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Beer Bouquets for Discerning Drinkers

Fat Tire and 10 Barrel release “collabrewtive” 12-packs

Local beer fans looking for extra variety are being spoiled for choice this summer. The 2016 version of Sierra Nevada’s Beer Camp Across America 12-pack has been out for a little while now, offering everything from a light table beer to an imperial brown ale in the same package—and in a few days, two more […]

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One Year of InBev-Barrel

10 Barrel announces aggressive expansion plans

It’s a little hard to believe, considering all the news from 10 Barrel Brewing Company over the past year, that they’re still only going to produce about 25,000 barrels of beer in 2015—a tiny percentage of Deschutes Brewery’s output. If current trends continue, though, those numbers might rapidly approach each other soon. At a press […]

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When is Craft No Longer Craft?

Buyout deals at Lagunitas and elsewhere give drinkers pause

“Budweiser bought 10 Barrel Brewing in Bend, OR,” wrote Lagunitas Brewing Company founder Tony Magee on Twitter last November (spelling and grammar cleaned up for this article). “Not because they love craft. Because they wanna control craft beer. Friends of 10 Barrel cheer its owners’ ‘success’. I can’t blame them for being scared of doing […]

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10 Barrel Lands in Portland

The newest brewpub packs ’em in at the Pearl

When 10 Barrel Brewing’s brewpub location in Portland’s Pearl District opened on March 16, the question wasn’t whether it would attract a crowd; it was more like how long it’d be until the wait for tables extended past an hour. A recent visit to 10 Barrel’s third brewpub location found the place—a smidge bigger than […]

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The Cowboy’s Six-Pack

Want to be as rugged as possible? Drink this.

What’s the difference between a beer…and a cowboy beer? A sort of weather-beaten, leathery manliness, perhaps? Well, craft beer’s got you covered there—have you seen some of the beards people lining the Crux bar are sporting these days? Ignoring the fact that real cowboys would likely prefer cheap whiskey, a good cowboy beer should involve […]

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