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Grand Craft Bend: Craft Kitchen & Brewery’s Funny Business

Come for the beer and BBQ, stay for the experimental comedy
Avatar photo by Brian Yaeger

G rand Craft Bend podcast talks to Courtney Stevens, co-owner of Bend’s Craft Kitchen & Brewery about launching the brewpub with her husband, Mark, and hosting tons of events including open-mic stand-up comedy, where Courtney sometimes performs her own material. Listen now: Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Grand Craft Bend: Craft Kitchen & Brewery

Posted inSpecial Issues & Guides

Restaurant of the Year

El Sancho: Rise from the cart
Lisa Sipe

Multiple food carts and a brick-and-mortar—plus delightful tacos—paint the picture of Sancho’s success It’s not fine dining like some of our past Restaurant of the Year choices, but we’re guessing just the mention of El Sancho is making you descend into daydreams about barbacoa, Oaxacan cheese and pineapple serrano margaritas. Our restaurant of the year […]

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Expanding Beer Scene

The city of 30,000 now boasts seven breweries—eight if you count Silver Moon’s production facility
Chris Miller

The craft beer craze isn’t lost on Redmond, with new breweries popping up about as fast as they do in Bend. The longtime players are still around—Cascade Lakes Brewing Company‘s 7th Street Brew House still gets a robust lunch crowd—and new players are coming in, fast. Initiative Brewing is taking over the old Juniper Bank […]

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Redmond’s On The Rise

Housing affordability. Increased traffic. Brew culture. Bike park love.
The Source Staff

Housing affordability. Increased traffic. Brew culture. Bike park love. If you thought those were items unique to Bend, you’d be wrong. Redmond, Ore., has much of the same culture and some of the same issues of growth and expansion that Bend does—and its population has grown, percentage-wise, faster than Bend over the past 18 years. […]

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Coffee, Barley & Wild

Beers to watch for in February and beyond
Kevin Gifford

It’s wintry outside again (just in time for the end of February!), and as if on cue, breweries across the state of Oregon are preparing their offerings for the rest of the season and beyond. Given that it’s the darkest time of the year, thick concoctions from barrels dominate the scene—but take heart, for it’ll […]

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Beer in the can? Yes!

Deschutes gets on board with the aluminum revolution
Chris Miller

Let’s face it, 12 ounce bottled beers are an antiquated pain in the ass. Who wants to be 6 miles into an overnight cross-country ski trip and have your liquid rewards shift in your pack, stabbing you in the ribs for the next two hours?! And dropping one on the ground…good luck avoiding the laceration. […]

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Liquid Poetry

Ale Apothecary brings the love to Central Oregon Beer Week
Kevin Gifford

Paul Arney, head chemist at The Ale Apothecary, treats the local movement seriously. Very seriously. “As far as I know, I’m the only brewer in Oregon who can truly say they only use ingredients grown in Oregon,” he said over some beers at his Cellar Joint. This is the barrel aging facility he and fellow […]

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