A nyone who expects the end of “the season” in Central Oregon to trigger a slowdown in brew activities around the region obviously hasn’t been living here long enough—or hasn’t heard the news from both downtown Bend’s Silver Moon and the rising beer star just a ways down Highway 97. The Moon has remained busy […]
Kevin Gifford
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Sunriver Brewing Company: Local winners at the Great American Beer Festival
T he big headlines for Oregon beer, however, were made in Denver last weekend. That’s the site of the Great American Beer Festival, the U.S.’ largest and most prestigious craft-beer celebration, and it’s fair to say that Sunriver Brewing had a nice weekend over there. Head brewer Brett Thomas and the rest of the Sunriver […]
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Beer and Hardware by the Beach
Cannon Beach Hardware is where craft meets craftsmen
I t’s not news, perhaps, that the coast of Oregon is worth visiting for the beer as much as the pretty views. From 7 Devils in Coos Bay to Buoy and all their friends up in Astoria, nobody’s ever very far from some locally-made refreshment. What can be a problem, however, is finding all the […]
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Fresh Hop Mania
Breweries local and region-wide offer the goods
I n a way, it’s a blessing that the Hood River Hops Fest wound up being delayed. Not a blessing for Gorge residents, given that the delay’s caused by the lingering Eagle Creek fire and the continued dicey situation along I-84 between Portland and points east. But certainly a blessing for fans of fresh-hop beer, […]
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A Burst Bubble, or a “Correction?”
What two recent shutterings tell us about Oregon’s brewery scene
T he closing of one brewery’s taproom in Bend last week perhaps didn’t come as a great surprise for beer fans in the city. The upcoming shuttering of a much more renowned one in Portland, meanwhile, has some industry watchers wondering if the craft beer “correction” is underway. Craft Kitchen & Brewery opened over two […]
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Festivals Abound
Discover German styles and fresh hops this month
A fter surviving the summer heat, wildfire smoke and the Apoc-Eclipse (seems like so long ago now, doesn’t it?), all of Bend deserves to relax with a beer. The rest of September offers a vast range of opportunity for this, both locally and across the state. Bend Oktoberfest Right this weekend is Bend Oktoberfest, the […]
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Bend Beer’s Virginian Outpost
Inside Deschutes’ brand-new Roanoke taproom
Charles de Gaulle, war hero and president of France, once said, “how can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” If he were American, he would probably say something very similar about beer. T hat’s true here at home, and it’s true over in Virginia as well, where groundbreaking on Deschutes Brewery’s […]
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An Ode to the Tugboat
Portland’s oddest brewery closes
I n a Pearl District back alley in Portland is a bar. A dark bar, one that seems to exist on a different plane from the sun and heat of the current PNW summer. One that ostensibly was a brewery, but few went there for that. And one that, as of this past Monday, is […]
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Three Creeks’ Nasty Beer
How a Sunriver retiree made a fest-winning IPA
A ll of Central Oregon might be growing, but there’s still something a little timeless about the outer reaches of Sisters—high trees, slower pace, large numbers of livestock about. That’s how things still roll at Three Creeks Brewing on the southeast side of town, which has provided steaks, sandwiches, and taste-over-trends beer for nearly a […]
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The Eclipse: Another Excuse for Good Beer
Brews to go with the week’s once-in-a-lifetime theme—plus Redmond Brewfest!
Just in case this is the first piece of media readers of this column have seen all year, there’s going to be a total eclipse north of Bend on Monday morning. It’s a lifetime event, the first total one the US has seen since 1979, and—this being the United States, after all—companies nationwide are seeking […]