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Drunk on Power

Officials at the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission used their position to snag rare booze
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Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission President Steve Marks resigned his position as the executive director of the government agency, effective Wednesday, Feb. 15, after Gov. Tina Kotek demanded his resignation. Marks led the agency, which regulates the sale and production of alcohol and marijuana in the state, since 2013 — a year before it branched […]

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Sand Lily Sparkling Wines Are for Beer Lovers

After more than 30 years making wine and beer for other companies, it’s Phil Brey’s time to sparkle
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A couple weeks (issues) ago, Source writer Donna Britt introduced us to the players leading the winification of Bend, transforming an idyllic beer town into a wine hamlet. Phil Brey has straddled that fence his entire career, spanning more than 30 years. His occupational trajectory has taken him from Fresno State University where he studied winemaking […]

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Bend Brewfest Fans Will Have to Wait Another Year

Annual event on hold while construction is underway at amphitheater
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Bend Brewfest won’t be happening in 2023. The Old Mill announced this week that it would put on hold its annual beer festival – the second-largest event of its kind in the Pacific Northwest – due to construction at the location of the event. Crews have been doing upgrades and expansion of the Hayden Homes […]

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Under 10 Barrel’s Roof Lives a TinyHaus

Some of the most innovative beers the most adventurous beer drinkers have never tried
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Going off of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission’s year-end numbers in 2019, selected both because it was the last of the pre-pandemic sales and because the Commission has stopped reporting the numbers, 10 Barrel Brewing sold nearly half a million barrels of beer in Oregon. But that’s a drop in the bucket compared to […]

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Review: Van Henion’s Schmetterling German Winter Ale

Fantastic beer and a cool vibe in this collaboration with Portland’s Migration Brewing
by Heidi Howard

Van Henion is Bend’s newest brewery. The brewery opened up in the old Boneyard Production facility on the east side of town in 2021. With the amount of brewing experience to be had by the folks who opened this brewery, it’s no wonder they came out of the gate strong. It’s also no surprise that […]

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Central Oregon’s Top 10 Beers of 2022

Interesting doesn’t always mean better, but in the case of these beers, it does
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By my best guesstimate, each of Central Oregon’s 27 breweries released, on average, at least a dozen beers in the past year, meaning we had no fewer than 350 local beers to choose from. I confess, nay, lament, I did not try them all. (That said, drinking a new beer each day in 2023 is […]

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Funky Fauna Celebrates First Four Seasons

Saisons put year-old Sisters brewery on the local-and beer geek-map
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From butterfly pea flowers that turn beers purple to Carolina reaper chili peppers that turn beers spicy AF, Funky Fauna Artisan Ales technically is a brewery, but it’s more like an idea factory. Funky Fauna is now celebrating one successful year of ideation. A full year into its existence it likely remains Central Oregon’s smallest […]

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Late Harvest Means Bumper Crop for Central Oregon

Maragas Winery expects 2022 will be an excellent vintage
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If you grow anything at home—tomatoes?—did you notice your bumper crop this season? Maragas Winery owner Doug Maragas sure did. Not just with the tomatoes, as well as garlic, pumpkins and more, but chiefly in this year’s harvest of Vitis vinifera. European wine grapes. It isn’t just that he had a banner harvest in terms […]

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Endangered Brown Ales Come Out of Hibernation for Winter

The style may have fallen out of favor, but never out of flavor
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Getting modern craft brewers to brew a brown ale is like getting the kids on my son’s Parks and Rec basketball team to practice lay-ups instead of chunking three-point and half-court shots. There’s so much interest and emphasis on trickery that the fundamentals get overlooked. In today’s world of double-dry-hopped hazy IPAs, the once-elemental brown […]

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