The Brew Site
We’re currently in Baker City (Oregon) for the weekend, and today paid a (preliminary) visit to the town’s only brewpub: Barley Brown’s. I hope to get a more thorough review (including pictures), but for now I have a quick report on their beers. Let me just say right off, this … Continue reading
Widmer is turning 25 this year–on April 2nd to be exact, and on that day at their Gasthaus, they’re rolling back prices to $1.50 a pint! From their Facebook event page: In 1984, Kurt and Rob Widmer quit thier jobs in the name of beer, and Widmer Brothers Brewing Company … Continue reading
Laughing Buddha Brewing, a microbrewery based in Seattle that’s been making a splash lately for their Asian-inspired beers like Purple Yam Porter and Mango Weizen, is being forced to change their name—but not because of a religious-type objection like one might expect. No, they received a cease-and-desist from an Australian … Continue reading
I blogged last August about the dilemma that Bend, Oregon-based Wildfire Brewing was under to change their name. They were soliciting names from the public and I submitted a few myself which (if I do say so) were pretty good—and I’m sure others people entered were good, too. The Brewery … Continue reading
Calapooia Brewing is a brewery located over in Albany, Oregon (just outside of Corvallis). I’ve never been, though I may have tried beer of theirs at the Oregon Brewers Festival. They also have a blog, on which I was surprised to read tonight that they are moving Siletz Brewing out … Continue reading
I’ve written before—and maintain still—that Bend, Oregon, is developing into quite the Beer Mecca, but even I would have thought that we had reached a "brewery saturation point." Apparently not. Our local newspaper reports on yet another microbrewery that plans to open up by spring ’09: Brewtal Brewing. The Brewtal … Continue reading
It wouldn’t be much of a Halloween without ghost stories and haunted places, so naturally—being a beer site and all—I’m wondering about haunted breweries. I know several of the McMenamins locations are purported to be haunted; Pacific Northwest author Jefferson Davis has documented a number of them in his books. … Continue reading
On Saturday we finally made it over to Sisters to visit Three Creeks Brewing Company. It’s the newest microbrewery to open in Central Oregon (I’d been reporting variously on it) and the first to be established in the small town of Sisters (population: 1706). So I took my camera and … Continue reading
Bend, Oregon-based Wildfire Brewing (who just celebrated their one year anniversary) is going to have to change their name. The news didn’t appear locally (i.e., here in Central Oregon), rather from an online news site based in Montana: Bend’s Wildfire Brewery Forced To Change Name. Wildfire restaurants – a chain … 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