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Oregon’s Statewide Brewery Open House

Zwickelmania offers must-see beer events across Central Oregon this weekend
Kevin Gifford

Not to alarm you, but Valentine’s Day is Saturday. Made any plans with your significant other yet? If not, here’s a suggestion: Dump the roses and candlelight dinners. That stuff isn’t “Bendian” enough. Instead, show your true love how much you really care by taking him/her out on an event-packed whirlwind tour of breweries around […]

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Craft Beer: Officially Mainstream

Even in the far corners of Nebraska, local beer is never far away
Kevin Gifford

Living in Central Oregon, where we are one step away from having the water company just pipe IPA directly to our kitchen taps, it’s easy to think the beer scene here is incomparable to anything else in America. And that’s pretty true, actually, though Asheville, North Carolina, undeniably comes close. But as my beer-themed road […]

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Finding Art in an Espresso Cup

How Karen Eland uses coffee and beer to paint brilliant local landscapes.
Avatar photo Magdalena Bokowa

“I find it amazing that I’m doing this full time,” Karen Eland tells me over the phone, en route to Seattle to talk about her “coffee art.” She adds, “It’s just one of those random ideas that popped into my head.” Inspired to go with a wild idea she had in an Oklahoma coffee shop […]

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Out of Town 2/4-2/11

Sara Jane Wiltermood

Eugene friday 6 & saturday 7 KLCC Microbrew Festival 2015 Bringing classic fundraising out of the standard car washes and pledge drives, KLCC (Eugene’s NPR affiliate, 88.1) holds a microbrew tasting event instead featuring collaboration brews and a homebrew competition, along with a cd and record music sale. Seventy-five breweries will serve up 190 craft […]

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Side Notes 1/28-2/4

Avatar photo Erin Rook

Those blue recycling cans you see at Bend parks? More illusion than reality. Their primary purpose is to stroke your nature-loving ego. Because people either don’t know how or can’t be bothered to properly separate trash from recyclables—and because Bend Park and Rec can’t afford to dedicate staff to sorting through your rubbish—both cans go […]

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Bridge 99 is on the Road Forward

A new tasting room is a big step in the right direction
Delano Lavigne

Tucked away in a commercial section of Bend’s east side, natural-colored juniper siding frames an otherwise bland commercial building, and hints at a keen craftsmanship that spills (yes, pun intended) over into the beer and characters of Bridge 99 Brewery. A little more than a year ago, co-owners Trever Hawman and Rob Kramer, who work […]

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Surly But Happy in the Twin Cities

How an ex-abrasives salesman revolutionized beer in Minnesota
Kevin Gifford

Less than a decade ago, if you wanted a decent locally-produced beer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, your only choices were Summit—a ubiquitous standby, founded in 1986—and maybe a couple things from Surly on tap, if you were lucky. A few years, some key changes in Minnesota alcohol laws, have changed everything. Surly is […]

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Letters 1/20-1/27

The Source Staff

SLAVERY IS ALIVE AND WELL The recent statements by the Republicans in Congress concerning Obama’s plans to increase taxes on the rich and raise the minimum wage belie the truth and suggest two things: the Repubs are either far more ignorant than is believable or far more greedy than anyone could have imagined. Their moaning and […]

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Another One Bites the Dust: Anheuser-Busch InBev Acquires Seattle’s Elysian Brewing

Avatar photo Erin Rook

Big Beer is hungry. And it just gobbled up another Pacific Northwest craft brewery. According to New School Beer, Anheuser-Busch InBev has purchased Seattle’s Elysian Brewing, as well as its brew pubs in Seattle. The international beverage company announced its acquisition of Bend-based 10 Barrel Brewing in November.  Here’s the official press release: Anheuser-Busch today announced […]

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Our Picks 1/21-1/29

The Source Staff

thursday 22 Racial Justice Book Club READING—According to Gallup, Americans are more concerned about race now than they’ve been since the Rodney King beating almost 25 years ago. Locally, groups are forming to discuss Derald Wing Sue’s book “Overcoming Our Racism: Journey to Liberation” at sites across the region. The OSU-Cascades group kicks off today, […]

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