Update: Details below! This Thursday, January 31, is the first annual Platypus Pub Brewfest, an event featuring beer from at least 14 breweries that will be taking place later in the day I believe. I’m short on details, what I have is this: Based on this flyer the breweries are … Continue reading
Updated: Beau in the comments mentions Cascade West, and I’ve learned that Cross Creek Cafe in Redmond is a fill station too! Since I last posted about the “boom” in beer growler fill stations (see here and here), there have been a number of new ones opening up or about … Continue reading
In just a few weeks, Bend’s newest brewery, Worthy Brewing, will be opening up on the east side: February 4 is the “quiet” soft opening, and February 26 is the grand opening (“with a bang”!). From their latest newsletter: Located on the East Side of Bend, Worthy Brewing fancies itself … Continue reading
The Central Oregon Beer Angels are an amazing group of women who love all things beer. They’ve been meeting monthly for a year, and this is your choice to join them. The membership fee for 2013 is $35 and members receive a discount card for over 20 breweries, pubs, restaurants … Continue reading
Here’s a good way to start the year: with Deschutes Brewery’s Barrel Aged Beer Tasting, coming up on Friday, January 11, taking place at the Brewery’s downtown Pub in the new “Tap Room” space upstairs. It runs from 6 to 9pm and costs $45 per person, which is a good … Continue reading
With Christmas fast approaching and shopping days running short, it’s time once again to do a local holiday gift guide, presenting a variety of locally-made products and local stores and shops to hopefully give you a number of ideas for your shopping needs. Of course you knew I would get … Continue reading
It was a month ago I wrote about the Growler Guys, the first-of-its-kind in Oregon (beer) growler fill station over on the east side (at the Shell gas station on the corner of 27th and Highway 20). Well, just this weekend there has opened up a new growler fill station (independent of … Continue reading
I mentioned back in my beer news post last week that the Platypus Pub was planning a big Deschutes Brewery night tonight, the 29th. (And I forgot to mention it this week, unfortunately, until now.) Well it’s Thursday the 29th, and the tasting is here, and it’s better than I … Continue reading
It’s been awhile since I did a roundup of local beer news and happenings, so here’s a rundown to kick off the holiday week. Tonight (Monday the 19th), the Platypus Pub will be hosting brewer Zach Beckwith from Three Creeks Brewing for a tasting from 6 to 8pm; there will … Continue reading
This weekend is McMenamins Old St. Francis School‘s eighth birthday, and they are celebrating today and tomorrow with live music, food and drink specials, and more! Tonight the music starts at 7pm and features the Freak Mountain Ramblers as part of McMenamins’ Great Northwest Music Tour; tomorrow music kicks off … Continue reading