Here’s the latest daily news in Oregon beer for Wednesday, January 13, with a number of items highlighting pandemic-friendly practices that I’m pleased to see. Covid has definitely had an interesting impact on rounding up news—there’s less of it, for one thing—so bear with me when/if these posts go live later in the day. There may even be days when there’s nothing to post.

In the meantime, I’ll be updating this throughout the afternoon with any new information as I find it. Let’s go!

New packaged beers to enjoy at home

A number of breweries have new packaged beers available now (or this weekend) to stock up on:

• Claim 52 Brewing (Eugene) has Thicc: Peach Cobbler available for order and pickup this Friday and Saturday. Covid precautions enforced.
• Ancestry Brewing (Tualatin) has new one-off bottles for take home, featuring Mexican Lager and German Bock.
• Block 15 Brewing (Corvallis): Its drive-thru release this Saturday is featuring Fluffhead IPA as well as Ridgeback Red; pre-orders can be made online here.
• StormBreaker Brewing (Portland) goes to The Good Place with Holy Forking Shirt Balls, which “is equal parts hazy IPA and obscenely fruited milkshake IPA.”
• ColdFire Brewing (Eugene) has a beer returning for its 5th anniversary, The Tangle of Tigers Gold Edition. “Made with a blend of 6 different hops on top of a soft malt canvas, this IPA will leave your senses spinning.”

Laurelwood Brewing now offering home beer delivery

Portland’s Laurelwood Brewing announced its new home beer delivery service today, another great pandemic-safe option to get beer:

We’re THRILLED to announce our partnership with @roadbeers_pdx to offer home delivery of our awesome beers! Anyone in the Portland-metro area can now have our beers delivered straight to your door within 24hrs of your order!

You can order online at the shop here.

Black is Beautiful Beer fundraising with Old Standby

I hadn’t seen many Black is Beautiful updates lately, but today Salem’s Old Standby Brewing has one:

✊🏿✊🏼Round 2 of our Black Is Beautiful PDX Brewing Project is fully funded and has raised $4,560 for local organizations that promote racial equality & justice in our community ✊🏻✊🏾
•My contribution for this mixed 12-pack is an Irish Stout blended with American Oak & Jameson Irish Whiskey. Still an easy drinking stout with notes of chocolate & roasted barley, but with hints of flavor from the wood and liquor.
•40 people who contributed to this fundraising event will receive a mixed 12-pack later this month as our thank you for your generous donation.
•Total raised between the 2 projects amounts to $10,045

This is excellent!

Klamath Basin Brewing to offer beer delivery

Klamath Basin Brewing in Klamath Falls is offering food and beer delivery starting tomorrow, via DoorDash:

DoorDash is live!!! Starting this Thursday, not only will food be available for delivery but our bottles and cans of beer as well! And don’t forget, our patio is open on Thursday 3-8 as well as Friday/Saturday 12-8. (must be over 21 to purchase alcohol)

Details on Breakside’s three new location plans

The New School gets in-depth on Breakside Brewery’s plans for its three new location, to be located in Beaverton, Lake Oswego, and on 82nd Avenue in Portland.

Since their founding in 2010, Breakside Brewery has become one of the most dependably great and consistently award-winning breweries in the country. But like everyone else, the brewery was hit hard by the pandemic but is responding to those challenges with their first satellite taprooms not connected to a brewery on 82nd Ave. in Portland, and in downtown Lake Oswego and Beaverton, Oregon.

2020 saw Breakside introduce some of their core classics like the flagship IPA, Wanderlust IPA and What Rough Beast in 12oz bottles for the first time. That changing form of beer delivery mechanism shifted even further with the loss of draft sales in Oregon bars and restaurants, as nearly all production pivoted to 16oz cans to meet consumer demand. That’s meant more world-class beers that are easily accessible at home, but less opportunities to showcase them in their preferred form out of a tap.