The Brew Site
Bend’s Immersion Brewing has been bottling several of its beers for a while now, as well as offering growlers and crowlers to go, and this week the brewpub announced its move into 12-ounce cans. Four of its beers will be available, and the company has announced a release party on … Continue reading
I’d heard the rumor a few weeks ago of Sunriver Brewing planning to open up a pub in Eugene, but had no details nor confirmation on where and when that might be. Not anymore; the company issued the official press release this morning, and is planning to take over the … Continue reading
Three Creeks Brewing in Sisters, Oregon has its first canned seasonal beer for 2019 out: Eureka Single Hop IPA. It’s the first of four Seasonal Can Series releases for the year and will be available through March. Here’s the text of the press release: Three Creeks Brewing Company is proud … Continue reading
Bend Brewing Company‘s latest beer release is Trade War Export Stout, which is the first canned beer release for 2019. Trade War joins the brewery’s other canned offerings which includes Tropic Pines Juicy IPA, Camp Beer, and Sno’d In Winter Ale. The brewery is holding a release party on Friday, … Continue reading
Bend’s GoodLife Brewing announced today the addition of two new year-round releases for the new year: Sippy Cup Hazy Pale Ale and Bavarian Lager, both coming to draft. This is notable as there were only four year-round beers prior, I believe (though there are a number of seasonals). I’m always … 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
This has been the worst and deadliest fire season in California history, and the Camp Fire in the northern part of the state is still raging, with (at last report) 77 dead and nearly 1,000 people unaccounted for. More than 10,500 homes have been destroyed. The fire started on November … Continue reading
Michigan’s New Holland Brewing is re-branding its flagship beer, the barrel-aged imperial stout Dragon’s Milk, and as part of the rollout (which includes a new website) the brewery launched the “Share a Legend” story contest which encourages people to submit a personal story about the beer for a chance to … Continue reading
Back when craft breweries were just starting to can their beers, Oskar Blues introduced its Ten Fidy Imperial Stout in cans, which I thought was brilliant and quite the novelty. (High gravity imperial stout in a can! No wax-dipped bottle!) These days canning big beers has become much more mainstream, … Continue reading
The next beer to appear in cans from Deschutes Brewery isn’t really a beer at all, but a kombucha radler, Humm Zinger, a collaboration with Bend’s Humm Kombucha. Humm is among the largest kombucha brewers in the state (though I don’t know if anyone is tracking commercial kombucha barrelage to … Continue reading