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For the beer lover visiting Bend for the first time, the natural place to go first would be to the Deschutes Pub, located on Bond Street in the heart of downtown. First brewery in Bend, check. But for those who have sampled Deschutes’ favorites (and perhaps a seasonal or two) and want to try a […]
Last week at the Kansas City airport I said goodbye to one of the things I love most in the world. No, not my newborn nephew, my folks or my childhood friends; I said goodbye to Boulevard Wheat — the bestselling craft beer in the Midwest that’s not presently sold anywhere in Bend. One last […]
This is the Beer Issue. This section is called Craft. So in honor of those two things, we’re laying out the breweries that call Central Oregon home. There’s lots on the list since we last made one, so even if you’re a local, there’s a high likelihood you’ll find one that you haven’t yet visited. […]
In Eugene, brewmaster Matt Van Wyk along with brothers Brian and Doug Coombs are the composers behind Alesong Brewing and Blending. They create a wide range of barrel-matured beers from earthy saisons to viscous imperial stouts and, increasingly, vinous, wild ales that are music to sour beer lovers’ ears. Among Alesong’s six-years-running slate of nine […]
“It’s like having a neighborhood party where you catch up with friends, meet new people and have lots of fun in the process,” is how Deschutes Historical Museum Manager Vanessa Ivy describes The Little Woody, the barrel-aged beer, cider and whiskey festival that happens quite literally in the museum’s front yard. What’s better than a […]
Brady Schaner is one of the newest Certified Beer Judge certification program’s beer judges and is on track to become Bend’s newest certified cicerone. When he passes the arduous exam, he’ll be our town’s ninth. Most of them work at 10 Barrel Brewing, but Schaner, for the past year, has brewed at Spider City Brewing. […]
It takes a bold character to take on the biggest brewery in the region, but that’s what Kobold Brewing has done in opening The Lair—the new Bend taproom of this Redmond-based brewery—directly across the street from the Deschutes Brewery Public House. OK, maybe Kobold isn’t trying to take down Deschutes (especially considering the former brews […]
When Redmond’s Wild Ride Brewing was an unnamed project in the planning stage—it opened in 2014—one of the five original co-owners remarked that the process itself was “a wild ride” and the concept stuck. Eight years and one global pandemic later, the ride now flows into Prineville. In addition to the original 20-barrel system, the […]
Despite all of women’s advances in the beer industry, it often feels like a world full of haze bois and beer bros. But women have been intimately involved in beer from the beginning – whether making beer for the family to drink in ancient times or selling beer to support the earliest family-owned craft brewing […]
In a continuing effort to get to know brewers (or winemakers, distillers, bakers, chefs or anyone who makes our lives tastier) more holistically, I sit down with them and get to know them better. Over a pint. To do this, I invite someone out for beers—just not the ones he or she makes, because this […]
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