New HUB under construction Siteworks Because beer lovers, biker riders, and families live in Vancouver, Washington, too, the brewpub chain popular with all three demographics (especially beer-drinking, bicycling parents), Hopworks Urban Brewery is opening a location in the suburb over the state line. Brewmaster Christian Ettinger opened the original pub and brewery on SE Powell […]
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What to Expect from This Weekend’s Fruit Beer Festival
Three Cheers for Fruit Beers!
Three cheers for fruit beers!
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Get Your Freakcake on at Belmont Station Today
Unless you’re already planning on driving to Bend for the release event at Crux Fermentation Project tomorrow, get a preview today at Belmont Station. Freakcake is, freakishly, one of the few Oud Bruin style ales to be made in Oregon. In this era of burgeoning barrel-aged sour beers, you’d expect more stabs at this complex […]
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Nineteen World Beer Cup Medals Are Coming Home to Oregon
Breakside’s brewing team in Philly. Breakside Brewing Facebook wall If it’s cool to win a medal at the annual Great American Beer Festival organized by the Brewers Association, it’s more than doubly auspicious to medal at the World Beer Cup. It’s the biannual competition in which entries are judged blind and, unlike the GABF, the […]
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A First Look at Wayfinder Beer, Southeast Portland’s Newest Brewpub
Photo courtesy of Wayfinder Beer [From E+D, the Mercury‘s new Spring Eat & Drink Guide!] RIGHT NOW, you might need to use your imagination a little as you approach Wayfinder Beer. The brewpub is still a few weeks from opening in the space next door to the former Branx club—just around the corner from Produce […]
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AleSong Brewing and Blending Parks Itself in Eugene
Matt Van Wyk sampling AleSong’s debut saison. Brian Yaeger For some people, their beer speaks to them. It speaks of hops growing on the bines or yeast hitchhiking on the breeze. Brewmaster Matt Van Wyk’s beer obviously sings to him. He, along with brothers Brian and Doug Coombs, are the composers behind AleSong Brewing and […]
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A Burns Brewer Has Choice Words for the Malheur Occupiers
Steens Mountain Brewing OH, THE TRIALS and tribulations of looking for fresh beer in Portland. If you don’t have a brewpub within 10 blocks of your house, you deem the neighborhood “underserved.” Imagine if all of Southeast Portland didn’t have a single brewpub. Now, imagine if all of Southeast Oregon boasted nary a brewery. The […]
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Commons Brewery Dinner
What could be better than a beer dinner event? A beer dinner event sponsored by Commons Brewery and held at Imperial! They’ll be putting on a special multi-course dinner featuring unique beers from the Commons Brewery and food pairings by Imperial & Portland Penny Diner’s Executive Chef and Top Chef alum Doug Adams. Check it […]
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What the Firkin? Get Real Ale at This Weekend’s Firkin Fest
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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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 […]