The Bend Roots Festival has been in five different locations in as many years. Starting in the cross-street parking lots of the Victorian Café and Parrilla Grill, the local music festival upgraded to the Century Center in 2011 only to be canceled last minute at the same location in 2012. Then, last year placed Bend’s […]
The Source is giving away two pairs of tickets to Parrilla Grill’s Show us Your Spokes concert series sponsored by Deschutes Brewery and Rise Up International. The tickets are good for any of the upcoming shows including the recently reunited locals Harley Bourbon on Aug. 16 and MoWo (who doesn’t love MoWo? We’ll say it…if […]
The art of the drunk snack is a trickier science than it would seem at first blush, even in a town like Bend where brewery food is at the base of the food pyramid. It’s got to be salty for sure, and while a bag of BBQ Ridges or a basket of chicken wings does […]
Settle down, Hop Heads. Sometimes a simple beer is just what hits the spot. Sometimes it feels like brewers are constantly chasing trends. And, too often pale ales are ignored in this hyper-experimental climate. Wacky new recipes are fun and important, but so are the classics. Moreover, pale ales are great because they are about […]
As Bend edged toward 80 years old, the town was facing a drastic shift from an industrial town to a recreational one after the shutdown of Brooks-Scanlon Mill in 1983 because of dwindling lumber sources. In the subsequent decade, Bend’s population didn’t change much, growing slightly over the decade, 17,000 to 20,000 from 1980 to […]
“A night of sensory overload,” states Naughty Pierre, the emcee for Beer Week’s Beerlesque. Pierre continues, “A lively blend of brand new craft beers, old-fashioned burlesque dancing, and off-the-wall comedy.” Beer-lesque will showcase five Deschutes Brewery beers, each with an accompanying performance created to thematically match that beer. To whet your whistle for the show, […]
There are so many aspects and different definitions to what it means for Bend to be a “beer town,” but, entering its third year, the loosely organized Beer Week is coalescing as a summer ritual that seeks to provide dozens of examples of exactly what that means. With nearly every local brewery opening its doors, […]
According to Armory XPA’s legend, Deschutes chose not to brew a known recipe for the first run of their new equipment in the Portland pub. The reason behind the decision was consistency. New equipment has a learning curve if the goal is matching an existing flavor profile. Why not try something brand new instead? The […]
Saying a beer tastes “watery” isn’t saying much at all. “About 95 percent of the final product of beer, give or take, is water,” said Deschutes Brewery assistant brewmaster Ryan Schmiege. It is true that paler beers, like pilsners, often contain a little more water while bigger, darker beers have less water and more sugar […]
Barley wine beers are an interesting lot. Though not wine at all, these intense brews do pack a boozy punch—often registering between 10 and 15 percent alcohol by volume—and are often quite sweet and filled with a swirl of flavors, from dried fruits to acidic hops to caramel. The worst ones are syrupy sweet and […]
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