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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer Tim Ensign Steeplejack Brewing 🎧

A chat with a legend of Oregon beer
by The Source Staff

In this episode of Grand Craft Beer Brian Yaeger is joined by Oregon beer legend, Tim Ensign, Director of Sales & Marketing for Steeple jack Brewing in Portland. They discuss the ins’n’outs of what is a critical, yet perhaps purposefully, overlooked role in the beer industry: sales and marketing, especially when it comes to breweries […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer – The Ale Apothecary 🎧

Talking Swedish-style beers, smoked beers and more with a Bend beer innovator
by The Source Staff

Grand Craft Beer Episode 6 welcomes The Ale Apothecary’s founder and brewmaster Paul Arney. Since 2011, The Ale Apothecary has been Bend’s only all-wild brewery… except it’s now launching The AlePharm for non “wild” ales. From batch 1, which was a Finnish-inspired Sahti, to the newest Swedish-inspired Gotlandstrcka made with smoked malt and brewed for […]

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One of the World’s Most Obscure Beers Comes to Bend

The Ale Apothecary made a Gotlandsdricka inspired by smoked Swedish farmhouse ales
Avatar photo by Brian Yaeger

When Paul Arney launched The Ale Apothecary in 2011, he deigned to create beers that were more art than industry. One of his first recipes was an interpretation of a Finnish farmhouse ale known as sahti. But he was clear to point out, “This is not a farmhouse brewery. This is a mountain brewery.” A […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer – Three Creeks Brewing 🎧

A look back at 15 years of brewing in Sisters, Oregon
by The Source Staff

On this episode of Grand Craft Beer host Brian Yaegar welcomes Jeff Cornett and Emily Richmond of Three Creeks Brewing in Sisters. Crack your own can of Conelick’r Fresh Hop IPA (brewed with ultra-fresh Centennial hops) and drink alongside Brian and his guests as they talk about the brewery’s 15 years of brewing and hosting […]

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Roll Out the Barrels; It’s Time for Oktoberfests

From bratwursts to weiner dogs, a roundup of stein-hoisting events this season
Avatar photo by Brian Yaeger

It’s been 213 years since the marriage of Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. While you weren’t invited to the wedding, the anniversary is better known today as Oktoberfest. Some 6 million people will fill the tents and bierhalls of Munich from mid-September through early October. Somewhat confusingly, the primary beer style for the […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer – Flanders Brown Ales, aka Oud Bruins 🎧

Learn more about Flanders Brown Ales and experience a virtual ‘tasting’ of Deschutes Brewery’s The Dissident
by The Source Staff

Grand Craft Beer dives into the nearly-invisible yet highly-incredible world of Flanders Brown Ales, aka Oud Bruins, the 17th century style of Belgian sour beer that, thanks to breweries like Deschutes, are still around… if you know where to look. Podcasters Brian Yaeger and Donna Britt explore a vertical tasting of The Dissident from 2023, […]

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Deschutes’ New Brown Ale is its Old Brown Ale

Oud Bruin, aka Flanders Brown, is worth discovering, or re-discovering
Avatar photo by Brian Yaeger

In 2008, craft breweries were still on the verge of tapping into beer’s wild and wooly past. Historical styles were truly all the rage. You literally (not figuratively) weren’t guaranteed to find an “India Pale Ale” on taplists! So-called sour beers were on the cusp of becoming A Thing. Allagash Brewing in Portland, Maine, built […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer – Oblivion Brewing Turns 10 🎧

Celebrating 10 years for a Bend brewery
by The Source Staff

On this week’s episode of Grand Craft Beer, Bend’s premiere beer podcast, we hear from Oblivion Brewing’s founder and brewer Darin Botschy. As Oblivion turns 10, Botschy reflects on the first decade and what we can expect in the next decade. That starts with the upcoming Oblivion Pour House so Bendites in Southeast Bend will […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer – Bridge 99 Brewer Trever Hawman 🎧

From homebrewing to a 15-barrel brew operation in north Bend
by The Source Staff

Episode 2 of Grand Craft Beer welcomes Trever Hawman, owner/brewer of Bridge 99 Brewery in NE Bend. We discuss his ascent from homebrewer to nanobrewer to the state of his 15-barrel brewery, as well as being situated in the shadow of 10 Barrel Brewing, newly released by AB-InBev. Speaking of his neighbors, we also announce […]

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Drink Beer, Donateto Maui Fire Support

Local fundraisers for wildfire victims
Avatar photo by Nicole Vulcan

The deadly fires in Maui this month have prompted businesses all over to create fundraisers aimed at raising funds for fire relief and recovery efforts. Luau at Immersion Brewing Over at Immersion Brewing, the staff is planning a big luau-style party for Saturday, Aug. 26. Immersion will release three new beers, and offer a pig […]

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