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Grand Craft Bend: Bevel Beer’s Nate & Val Doss

Taking Bevel’s 5th anniversary, segue from disc golf to craft beer, and modern hop-forward beers
Avatar photo by Brian Yaeger

Grand Craft Bend podcast talks to Bevel Craft Brewing‘s co-owners Nate and Valerie Doss as we discuss Bevel’s 5th anniversary party this weekend, their segue from professional disc golfers to pro brewers, and something called a “tropical cold IPA” debuting at the Bend Bands & Brewers Bash on June 28. LISTEN NOW: Source Weekly – Bend, […]

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Well-Crafted Philanthropy

A toast to beers that give back in Central Oregon
Avatar photo K.M. Collins

Put into your mind the shaky, Irish-Catholic voice of John F. Kennedy saying something like, “And so my fellow Bendites: Ask not what beer can do for you, but what the money you spend on beer can do for the community?”  Not every drinker in Central Oregon has knowledge about hops or IBUs or the […]

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Madras Wants Beer

One town’s plan to bring beer to Jefferson County
Kevin Gifford

Madras, a little under an hour from Bend, is a prospering town. Its population has grown to around 6,700 people, it’s cheap to live in, it’s conveniently nearby Indian Head Casino, and it hosted nearly 100,000 visitors during the solar eclipse in August. Despite that, to many Bendites, it’s known simply as some place to […]

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Deschutes Heads East

How the brewery found its new Virginia home
Kevin Gifford

Deschutes Brewery’s decision to open an $85 million second brewing facility in Roanoke, Virginia (announced on March 22) was not something Bend’s most well-known beermaker decided upon lightly. The seventh-largest craft brewery in America has spent much of the past couple of years hunting for a location to expand into, gauging candidate sites in places […]

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New Season, New Brews

Kevin Gifford

The days are getting longer. The temps are warming up (sort of). The scent of budding life is in the air, assuming it can make it through the snowflakes. Spring is officially here—and thanks to friendly local distributors like Bigfoot and Point Blank, it’s accompanied by an early harvest of new beer for Central Oregon. […]

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Deschutes Brewery Chooses Roanoke, Virginia for Second Home

Oregon brewery selects Roanoke for its east coast brewing facility based on its location, culture, community and resources
Hayley Jo Murphy

Bend, OR/Roanoke, VA—Deschutes Brewery announced its much anticipated decision on an east coast location today at an event in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. The growing brewery, which was founded in Oregon in 1988 by Gary Fish, has explored hundreds of potential locations in the region over the last two years. The company selected Roanoke based on […]

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