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In this episode of Grand Craft Beer, host and cicerone Brian Yaeger welcomes James Owen, brewmaster at Immersion Brewing.

They talk about Owen getting to completely overhaul the Box Factory brewpub’s recipes when he came on board just two years ago so as to refresh and revive the lager program, the IPA program, the international beer style program and still finding time to both learn how to snowboard AND become an instructor since moving to Bend in 2021.

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This article appears in Source Weekly November 2, 2023.

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer – James Owen of Immersion Brewing 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
November 3, 2023

<h1>LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer – James Owen of Immersion Brewing 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />November 3, 2023</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">I</span>n this episode of Grand Craft Beer, host and cicerone Brian Yaeger welcomes James Owen, brewmaster at <a href="https://imbrewing.com/" target="_blank">Immersion Brewing</a>.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/grand_craft_beer_110223.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/grand_craft_beer_110223.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-52248" /></a></figure> </p> <p>They talk about Owen getting to completely overhaul the Box Factory brewpub's recipes when he came on board just two years ago so as to refresh and revive the lager program, the IPA program, the international beer style program and still finding time to both learn how to snowboard AND become an instructor since moving to Bend in 2021.</p> <p> <b><i>LISTEN NOW: </i></b></p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/grand-craft-beer-james-owen-of-immersion-brewing" title="Grand Craft Beer: James Owen of Immersion Brewing" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Grand Craft Beer: James Owen of Immersion Brewing</a></div> </p></div> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/listen-grand-craft-beer-james-owen-of-immersion-brewing-20099263/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=52243&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/listen-grand-craft-beer-james-owen-of-immersion-brewing-20099263/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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