This year, I resolve to broaden my search for review-worthy beers. I’ll be striving to bring more regional beer reviews from outside of Bend. To start the new year and the beginning of winter, I took a trip to Three Creeks Brewing. I hadn’t been to the brewery in probably three or four years, and […]
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Woodpecker Festival Ahead
On April 1, registration will be open—no foolin’—for The East Cascades Audubon Society‘s premier birding event, held in Sisters: the Dean Hale Woodpecker Festival. The event itself will run from May 30 to June 2. This isn’t “just any old” birding event. People from all over the world take in this one because they’ll have […]
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Ain’t No Party Like a Small Batch Party
Little Woody has aged to perfection
Way back when, The Little Woody started with a small group of local brewers getting together to share the barrel-aged beers they were producing. The small batches of brew were made as a way to celebrate craft brewing as an art form, back when every element of beer culture wasn’t soaked up by the general […]
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Three Creeks: Movin’ On Up
New production facility and seasonal beer series kicking off
The local brewery known all around Oregon for its FivePine Chocolate Porter (and locally for being the one place you really can’t walk to when marathoning the Bend Ale Trail) is about to make its presence far more known. Since its founding in 2008, Three Creeks Brewing Company has produced solid beer and pub food […]
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Rye’t for the Wrong Reasons
Three Creeks Brewing throws a slow pitch for craft beer newbies
Typically, rye beers are known to be sharp and spicy. “Stonefly Rye Ale” is both…sort of. It could use some time at the gym as all the edges are soft and round. But soft is alright, right? Despite its shortcomings, it is still sharper and spicier than its wheat beer roots. The aromas run the […]
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Beer(s) of the Week: Light and Dark
Light: Deschutes River Ale Easy drinkin’. Deschutes needed this beer. At 4% and 28 IBUs, this is clearly a light session ale—a “cool-down beer,” if you will. Normally Pabst, Hamm’s, Rainier, Olympia et al. fills this role, but, man, they don’t have Oly on tap at Deschutes. And if you’re there sucking down My Abey […]