By Angelo De Ieso II

The Love of Beer – A documentary by Portland, Oregon’s Alison Grayson highlighting the regional accomplishments, struggles, and the presence of women in the craft beer industry.

The film opens with the sun rising over a hopyard before the late summer harvest along with the voices of various women stating their position. The first voice we recognize is Bend Brewing’s Tonya Cornett, a central figure in Grayson’s documentary, and perhaps the best known woman in the Northwest’s vibrant brewing community.

The Love of Beer is loaded with rich imagery depicting multifarious stages of the brewing process from the harvesting and processing of ingredients to bottling and pouring on the hospitality end. Grayson does a nice job in allowing her visual content to speak as prominently as the featured women’s own voices. The film maker does not employ a scripted narrative, rather she projects through illustrations and mindful editing.

Though many females are featured in The Love of Beer, the heart of Grayson’s work focuses on a handful of central personalities. Read More…

Posted under Beer personalities, Oregon beer, beer history, beer reviews, beers on film

By Matthew DiTullo

It’s hard to imagine that American beer drinkers have been enjoying artisanal, craft brew for just the last three to four decades. During the second half of the 20th Century, the adventurous palates of homebrewers carved a market for rarer imports.  In 2011 we’re now celebrating 30 years of business for Vanberg & DeWulf, a Cooperstown, NY based importer that was founded at the start of the ongoing beer renaissance.

Over the past three decades Vanberg & DeWulf has been bringing beers across the pond from breweries with centuries of brewing tradition.  Read More…

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Day two in Denver brought the opening day of the Great American Beer Festival and the first of four sessions occurring throughout the extended weekend. After getting our media credentials and before heading into the fest at 5:00PM, we settled in across from the Colorado Convention Center at Row 14 (on 14th Avenue) where we enjoyed the tapping of a handful of fresh hopped seasonals. Unique fresh hop favorites of the day included Crabtree Chunkin Pumpkin and Breckenridge Palisade Peach Wheat. Other tasty fresh hop brews pouring were from jockeyboxes such as the grubbin’ Steamworks Colorado Proud Pale. Left over from an earlier event were the beers of Bull & Bush like their Hop Carl session IPA and Captain Midnight Black Saison.

As soon as 5:00PM came, we Read More…

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It is time to celebrate the unity within the craft beer community.  Roscoe’s Collaboration Beer Summit will feature an array of collaboration beers from some great breweries.  Some of the breweries (and beers) featured will include: Deschutes and Boulevard (both versions of Conflux one brewed at Deschutes and one brewed at Boulevard), De Proef and Sly Fox (Brotherly Love), Elysian and New Belgium (Kick Sour Pumpkin Ale), Terrapin and Shmaltz (Reunion Ale 11), Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head (Life and Limb), Allagash and New Belgium (Vrienden), Baird/Ishii/Stone (Japanese Green Tea IPA), Mikkeller, Green Flash and St. Feuillien (Biere De L’Amitie) plus more.   This Summit will take place on both Friday and Saturday evenings (August 26th and 27th) from 4PM until 2:30AM. Roscoe’s Jeremy Lewis says “We will have brewers and representatives from breweries in attendance both nights including Arian Arnsten from Stone Brewing.” Trays of five ounce tasters will be available.  See you there!

Roscoe’s is located at 8105 SE Stark Street in Portland, Oregon. For further details, call (503) 255-0049.

Posted under Oregon beer, beer history, events

It is time to celebrate the unity within the craft beer community.  Roscoe’s Collaboration Beer Summit will feature an array of collaboration beers from some great breweries.  Some of the breweries (and beers) featured will include: Deschutes and Boulevard (both versions of Conflux one brewed at Deschutes and one brewed at Boulevard), De Proef and Sly Fox (Brotherly Love), Elysian and New Belgium (Kick Sour Pumpkin Ale), Terrapin and Shmaltz (Reunion Ale 11), Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head (Life and Limb), Allagash and New Belgium (Vrienden), Baird/Ishii/Stone (Japanese Green Tea IPA), Mikkeller, Green Flash and St. Feuillien (Biere De L’Amitie) plus more.   This Summit will take place on both Friday and Saturday evenings (August 26th and 27th) from 4PM until 2:30AM. Roscoe’s Jeremy Lewis says “We will have brewers and representatives from breweries in attendance both nights including Arian Arnsten from Stone Brewing.” Trays of five ounce tasters will be available.  See you there!

Roscoe’s is located at 8105 SE Stark Street in Portland, Oregon. For further details, call (503) 255-0049.

Posted under Oregon beer, beer history, events

It is time to celebrate the unity within the craft beer community.  Roscoe’s Collaboration Beer Summit will feature an array of collaboration beers from some great breweries.  Some of the breweries (and beers) featured will include: Deschutes and Boulevard (both versions of Conflux one brewed at Deschutes and one brewed at Boulevard), De Proef and Sly Fox (Brotherly Love), Elysian and New Belgium (Kick Sour Pumpkin Ale), Terrapin and Shmaltz (Reunion Ale 11), Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head (Life and Limb), Allagash and New Belgium (Vrienden), Baird/Ishii/Stone (Japanese Green Tea IPA), Mikkeller, Green Flash and St. Feuillien (Biere De L’Amitie) plus more.   This Summit will take place on both Read More…

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By Dan Culver

Day 2 ( With a bit of a recap of Day 1)

Here we are in full swing at the 2011 BBC as I take up where we left off with the evening of Day 1.  Being new to the blogging scene, personally this conference couldn’t have come at a better time.  I have to admit I was a little overwhelmed at first but once it got going and I realized how familiar I was with the topics at hand I started to feel at home.  It was also a little bit of a challenge to get to the conference Saturday morning after a bit of a late night starting with our dinner and tour of at the Goschi Hops Farm near Mt. Angel, OR. Read More…

Posted under Beer & Music, Beer Blogs, Beer Education, Beer personalities, Oregon beer, beer and food, beer history, beer humor, beer news, beer to do list, beers on film, brewpubs, weekend in review

Here we are at the Beer Bloggers Conference. Just heard Julia Herz from the Brewers Association speak to the crowd about the growth of craft beer as well as some shared goals for the future. Now as I sit here, local beer icons Fred Eckhardt and John Foyston take front and center as the conference’s keynote speakers.

Foyston is interviewing Fred about the early days when he discovered homebrewing and write his first book about it back in 1969, ten years before its re-legalization.

Fred calls the current revolution as the third great beer revolution. These sited revolutions include: Read More…

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Where: Coalition Brewing Pub and Beer Garden

2724 SE Ankeny, Portland, 97214

When:  Saturday, August 20^th

12pm – All Day

Coalition Brewing is happy to announce our One Year Anniversary Party!  Come celebrate one year of making and drinking delicious beer with us.  To thank you for your patronage, we will be hosting:

-Live music in the beer garden

-Happy hour all day ($3.50 pints, $10 pitchers)

-Beer Brat BBQ

-Small batch release of a new CDA

-First Annual Coalition Cornhole Shootout (winner takes home a $20 gift certificate)

-Live brewing demo

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By Chris Crabb

The New Old Lompoc brewery will celebrate its 15 anniversary later this summer in a big way: 15 Beers for 15 Years!  A Northwest institution, the New Old Lompoc will host a one party on August 20, the first official day of Portland Beer Week, serving 15 unique and specialty Lompoc beers in addition to its mainstay lineup.  Organizers anticipate nearly 30 different beers will pour throughout the day.

The party will start at 11 am in the parking lot of the New Old Lompoc at 1616 NW 23 Ave.  In addition to the myriad of beers, there will be a cornhole tournament, live music and food specials.  The event will also feature a toast to the memory of Don Younger, who was part owner of the brewery since 2000.

Some of the specialty beers scheduled to be on tap include Read More…

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