Cocktails and Mocktails Guide 2023 Archives - The Source

Cocktails and Mocktails Guide 2023 [With Video ▶]

Central Oregon’s places to imbibe, relax and dig the vibe

by The Source Staff January 25, 2023September 4, 2024

However you say “Cheers,” we’re giving you plenty to toast inside this Cocktails and Mocktails guide, powered by the Source Weekly. In addition to browsing the listings for a host of local haunts, inside this guide you’ll find a focus on the boozy and not-so-boozy side of imbibing in Central Oregon. In our “Zero […]

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Move Over NA Beer – Hop Water is So Worthy

Hop waters leave out three other things bountiful in beer: calories, carbohydrates and gluten

by Brian Yaeger January 24, 2023April 4, 2025

The first brewery to skip past non-alcoholic beer and go straight to hop water made of two (and a half) of beer’s ingredients—water and hops (and carbon dioxide)—but not the other two—malts and yeast—was Lagunitas with Hoppy Refresher. It’s good, but truly more bitter than you want in what is essentially hopped LaCroix. Larger craft […]

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Three Ingredient Cocktails

Approachable cocktails for the home mixologist – with a booze-free option, too!

by Alyson Brown January 24, 2023May 31, 2024

Three. The perfect combination of brevity and rhythm. Often used to represent the concept of “completeness.” Beginning, middle, end. Third time’s a charm. Eat, drink and be merry. And… three-ingredient cocktails — the most lasting and constant of cocktail constructions. Three truly is a magic number! Not only are three-ingredient cocktails some of the most […]

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You Have Zero Proof

More bars are offering not just NA drinks, but full mocktail menus. Here are a few highlights from local places.

by Nicole Vulcan January 24, 2023March 19, 2025

Whether it’s in honor of Dry January, or for any other reason, plenty of people are looking for fancy drinks that don’t contain booze. Fortunately, plenty of bars are picking up on that fact and are offering not just the usual sodas or kombucha for the non-drinkers, but full-on mocktail menus featuring well-crafted ingredients. We […]

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Best of Drinks

Source Weekly readers know what’s up. These are the drinks, bars and bartenders voted “Best”

by The Source Staff January 24, 2023August 28, 2024

E very year, the Source Weekly’s Best of Central Oregon issue highlights the local places and people that Central Oregonians love most. We launch the contest, and then readers nominate the people, places and businesses they want to win in each of over 100 categories. Mark your calendars for July 5, 2023, the next “Ballot […]

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Generations: A Cocktail Tour

A Boomer, Gen Xer, Millennial and Gen Zer walk into a bar (or four) and sample the goods

by Jack Harvel Allie Noland Richard Sitts and Nicole Vulca January 24, 2023August 30, 2024

What makes a drink —or a bar— extra special? Is the experience different if you’re an experienced Boomer versus a fresh, young Gen Zer? For this Cocktails guide, a generational team of Source staffers hits four local haunts to find out, sipping the same drinks and sitting at the same tables… and sometimes, having very […]

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