portland thursday 16 – friday 17 Beer Machines: A Steampunk Ode To The Craft Revolution Beer is a beautiful thing, so why shouldn’t it be dispensed out of something a bit more stylish than a plastic pitcher? Steampunk merges beauty with industry for Deschutes Brewery’s party to celebrate the Craft Brewer’s Conference; local artists compete […]
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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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Three Creeks: All Grown Up
Expansion, special beers, and a grand opening all due this spring
One rule of thumb for all beer fans: A craft brewery where everyone knows your name is truly a comforting, gratifying experience. A McDonald’s where everyone knows your name, meanwhile, might be an indication that you need to adjust your eating habits. Sisters resident Don McKay, along those lines, is particularly blessed. For the past […]
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Picks 4/1-4/8
thursday 2 Be Calm Honcho MUSIC—Like Best Coast, Be Calm Honcho seems to adore California, and play guitar-forward anthems about the state’s carefree mindset, songs beset with just the right mix of LA surf and SF psychedelic influences. Most notable is Shannon Harney sweet, but saucy voice. 9 pm. Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century […]
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Growing in a Hurry
Silver Moon’s new brewing plant in Redmond continues the local trend
Following in the footsteps of places like Boneyard, 10 Barrel, Sunriver and Three Creeks, Silver Moon Brewing; which, just a couple years back, was much more known for its disco ball, pool table, and flimsy ’50s soda-fountain stools than its beer—is the latest Central Oregon brewery to rapidly expand. According to co-owner James Watts, work […]
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Chocolate Milk for the 21+ Set
Sunriver Brewing’s new milk stout is a sweet novelty
As reported in last week’s beer issue, Sunriver Brewing has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past year. Bottles of Vicious Mosquito IPA and Shred Head Winter Ale can be found more-or-less statewide now, and taps are making appearances in Bend’s bars with far more regularity than before. And, really, it couldn’t have […]
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Crow’s Feet Launches Monthly Beer Tastings
The shop by the river goes stout-mad on St. Patrick’s Day
For more than two years, Crow’s Feet Commons has been a go-to spot for skis, snowboards, bicycles, coffee, beer, breakfast sandwiches, and anything else one would possibly need living in Bend, save maybe for toilet paper and cold medicine. The bottle and tap collection has been particularly stellar from the get-go, offering everything from enormous […]
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Two Guys and a Bottling Company
Mobile Bottling Solutions gives businesses a foot in the door
Ask Levi & Strauss: It wasn’t necessarily the gold seekers who struck it rich, but the entrepreneurs providing ancillary services, like blue jeans, who made the really steady income. Of course, for the current craft-beer rush that analogy is a bit off, as breweries are making good money, but last September, longtime friends Jason Rickley […]
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Brewer in the Woods
Ale Apothecary brews eccentric elixirs
Ale Apothecary began as a gamble. After leaving his job at the area’s most established brewery, Paul Arney had to make a choice—either find a way to go it on his own, or sell the house and leave town. “I tied all of my goals to the place. If it succeeded, I would be living a […]
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On the Bubble
New trends in brewing are reshaping the industry
Billy Beer was never very good, and it didn’t last on the market very long, but it may deserve a large share of credit for the contemporary boom of craft beer. Produced briefly in the late 1970s by Billy Carter, the oafish younger brother of then-President Jimmy Carter, the beer leveraged whatever national attention is […]