By now, you’re probably seen articles boasting wine and candy pairings for the Halloween season cross your newsfeed. Which is fine, if you’re into that sort of thing. But if you prefer to match your malt balls with malted grains, beer pairings are where its at. Craft Beer and Brewing magazine has risen to the […]
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Another Day, Another #Beer Award Bend Wins Best Beer Town, Again
Garnishing attention as one of the best beer towns in the nation is nothing new for Bend, so it’s no surprise that the recent USA Today Best Beer Towns list featured the city ranked at a healthy #4. Here’s what the list had to say about Bend: #4 – Bend, Ore. “When it comes to […]
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Bend Beer Culture Reaches into the Midwest
A new brewing company on the shore of Lake Superior is getting an infusion of beer talent from Bend. Following a nationwide search for brewers, Voyageur Brewing is bringing in Deschutes Brewery alum Anders Johansen, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Marais will be joined by Portland organic beer expert and consultant Craig Nicholls. […]
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Make the Perfect Kölsch, Brew with the Big Boys
Silver Moon’s homebrew competition explodes Saturday
As has been widely documented by now, Bend is a fairly marvelous place to grab a pint. What may not be so obvious to the casual visitor is that Central Oregon is fertile breeding ground for homebrewers, hardy men and women willing to spend hundreds of dollars on equipment and endless weekends of their time […]
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TONIGHT! Fall Fiction Media Salon
Tonight the Source celebrates two things we love, writing and beer, with the revival of our Media Salons—monthly think & drink events highlighting an interesting topic from a recent issue—at Broken Top Bottle Shop. Join us at 7 pm on Monday, October 6. The Source Weekly’s editor, Phil Busse, will conduct an informal, Oprah-style Q&A […]
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Bend Breweries Win Big at Great American Beer Festival
Local breweries took home two gold and three bronze medal at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival. More than 700 breweries, 49,000 people, and 222 beer experts were in attendance. Oregon did well overall, but Bend kicked ass, taking home five medals in all (the same number as that big city on the Columbia River). Big […]
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PICK: Oktoberfest
friday 19 Oktoberfest EATS, DRINKS, GAMES—The first absurd game of sport listed on the downtown Oktoberfest posters is wiener dog races. Who wouldn’t want to see those little pigskins work their tiny legs to the sweet, sweet sounds of drunken lederhosen-adorned yodelers? Oh yeah! And beer! Bend beer! Over a dozen local breweries will be […]
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A Report From Last Friday’s OLCC Beer Summit
Prognosis: A rosy future—bottoms up!
When Brian and Todd McMenamin opened their first brewpub in southwest Portland 29 years ago, the beer scene was still pretty sleepy in Oregon. “There was no such thing as plants inside a tavern,” Brian recently recalled. “It was dark; it was smoky. We carried every beer brewed in state on tap, and that was […]
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Because, Why Not?
Aspect adds brews to boards
Galveston isn’t the sleepy, small-town thoroughfare it used to be. Now one of Bend’s most populated Westside streets, the avenue is a people-watching haven—read, stumbling traffic from 10 Barrel and sun-soaked floaters from Drake Park—and, with the Lot and a few notable restaurants, also a foodie’s paradise. With 10 Barrel’s brew-pub and tons of taps […]
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Wet, Fresh, Dank, and Local
Tiny farms in Central Oregon contributing to this year’s fresh-hop beer season
By the time you read this, the first fresh-hop beers of the season will start to arrive in the bars and tasting rooms of Bend. But there’s something new this year—not only is the beer brewed locally, but some of it features hops grown from a suddenly bustling scene of nearby farms, none more than […]