Beer & Drink

Props to Silver Moon for taking down Oregon's lone gold medal at the recent Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Silver Moon nabbed top honors for its Dark Side Stout in the Foreign-Style Stout Category, beating out 23 other entries for the top honor.
Billed as North America's largest beer festival, GABF drew more than many 3,900 entries this year, up from 3,500 last year.

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Bouncing around Portland for Music Fest NW, we took a break from the cosmically awesome collection of bands that had descended on the city to sip some brews at Amnesia Brewing, an excellently rustic beer-hall style brewery and pub at the north end of the city. With temperatures tickling the three-digit mark, a cold beer sounded swell, but an overly hoppy one, well, sounded like a punishment to our dehydrated palates.

After a full afternoon of recreating on a recent trip to Hood River, we were basking in the late-day sun in my buddy's driveway, drinking a PBR and plotting our next move. The local among us suggested Everybody's Brewing (across the river in White Salmon, Wash.

In celebration of Oregon Craft Beer Month, The Abbey Pub (purveyor of delicious, hard- to-find beers) offers up – one keg only – the Sunrise Oatmeal Pale Ale from Astoria's Fort George Brewery. Oatmeal in a pale ale? Aren't oats just for stouts, like the well-known Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout? Apparently not.

Last weekend, those who arrived at the Rise Up International Spring Jamboree at the Century Center may have been surprised to see that GoodLife Brewing Company (formerly Noble Brewing) had opened their taproom. The long-awaited opening of the facility featured only guest taps last weekend, but the selection was a well-curated picking of excellent regional beer.

Summer is here. Kind of.

If you've ever wondered what longtime Source contributor Bob Woodward looks like as a blue-armed deity, you're in luck. The new Epic Trail Ale label designed by former Source ad guru Aaron Fry, is emblazoned with Woody's smiling visage.

What is a “collaboration beer” exactly? We weren't quite sure until we learned more about the tag-team project Deschutes Brewery is engaging in with Kansas City's Boulevard Brewing company. It appears that Bend's largest brewery is teaming up with the Missouri-based craft brewer to create a white IPA, taking advantage of Boulevard's known ability to create quality Belgian-style beers.