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In all the years I’ve been doing this Advent beer calendar, I’ve never picked a beer from Switzerland, so for today I’ve done just that with Brasserie Trois Dames. Trois Dames offers up a Winter Sour for a nice change of pace from our regularly-scheduled winter warmers and IPAs. Here’s … Continue reading
It’s now less than one week until Christmas! Finish your shopping and pick up your beer, and here is the news for all your good cheer! (Sorry, couldn’t resist the rhyme.) I’ll be updating this post throughout the day with the latest news, so check back in from time to … Continue reading
Today’s Advent beer pick is a classic from the oldest craft brewery in Texas, Saint Arnold Brewing Company: Saint Arnold Christmas Ale. Saint Arnold brews this beer in the style of an English old ale, which is fitting as December 19 is also the day that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas … Continue reading
Here is the official press release for the January 5 Bend Resilience Fest that I wrote about this past weekend (note the name change from “Central Oregon” as I originally had it): Breweries across Central and Eastern Oregon are coming together for a single beer and a single cause. The … Continue reading
Here is the news in Oregon beer for this Tuesday, December 18. It’s a bit of a Resilience IPA day with several tappings taking place today, so make sure to seek it out and help with Camp Fire relief as 100% of the proceeds is donated towards that. As usual … Continue reading
On this day in 1966, the TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas! first aired on CBS in the United States. This, like A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Grinch has gone on to be one of those beloved holiday TV classics, so today’s Advent pick honors a bad elf with … Continue reading
Happy Monday! We’re a week away from Christmas and this will be the last week of daily beer news for the year, after which I’m “off” for the holidays. Get your Christmas shopping done! As for today’s news, as usual I’ll be updating this post throughout the day so check … Continue reading
For today’s Advent beer pick I’ve selected an American classic from my hometown of Bend, Oregon: Deschutes Brewery Jubelale. This winter warmer was first released in 1988, the year the brewery opened, and has returned every year since. The first years, Jubelale was bottled in 750 milliliter champagne bottles before … Continue reading
For today’s Advent beer pick we head down to the Old Dominion, the state of Virginia, to visit Midnight Brewery. Midnight brews an English mild ale and infuses it with Christmas spices such as cinnamon to offer up Christmas at Midnight. This outstanding, famous brew will get you ready for … Continue reading
On Saturday, January 5, Central Oregon breweries are banding together to put on the Central Oregon Resilience IPA Brewfest. This event, as you might imagine, will be a fundraiser for the Camp Fire Relief Fund set up by Sierra Nevada Brewing in response to the deadly Camp Fire that tore … Continue reading