Beer & Drink

Some of Oregon’s most iconic breweries are changing hands once again and going to a perhaps unlikely owner: an international cannabis and lifestyle company. St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch struck a deal this week to sell Bend’s 10 Barrel Brewing Co. and Portland’s Widmer Brothers Brewing and Square Mile Cider Co. as part of an eight-brand acquisition […]

Two of Bend’s well-known drinks brands are moving their production facilities. Silver Moon Brewing has up until this point had two facilities – one in Redmond and one in Bend – for brewing beer. But this week, the brewery announced it would consolidate its operations and brew exclusively at its facility in downtown Bend. That […]

Downtown Bend is a happening place nearly every weekend in the summertime, but next weekend it will be especially hopping, when a free community festival takes over the streets. Bend Summer Festival returns to downtown Bend on July 7, 8 and 9, offering a giant fine artists’ showcase with more than 100 artists and craftspeople, […]

For the average beer-loving young Oregonian, it might be hard to imagine a time when brew pubs were not the center of the state’s cultural universe and when historical landmarks, such as poor farms and Catholic schools, fell into ruin instead of starting new lives as hotels or bars/pubs/restaurants. In short, it’s kinda hard to […]

In the lager world, we’ve got German pils and Czech pilsners. You’ll now find “Italian pilsners,” which mean they’ve been dry-hopped, something the Germans and other classicists would never do. Then there’s your Mexican lager, which actually has its roots in Vienna lager. I even found a handful of Polish pilsners in Market of Choice’s […]