Boy, you’d think I’d have been on top of this one but frankly, it hasn’t been well advertised anywhere that I’ve seen: this year’s Bend Fall Festival includes a homebrew competition by Deschutes Brewery—with a twist: it’s a competition for fresh hop (or “harvest”) beers only! This is the first … Continue reading
Attention beer geeks: Deschutes Brewery has possibly one of the beer-geekiest beer dinners coming up (and for Deschutes beer events, that’s saying something!) on Friday, May 18, celebrating the release of their first collaboration beer (“Conflux #1”), named Collage, that they brewed and blended together with Hair of the Dog … Continue reading
Heads up to anyone who was planning on attending Deschutes Brewery’s Chocolate Beer Dinner event tomorrow night (February 11th)… they’ve rescheduled it to Saturday, March 10th. I don’t know a specific reason but this gives you a chance to attend if you couldn’t make it tomorrow!
Saturday, December 3rd (that’s tomorrow!), Deschutes Brewery is holding their annual garage sale: where you can buy all sorts of Deschutes merchandise (most or all of which is discontinued or overstock) like t-shirts, sweatshirts, glassware, hats, jackets, and other random things. (For instance in past years, I’ve picked up a Jubelale … Continue reading
The Great American Beer Festival has been going on this weekend, and yesterday the winners for best beers in various categories were announced—these are kind of like the Olympics for beer. And of the 15 medals that Oregon breweries won, 6 of those are from three of Bend’s breweries: Deschutes … Continue reading
You know there has to be an inevitable beer post from time to time, right? This week Deschutes Brewery is releasing their much-talked-about collaboration beer with Portland’s Hair of the Dog, which they’re calling The Stoic: a “Belgian Quad” style of beer that is 11% alcohol by volume, brewed with … Continue reading
Down at the Deschutes Pub tomorrow night, the Brewery is featuring the release party for the second in its collaboration series of beers (“Conflux” series), their “White IPA” that they brewed with Boulevard Brewing out of Kansas City, Missouri. This is a pretty big deal because it will be the … Continue reading
This Saturday Deschutes Brewery is hosting their annual Barrel-aged Beer Tasting up at their Mountain Room: specialty beers aged in barrels and paired with a gourmet dinner, served tapas-style. The cost is $40 per person, and it runs from 6 until 10pm. As far as I know, tickets are still … Continue reading
The Source reports on some significant changes to the local brewing scene today, revolving around 10 Barrel Brewing: they are planning a brewery expansion to bring their production up from 10 barrels to 50 barrels (a significant investment/increase), and as part of that expansion they’ve hired Jimmy Seifert from Deschutes … Continue reading
It’s still a month away yet—but it’s never too early to start thinking about Deschutes Brewery’s CrabFest. It’s taking place Friday and Saturday, January 28th and 29th, starting at 6pm at their Mountain Room You won’t have any reason at all to be crabby if you attend this feast – … Continue reading