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In this episode of the Grand Craft Beer Podcast, we focus on…a different beer podcast. Our guest is Shannon McMenamin—whose father, Mike McMenamin, along with Shannon’s uncle, Brian—founded the McMenamins empire of breweries, pubs, and hotels 40 years ago.

Her new podcast, The Red Shed Tapes,  focuses on the wealth of stories from all those renowned places and spaces (including Old St. Francis in Bend), managed with the help of Rob Vallance, who also joins the show.

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This article appears in Source Weekly November 30, 2023.

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer: Shannon McMenamin & Rob Vallance of McMenamins 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
November 30, 2023

<h1>LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer: Shannon McMenamin & Rob Vallance of McMenamins 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />November 30, 2023</p> <p><p class="p1"> <span class="fdnDropCap">I</span>n this episode of the Grand Craft Beer Podcast, we focus on…a different beer podcast. Our guest is Shannon McMenamin—whose father, Mike McMenamin, along with Shannon’s uncle, Brian—founded the <a href="https://www.mcmenamins.com/" target="_blank">McMenamins</a>&nbsp;empire of breweries, pubs, and hotels 40 years ago. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/grand_craft_beer_113023.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/grand_craft_beer_113023.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-53268" /></a></figure> <p> Her new podcast, <a href="https://www.mcmenamins.com/podcast" target="_blank">The Red Shed Tapes</a>, &nbsp;focuses on the wealth of stories from all those renowned places and spaces (including <a href="https://www.mcmenamins.com/old-st-francis-school" target="_blank">Old St. Francis</a>&nbsp;in Bend), managed with the help of Rob Vallance, who also joins the show. </p> <p class="p1"> <b></p> <p>Listen now</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/beer-mcmens-final" title="Grand Craft Beer: Shannon McMenamin &amp; Rob Vallance of McMenamins" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Grand Craft Beer: Shannon McMenamin &amp; Rob Vallance of McMenamins</a></div> </p></div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <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-shannon-mcmenamin-and-rob-vallance-of-mcmenamins-20240951/&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=53263&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-shannon-mcmenamin-and-rob-vallance-of-mcmenamins-20240951/&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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