Three Creeks Brewing out in Sisters has a busy month ahead, starting tomorrow: Friday, November 9th: the release party for their annual holiday ale Rudolph’s Imperial Red kicks off at the brewery at 6pm. This is the fifth year the beer has been released, and to celebrate they’ll have it … Continue reading
Perhaps you’ve heard recently about this new beer business over on Bend’s east side: no, not Worthy Brewing (though that’s going to be impressive!), rather the relatively new growler fill station located inside the Shell gas station on the corner of Highway 20 and 27th Street—The Growler Guys. Yes, I … Continue reading
Two big Halloween-themed parties are taking place Saturday night, and funnily enough both both are related to alcohol in that the folks throwing the parties are Deschutes Brewery and Oregon Spirit Distillers. The Brewery is throwing their annual warehouse party from 8pm until 2am, where you’ll be able to get … Continue reading
Yesterday the Great American Beer Festival in Denver held its awards ceremony for the country’s largest beer competition, and four—four!—Bend breweries won medals! 10 Barrel Brewing Silver in German-Style Sour Ale (category 65): German Sparkle Party Silver in American-Style Stout (category 78): Power to the People American Stout Bend Brewing … Continue reading
Deschutes Brewery has a number of things going on this week. My friend Brenda sent this along to make sure I was on top of things: Deschutes Brewery has something to celebrate having recently received the title of the World’s Best Beer from the recent World Beer Awards. We all … Continue reading
Starting today the Broken Top Bottle Shop is holding a weekend-long fundraiser for next year’s Rise Up’s Bend Roots Revival music festival (in light of the troubles they ended up having this year): their “Brewtal Breakdown Festival” which has things going on all three days. “Free shows, raffle prizes & … Continue reading
Boy, you’d think I’d have been on top of this one but frankly, it hasn’t been well advertised anywhere that I’ve seen: this year’s Bend Fall Festival includes a homebrew competition by Deschutes Brewery—with a twist: it’s a competition for fresh hop (or “harvest”) beers only! This is the first … Continue reading
The annual Sisters Fresh Hop Festival is taking place this Saturday the 29th, highlighting one of the things that make Oregon’s beer culture stand out from the rest of the country: Fresh hop beers. Fresh hop beers are beers brewed with hops that are literally right off the vine—they are … Continue reading
This weekend marks the official start of Oktoberfest (which runs from September 22 through October 7 this year) and accordingly Bend has Oktoberfest celebrations happening. Downtown Bend’s annual Oktoberfest is taking place Friday, the 21st from 5 to 10pm, and Saturday the 22nd from noon to 10pm. Friday’s festivities include … Continue reading
Today McMenamins Old St. Francis School is having their “Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day” party all day long, featuring free live music, food and drink specials and lots of Irish revelry. Yes, it’s kind of a wonky idea but it’s fun and offers up something fun to do in the … Continue reading