Utopias, maybe? No way: That’s only $200-ish for a 700-milliliter metal bottle. Even BrewDog’s The End of History—which you may remember from pics on the internet; it’s that 110-proof sucker sold in bottles made from taxidermied squirrels and such—clocked in at a mere […]
It’s a little hard to believe, considering all the news from 10 Barrel Brewing Company over the past year, that they’re still only going to produce about 25,000 barrels of beer in 2015—a tiny percentage of Deschutes Brewery’s output. If current trends continue, though, those numbers might rapidly approach each other soon. At a press […]
Getting sick of pumpkin beers yet? Hate on them all you want, but—much like Taco Bell and Thursday-night football—it exists because you all secretly can’t get enough of it. Beer flavored with everyone’s favorite late-October gourd is nothing new in craft at this point. Where the Bend Whole Foods would’ve stocked Elysian’s Night Owl pumpkin […]
Beer, by its nature, is seasonal—not just in terms of seasonal releases, but in the natural churn of brands available across Bend’s shiny beer-shop coolers. Take Orlison Brewing, for example. Remember them? The lager-only brewery, based near Spokane, descended onto the Central Oregon scene in late 2013, offering innovative takes on the classic genre including […]
Cory Forster, brewmaster at The Bakers’ Brewery in Silverthorne, Colorado, is high every day of his life. It’s not an unusual state in this ski-resort town of 3,800, an hour west of Denver. But it’s not because of some debilitating drug habit. It’s because Silverthorne is 9,035 feet above sea level. Forster, who worked for […]
The northern Colorado town of Fort Collins (population: 155,000) is one of several medium-sized cities around the United States to earn the name Beer City USA from bloggers and travel magazine articles. In the past, that was almost wholly driven by two large outfits: New Belgium, they of Fat Tire and the Lips of Faith […]
It’s seven on a Friday night and the scene around the Deschutes Brewery pub is one of controlled chaos. People from Bend and beyond line up to try some of the new brews off the pilot system, including a smoked gose, a sour Belgian-style quadruple ale, and a variant of Black Butte Porter aged in […]
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