Up in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains is a tiny brewery called Brewers Union Local 180 in a tiny town called Oakridge. Here, owner/brewer Ted Sobel stands behind his bar with nary a tap line. In lieu of carbonated kegs there are six hand pumps. That’s right. His brewery has no draft beer. No bottled or canned […]
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Grateful Deaf’s Read My Lips IPA Taps Saturday 2/13
Fred Eckhardt, the local beer writer/national beer treasure who passed away last year, was fond of saying, “Listen to your beer.” What he meant by that was that beer can and should be enjoyed not just by taste, but by all your senses. Try telling that to brewer Ken Fisher. He’s deaf. Deaf though Fisher […]
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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Will Stouts Take Over the Beer-Drinking World?
Will stouts take over the beer-drinking world?
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Get Blasphemous at Sabertooth’s Beer Fest This Weekend
I can’t decide whether music is beer for the ears or beer is music for the soul, but I know there aren’t enough marriages of the two. Where the Mercury‘s own Malt Ball—which partners Oregon brewers with local musicians—makes perfect sense, McMenamins’ second annual Sabertooth Micro Fest is now getting its companion brewfest, Blasphemous, and […]
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Oregon’s at the Forefront of a Global Cider Revolution
Portland Hosts CiderCon—and Embraces a Growing Cider Culture
Portland hosts CiderCon—and embraces a growing cider culture.
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Celebrating Bavarian Beer Right Here in Portland
The Germans Are Coming
The Germans are coming.
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The Year in Beer
A Gangbuster Year for Local and Regional Breweries
It’s been a gangbuster year for local and regional breweries.
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McMenamins Celebrates Terminator’s 30th at 23rd Avenue Store Opening
Brian Yaeger McMenamins 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop is now open It’s been 30 years since Portland was introduced to McMenamins Terminator Stout, first brewed as the 12th-ever batch at Mike and Brian McMenamin’s Hillsdale Pub by original brewer Ron Wolf to satisfy the Irish brothers’ love of Guinness. And it’s been more than 38 years […]
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Beer Transplants
Out of State Brewers Invade Oregon
Out-of-state brewers invade Oregon.
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Cherry Festivus for the Best of Us
If the short Cherry season this past July left you wanting more, you can find plenty of cherries in liquid form at the first annual (would that be inaugural?) Cherry Festivus, taking place at Bazi Bierbrasserie on November 20 and 21. The event is from fruited-beer impresario Ezra Johnson-Greenough, who muses, “What simpler pleasure than […]
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Laurelwood’s Award-Winning Double IPA Encores This Friday
Brian Yaeger Laurelwood sees their name in lights, sort of, at the Great American Beer Festival. It was supposed to only be brewed one time, but when Laurelwood‘s double IPA came in second with a silver medal at the Great American Beer Fest earlier this year, the brewery had to give fans a second helping. […]
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Chile Beers to Try Just in Time for the Chili Jamboree
At the Mercury‘s third annual Chili Jamboree this Sunday (White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th), there will be 11 chefs slinging not-so-classic bowls of chili. It ain’t about chocolate or butternut squash or peanut butter or tamarind paste as a hidden, secret ingredient—it’s about how many different dishes can they prepare and still loosely […]