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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 […]

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Chocolate Milk for the 21+ Set

Sunriver Brewing’s new milk stout is a sweet novelty

As reported in last week’s beer issue, Sunriver Brewing has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past year. Bottles of Vicious Mosquito IPA and Shred Head Winter Ale can be found more-or-less statewide now, and taps are making appearances in Bend’s bars with far more regularity than before. And, really, it couldn’t have […]

Posted inSpecial Issues & Guides

A Good Problem To Have

Sunriver Brewing is bursting at the seams

Sunriver Brewing’s biggest problem is one that every business would like: They are growing faster than they expected. Ryan Duley, the marketing director for Sunriver Brewing, walks between rows of 15-keg capacity containers—eight on each side of the cavernous, cement-floor warehouse on the outskirts of Sunriver—and explains that a year ago the brewing company, which […]

Posted inBest Of Central Oregon

Best Lunch (Sunriver)

Sunriver Brewing Company

Sunriver Brewing Company reflects the style and sensibility of the city it calls home—easygoing, approachable and fun. Serving as much of a centering point for the town as anywhere else, the brewpub has recently expanded its production facilities, a measure that says a lot about its popularity and aspirations. Its beers are fun and dedicated […]

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Pour Me Another!

Central Oregon taps another batch of breweries

Platypus Pub Though the name is familiar—Platypus is a basement pub famous for serving hard-to-find beers—the Third Street bar has gone beyond pouring and recently entered the brewing arena with outstanding results. See the exceptional (and tongue twisterly named) Haste Ye’ Back Scottish Wee Heavy (8.5% ABV) for proof of their brewing prowess. “We’re selling […]

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