The world is spinning again and that means beer festivals can return. While beers pair extremely well with tacos (see this week’s Chow story for more on that), they also pair perfectly with friends, strangers and (what should be) a warm, sunny day. Bend Brewfest returns May 13 and 14, but not to the amphitheater. […]
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Locals Nights and Other Things
Inflation got you down? Let these locals’ discounts give you a leg up
If you’re looking for a place to knock back a pint without breaking the bank, let these locals’ nights give you a place to start. It’s far from a comprehensive list, but it’ll get you going. MONDAYS Start the week off with a healthy dose of Silver Moon at its Locals’ Night Mondays. OK, it’s […]
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Boss Rambler Gets Its Own Brewery
Boss Rambler’s IPAs and slushie beers find a new home at the old Riverbend brewery
Boss Rambler Beer Club has pulled off a lot in its brief run that, this Saturday, April 16, celebrates three years since opening its doors on Galveston. (The beer debuted a year before the taproom.) That means two-thirds of the operation overlapped a world-paralyzing pandemic. To survive, Boss Rambler did what virtually everyone did: pivot. Originally […]
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A Flower-Infused Cocktail
A local author shares a recipe from her book, in honor of this Home and Garden issue
As spring begins to bloom, we’re greeted with delightful flowers unfurling their petals after a long winter’s rest. Forsythia, Oregon grape, cherry blossom, black locust and lilac are a few of my edible spring favorites you’ll find popping up in Central Oregon. But there’s no spring flower as charming in my opinion as the sweet […]
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Bend’s Avid Cider Levels Up
A new future with Michigan’s Blake’s Hard Cider
When Samantha Roberts and her then-husband Dan McCoy attended Bend Brewfest in 2011, something eyebrow-raising struck them: the longest line for samples didn’t belong to a single brewery, but rather to the lone cidery in attendance. Roberts was no stranger to hard cider. She’d gotten hooked on the stuff in her mother’s native England, where […]
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Bar Fiori’s Wine-Music Pairings Seek to Turn Tables
Natural wines find their supernatural songs by the glass
Bar Fiori is not a bar. For that matter, it’s not a flower either, but it does offer a bouquet of colorful, natural wines. It’s a business project started by Bendite Kelsey Kuther, who got turned onto the vibrant world of natural wines in, of all places, Los Angeles. For the moment, Bar Fiori is […]
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Zwickelmania Offers Beer Lovers Hopportunity to Peek Under the Hood
Complimentary samples abound at Oregon brewery open houses
Feb. 26’s Oregon Brewers Guild’s 14th annual Zwickelmania may seem slightly confounding since the event is all about getting everyone to crowd into every craft brewery in the state, and we’ve been told for the last two years not to crowd into anywhere. So if you want to try a bunch of beer—wait, let me […]
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Over a Pint: Crux’s Cam O’Connor
An occasional Source Weekly series, inviting brewers and beer geeks to talk about the biz of brewing
I frequently interview brewers and occasionally socialize with them. But those conversations tend to revolve around a new beer release or festival or trends. So one day I thought, let’s get to know brewers (or winemakers, distillers, bakers, chefs, or anyone who makes our lives tastier) more holistically. To do this, I invite someone out for […]
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Bend’s Newest Brewery is Old News
Van Henion Brewing takes over Boneyard’s brewhouse
While a lot of today’s craft beer focuses on the new new, there’s always been a thread in beer realizing that what’s old is new. When Monkless Belgian Ales opened in 2014, it was the first local brewery to focus on old, Belgian style ales. When Porter Brewing launched in 2018, it became the first […]
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Funky Fauna Launches as First New Brewery in Years
Saison-centric Sisters brewery opens with hoppy lagers and IPAs
During the pandemic these last two years, we’ve bid farewell to a number of cherished eateries but welcomed some new faves, too. Until now, the same could not have been said about breweries, for although we’d lost a few outside of Bend, it’s been the area’s longest period without a new brewery since 10 Barrel […]