I t’s Saturday afternoon and the largest craft-beer bottle share event in Bend is underway off Century Drive. The attendees number in the three-figures, and it seems like they’ve all brought their big guns—heavy stouts, delicate sours and selections from beer-nerd favorites such as Tired Hands, Monkish and Scratch. It’s enough good fermentation to make […]
Paul Arney
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A Visit to the Apothecary
Paul Arney’s wild-ferment brewery finally opens a tasting room
It’s hard to believe, but Paul Arney has been producing some of Oregon’s most unique and complex beers for nearly six years now. It’s been a long road for him and his team at The Ale Apothecary, the unassuming little brewery off Skyliners Road that’s built its name on wild fermentation, long-term aging in oak […]
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Liquid Poetry
Ale Apothecary brings the love to Central Oregon Beer Week
Paul Arney, head chemist at The Ale Apothecary, treats the local movement seriously. Very seriously. “As far as I know, I’m the only brewer in Oregon who can truly say they only use ingredients grown in Oregon,” he said over some beers at his Cellar Joint. This is the barrel aging facility he and fellow […]
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Best Brewer
Paul Arney—Ale Apothecary
This year, the vote for Best Brewer gives particular insight to Bend’s brewing scene because it so accurately reflects the two directions the industry is going right now. The runner-up: Tony Lawrence, brewmaster and co-founder of Boneyard Beer, a man whose IPAs flow in seemingly every bar in Oregon and Washington. And, the winner, by […]
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Brewer in the Woods
Ale Apothecary brews eccentric elixirs
Ale Apothecary began as a gamble. After leaving his job at the area’s most established brewery, Paul Arney had to make a choice—either find a way to go it on his own, or sell the house and leave town. “I tied all of my goals to the place. If it succeeded, I would be living a […]