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Whisky Barrel imperial stouts from Scotland

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…

Produce Row’s 30th Birthday, it’s a family thang…

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…

Portland’s Fresh Hop Tastival was huge…

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…

Beervana serendipity…

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…

Fresh Hop Tastival beer list

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…

Where Beervana Began: Pro Row turns 30 Oct. 18th

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,…

Two meet-the-brewer nights Oct 14th & 15th

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…

Rogue cuts out the middlemen

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….

Amnesia’a Octobeerfest Saturday, Oct. 11th

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…

Three Versions of Lupulin Ale

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…