Archive for the 'Life in Beervana' Category
From Fraserburgh, Scotland, with attitude… This’ll have you wishing for a witbier: a very special tasting of imperial stouts from Scottish microbrewery Brew Dog. Each of the stouts was aged for several months in a different Scotch whisky barrel…
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Whisky Barrel imperial stouts from Scotland
Founders, friends, family, musicians…they all showed for Produce Row’s 30th on Saturday, which featured live music by Slicer and others, and a ten-foot-long butcher paper card to hold all the reminiscences and stories… Saturday’s 30th birthday at Produce Row Cafe…
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in beer history, Life in Beervana | Comments Off on Produce Row’s 30th Birthday, it’s a family thang…
We’ll let some pictures tell the story about Saturday’s Oregon Bounty/ Oregon Brewers Guild Fresh Hop Tastival at Hopworks Urban Brewery… This would’ve been the festival to get to early in the day. By midafternoon, lots of beers had run…
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, beer tastings, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana | Comments Off on Portland’s Fresh Hop Tastival was huge…
It happens all the time — Portland has so many good beer events happening in so many places that you can, as I did yesterday afternoon, head down to the Pilsner Room because you knew they had Phil’s Existential Alt…
October 17th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana | Comments Off on Beervana serendipity…
Rain did not deter determined beer sampling at the recent Hood River Hops festival; In Beervana, the Saturday forecast is partly sunny and very hoppy… Hopworks hosts the Oregon Brewers Guild Fresh Hop Tastival featuring more than 25 fresh hop…
October 15th, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Fresh Hop Tastival beer list
Thirty years ago, Mike McMenamin sold seven of his employees the Produce Row Cafe and went off to start a wine distributorship and, after that tanked, an empire. The new owners of Produce Row (incorporated under the name Funhogs,…
October 9th, 2008 | Posted in beer history, Life in Beervana, The Beer Bizz, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Where Beervana Began: Pro Row turns 30 Oct. 18th
So go to the dragon on tuesday night… Luckily, the Green Dragon and Belmont Station often stagger their weekly meet-the- brewer-nights, so we lucky Beervanians don’t have to choose…such as this week… Hopworks brewers: Jaime Rodriguez, Christian Ettinger and Ben…
October 9th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Life in Beervana, Meet the Brewer | Comments Off on Two meet-the-brewer nights Oct 14th & 15th
Rogue Ales new Independence Hop Ale is the Newport brewerys first beer brewed with hops from its own hop yard in Independence near Salem. The limited release fresh-hop beer will be on tap at the Rogue Ales pub, 1339 N.W….
October 9th, 2008 | Posted in Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana, New Beers, Seasonal beers, The Beer Bizz | Comments Off on Rogue cuts out the middlemen
Kevin King and the Amnesia brewery… Owner/brewerKevin King has a proper Oktoberfest lager and an Imperial Vienna on tap for Saturday’s celebration, which will also feature authentic German food such as warm potato salad and a sausage plate, and an…
October 9th, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, Seasonal beers, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Amnesia’a Octobeerfest Saturday, Oct. 11th
Brewer John Harris with that transcendent — and almost empty — 15-year-old keg of Imperial Porter at the recent Portland toast to Full Sail’s 21st. Lucky old us: Full Sail’s John Harris made a bunch of Lupulin Ale this year…
October 6th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Three Versions of Lupulin Ale