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Brewers Summer Games raise $5,600 for charity

The Pelican Pub & Brewery’s Fifth Annual Brewers Summer Games, held on June 21, raised over $5,600 which will be distributed to two local charities: Nestucca’s Booster Club and Caring Cabin. These funds were raised from beer, root beer,…

Laurelwood’s list o’ new beers

You can always find a list of what’s pouring at the Laurelwood pubs. Straight Up IPA No smoke and mirrors here- this is just a good ‘ol fashioned Straight Up IPA. We took some of our favorite malts and…

Rogue’s hop farm yields first harvest

Hops, glorious hops, and this year’s crop is almost ready to pick… First, did you even know that Rogue has a hop farm? Well, read on… The Rogue Nation’s Department of Agriculture has entered into a strategic alliance with…

2008 Oregon Brewers Guild Dinner photos

It was another great evening: perfect weather, lots of interesting people, good food (more on that later) and brilliant beers from Oregon’s finest. Fred Eckhardt always has fans around him, such as this gent, who got the master to sign…

You never forget your first…

…$20 pitcher, nor your first $23 12-pack of Molson Canadian…I encountered both at the Mad Trapper Pub in Golden, B.C., a fine, high-ceilinged, woody place next to a roaring Columbia River that was about Fanno Creek size…and that was dollars…

20,000 gallons of Pilsner makes new whiskey

It was an inspired moment in 1999 when 12th & 13th Generation Distillers Miles & Marko Karakasevic tasted a micro-brewed Pilsner and envisioned the whiskey it could become. 12th & 13th Generation Master Distillers Miles and Marko Karakasevic atop…