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A Community Brew

Riverbend produces Blunder Armour IPA to help Cascade Armory battle Under Armour
Chris Miller

Riverbend Brewing Company’s latest beer is a classic interpretation of a Northwest IPA. It’s clean looking, tastes great, and at 7 percent alcohol by volume, will give drinkers that after-a-hard-day relaxation IPAs are known for. But it wasn’t created just to make another great-tasting IPA. Instead, it was created in part to help out another […]

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A Grand Opening

New Bend brewery, Bevel Craft Brewing, gets an ace for its Cascadian Dark Ale
Heidi Howard

Bevel Brewing has been on craft enthusiasts’ watch lists for quite some time now, and the wait is finally over! Bevel is now open, with a grand opening planned for Saturday, April 6. The atmosphere is industrial, and the outdoor areas are vast, with potential for plenty more food trucks than the space has now. […]

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Rock Turns Rye into Bottled Cocktail

The Rock and Rye resurgence
Lisa Sipe

Rocks and whiskey—or rocks with cocktails—typically refers to ice. But with rock and rye, the rock is candy. That sweet addition, oftentimes including citrus, has a long history. Let’s start with rye whiskey. From the end of the Civil War to Prohibition, it was the main whiskey consumed in the United States. Rye farmers distilled […]

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Where to Get Your St. Paddy’s Day On

From beer, food and running, there’s lots to do in C.O.
Chris Miller

McMenamains Old St. Francis school Fri., March 15 to Sun., March 17 All day As part of St. Patrick’s Day Across the Land, McMenamins is hosting its weekend-long party with food and drinks specials and live music. Tony Smiley kicks off the weekend at Father Luke’s Room from 7 to 10pm on Friday. Live music, […]

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Beer and Girl Scout Cookies

An unlikely pairing
Heidi Howard

It’s a match made in heaven for lovers of sweets and beer. On March 2, Bend Brewing Company held a Girl Scout Cookie and Beer pairing, donating a portion of the proceeds to the Girl Scouts of America and pairing six cookies with six beers. The first pairing: The classic Thin Mint cookie with a […]

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Distiller Faces Ryegrass Roadblocks

Biofuel research leads to world’s first ryegrass whiskey
Lisa Sipe

Before starting a craft distillery in 2012, Chris Beatty was a partner in Trillium FiberFuels, a company focused on creating ethanol from grass and wheat straw. He studied the ryegrass plant because the company was in the Willamette Valley, the ryegrass capitol of the world. They’d learned that as the ryegrass grows, they could cut […]

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Promoting Passion

New Oregon Brewers Guild co-director on Zwickelmania
Zach Beckwith, Head Brewer, Bend Brewing Company

Every year, February brings Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day and of course, Zwickelmania—the annual statewide brewery open house, organized by the Oregon Brewers Guild. The Guild has recently undergone a number of changes, including the hiring of new co-directors Tony Roberts and Bend local Christina LaRue. I recently sat down with LaRue over a glass of […]

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Brew News: BridgePort Closing; pFriem Expanding

In a crowded market, breweries come and go
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Beer enthusiasts often rejoice at the opening of new breweries; but those announcements can sometimes come with a downside: more competition. In the case of one of Oregon’s most established breweries, that competition proved to be too much to handle. BridgePort Brewing Company announced on its Facebook page Tuesday that it would be closing its […]

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Big Rig Bitter

An oldie but goodie at Deschutes Brewery
Heidi Howard

Bitter beers are a style from the old world—the mid-19th century, to be exact. The bitter ale came to be an alternative to porters and stouts across the pond. It’s not actually bitter unless you compare it to porters and stouts (as a rule of thumb). In Central Oregon, Deschutes Brewery has been brewing bitter […]

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