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Beer is now on the menu | A German beer garden in Bellevue can live up to its name now. Zum Biergarten, which means "to the beer garden" in German, obtained its liquor license last month and now serves beer, wine and German spirits such as Jagermeister and Apfelkorn, along with menu staples like bratwurst and schnitzel. | | 7/31/2010 12:25:01 PM |
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Deschutes Red Chair rated best beer in world | Deschutes Brewery's Red Chair pale ale has been judged one of the five best beers in the world at the just completed World Beer Awards 2010. | | 7/31/2010 8:15:28 AM |
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Now Appearing on the Main Stage: This Beer | A beer even a bro could love. Hang onto your lederhosen. We're heading to Leavenworth for this week's Sweet Freak! During a recent day-trip to this faux Bavarian village for some much-needed brats and beer at MA1 4nchen Haus , I stopped in at The Cheesemonger's Shop . | | 7/31/2010 4:05:51 AM |
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A duo of beer cocktails | With our " Brewing Up Cocktails " event successfully wrapped up at The Hop and Vine with co-conspirators Ezra Johnson-Greenough and Yetta Vorobik , I thought it'd be fun to go into the details on a couple of the drinks. | | 7/30/2010 8:56:44 PM |
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The Beer Here print column for July 30 | OK, this isn't Bones & Brew, it's the late Booker Noe, master distiller of Beam bourbons, at a barbecue at McMenamins Edgefield in the late 1990s. | | 7/30/2010 4:51:51 PM |
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Christmas in July: Climax Noel | | My local Whole Foods still has bottles of Eel River Brewing’s Belgian Christmas beer, Climax Noel, in the cooler (albeit on sale) so I picked one up to review this week. According to the label it’s a Belgian Imperial Red Ale, 9% alcohol by volume, and is certified organic.
Appearance: Nice clear amber-red color (“auburn” from [...] | | 7/30/2010 4:00:37 PM |
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N.B. microbrewery faces beer shortage | Sean Dunbar, the owner of Fredericton-based Picaroons, says the company will have to cut back on eight of 11 brands of beer starting this week. | | 7/30/2010 10:42:26 AM |
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The Best Gimmicks in Beer | As Jeff Goldberg noted the other day, the Scottish brewery BrewDog recently debuted a 55 percent alcohol-by-volume beer, cheekily naming it The End of History - after Francis Fukuyama's famous book, of course - and declaring it the world's most alcoholic brew. | | 7/30/2010 8:42:49 AM |
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Beer sales up for first time in four years | British Beer and Pub Association credits World Cup and hot weather for 2.9% rise but sales in pubs slumped by 6.3% The World Cup may have boosted sales of beer in the last quarter. | | 7/29/2010 8:09:00 PM |
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Day Trips | The Real Ale brewery tour in Blanco is a beer lover's dream come true. For folks who understand words like "wort," "mash," and "specific gravity," this is total immersion in the art of craft brewing. | | 7/29/2010 4:04:35 PM |
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The Brew Site
Christmas in July: 2 Turtle Doves | | Even though they’re only a couple of years old, The Bruery in Southern California is the current darling of the Brewinati (did I just make up that word?), and everyone online was raving about their 2 Turtle Doves over the holidays—the second in their ambitious “12 Days (Beers) of Christmas” series, where they’ll release a [...] | | 7/29/2010 4:00:33 PM |
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Beer giant loses fight for Budweiser name | The battle over the Budweiser brand has been raging since 1996. Global brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev has suffered a defeat in a long-running battle over the rights to the Budweiser beer brand. | | 7/29/2010 2:00:04 PM |
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New Leader Emerges In Battle of Strongest Beer | For the past couple of years, the battle for the world's strongest beers has been between the Scottish BrewDog and the German brewery Schorschbrau , with the last volley mere days ago with BrewDog's controversial 55% The End of History . | | 7/29/2010 10:50:02 AM |
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Unfiltered Beer: It's Good For You | Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it's all about the love of the brew. | | 7/29/2010 9:45:11 AM |
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World's strongest pint: Dutch brewer creates 80 proof beer | Start the Future beats the previous record holder Brewdog by 15% Photo: PA Nijboer's Almere-based brewery, 't Koelschip , sells the new beer, which is dubbed "Start the Future", in a one-third litre bottle for 35 each. | | 7/29/2010 8:40:11 AM |
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Beer man: Woodcut Oak-Aged Lager tastes like heaven in bottle | In my early Beer Man days, I foolishly wrote that barrel-aged beers were a fad. I think it was because I ran into a flurry of such beers for several months, which then disappeared from my area shelves for nearly a year. | | 7/29/2010 6:40:30 AM |
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The Week in Beer: The dog days of summer brew | According to ancient lore , the Romans called this time of year the "Dog Days" because they blamed the hot weather on Sirius, aka the Dog Star, located in the Canis Major constellation. | | 7/29/2010 5:40:39 AM |
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The Brew Site
Christmas in July: 25 Dodici | | 25 Dodici is another beer I’d featured on last year’s Advent Calendar: a strong Winter Warmer from Birra del Borgo in Italy, which I speculated had not been actually brewed since 2008. I must have been wrong about that, because imagine my surprise when this beer popped up at Whole Foods this past winter! Yes, [...] | | 7/28/2010 6:00:20 PM |
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Christmas in July: Goose Island Christmas Ale | | This past holiday season was the first year I remember seeing Goose Island Christmas Ale available here in Bend, and was also the first beer I picked for last year’s Advent Calendar—needless to say, it was one I knew I had to try (and had been wanting to for a while). Goose Island is old-school [...] | | 7/28/2010 6:43:51 AM |
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Christmas in July: Winter Hum Bug’r | | Portland’s MacTarnahan’s holiday offering is Hum Bug’r: an easy-drinking Porter wrapped up in packaging reminiscent of something you’d see in an indie graphic novel. The “hum bug” part of the name naturally makes you think of Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol—though MacTarnahan’s has someone else in mind:
You know he’s arrived. Wheeling through the party, [...] | | 7/27/2010 6:00:43 PM |
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Christmas in July Week | | It’s the last full week of the month so that means it’s time for Theme Week here at The Brew Site! This week I’m being a little rebellious (and a bit lazy) and declaring it Christmas in July Week: all week I’ll be writing up reviews of Christmas beers—yes, some of which I’ve backlogged.
It’s not [...] | | 7/26/2010 11:00:50 PM |
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Next week is Theme Week | | It seems like I always forget to mention when a Theme Week is coming up and what the actual theme will be… with that in mind, this next final week in July, starting on Monday the 26th, will be Theme Week here at The Brew Site, and I have decided that this month’s theme is [...] | | 7/24/2010 6:51:47 AM |
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BrewDog, No. | | I’ve pretty much ignored the PR stunts of Scotland’s BrewDog because, well, they’re just that—stunts. But this is just offensively crude, in my opinion. I will never drink beer (or anything, really) from a bottle packaged in taxidermy roadkill.
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Oregon Brewfest | | Sadly I’m not going to make it to the Oregon Brewers Festival this year, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about it: my last two posts on Hop Press were “field guide” articles, including my annual beer picks.
So while this year is no good for me, next year should be a thumbs up: [...] | | 7/22/2010 6:59:36 AM |
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Roots Organic Brewing is closed | | I’ve been remiss in writing about this earlier, but this week Roots Organic Brewing in Portland closed its doors suddenly; John Foyston has the story.
[Craig] Nicholls had been trying to sell the pub and brewery for a reported $450,000, but a couple of deals fell through and he said Tuesday that every day [...] | | 7/16/2010 6:07:30 AM |
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My first all-grain homebrew | | Last weekend (on the 5th, actually), I brewed my first all-grain batch of homebrew, effectively taking my new mash tun setup on a test drive. Overall, I have to say it was fairly successful and ridiculously easy.
I brewed a Porter, basing the recipe on a Black Butte Porter clone I found in an old Brew [...] | | 7/14/2010 6:47:54 AM |
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Firestone Walker Parabola | | I realized it had been awhile since I received the PR bottle of Parabola, Firestone Walker’s barrel-aged Imperial Stout (the first time bottled, no less), and while I knew I was behind on a review (at least, in my mind I was behind), I will admit that the thought of drinking a 13%, 22-ounce bottle [...] | | 7/8/2010 6:57:33 AM |
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The next Session (#42): Location | | Next month’s Session is being hosted by Ramblings of a Beer Runner and the topic is location: A Special Place, A Special Beer.
Two of the best ways I’ve found to explore a new place are to run around in it, and to sample the beer from it. And like many in the craft beer [...] | | 7/7/2010 3:10:02 AM |
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The Session #41: Craft Beers Inspired by Homebrewing | | This is the first Session where I didn’t have a post ready on the actual day of the Session (otherwise known as “Beer Blogging Friday”), which is a little disappointing (I was on a streak) but in the end I’m going with the words of Charlie Papazian: “Relax. Don’t worry. Have a homebrew.”
Appropriately, homebrew is [...] | | 7/3/2010 6:29:37 PM |
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Oregon Craft Beer Month | | Welcome to the first day of Oregon Craft Beer Month; as someone said on Twitter, we have so much beer in Oregon we need more than just a week! It’s our month-long celebration of Oregon’s craft beer, culminating in the Oregon Brewers Festival from the 22nd through the 25th.
You can check out the giant list [...] | | 7/2/2010 2:21:54 AM |
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