This weekend Nectar of the Gods, Bend’s first and only meadery, debuted Valhalla Rising, their first mass bottled brew. On Saturday night, Broken Top Bottle Shop was packed with thirsty patrons ready to try the ancient beverage that predates all other fermented drinks, and is made from fermented honey, yeast and water. Sweet bottles, too. […]
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Monks Are Asking Top Dollar for World’s Best Beer
Want the best beer in the world? Six bottles will cost you $84.99. Last week OPB reported that, needing money for renovations to their abbey, REAL LIFE Belgian Monks (monks who still live in the Belgian countryside like it’s 1542) are offering their Trappist treasures to the public. The beer, Westvleteren XII, is considered by […]
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Red Chair is Back
Last Tuesday, during the usual production madness, we took a timeout and had one of these. Oh man. We got our paws on an early shipment of Deschutes’ Red Chair and, as we put the finishing touches on last week’s issue, we popped the caps off our Northwest Pale Ales. No surprises here. The beer […]
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Seasonal Releases at Deschutes
The Deschutes Brewery pub is set to release two of their delicious seasonal brews this week and next. Today will kick off the annual celebration as the Hop Henge Experimental IPA is poured for our drinking pleasure. This beer will have a new recipe, as it does every year because it’s experimental, and I’m hoping […]
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New Three Creeks Brewing Anniversary Beer
Three Creeks Brewing recently released a special brew called the Hodag Cascadian Dark Ale, celebrating Hoodoo Ski Area’s 75th anniversary. Hodag, which is the one of the chair lifts, is one of many things the resort should be proud of because their community impact has been tremendous over the past century. Mmmm…beer. Now, let’s see […]
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GoodLife Throwing a Scottish Party Tonight
Wikimedia Commons Looks like St. Andrew needs a beer. In honor of St. Andrews Day, a national holiday in Scotland celebrating the patron saint of the land, the folks at GoodLife are serving up a new Scotch Ale called Scottish Heart. They’re going for it tonight with a full on affair. Think kilts and haggis […]
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Local Brewer Introduces New Beer Style to Bend
It’s more sour than IPA, which is a good thing. We have a lot of really top-notch beers in this town. We also have a lot of very similar types of beers here in Bend.Dean Wise, brewer and owner of Below Grade Brewing, is doing his part to create something different. And lucky for us, […]
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NYT: Is there a Bend Beer Bubble?
That wasn’t necessarily the gist of the Times Seattle bureau chief William Yardley’s feature story on Bend’s booming beer business, but he did use the “B” word to describe bend’s craft brewing and he wasn’t talking about the creamy foam head. The article was the second in just a few weeks in the Times that spotlights the local beer boom.
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A Toast to Seasonals: Beer release and more Bend beer in the NYT
Summer beer release tonight at Deschutes pub. Cool off with a cold one.
It’s warm out there. And it’s Monday.
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Need Beer? We’re giving away a GoodLife gift certificate
There’s always new beers to sample and we’re here to help.
Here at the Source Weekly, we do our damndest to sample all the latest beers from Bend’s master brewers. Shoot, we even made it down to 10 Barrel yesterday to try their “new and improved” Apocalypse IPA.