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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
BridgePort Brewery is releasing its next 22-ounce Big Brew, Raven Mad; an Imperial Bourbon barrel aged porter. BridgePort will be hosting a release party Thursday with free samples of the beer while supplies last. Guests are encouraged to come dressed…
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Meet the Brewer, New Beers, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Raven Mad release party, Thurs. Oct. 23rd
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…
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
This fall and winter, the party moves indoors at the Fort George Brewery + Public House in Astoria where the beer-pairing dinners are back for the second year. These sit-down dinners include several courses of food, each with a…
October 8th, 2008 | Posted in beer and food pairings, beer tastings, beer touring, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Fort George Graveyard Dinner, Oct. 15th
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
The first of three Fresh Hop Tastivals sponsored by the Oregon Brewers Guild and Oregon Bounty is also the fifth annual Hood River Hops Fest on Saturday, Oct. 4. We don’t just grow and use hops here in the Pacific…
October 2nd, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, beer tastings, beer touring, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, New Beers, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on First Fresh Hop Tastival, Hood River Hops this weekend
Golden Valley brewmaster Mark Vickery checks the progress of his innovative champagne-aged IPA. Vickery’s Grand Island Golden Ale. This Tuesday, Mark Vickery comes from Golden Valley in McMinnville and brings some of his favorite beers to one of Portland’s bastions…
October 2nd, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Two months worth of Green Dragon meet-the-brewers nights
Deschutes winter favorite, Jubelale, should be on a shelf near you by the end of this week and you can celebrate its 21st year at an informal party at the Horse Brass on Tuesday…Jo Ellen says there’ll be some other…
September 29th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Tuesday, Sept. 30th: Jubel release at the Horse Brass