Yesterday, Andre Meunier broke the news that Ruse would be opening a new location on the same block as Breakside Slabtown. That means that the four most hops-focused breweries in the city will be linked by a 1.2-mile south by southeast stroll. Let's investigate further.
Read MoreWhat makes a truly unique cultural beer event? It never hurts to have a knight or two, nor a giant copper cauldron bubbling over an open fire. Our researchers have been scouring the world, and these are the five best.
Read MoreMany products are untethered to place. Where was your car built? Where did that orange come from? No one cares. But in beer, “local” still matters. The question is, how near or far can you push the concept?
Read MoreFor their 12th anniversary, pFriem and I collaborated on a cool obscure style, the Czech amber lager. The brewery's version is an authentic one, but instead of appealing to drinkers who like sweeter palates, this one is all about "adult flavor."
Read MoreTilray, the erstwhile cannabis company that has jumped into beer, announced it was acquiring four more breweries from Molson Coors yesterday. In a rough economy for breweries, is this crazy like a fox or just plain crazy?
Read MoreFH Steinbart, the 106-year-old Portland institution, has been sold. This should ensure that the nation’s oldest homebrew shop will carry on for years to come.
Read MoreNationwide, all but one state has a legal driving limit of .08% blood alcohol content. The final state, Utah, changed its laws six years ago, dropping the level to .05%. Is it time for the rest of the country to follow?
Read MoreI am compiling a database of breweries in Oregon for a website that will launch soon. It needs to be up-to-date and comprehensive, which means I’ve been poring through websites and social media accounts to find out which breweries still exist. The result? A lot fewer than I expected.
Read MorePeople are very fond of “authentic” things. Brands seen as authentic enjoy financial reward. But is authenticity a fixed quality a brewery can strive to attain, or a fickle substance as fleeting as smoke on a windy day?
Read MoreOne of the great artifacts of brewing culture was saved from history’s dustbin when Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya bought Anchor recently. If you had Chobani money, which other important breweries would you save? Our researchers have investigated hte question and have a definitive list.
Read MoreNot much.
Read MoreIn my nonscientific surveys of the pubs in which I drink, it seems there has been a transition underway: pilsners replacing pale ales as the standard session beer. I decided to check my work to see if this was really true.
Read MoreOn Wednesday evening, July 31st, I will be moderating a cool event in which we speak to brewers who have begun making wine, including Alesong, Block 15, de Garde, Dwinell, and Garden Path Fermentation. Click through to learn more.
Read MoreDouglas Lager got a soft launch last fall, but an unexpected shortage of draft Rainier in Seattle offered a rare opportunity to expand this spring. I check in with this new project to create a domestic lager in the long lineage of the Northwest’s old breweries.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Michael Kiser issued an unexpected announcement about the site he founded fifteen years ago: Good Beer Hunting was ending its run. The next day, the Brewers Association announced that Bob Pease was stepping down as CEO after ten years in the job. Some thoughts about these big transitions.
Read MoreOne study says drinking beer, even quite lightly, will shorten your life. Another study says mice who guzzle IPAs are protecting their DNA. So what’s the story here—is beer safe? Let’s have a deeper look.
Read MorePortland’s annual Fuji to Hood is more than just a beer fest. “It allows the brewers to let go of preconceived notions of what beer should be or how we were taught to brew,” says regular participant Charles Porter of Little Beast Brewing.
Read MoreGlobal breweries can be optimized to make consistently good beer, but it’s rarely the most interesting. For the fierce defenders of tradition or restless experimenters, tinkerers making obscure styles on bespoke systems, or regional powers whose flagships have become national classics, you have to turn to the independents.
Read MoreResearchers at Beervana Amalgamated Sentences have been hard at work on the latest list in our series. Today, the ten best drinking experiences.
Read MoreA year ago, David Nilsen and Melinda Guerra launched Final Gravity, an old-school paper-copy zine. It may seem like a perverse move in our digital age, but its very tangibility has new salience in a world where the rest of words we read are mere pulses of light.
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