This month Full Sail Brewing will release a new beer in their Brewer’s Share Experimental line up: “Dan’s Satin Stout” crafted by Assistant Operations Manager Dan Nakamura.  Intrigued by the complexity of dark beer, Dan brewed a sweet, dark stout with a very smooth, satiny finish.

Dan’s Satin Stout is a creamy, dark beer with a soft and smooth finish and is complemented with the subtly sweet notes of chocolate and a hint of honey. A blend of pale, Munich, caramel, chocolate malt, and roast barley give Satin Stout its deep darkness and complex palate. Willamette and Mt. Hood hops provide just enough bitter to balance the sweet malitness; their slightly spicy aromas complement the floral notes from the addition of Read More…

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A fundraiser for the Civil Liberties Defense Center

January 24, 2012

Tuesday, February 7, 6pm at The Granary (259 East Fifth Ave., Eugene)

Join your friends and meet some new ones at a fundraising beer dinner featuring local brews from Ninkasi Brewing Company (with founding brewer Jamie Floyd) paired with the fine local cuisine of chef and farmer Ashley Hawkins (from Horton Road Organics). All proceeds from the event go to support the good work of the Civil Liberties Defense Center.

FEATURING VEGAN AND VEGETARIAN DELIGHTS PAIRED WITH DELICIOUS NINKASI BREWS!

~ A selection of appetizers including local cheese boards with pairings ~
~ Winter squash veloute with seasonal mushrooms in white truffle oil ~

• ~ A selection of local salads ~
• ~ Beet dumplings with hazelnut gremolata ~
• ~ Wild herb gnocchi with brown butter, grana padano and fried sage ~
• ~ Saffron carrot flan ~
• ~ Dutch bullet bean and leek gratin with white wine walnut cream ~
• ~ Sweet potato fritters with crème anglaise ~
• ~ Spiced pears in red wine ~
• ~ All paired with Ninkasi Brews ~

BUY TICKETS BELOW

$50 advance tickets, $60 at the door (depending on availability). Used the form below to purchase yours today!

Sponsored by The Granary and Ninkasi Brewing.

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How far are brewing style guidelines to be pushed? Brown Porters, Black IPAs, Strong Pale, and now, after a series of tinkering with various recipes, Deschutes Brewery is unleashing their Chainbreaker White IPA in bottles. You may remember their collaborative Conflux 2 release White IPA release done in conjunction with Boulevard Brewing of Kansas City. This beer, though sharing some similar characteristics, is much different. Slated to be released in late March 2012, Chainbreaker is described by the brewery as a “hop-forward, citrus-packed beer with an unmistakably smooth character” with distribution expanded throughout the 19 states where Deschutes send their goods.

“We’re always experimenting with new ingredients and new styles at the brewery,” said Cam O’Connor, brewmaster for Deschutes. “In the case of Chainbreaker our Read More…

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Bend, Oregon’s newest and most talked about production craft brewery, GoodLife Brewing Company, is excited to be back in Portland mingling with beer aficionados.  Join us for our Meet the Brewer nights to taste the 2011 Bend Brewfest co-winner Mountain Rescue Dry Hop Pale Ale as well as Descender IPA, Pass Stout, and Scottish Heart Scotch Ale.

Scottish Heart Scotch Ale is truly a unique beer, partly due to the fact it is the first collaboration between 2 Central Oregon breweries. Tonya Cornett, Brewmaster at Bend Brewing Company, and Curt Plants, Head Brewer at GoodLife Brewing Company, combined their geniuses to create an extremely balanced, toffee-flavored bunch of goodness

Come drink some beer with us; we’re more fun when we are in our natural environment.

Wednesday, January 11^th

Horse Brass hours TBA

4534 SE Belmont Street

Portland, OR 97215

(503) 232-2202

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Meet the brewer from Big Al Brewing of Seattle at the Green Dragon Pub and Bistro.

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December 21, 2011 marks the kickoff of the Jewish holiday known as Hanukka. For eight days and eight nights, this festival of lights will commemorate the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Before Lighting the Menorah, the folks at the Green Dragon Bistro Pub are kicking off a special celebration of both Hanukka and Christmas with their Hanukkah Hoedown Throwdown, a side-by-side sampling of beers from both Shmaltz Brewing and local favorite Lompoc Brewing. This event will happen on Saturday December 17, 2011 beginning at 5PM.

In case you missed it Lompoc’s Sidebar celebrated a similar event on Wednesday December 14, then you are not going to want to miss out on this. And, even if you did attend that event, Saturday’s tasting promises even more malty goodness.  Here’s the details from the folks at the Green Dragon: Read More…

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I just wanted to drop you a note letting you know that APEX will be tapping 1 of only 10 in existence 1/6th bbl. kegs of Ale Industries Grand Cru on Thursday, December 8th at 5PM.  Servings  will be in a 6 oz. glass, so there will be just over 100 served.  If this is the type of thing you enjoy, I hope you don’t miss out.

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Here’s an older post that we figured we’d bring back. Have a fun night!

Hoppy Halloween! Sudsy Samhain! Festive Fall! Merry Malting!

Losing leaves are the nakeding trees. Seasonal yeastwork. Plants’ vascular adapting and converting like sugars during fermentation. Fractal trees and complex flavors. Beer and rain begin to simultaneously increase on the gravities in which they pour. Boos and brews and cloud formations sometimes replaced by just one giant cloud. Dark mornings, darker nights increase. It can be harder to get warmed. But it is welcoming to be near a heat source. Perhaps soon looking forth to the next solstice bringing light back. Spicy seasonals, Oktoberfests, gourd brews, other fruit beers, doppels, dunkels, hearty browns, ambers, and even barleywines. Beware of ghouls and stale piwo. The light will return just as the longer warmer days, but now is the entrance to darker, bolder, and more assertive times. Enjoy the long spells of grey, contracted daylight hours, and even snowfall could conjur the need for items something spicy and robust. Enjoy the life of colorfully distinct seasons in Beervana. The changes we certainly welcomed and find necessary and most importantly, an undeniable excuse to brew, drink, and demand different kinds of beer.

I hope my beer is not a headless one. That would gravely scare me. Unless of course, it is brewed to style. Pumking verticals and eerily anticipating the sun falling beneath the horizon. Some are mused by horror films. The wicks of candles burn and bodies turn. Sweat shirts, sweaters, and cuddling pets. Sometimes it feels this season is the best. Skeleton crops blow in the wind. Spiders. frogs, rats, and others work hard to prepare for the winter. Cold beer now and cold morning soon enough. Trick or treat, smell my feet, give us something good to drink.

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Where to begin? KillerBeerWeek 2011 was the biggest series of events that Brewpublic has put forth in our three years of existence. Eight days at eight venues with more than 95 curated specialty craft beers throughout.

As previously mentioned, it all kicked off for us at Roscoe’s Pub on Sunday October 16, 2011, where Jeremy and Quyen and company hosted our KillerBeerSummit, and helped us to wrangle up sixteen special beers on tap. Read PortlandBeer.org’s write up of the Summit here.

Monday night (October 17, 2011) witnessed one of the best Read More…

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What better way to end a week of enjoying killer beers at some of Portland’s best beer spots than with a recovery brunch at the Hop and Vine where Chef Sam Reed has prepared a mouthwatering menu of food paired with local beers. Brunch will start at 11 in the morning and tickets for this four course feast are only $35. Go to this post on the Hop and Vine website to purchase your tickets (be sure to choose your menu preference — meat or vegetarian — at the bottom of the post, then click the Buy Now button). There’s limited seating available, and last year’s brunch sold out, so be sure and get your tickets early. Read More…

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