Deschutes Brewery is growing—opening a new production facility in Roanoke, Virginia, as announced a few weeks ago—and it’s fair to say that Fresh Squeezed IPA is a major driver of that growth. Since Bend’s biggest brewery started bottling it in 2013, and especially once it became an all-season beer the following year, the Citra and […]
Deschutes Brewery
Posted inFood & Drink
Deschutes Heads East
How the brewery found its new Virginia home
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 […]
Posted inNews
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
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 […]
Posted inFood & Drink
The Reserve Society Down the Street
Deschutes brews tasty pub exclusives
Open up any beer trading forum on the Internet and one sees the same names pretty often. Hill Farmstead Brewery, Side Project, Jester King, our own Ale Apothecary—all producers that specialize in off-beat flavors, intense experimentation, and a sense of “rarity” that makes beer travelers the world over beat a path to their doorstep. But […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Beer 2015
Less Drama, Tastes Great, Bend’s beer scene avoids pretension, keeps producing quality
In a 2015 that was littered with buyouts, big news, and endless bickering online in beer forums, it can sometimes be easy to forget what a bumper year it was for Central Oregon’s favorite (adult) pastime. Deschutes collaborated with Harpoon in Massachusetts and BrewDog in Scotland; Silver Moon and Rat Hole both opened up new […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Watch Your Step
The Abyss returns to cap off 2015
Been wondering where The Abyss is? Wonder no more—Deschutes’ annual imperial stout release is set to take place Thursday at the Bond Street taproom, around a month later than usual. The barrels run on their own schedule, after all. This year marks the 10th anniversary of The Abyss in bottles, a yearly release that’s become […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Make Your Beer Humm
Kombucha & beer combine for one hot shandy
Humm Kombucha, the unassuming fermented-tea maker in the little building off NE Second Street is beginning to make its presence better known around town and beyond. Not in terms of new success—it’s already got plenty of that, with flavors like Apple Sass and Blueberry Mint now available in grocery stores across not just Bend, but […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Beer Week: The Strategy Guide
Can’t decide how to tackle Beer Week?
Try this for starters
Not to alarm you, but in addition to everything else taking place over Memorial Day weekend, Central Oregon Beer Week kicks off on Friday and proceeds for the next week-plus. A 10-day beer week? Well, why not? (And, if you actually attempt to hit up all the events taking place across the region’s breweries and […]
Posted inOutside
Go Here 5/20-5/27
High Desert hikes with local brewers
Because this is Bend, there is an actual organization dedicated to the your-peanut butter-fell-in-my-chocolate style serendipity that blends place-based education and craft beer. Behold: Beers Made By Walking, and you can be a part of it. BMBW has teamed up with the good folks at Oregon Natural Desert Association to organize a series of free […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Grow, Beer, Grow
From the big boys to one-man operations, Central Oregon beer is expanding
The old saw makes the rounds every time we hear some piece of good news about Bend beer: Surely, surely, there’s no way this region can support yet another brewery. But, despite a couple of closings in recent years—and let’s face it, the beer they were producing has not been missed—Central Oregon’s breweries never seem […]
