On Wednesday, January 31, Tetherow Resort‘s Brewery Smackdown series of beer and food pairing events returns for its third year. Not only food and beer pairing, but a people’s choise-style competition where two breweries from Portland, Ecliptic Brewing and Ancestry Brewing, square off against the reigning champions, Crux Fermentation Project … Continue reading
Last week I got to attend a beer pairing benefit dinner hosted by Silver Moon Brewing, Revolvr Menswear, and the Scoutpost food cart, who all teamed up to support Cascade Youth & Family Center. This “Pairing for a Purpose” dinner featured five courses of food prepared by Scoutpost and paired … Continue reading
Silver Moon Brewing is teaming up with Revolvr Menswear to host a benefit beer pairing dinner this Thursday, October 27, at Revolvr’s downtown Bend store. “Pairing for a Purpose” benefits the Cascade Youth & Family Center and features a five course dinner by the Scoutpost food cart paired with Silver Moon … Continue reading
Beer and history! That’s what the Silver Moon-crafted Skyliners IPA represents, as they worked with the Deschutes Historical Museum to create a special-label beer to commemorate the history of Nordic skiing and the Skyliners in Central Oregon. And tonight is the launch party for the beer, being held at Silver … Continue reading
This Friday, November 20th, Silver Moon Brewing is holding the official grand opening of their new production brewery located over in Redmond, which is also going to be the site of their annual One Beard to Rule Them All fundraiser event, all taking place from 6 to 10pm at 2095 … Continue reading
Yesterday’s Pine Tavern beer event, their PT80 Beerfest Challenge, was a lot of fun and (I think) a successful first-time event! The goal was not only to invite Central Oregon’s local breweries to pour beer and help support the Humane Society of Central Oregon but also to help pick the … Continue reading
I haven’t seen much (or any) fanfare about this other than on Silver Moon Brewing‘s own Facebook page, but this first Friday, June 5 (which is tomorrow) they are kicking off “a summer of celebrating 15 years”—here’s the post: The First Friday of summer is right around the corner and we’re … 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
The Great American Beer Festival has been going on this weekend, and yesterday the winners for best beers in various categories were announced—these are kind of like the Olympics for beer. And of the 15 medals that Oregon breweries won, 6 of those are from three of Bend’s breweries: Deschutes … Continue reading
The Great American Beer Festival was this past weekend, and as usual several of our local breweries brought home medals: no mean feat when the competition consists of over 3500 beers all vying for a win. This year’s Bend winners are as follows: Deschutes Brewery: Category 14: Gluten Free Beer: … Continue reading