The weekend before last we found ourselves in Oregon’s largest town east of the Cascades. Here in Bend, we discovered a breadth of exceptional breweries. And, for a city with the same population as Asheville, North Carolina, which has been dubbed “Beer City USA”, Bend has more breweries. In the coming months, at least a handful of new breweries will emerge in Bend pushing it up to around 15 within the city.

In our last post about our most recent excursions in Bend, we mentioned the new on the scene GoodLife Brewing Co., which has been breaking ground into their 22,ooo square foot warehouse with some promising flavors, as well as the bursting at the seems Deschutes Brewery, which is at the top of Oregon’s players when it comes to artisan beer production. Read More…

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Bend, Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewing is quickly winning over the hearts and palates of Northwest beer lovers. Not only do they have an all-star cast of beer makers including former Deschutes brewer Jimmy Seifrit, they are also growing at a rapid rate to increase capacity through an ongoing expansion effort that will bump them up to a 50-barrel brewery replete with barrel-aging abilities. In early 2012, 10 Barrel will take on Bend Brewing’s highly respected brewmaster Tonya Cornett to join the team, and not long after, you can count on another high profile Oregon brewer that we are not at liberty to disclose at this juncture.

As part of 10 Barrel’s ongoing expansion, the brewery has introduced a new lineup of Small Batch Series brews with the bigtime beer geek in mind. The first from SBS will be “Precursor”, an imperial red ale houses in a tidy corked and caged 750 ml bottle. Here’s the description from 10 Barrel on this new alluring brew: Read More…

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More details of the new 50 barrel brewhouse at 10 Barrel Brewing (no, they are not going to change the name) in Bend, Oregon have been divulged. We spoke with our friend Mark Carver, who is the brand manager for the company, and learned some of the exciting details regarding the new undertaking. Carver says that despite the energy drain of  trying to keep up with the momentum of Apocalypse (IPA), Sinistor (Black Ale), and ISA,  the brewing staff “are encouraged and given the freedom and resources needed that enable them to design and bring to reality countless new twists, turns, and whacky ideas and intuitions of the brewing science”,  adding ” Not all of them reach the “public pallate” of course, but as I was talking to (brewmaster) Jimmy (Seifrit) yesterday he puts it in “timely world series”  perspective when he says…”you can’t get a hit unless you step up to the plate and take a swing or two..”"  Four of the beers the team designed Read More…

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Join one of Oregon’s finest breweries, 10 Barrel for their Pray For Sun Parking Lot Party at their Bend location. Killer!

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By Margaret Lut

This past week I was traveling for work and spent my time in Oregon’s High Desert Outback. Making my way from Portland, I spent time in Heppner, John Day and Burns Oregon. Having driven over 700 miles in last four days, I had the joy of taking in some of the state’s most picturesque sights. I took in the beauty of the high desert and enjoyed the sights of ghost towns (Hardman, OR was my favorite in a true Western, eerie kind of way), snow-capped  mountain passes and flooded high desert ranch lands. I spend three days in Eastern Oregon and did  not come across a single brewery until my fourth day on the road. Traveling back to Portland I knew a stop in Bend for craft beer would be in order. Read More…

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The beer lineup for this year’s SE Division Street Meet the Brewer BrewPubliCrawl includes 27  killer beers from 21 Oregon breweries. Brewers from most of these breweries will also be at the crawl. You can also download this list on our Event Guide (pdf file). Find more event details on our events page. We hope to see you crawling with us this Saturday!

2011 BrewPubliCrawl Beer Lineup:

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In yet another big story regarding Oregon brewers, it was brought to our attention by The Brew Site (probably Bend, Oregon’s best beer blog) that brewer Tonya Cornett of Bend Brewing will be departing to work across town at 10 Barrel Brewing Company.

Here’s more from Jon at The Brew Site: Read More…

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Update: 10 Barrell Brewing Co. “Pray for Snow” beer release party (Saturday, November 27th from 3pm until closing) is a STRONG ALE not a Double Alt.

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By Tyffany DeGray

On the heels of the wildly successful opening of their pub on Bend’s Westside, the guys at 10 Barrel Brewing Company are growing again. I sat down with Co-owners Chris Cox and Garrett Wales (the third partner is Chris’ twin brother Jeremy Cox) to discuss their forthcoming expansion and other future plans for 10 Barrel.

After opening JC’s Bar and Grill in downtown Bend, the Cox brothers were ready for a new challenge, and in 2006, 10 Barrel Brewing Company was born. After a series of challenges including a lawsuit-fueled name change, Read More…

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Brewpublic‘s first event for KillerBeerWeek: Killer Beers of Bend on Wednesday October 20 at The BeerMongers.

Here’s what will be pouring: Read More…

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