“Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success,” Arianna Huffington once famously said. It may have been describing her early life, but the quote is also a fitting description of 10 Barrel Brewing’s current seasonal offering, “Project: Failed.” Setting out to make something completely different, they failed—but certainly succeeded with a high-quality […]
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Source Suds
Worthy Brewing made us a beer!
Experimental beers are brewing at its best. It is only through trial and error that brewers arrive at the recipes that become the tried and true. Some experimental beers may prove interesting, but not yet ready for prime time. Others become classics and find their way into bottles, cans and kegs. Sampling all the local, […]
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No Poisoned Apple
Mirror Mirror is the fairest of them all
Barley wine beers are an interesting lot. Though not wine at all, these intense brews do pack a boozy punch—often registering between 10 and 15 percent alcohol by volume—and are often quite sweet and filled with a swirl of flavors, from dried fruits to acidic hops to caramel. The worst ones are syrupy sweet and […]
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Juniper Takes Hold
Central Oregon says aloha to another new brewery
On Thursday Central Oregon will toast Redmond’s Juniper Brewing Co. as it enters the ever expanding fold of brew pubs that have opened up shop in the high desert. As of press time, owner Curtis Endicott was putting the finishing touches on his 575-square-foot tasting room. Stressed to still be doing construction at this late […]
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Zwickels and Platypus
Beer events abound
According to the German Beer Institute, the word Zwickel “stems from the sampling cock mounted at the outside of a cask or tank to take tastes for assessing the brew’s progress during fermentation.” Though not all of the Central Oregon beer poured during Saturday’s Zwickelmania event will come from a “sampling cock,” if past events […]
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Brewing with Homies
Boneyard’s new collaboration promises a delicious double IPA
Boneyard is one of those breweries that, despite its exceptional beer, flies under the radar. Perhaps it’s because Boneyard doesn’t bottle its beer and doesn’t have the same marquee appearances in grocery store coolers or on bottle shop shelves. Or perhaps it is because the Boneyard brewers/owners refuse to toot their own horns, instead allowing […]
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Aged Beauty
10 Barrel’s outstanding new beer is pure gold
The latest creation from 10 Barrel Brewing Co., a beer called 16 barrels, is not actually a new beer. In fact, it is over one year old. Intended to be a one-off, a version of this beer was made last year for a St. Valentine’s Day dinner. But the maestros at 10 Barrel loved it […]
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Worthy Doubles Down
Experimental beers and proprietary hop strains
The men behind Worthy Brewery aren’t expecting to ride the crowded waves of the craft brewing boom. Instead, their eyes are on the horizon. Already they’re out in front of trends, busily preparing and planning for that next set. In the nearly one year that Worthy has been open (its anniversary is this February), the […]
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High Gravity in the High Desert
Big beers (and bands) take over McMenamins
As the brewing industry matures, specialty beer festivals have become prized as a way to showcase particular and peculiar styles. This is a great trend. The inaugural Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival back in December was a huge hit and The Little Woody Barrel Aged Beer and Whiskey Festival in August is one of the […]
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Winter Beer Face-Off
Gather friends, taste beers, vote on favorites—it’s easy!
Last weekend a few buddies and I did what we do almost every holiday season and that’s drink way too many high-alcohol winter seasonals in an effort to find the year’s best. The process is simple: a blind head-to-head taste test with multiple rounds determines the winner. Appoint a non-participant to pour beers and fill […]