The Brew Site
On Friday I received an unexpected package containing beer: Widmer Hefeweizen, to be exact. You can see in the picture below, that the package contained two bottles of Hefe, a custom Widmer Hefe glass, and two lemons. Plus their Press Kit booklet—more on that in a moment. Now, I’m not … Continue reading
It’s another press release relating to the St. Austell Brewery in Cornwall, England. This one amuses me because it’s both slightly daft and a good reminder than the British take their pubs and their beer seriously. St Austell vicar Patrick Bamber has teamed up with his local pub to take … Continue reading
I’m a little behind on running this one, and I’ve seen some other pointers around the web to this news as well. The cynical part of me, naturally, wonders how this ties in with all the InBev-related news. But, it’s good for the environment and for a company as large … Continue reading
Here’s the official press release about the record year the Oregon Brewers Festival had. The full official headline is, "Oregon Brewers Festival bucks the economic downturn, celebrates banner year with record attendance and sales" but that’s a little long for a title even for me. America’s economy may be in … Continue reading
Today being the first Friday of August means it’s time for The Session—beer blogging on a common theme. This month is brought to us from the Barley Blog and the theme is "Happy Anniversary": Use this as an excuse to celebrate. Open a limited release anniversary beer from your favorite … Continue reading
It’s not the first time it’s seen the light of day, but when was the last time you heard of an "India Pale Lager"? Yeah, me neither—it’s a new one to me too, but according to our local Central Oregon weekly, Silver Moon Brewing produced Noble India Pale Lager as … Continue reading
The new local Three Creeks Brewing Company gets a nice write-up and review in the Sisters (Oregon) weekly "The Nugget." The house brew master, Dave Fleming, has a dozen years’ experience in the business, including the well-known (at least, to this correspondent) "Lucky Lab" in Portland and McMenamin’s St. Francis … Continue reading
This is the final post of links, I think. Jeff’s final roundup Jay’s post and pictures for Thursday (which he forgot to post at first) It looks like 2008 was officially the biggest year ever for the OBF That does it (for now). I’m a little bummed that I missed … Continue reading
More links! Jeff has more notes, rants and raves about the Fest (interesting notes on avoiding post-drinking ravages, too) More from the Beer Geek blog, wherein they also volunteered at the Fest My Beer Pix persisted in running pictures in real time—and don’t forget their wrap-up, either It’s Pub Night … Continue reading
Yes, I’m late getting back to this topic—in fact, I’m only just now starting to catch up on my blog reading to compile these links. Without further ado, the first of several link roundup on this year’s Oregon Brewers Festival. Jeff at Beervana starts with an excellent breakdown of the … Continue reading