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…

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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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Burnside Grätzer (photo by Portland Beer and Music's Jim Bonomo)

Central Europe meets Portland’s Central Eastside in the revamping of Grätzer by Burnside Brewing.

When getting down to tasting the plethora (John Foyston is gonna grill me for using this word) of beer at this year’s Oregon Brewers Festival, several dynamic offering struck our fancy. One in particular beer was the Burnside Grätzer, a smoky wheaten brew with a whirlwind of complex flavors melding from start to finish. Unquestionably one of the most unique styles of beer at the festival, this Grätzer returns with a an approachable levity of just over 5% ABV and a modest 9 IBUs. Named for the village of Grodzisk in Poland, the beer has seen a mini-resurgence around Portland when earlier in the year both Burnside and Breakside revisited tradition with renditions of the Grätzer. In a recent blogpost, Beervana’s Jeff Alworth highlights an interesting history of this Central European treat:

Grätzer/Grodziskie
Grätzer is actually indigenous to Poland, where it was known as Read More…

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By Aaron Brussat

Chip Hardy, owner of The Bier Stein Bottleshop & Pub of Eugene, is putting his brewing boots back on. It started with last year’s “High Five,” a deceptively strong imperial red ale that Hardy brewed at Ninkasi to commemorate the Stein’s fifth anniversary, and which took first in a blind imperial red taste-off. His first collaboration of this year, “Missing Link” IPA, was brewed at Oakshire and took first place in a flight of local IPAs.

Due out soon is another strong, hoppy offering: a revisiting of a Glen Hay Falconer tribute beer that Hardy and Todd Friedman, now a brewer at Hop Valley, brewed when they worked together at West Brothers. The new beer, the 6^th Element Imperial IPA, should be available at The Bier Stein and Hop Valley in early July. Future plans include a beer with Read More…

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With the proliferation of craft beer across the continent, more and more regions are celebrating the ever-growing propensity our palates have for locally made artisan products. This is not just evident in the more than 1700 Craft breweries alive in the United States, but in many other facets of everyday living. Slow food and the push toward sustainable community goods exemplify a focus on the benefits of not just better ingredients, but a system that is more conducive to parochial economic prosperity. American Craft Beer Week, as denominated by the American Brewers Association (BA), limelights such inward growth that is outwardly advancing amplifying, and augmenting.

Steadily outdoing themselves, American Craft Read More…

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Thursday May 19th, 7 pm start
What do you think about beer in America? Come watch this
Beer Documentary by Anat Baron. 2 complementary tastings are
included in the ticket price. Full service throughout the event.
Presented by WEB, hosted at the gorgeous Callahan’s Lodge
Tickets $10 until May 13th, $15 at the door
Women & men welcome and encouraged
** This event replaces our regular monthly meet-up**
Ashland OR

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In this class, we appeal to the inner hop lover in all of us and explore the diversity of hops and hop flavors. We will focus on differentiating between the major families of hops, demonstrating how hops can impact the depth of a beer, and explore specific American hop varietals in great detail. You’ll leave the class being able to tell your Cascades from your Fuggles and appreciating the great breadth of hop character in beer.

Time: 7:30-9:30 PM

Location: Breakside Brewery (820 NE Dekum)

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Widmer Brother Brewing’s Arts & Draughts will celebrate the 78th anniversary of repeal of Prohibition with a special event celebrating a new look and new releases from the Brewery as well as the craft of local beer, food, and artistry. Festivities will take place Thursday, April 7 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at LeftBank Annex.

April 7th is a day with many historical references – the eruption of Mt . Vesuvius, the Internet’s symbolic birthdate and more. However, April 7th, 1933 also marks the day that Prohibition was repealed for beer. Now, 78 years later Widmer Brothers Brewing will commemorate the repeal at this special event. The evening will include handcrafted Widmer Brothers brews uniquely paired with Read More…

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