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Join us for the opening of the Gigantic Brewing Taproom and Champagne Lounge. Doors at 3pm, open til 9ish. Gigantic IPA & The City Never Sleeps on tap along with our collaboration brews and guest taps. Come celebrate!

Gigantic is located at 5224 SE 26th Avenue (at Steele) in Portland, OR. For more on Gigantic, check out their site: www.giganticbrewing.com

Gigantic Brewing Taproom and Champagne Lounge is beer and champagne only, and thus you must be 21+ years of age.

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Likely Oregon’s most anticipated new brewery opening of 2012 is Gigantic Brewing. Headed by two regional craft beer all-stars, Van Havig, who spent 16 years brewing at Portland’s Rock Bottom, and Ben Love, who held down posts at Pelican Brewing in Pacific City and Hopworks Urban Brewery in Portland. Together, the two look to produce a year round IPA and a wide variety of rotating seasonals, specialties, and one-offs. On Wednesday May 9, 2012, Gigantic celebrates the fruits of their labors by kicking off what promises to be one hell of a non-stop party. Here’s the good word from the brewery: Read More…

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It’s been two years, but at last, the much awaited collaborative brew between two of Oregon’s most respected breweries nears its release. The first brew in Deschutes Brewery‘s Conflux Series, dubbed “Collage”, was brewed with Portland’s Hair of the Dog Brewing. This inaugural brew in this collaborative series spearheaded by the Bend brewery showcases a barrel aged marriage of four sought after strong ales, Deschutes’ The Stoic Quad and Dissident Oud Bruin, and Hair of the Dog’s Fred and Adam. These beers were aged in a variety of barrels including rye whiskey, cognac, sherry, pinot noir, bourbon, and oak. The final product is guaranteed to be something that beer enthusiasts from around the world will surely seek out with great anticipation. On May 15, Deschutes will release 12-ounce bottles of Collage at their Bend and Portland brewpubs. Here’s the full scoop from the folks at Deschutes: Read More…

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Friday was our first day at the Craft Brewers Conference in San Diego, CA. Things kicked off with a keynote speech by Chairman and President of Brooklyn Brewery, Steve Hindy. Other noteworthy speakers were in attendance such as Dogfish Head founder and brewmaster Sam Calagione, Elysian founder and brewmaster Dick Cantwell, and Brewers Association president Dr. Charlie Papazian. Here’s more from the 2012 CBC… Read More…

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To celebrate the limited release of the newest Brothers’ Reserve series beer, Kill Devil Brown Ale, Widmer Brothers Brewing will host an event on Saturday, April 28, offering the chance for consumers to visit the brewery to purchase the beer before it hits shelves. The Brothers’ Reserve beers are one-of-a-kind, and each run is limited. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever. Kill Devil Brown Ale is the most limited release of the Brothers’ Reserve beers to date.

WHAT:           Widmer Brothers Pre-Release of Brothers’ Reserve Kill Devil Brown Ale

Join Widmer Brothers Brewing for the pre-release event of Kill Devil Brown Ale, the sixth beer in the brewery’s Brothers’ Reserve series. Aged in Puerto Rican rum barrels, and brewed with Sweet Barbados and Blackstrap molasses, palm sugar, and Calypso hops, Kill Devil’s flavor and name were inspired by the ingredients used by Caribbean distillers.

This event will provide attendees with an opportunity to purchase the beer before it is released to the public in mid-May. Kurt and Rob Widmer will be on hand at the brewery to share samples, talk about the beer, and sign packages of the limited release. Twenty-two ounce bottles of Kill Devil will be sold for $13 each with a three-bottle limit until 11 a.m. or 30 cases are sold.

WHEN: Saturday, April 28 from 9 to 11 a.m.

*While supplies last

WHERE: Widmer Brothers Brewing Retail Store

929 North Russell St., Portland, Ore.

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This Sunday, from 4-7pm, we are hosting a meet the brewer event with Full Sail Brewery brewmaster Phil Roche. Phil will be present sampling his new addition to the ‘Brewer’s Share series, Phil’s Existential Alt. He will be happy to accept questions on anything to do with the world of beer!

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Omission Beer introduces the first two beers in its gluten-free craft beer portfolio: Omission Lager and Omission Pale Ale. Announced in late March by Craft Brew Alliance (CB^A), Omission is the first craft beer brand in the United States focused exclusively on brewing great-tasting craft beers with traditional beer ingredients, including malted barley, that are specially crafted to be gluten-free.

Brewed by Widmer Brothers Brewing in Portland, Ore., Omission beers are brewed using a proprietary brewing process to reduce the gluten levels to well below the widely accepted international gluten-free standard of 20 parts per million (ppm) for food and beverages. The international gluten-free standard was set forth by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was created in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization. Read More…

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