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What’s the difference between a beer…and a cowboy beer? A sort of weather-beaten, leathery manliness, perhaps? Well, craft beer’s got you covered there—have you seen some of the beards people lining the Crux bar are sporting these days? Ignoring the fact that real cowboys would likely prefer cheap whiskey, a good cowboy beer should involve […]
If you didn’t spend your Memorial Day Weekend prepping your palate (and testing your tolerance) for Central Oregon’s Third Annual Beer Week, you may want to start now. The Ale Apothecary gets the beer literally free-flowing tomorrow night at Crow’s Feet Commons with samples of its hand-crafted, open fermentation brews including La Tache, Sahali and […]
Oregon’s official animal is the beaver, the state bird is the Oregon Meadowlark, and unsurprisingly, last April the legislature approved brewer’s yeast as the official microbe, making Oregon the first state in the union to establish a state microbial. If anybody in Bend knows about the science of yeast, it’s Paul Arney, owner and innovative […]
I went up to The Ale Apothecary yesterday with my photographer buddy Erik Bergstrom. He took a lot of pictures and I talked with brewer/owner/sole employee Paul Arney. You can read the story tomorrow when this week’s papers hit the stands. But we couldn’t fit all of Bergstrom’s lovely photos onto two pages. So here […]
It’s not surprising that there’s only a few of these left in town. The made-in-Bend Sahalie is a wild-yeast beer by The Ale Apothecary. It comes bottled in a handsome 750-milliliter corked package, is somewhere 9%-10% ABV (depending on the batch), and tastes damn good—a mash-up of a Belgian golden ale and a sour. Though […]
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