Beer

In honor of National Consumer Protection Week Oregon Attorney General John Kroger released Oregon’s Top 10 Consumer Complaint List.
There are some obvious and repeat offenders on the list, like telemarketing, an activity that most everyone will agree is a pain in the ass.

It may be a first.
We’re so beer crazy around here that The Platypus has decided to pre-sell tickets for eight ounce pours from a keg they think will draw a crowd this Sunday.

It seems as though Bend’s rapidly expanding craft beer industry has done nothing but import brewers over the last few years. So it was probably time that we started exporting again.

We stopped in for lunch. The food was decent, John was smiling, 14 beers were on tap, all seemed good.

Dangerous Kate, the latest from Below Grade Brewing, is a bold Imperial Cascadian Black Ale, or black IPA that tastes much more malty than hoppy. Somewhat surprising given the insane amount hops Mr.

The six core beers in the Deschutes Brewery lineup are members of a prestigious club. In the microbrew world they’re icons.

Acting on anonymous tip that the Bond Street location had re-openend, MicroCosmos made our way down to the Deschutes Brewery for a late lunch today and discovered a bigger bolder pub in place of our longtime watering hole. The brewery has yet to formally announce its grand re-opening, look for that later this week, so the crowd was light, allowing MicroCosmos to survey the new digs and snap a few photos before diving into a Reuben.

We’ve been writing about winter seasonals a lot recently. And for good reason: A) it’s winter; B) winter beers are delicious.