The Mountain Jug is the kind of place any beer lover wishes was their local watering hole. Wood-paneled walls. Comfortable couches. An AC/DC pinball machine in the corner, and a ’70s-era VW Thing parked semi-permanently outside. A few hundred vinyl albums for you to freely choose from. And, of course, lots and lots of local […]
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Kickstart Your Beer
Rat Hole crowdfunds for a new brewery
Rat Hole Brew Pub, the small taproom and Southwestern restaurant tucked into an unassuming corner of the Old Mill District, is expanding. And they’d like your help. Earlier this week, Rat Hole—named after the storage barn on the outskirts of Bend where brewers Al and Susan Toepfer built their 2.5-barrel brewery—put up a page on […]
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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 […]
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PICK: The Princess Bride
friday 8 The Princess Bride MOVIE—One of the most quotable films of all time, cult classic fairy tale The Princess Bride is screening as part of the second annual Sunriver Twilight Cinema series. If you haven’t seen the film (inconceivable!), that changes now. Or not. As you wiiiiiiish! (But really, how can you go wrong […]
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What in the World: Chefs, Contraception, Immigration, ‘Nice’ Guys and Beyoncé
CHEFS: Sunriver Resort‘s Chef Travis Taylor walked away from last weekend’s Bite of Bend Top Chef competition with the highest award—and a 10″ knife forged from layered copper and brass by local blacksmith Kellen Bateham. Travis is now qualified to compete at Bite of Oregon for the title of Iron Chef Oregon. COURT: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor […]
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Central Oregon Wildflower Show
If you find yourself hiking through Jefferson Park, Fryrear Canyon, up in the beautiful wilds of Broken Top, through the foothills of the Cascades or birding among the sagebrush and juniper, you’ll also find yourself knee-deep in the great diversity of Oregon’s wildflowers. If it’s your first time to experience this colorful wildflower show (which, […]