There are SO MANY great summer beer options in Central Oregon to choose from. My curated list has new, unique brews as well as old favorites, but they all have one thing in common. They’re all crushable! Let’s get started with a couple of beers from CRUX Fermentation Project. No Mo – Non-alcoholic IPA. I […]
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Worthy Brewing’s Organic Farm ▶ [with video]
Add communal farming to the brewery’s list of cool side projects
Visitors to Worthy Brewing can’t help but notice the hopyard is looking a bit barren. It’s not that the land proved infertile. Quite the contrary; it’s being repurposed into a new organic farm, the latest venture for the Worthy Garden Club, the brewery’s nonprofit highlighting sustainable practices. The new farm “came on suddenly,” says Lisa […]
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Easy Day is Easy Drinking
Worthy gives us low buzz with big flavor
I will start by saying, I’m not a “low calorie, low ABV” kind of girl. I like my beers to be like my husband: strong! The beers I tried today have changed my mind though… about beer, not my husband (haha). Worthy Brewing provided two beers for review, both are low-calorie, hazy IPAs called Easy Day. […]
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Local Brew News
Cascade Lakes reopens; BBC and Newport Market team up
Here are some of the latest tidbits happening in and around Beer Town, USA. Cascade Lakes Brewing Reopens its Pub with a New Look When it comes to apres-ski beer offerings, snow riders don’t get much closer to the mountain than the Cascade Lakes Brewpub at the Colorado Avenue/Century Drive roundabout. For the past four […]
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Deschutes Brewery’s Year of Collabs
Celebrating its 30th anniversary in style
Anything in Bend that’s been around long enough to celebrate its 30th anniversary is unusual, really. When that something is the city’s best-known brewery, it calls for a celebration. This summer marks 30 years since Gary Fish set up Deschutes Brewery downtown on Bond Street, back when Bond Street was a much emptier place. Deschutes […]
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Belly up, beer lovers
Here’s your list of upcoming local beer events to add to your quaffing calendar
FRIDAY 3/16 KAMA CITRUS IPA RELEASE PARTY SEASONAL RELEASE Kama Citrus is getting a new look—and a new recipe! The new blood orange and guava IPA is clean, crisp and refreshing. An easy beer to fall in love with! 4pm-10pm. Worthy Brewing, 495 NE Bellevue Dr, Bend. SUNDAY 3/25 2ND ANNUAL PRETZEL FEST TWISTED FUN […]
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For New Beer, Head Northeast
Monkless joins a new corner of Bend’s beer scene
It wasn’t terribly long ago that residents of Bend’s northeastern quadrant didn’t have much in the way of local beer. Folks nearby downtown or in the Old Mill are spoiled for choice, with 10 or so craft brewers and many more fine pubs within walking distance. Around the northeast, though, Bridge 99 Brewery and the […]
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Bend Brewsters
The scene stands out for its female D leaders
It is no longer a great novelty to see women in professional brewing—especially in Oregon, where the sheer size of the scene dictates that at least a few must be involved, statistically speaking. Among Bend’s breweries, though, women still stand out, thanks to the roles they’ve taken as brewmasters focused on research and development. “I […]
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Some of That Sweet, Sweet Hop Bud
Lagunitas and its nod to the origin of “420”
The Lagunitas Brewing Company of Petaluma, Calif., is such a massive brewery these days that—thanks to being half-owned by Heineken International—it no longer counts as a “craft brewer” the way the Brewers Association defines it. With a second large production facility in Chicago and a third opening soon in Azusa, Calif., Tony Magee’s brew operation […]
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Grounding the Flight
A case for enjoying a taproom visit without a billion little glasses
It’s a typical Saturday afternoon at Crux Fermentation Project: families and dogs outside, diners and beer nerds inside, and what seem to be half a dozen taster trays underneath the taps, waiting to be filled. “They tend to come and go in waves,” the bartender comments. “It’s sort of the same deal as Bloody Marys. […]