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The NA Beer Boom is a Boon for Local Breweries

If you’re drinking less beer, you’ll soon have more near-beer options

by Brian Yaeger April 17, 2024October 24, 2024

Move over Dry January and Sober October because non-alcoholic beers (and mocktails) continue to gain market share year-round. In fact, non-alcoholic beer keeps enjoying record growth year after year, up some 30% in 2023 for a reported market segment worth over $360 million. While one brand, Athletic Brewing, commands roughly one third of that market, […]

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Spring Sips

Revitalize your taste buds with seasonal cocktails

by Alyson Brown April 10, 2024June 24, 2024

What better way to celebrate the change of seasons than with a refreshing array of seasonal cocktails? Bid farewell to mulled wine and hot toddies and say hello to vibrant, fresh concoctions filled with spring flavors. Grab your shakers, friends, and let’s dive into the delightful world of spring flavors! Rhubarb When I think of […]

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A Love Letter to a Unique Ingredient: Pico Water

Bar Rio’s “Chips & Salsa" cocktail reimagines namesake snack

by Brian Yaeger March 20, 2024August 22, 2024

Seeing “pico water” listed among the ingredients on a cocktail menu looks more like a typo than a stroke of genius. I mean, both Siri and Alexa come up drier than a to-do list during Sober October when asked what pico water is, but now that I’ve had it in Bar Rio’s Chips & Salsa […]

Food & Drink

La Pine’s Legend Cider Reopens

An expanded taproom featuring 27 taps for La Pine’s only cidery

by Brian Yaeger March 13, 2024June 2, 2025

Legends never die. But one, La Pine’s Legend Cider Co., is being reopened. Born in The Dalles in 2016, and still sourcing its unfiltered juice from the Columbia Gorge on both sides of the state line, Legend relocated to La Pine in 2018. After five years it had outgrown its original location and is now […]

Food & Drink

Boxwood Kitchen Becomes Mill Works Pub

Name and menu change for Old Mill eatery

by Nicole Vulcan March 6, 2024July 28, 2025

An Old Mill District restaurant is now a pub. After a short closure and a rebrand, the space formerly known as Boxwood Kitchen recently opened under the name Mill Works Pub. Boxwood closed in late January to undergo a rebrand and redesign. The space reopened March 4, with a new look, more beer taps and […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend: Owner Andy Rhine & Brewmaster Ryan Schmiege, Cascade Lakes Brewing 🎧

A chat with Andy Rhine and Ryan Schmiege of Cascade Lakes Brewing about beer trends, consumer trends, and why people still love brown and red ales.

by The Source Staff February 28, 2024May 18, 2024

This episode of Grand Craft Bend welcomes Cascade Lakes Brewing’s owner, Andy Rhine, and brewmaster, Ryan Schmiege. We discuss what’s new with Central Oregon’s second oldest brewery that’s turning 30 years old, craft beer styles that have come, gone, and come back again during that time, and why the Rhine family recently converted it into Oregon’s second-ever not-for-profit brewery. […]

Food & Drink

LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend: Grant McFarren, Crux Fermentation Project 🎧

A chat with Grant McFarren of Crux Fermentation Project about seasonal beers, other new beers, non-alcoholic beers, and Crux’s non-beer projects including cider, wine, whiskey, and more.

by The Source Staff February 14, 2024May 12, 2024

This episode of Grand Craft Bend welcomes Crux Fermentation Project’s assistant brewmaster, Grand, er, Grant McFarren. This brewery, er, fermentation project, has so many plates spinning. There are new beers using new hops, new locations like its pub in Portland (and perhaps another new spot in Bend), surprising best-selling offerings, not to mention upcoming fermented beverages. In this episode we […]

Food & Drink

Monkless Prepares to Open The Abbey

Belgian beers will soon have a pious new home, sans frites

by Brian Yaeger February 14, 2024May 7, 2025

Monkless Belgian Ales has been crafting Belgian-style beer since 2014 and slinging mussels with frites plus Liege waffles at its Monkless Brasserie since late 2019. Now, owners Robin and Todd Clement are bringing their abbey-style ales to, well, their very own Abbey. Just as it’s not uncommon for brewers to jump from one brewing company […]

Food & Drink

LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend: Robin & Todd Clement, Monkless Belgian Ales 🎧

Monkless Belgian Ales founders on the popularity of Belgian ales and their new Monkless Abbey.

by The Source Staff February 7, 2024July 3, 2024

This episode of Grand Craft BEND welcomes Robin and Todd Clement, founders of Monkless Belgian Ales. The Clements personify a Hollywood love story, if Hollywood was a beer-soaked high desert town that focused on true and truly lovable characters. Whereas the Monkless Brasserie became the brewing company’s sequel, we learn about the upcoming Monkless Abbey to complete the trilogy. Listen now: Source Weekly […]

Food & Drink

It’s Super Bowl LVIII and This Year We’re in Our RED Era

Red-hot drinks for a winning Super Bowl watching party

by Alyson Brown February 7, 2024February 11, 2025

With the the countdown to Super Bowl Sunday upon us, football fans across the nation gear up for one of the most anticipated sporting events of the year. This year’s showdown promises an exciting face-off between two formidable contenders: the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. And this year, both teams share something […]

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