It’s a bit last minute, but Broken Top Bottle Shop tonight from 5 to 8pm is hosting a special beer tasting and tap takeover with Portland’s Base Camp Brewing, who is bringing five beers that they had at their own “Collabofest” event a few weeks back. Here’s the Facebook event … Continue reading
Beginning today, there are several big beer anniversaries taking place this month. First up is Worthy Brewing, who is celebrating their second anniversary today with a special beer and happy hour pricing: To celebrate, we’re tapping our annual batch of GTX (Go Time Extra Pale), the first beer we ever … Continue reading
This Saturday, the 31st, Redmond’s homebrew club, the Cascade Fermentation Association is having their monthly group brew—and I’m the guest of honor. It ties in with my book Bend Beer: A History of Brewing in Central Oregon and the theme is “Brewing with Jon Abernathy” in that I’ve selected the … Continue reading
Bend’s Bridge 99 Brewery has been open since the latter half of 2013, but the primary outlet for the beers has been Wubba’s BBQ Shack in northeast Bend (on Empire and Layton). That’s set to change with the opening this Thursday, January 22 of Bridge 99’s new tasting room, located … Continue reading
Coming up on Saturday, January 17th, McMenamins Old St. Francis School is holding their second annual High Gravity Extravaganza—a terrific mini brewfest featuring all “high gravity” beers, meaning “strong.” It starts at 1pm and runs until 10, with a special meet the brewer part going from 1 to 5. Come … Continue reading
A quick update to yesterday’s story about Old Mill Brew Wërks closing: stopped in at OMBW today for their last day for a couple of happy hour-priced apps and a beer, and picked the server’s brain a bit on what’s going on. According to what she said, it’s just the restaurant … Continue reading
It’s official, Old Mill Brew Wërks posted the news on Facebook: This Sunday we will be CLOSING the doors to Old Mill Brew Werks!! A farewell to all our fans we will be running happy hour specials all day with mention of this post!!! And free swag giveaways!! Come down … Continue reading
In two weeks the High Desert Museum will be opening a new exhibit I’m a little excited about: Brewing Culture: The Craft of Beer. It’s promising more than just the history of beer and brewing, and is the perfect addition for the Museum to complement our beery culture here. Oregonians … Continue reading
This Saturday, December 13, GoodLife Brewing is hosting the second annual Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival from 1 to 9pm in their Biergarten. Everything will be taking place in a heated tent, with the firepit roaring, but still dress for the weather! There will be nearly every Central Oregon brewery … Continue reading
If you read my beer blog you may have seen my post about Bend’s newest brewery, Monkless Belgian Ales; it’s a small home-based basement brewery (similar to Below Grade Brewing, in fact) founded by Kirk Meckem and Todd Clement. Their plan is to brew only Belgian-styled ales, a fairly unique niche … Continue reading