Welcome to the Beer Issue! Let’s talk beer goggles! Beer Goggles (noun): Seeing people and things as increasingly attractive as one’s alcohol intake rises. We’re gonna skip right over the sexual innuendos that can be rife with beer goggles, and instead, look at some of the annoying situations people in Central Oregon face, which can […]
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Home Brewed Beer, Made with Love
If it’s not abundantly clear to anyone out there by now, know this: Central Oregonians love their beer. We love drinking it, talking about it…and yes, even making it ourselves. One such home brewer in our midst is the Source Weekly’s Brian Jennings, who has these tips to share about the fermentation and home brewing […]
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The Beer Issue
You drink it, maybe even daily. You wear the swag and you herald the scene. When you live in Central Oregon, a love of fermented beverages comes almost as natural as a daily dose of full sun. In this year’s beer issue, it’s not just about flavor and the end product. Like all craft products, […]
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Malt: The Meat in Your Beer
Want to source your malt locally? Get in line.
“If hops were salt and pepper, malt would be the steak.” In case you were curious about the relative importance of each ingredient in your beer, that quote from Madras resident Seth Klann should set some things straight. Here’s another way of putting it: Barley–and its resultant product, malt–is the bulk that makes up most […]
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Editor’s Note: In this week’s issue
It has been a fun week at the Source. While it would be easy to assume that researching breweries for our annual Beer Issue is fun because of the perks (and, yes, thanks Atlas, thanks Red Tank, thanks Sun River for the samples!), actually what has been most exciting about researching for these articles has […]
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The Beer Issue
The evolution of beer, from cave to craft
Dave Berry, that eternal fountain of wit, once quipped, “Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” We agree! For our first Beer Issue, we have pulled apart […]
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A Brewing Timeline
How beer became Bend’s beverage of choice
Twenty-seven breweries. Yep that’s right, 27—all in Central Oregon, with Bend playing host to 18 beer-making and beer-pouring facilities. Consider your pint filled. When did this all happen? The fun began in 1988 with Fish Brewing, AKA Deschutes Brewery. But others were slow to join—by 2005 there were still only five breweries in Central Oregon. […]
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Hops University
Worthy Brewing is changing what you drink one experiment at a time
There may not be an online distance-learning course for the experimental hops project at Oregon State University, but there is remote access to the vast knowledge being cultivated by the plant geneticists and fermentation scientists at the school; it’s called a phone call with program donor and hops aficionado Roger Worthington of Bend’s Worthy Brewing. […]
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Malt Ball
Malted grain is the backbone of beer, particularly at Crux
In Bend, and throughout the Pacific Northwest, hops hog the spotlight. It is an understandable phenomenon. The lush Willamette Valley is home to a healthy collection of hop farms. And nearby breweries in Washington and Oregon produce some of the best IPAs in the world. Hops deserve high praise. But let’s also give credit where […]
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It’s the Water
Deschutes was the first to take advantage of Bend’s prized commodity
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 […]
