Deschutes Brewery’s current tap rotation

Deschutes Brewery‘s website has a nice feature that I’ve completely overlooked in the past: their Now Pouring page, which lists the beers currently on tap at the brewpub. It was updated three days ago, on the 3rd, and if they keep it reasonably up to date (every few days), that’s … Continue reading

Beer Festival at Joker’s

Yes, Joker’s Bar & Grill is having their 1st Annual Beer Festival on Thursday, January 11th. That’s according to their ad in The Source, anyway—I don’t see anything on their website about it. It’ll run from 7pm until 11, and is featuring beers from the following breweries: Deschutes Brewery Bend … Continue reading

Finding The Abyss

Regarding the charmingly Nietzschian title of this blog post, I refer to Deschutes Brewery‘s new ultra-limited reserve series beer, The Abyss—their high-alcohol Imperial stout that has just been released. In fact, it’s so limited that there were only 13,000 bottles produced (all waxed-dipped 22-ounce), and you’re going to have trouble … Continue reading

Sale on beer and wine at Bi-Mart

I was checking out Bi-Mart today and I saw a sign on the cash registers: Beer and wine are 10% off from Sunday the 17th through Sunday the 24th. That means you’ve got three more days. And Bi-Mart is generally cheaper compared to some of the other outlets, so it’s … Continue reading

Holiday Shopping Guide: Alcohol

More in my "Holiday Shopping Guide"! This time I’m going with alcohol (hey, write what you know, right?)—beer, wine, booze. What shopping guide would be complete without it? Liquor store No real recommendation here; a liquor store is a liquor store is a… well, you get the idea. I am … Continue reading

Beer on tap at Silver Moon Brewing

On an email list I’m on there was a heads-up that beer is again being served on tap at Silver Moon Brewing—at the tasting room that shares the space with the Home Brewer homebrew shop. Previously they weren’t allowed to serve beer on-premise because of a construction issue, but that’s … Continue reading

Bend Bulletin on Wildfire Brewing

I’m prescient. Last week I first blogged about Wildfire Brewing starting up (from the owners of JC’s Bar & Grill), and today there’s an article on them in the Bulletin. According to the Bulletin, they’re planning on opening in the next two months. “It’s sort of scary because nobody wants … Continue reading

WildFire Brewery… starting soon(?)

A friend gave me heads-up that the owners of JC’s Bar & Grill downtown are starting their own brewery—WildFire Brewing. I found confirmation on JC’s MySpace page, where they say: JC’s is soon to be pouring beer from WildFire Brewing Company. This brewery was started by Jeremy and Chris and … Continue reading

Bend Brewing wins a gold at the Great American Beer Festival

Bend Brewing Company has won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival this year! The winners at the GABF were announced yesterday, and in Category 39, American-Style India Pale Ale, Bend Brewing took the gold for their HopHead Imperial IPA. Awesome! That’s a huge honor in the world … Continue reading

Deschutes Brewery Launch Party

On Tuesday, September 26, the Deschutes Brewery is hosting their launch party for the new seasonals of Hop Trip and Jubelale at their Mountain Room. It runs from 6pm to 8pm, and only costs $10 to get in; this "gets you appetizers, door prizes, and of course, samples of Jubelale … Continue reading