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Two Guys and a Bottling Company

Mobile Bottling Solutions gives businesses a foot in the door
Avatar photo Phil Busse

Ask Levi & Strauss: It wasn’t necessarily the gold seekers who struck it rich, but the entrepreneurs providing ancillary services, like blue jeans, who made the really steady income. Of course, for the current craft-beer rush that analogy is a bit off, as breweries are making good money, but last September, longtime friends Jason Rickley […]

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Brewer in the Woods

Ale Apothecary brews eccentric elixirs
Avatar photo Erin Rook

Ale Apothecary began as a gamble. After leaving his job at the area’s most established brewery, Paul Arney had to make a choice—either find a way to go it on his own, or sell the house and leave town. “I tied all of my goals to the place. If it succeeded, I would be living a […]

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A Cider a Day

Bend’s local hard cider business is booming
Avatar photo Phil Busse

Aaron Cousins stands facing two shiny new fermentation tanks, the toes of his boots wrapped several times around with duct tape. He is wearing a black skull cap and dressed in a black sleeveless hoodie that shows off aqua-colored lines of a sprawling tattoo on his right shoulder. “Cider sales in the U.S. have doubled […]

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On the Bubble

New trends in brewing are reshaping the industry
The Source Drinking Team

Billy Beer was never very good, and it didn’t last on the market very long, but it may deserve a large share of credit for the contemporary boom of craft beer. Produced briefly in the late 1970s by Billy Carter, the oafish younger brother of then-President Jimmy Carter, the beer leveraged whatever national attention is […]

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Small, But Mighty

Oblivion is the definition of grassroots operation
Allison Miles

In 2013, Darin and Meg Butschy literally built Oblivion Brewing Company from the ground up (or at least from the floor up). A Bend resident for 19 years and a brewer for 25 years, Darin got his start at Firestone Walker while studying chemistry at Cal Poly. With growing experience and unrelenting passion, he kicked […]

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Pouring It Forward

Silver Moon Brewing flexes its community role
Delano Lavigne

Low ceilings, old-fashioned bar stools, and cushioned booths are not common in today’s world of brew pubs more often adorned with hardwood-topped tables, garage doors that open to patios and exposed production facilities–the later which explains why co-owner of Silver Moon Brewing, James Watts, finds himself often answering the question: “Where do you brew ?” […]

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It’s the Water

Deschutes was the first to take advantage of Bend’s prized commodity
Avatar photo James Williams

Saying a beer tastes “watery” isn’t saying much at all. “About 95 percent of the final product of beer, give or take, is water,” said Deschutes Brewery assistant brewmaster Ryan Schmiege. It is true that paler beers, like pilsners, often contain a little more water while bigger, darker beers have less water and more sugar […]

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The Yeast Beast

The Ale Apothecary finds open fermentation is a wild (and delicious) animal
Avatar photo Brianna Brey

Oregon’s official animal is the beaver, the state bird is the Oregon Meadowlark, and unsurprisingly, last April the legislature approved brewer’s yeast as the official microbe, making Oregon the first state in the union to establish a state microbial. If anybody in Bend knows about the science of yeast, it’s Paul Arney, owner and innovative […]

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Can Cans Taste As Good?

Microbreweries evolve towards beer in a can
Avatar photo Phil Busse

The choice between drinking beer from a can versus drinking from a bottle has been a distinguishing feature in the beer debate for nearly a century, almost as a distinct indicator about taste and class as choosing to wear cut-off blue jean shorts or Brooks Brother slacks. But with gathering momentum, that attitude has shifted […]

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