There are SO MANY great summer beer options in Central Oregon to choose from. My curated list has new, unique brews as well as old favorites, but they all have one thing in common. They’re all crushable! Let’s get started with a couple of beers from CRUX Fermentation Project. No Mo – Non-alcoholic IPA. I […]
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Worthy Brewing’s Organic Farm ▶ [with video]
Add communal farming to the brewery’s list of cool side projects
Visitors to Worthy Brewing can’t help but notice the hopyard is looking a bit barren. It’s not that the land proved infertile. Quite the contrary; it’s being repurposed into a new organic farm, the latest venture for the Worthy Garden Club, the brewery’s nonprofit highlighting sustainable practices. The new farm “came on suddenly,” says Lisa […]
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Hard-ly Drinking
A roundup of the myriad hard seltzers locals are enjoying in 2021
Ah, hard seltzer. In 2018, the Source Weekly went on a quest to find Zima, in an effort to bring back some of what was good in the ’90s. In 2020, the Source pegged hard seltzer as the biggest emerging trend—one that would one day, soon, fall to the annals of pop-culture history. But now, […]
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Cinco Cervezas for Cinco de Mayo
Instant fiesta: Just add any of these local Mexican-style beers
Isn’t it loco to think that we have Austrians to thank for Mexican lagers? German immigrants greatly influenced non-indigenous brewing in Mexico, but the quintessential Mexican lager is a style more formally known as Vienna lager because in 1864 Napoleon imposed an Austrian-born emperor. Though he was executed by Mexican forces in 1867, Austrian brewers […]
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Easy Day is Easy Drinking
Worthy gives us low buzz with big flavor
I will start by saying, I’m not a “low calorie, low ABV” kind of girl. I like my beers to be like my husband: strong! The beers I tried today have changed my mind though… about beer, not my husband (haha). Worthy Brewing provided two beers for review, both are low-calorie, hazy IPAs called Easy Day. […]
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Local Brew News
Cascade Lakes reopens; BBC and Newport Market team up
Here are some of the latest tidbits happening in and around Beer Town, USA. Cascade Lakes Brewing Reopens its Pub with a New Look When it comes to apres-ski beer offerings, snow riders don’t get much closer to the mountain than the Cascade Lakes Brewpub at the Colorado Avenue/Century Drive roundabout. For the past four […]
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Deschutes Brewery and Boneyard
Shaking up the craft beer industry
I‘ll admit when I heard about the acquisition of Boneyard by Deschutes Brewery I thought “WHAT?! NO, WAIT, I don’t know….” How will this change Boneyard? Will it remain the hardcore, “white whale” brewery that I know and love? Will people flock from all over the country just to get a sip of a delicious […]
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Winter Beer Fest Ahead
Suttle Lodge Virtual Beer Festival offers a variety of beers and fun—all to support independent restaurants in Oregon
It’s been a rough 12 months for us beer lovers. So many missed beer festivals; enter virtual beer festivals. I know… it’s not quite the same, but the virtual beer festivals can be quite fun and they can still support great causes. This is the case for the second annual Suttle Lodge Winter Beer Festival […]
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More Locations Offering To-Go Cocktails
Where to get those drinks to go, before they go away
Several weeks ago, as to-go cocktails began to be a thing in Oregon, we published a very brief list of some of the places starting to offer to-go cocktails. We’ve updated the list to include some of the other places that have since come online with new and inventive ways to get their cocktails into […]
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Whiskeyed Away
News and trends in local whiskey
If there was any time better than the middle of winter to revel in the craft of whiskey, we don’t know when it is.