Time to clear some space in the ol’ beer shed. Just in time for consistently cold weather, Bendites will get to enjoy not one, not two, but three big-name barrel-aged beer releases in November. Available right now at Deschutes Brewery‘s pub on Bond Street is the 2018 version of The Dissident, an “oud bruin” (old […]
Great American Beer Festival
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Oregon Cleans Up at GABF
The most medals ever at American beer’s biggest event
The advertising slogan for the 2018 Great American Beer Festival sums it up better than anyone else could: “4000+ Beers. 800+ Breweries. Mind Blown.” Held by the Brewers Association in Denver last weekend, GABF is a beer fest like nothing one’s seen in Central Oregon. Instead of paying for tokens that are exchanged for beer […]
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Portland’s Beer-Driven Summer
Craft events on tap all over the Rose City
There are few better places to witness the size and scope of Portland’s beer scene than the Oregon Brewers Festival, which took place over the last weekend in July. The largest outdoor event of its kind in the US, OBF is spread out across the waterfront between the Morrison and Hawthorne bridges, offering hundreds of […]
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The Nation’s Best Beer, By Mail
Tavour brings boundless variety to Oregon drinkers
Beer-of-the-month clubs, where members pay a flat fee each month and receive regular shipments of craft bottles, have been a “thing” since the early nineties. Tavour (tavour.com), meanwhile, is an alternative take on the concept. The difference? Better variety, total flexibility, and a selection of rare and seriously well-curated beer. Available in Oregon and nine […]
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Need an IPA? Ask Melvin
Why Wyoming beer will soon loom large in Oregon
The annual India pale ale collaboration between Astoria’s Fort George Brewery and two other craft outfits, 3-Way IPA, brings an annual introduction to other regional beer talents. This has included Seattle’s Georgetown, pFriem from Hood River and Block 15 Brewing based in Corvallis. The 2016 version, due out this summer, is the work of Fort […]
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Beer Festival of the Gods
The Great American Beer Fest is like nothing else
It’s seven on a Friday night and the scene around the Deschutes Brewery pub is one of controlled chaos. People from Bend and beyond line up to try some of the new brews off the pilot system, including a smoked gose, a sour Belgian-style quadruple ale, and a variant of Black Butte Porter aged in […]
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Lagers on the Northern Coast
Astoria’s Buoy Beer Co. offers finely-honed German pints
Astoria, home to overcast skies, pretty old houses and cheap Goonies memorabilia, is getting as beer-mad as Bend. The similarities in the two scenes are striking. Bend has Deschutes; Astoria has Fort George, the big kid in town, distributing amazing IPAs and stouts in cans statewide. We have a McMenamins; they have a Rogue location. […]
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Bend Breweries Win Big at Great American Beer Festival
Local breweries took home two gold and three bronze medal at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival. More than 700 breweries, 49,000 people, and 222 beer experts were in attendance. Oregon did well overall, but Bend kicked ass, taking home five medals in all (the same number as that big city on the Columbia River). Big […]