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Beers To Stay Warm With

Second Winter Beer Festival builds an even bigger snowman

It took almost two months of back-and-forth text messages, but GoodLife finally named its winter ale, a special beer for the second annual Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival, a smooth ale with cinnamon and nutmeg undertones. “It just finally came to me,” says Steve Denio about the name they finally landed on: Yukon Cornelius, so […]

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Winter Just Got A Bit More Sour

Tillamook’s de Garde Brewery officially touches down in Bend

After nearly a year and a half, de Garde Brewing is finally beginning to distribute bottles to Bend on a regular basis. If this doesn’t mean anything to you, prepare to be soured on their beer…in a deliciously good way. Run by the husband-and-wife team of Trevor Rogers and Linsey Hamacher, de Garde launched last […]

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Beers To Stay Warm With

Second Winter Beer Festival builds an even bigger snowman

It took almost two months of back-and-forth text messages, but GoodLife finally named its winter ale, a special beer for the second annual Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival, a smooth ale with cinnamon and nutmeg undertones. “It just finally came to me,” says Steve Denio about the name they finally landed on: Yukon Cornelius, so […]

Posted inFood & Drink

Beers To Stay Warm With

Second Winter Beer Festival builds an even bigger snowman

It took almost two months of back-and-forth text messages, but GoodLife finally named its winter ale, a special beer for the second annual Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival, a smooth ale with cinnamon and nutmeg undertones. “It just finally came to me,” says Steve Denio about the name they finally landed on: Yukon Cornelius, so […]

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Similar But Eastside Different

Three weeks old and eastside Jackson’s Corner already has regulars

At first glance, Jackson’s Corner Eastside closely resembles its westside counterpart: it’s a bright space filled with large wooden tables, an open kitchen with a brick oven, and a counter with affable staff standing next to a glass case filled with eye-catching pastries and slices of pie. There are two counters, one for quick access […]

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Oregon Beer: Big in Japan

Japanese and American craft brewers make drinking an adventure across the Pacific

Thanks to its coastal proximity, the beer produced by Oregon’s breweries has fans in remarkably faraway places—even in Japan, which is currently experiencing a small but growing beer boom of its own. “Craft beer fans are pretty unique people,” says Keiji Nishio, owner of the Dig Beer Bar in the freewheeling Japanese city of Osaka. […]

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The Samurai Sword Produces Some Great Food

Ronin food truck has traveled a winding road

What do The Food Network’s reality TV show, “The Great Food Truck Race,” a beat-up bus in an abandoned field near Cashmere, Washington, and a samurai without a master have in common? The answer: Ronin, a Japanese Food Truck located between Skjersaas and the westside Dutch Bros. on Century Drive. For the past several years, […]

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Beers To Stay Warm With

Second Winter Beer Festival builds an even bigger snowman

It took almost two months of back-and-forth text messages, but GoodLife finally named its winter ale, a special beer for the second annual Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival, a smooth ale with cinnamon and nutmeg undertones. “It just finally came to me,” says Steve Denio about the name they finally landed on: Yukon Cornelius, so […]

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A Small Slice of Belgium in Bend

Monkless Belgian Ales offers fresh beer styles to adventurous drinkers

One of the glorious personality traits about Central Oregon’s beer scene is its sheer inclusiveness. On one extreme, you have massive production facilities capable of producing tens of thousands of barrels per year—to say nothing of AB InBev’s recent foray into our collective doorstop. On the other, you have breweries that literally consist of a […]

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Six Recipes to Shake Up Tradition

Local chefs and bakers share their secret recipes

For this year’s Thanksgiving holiday, the Source reached out to a few of Bend’s most talented chefs for some recipe ideas that are a bit off the beaten path. For the main dish, Bryan Tremayne from Primal Cuts offered us Turkey Confit: a richly flavorful alternative to the usual slow-roasted bird, as well as Stuffin […]

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