Four years ago—longer than many people reading this have even lived in Bend—Deschutes Brewery launched a beer called Collage, a collaboration between the Bend-based giant and Portland’s Hair of the Dog Brewing. The beer actually had its genesis earlier than that, in 2010, when HotD owner/brewmaster Alan Sprints stopped by Deschutes’ production facility to brew […]
Hair of the Dog Brewing
Portland’s Beer-Driven Summer
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 […]
A Dog of a Different Color
Quick! What’s the most expensive beer you can think of? Samuel Adams Utopias, maybe? No way: That’s only $200-ish for a 700-milliliter metal bottle. Even BrewDog’s The End of History—which you may remember from pics on the internet; it’s that 110-proof sucker sold in bottles made from taxidermied squirrels and such—clocked in at a mere […]

