Top of the mornin’ calls for an amuse bouche and an El Cuatro cocktail at the St. Patrick’s Day Beer Brunch with Ale Apothecary and Sunny Yoga Kitchen. The four-course brunch includes exciting dishes prepared by Chef Amy Wright that pair with selected vintages of Ale Apothecary beers. One person will catch the luck of […]
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Craft Beer’s Not-So-Micro Future
Looking back at four years of writing about beer at the Source
This week marks my final beer column for the Source. After just over four years, I move out of Central Oregon and move on in my career. (I could keep on writing this section, but it would start talking a lot more about Japan and Vermont than Bend, and my editor would likely complain.) Since […]
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The Little Woody Cheat Sheet
Small fest, big beer
Labor Day is here, and with it comes cooler weather, football on TV, and (in the case of Bend) the end of heavy traffic. Since 2009, it’s also meant hanging out and drinking big, bold, barrel-aged beers like a rock star. The Little Woody is celebrating its 10th year this Friday and Saturday, in the […]
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Drinking Local? Drink Here
Sure, there’s lots to see and do around Central Oregon, but what about after all the hiking and biking and SUP’ing is done? The answer (for the over-21 crowd, that is) is to head out for a beer. Here are 10 places that evoke everything that makes up one of the coolest small-town brew scenes […]
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Drinking Local? Drink Here
10 breweries and beer bars to make the most of Bend (and beyond)
Sure, there’s lots to see and do around Central Oregon, but what about after all the hiking and biking and SUP’ing is done? The answer (for the over-21 crowd, that is) is to head out for a beer. Here are 10 places that evoke everything that makes up one of the coolest small-town brew scenes […]
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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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Best New Brews of 2016
New styles, old standbys
The year 2016 will go down as a year where the far-out varieties of the past are now indispensable. Wild fermentation and sour farmhouse ales used to be the domain of just a few outfits; now most craft joints will have at least some kind of kettle sour. When it comes to picking the best […]
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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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Grow, Beer, Grow
From the big boys to one-man operations, Central Oregon beer is expanding
The old saw makes the rounds every time we hear some piece of good news about Bend beer: Surely, surely, there’s no way this region can support yet another brewery. But, despite a couple of closings in recent years—and let’s face it, the beer they were producing has not been missed—Central Oregon’s breweries never seem […]