Beer & Drink

When you’re buying cheese, do you purchase Tillamook cheese over Safeway’s house label, or Backporch Coffee Roasters over Starbucks, strictly because you want to keep Oregon companies safe from international mega-corps? Debates such as those beg another one: Why does the topic of “real” and “faux” craft beer come up so often, and inspire so […]

For a growing brewery, one of the thorniest issues to deal with is what to do with all the wastewater—and not the kind people produce after having a few beers, either. According to John Mercer, a brewing consultant who oversaw Deschutes Brewery’s wastewater treatment efforts for 12 years, a “very dialed-in, well-managed brewery” will produce […]