Enjoy these pictures of old and/or unknown beers

Unfortunately this week has completely gotten away from me and I don’t have a pithy, witty, meaningful post to offer you up today. Instead I thought you might enjoy some photos of some classic and unknown beers I have in my collection.
“Collection” might be a bit of a misnomer here; while these are actual, bottled [...]

Canvolution

Quick, answer this question: When was the last time you had a beer from a can?

There’s a large percentage of you right now cringing and imagining an ice-cold can of [insert American Macro Industrial Lager here] and thinking, “No way.” A smaller (but hopefully growing!) percentage of you are nodding and thinking of that can of Oskar Blues Gordon, or Maui Coconut Porter, or 21st Amendment Monk’s Blood you enjoyed recently. You know.

Good beer can come in a can.

One of the benefits of beer blogging

I’ve been doing this beer blogging thing for quite awhile now, and while I’m not getting rich off of it (yet!), there is a benefit that doesn’t seem to get talked about much (aside from the mandatory disclosure language required these days): samples. A number of breweries and/or their public relations/marketing agencies regularly send out samples of their beer to bloggers for review.

Zwickelmania!

Today marks Oregon’s second annual Zwickelmania event, a state-wide celebration of our brewers hosted by the Oregon Brewers Guild. Since everyone has been talking up San Francisco Beer Week (and rightly so), and Josh covered the Vancouver, BC beer scene, I thought I’d spend a few words on Oregon’s big beer weekend.

What to drink for the Super Bowl?

Shocking as it may be for a beer-drinking male in America, I’m not a huge fan of professional football, and the only time I really watch is when the Super Bowl is on—and even then, it’s because we’re usually at a friend’s house for their Super Bowl party. So while I’m not the first person you should go to for football advice, I always jump on the opportunity to make a beer list. And with the Super Bowl tomorrow, you still have time to follow my game plan here and stock up on the beer.

To Age or Not To Age

I am a bit of a packrat personality: I tend to collect things and in recent years this has turned towards beer (go figure). When I’m buying beer (particularly specialty beer) I have an impulse toward buying extra to “put away”—to cellar the beer with the idea that it will change (hopefully for the better) [...]

Mulled Beer

So often we never give much thought to how beer is served beyond “chilled and in a glass,” even though many of us beer geeks give plenty of thought to what goes into the beer as it’s being brewed. We get especially excited when the brewing process deviates from the norm—aging in bourbon barrels? Adding [...]

The Bend Beer Scene, Part 5

In our fifth installment of this series covering Bend, Oregon’s brewing culture, we’re going to tackle the next best thing to the breweries themselves: the beer bars!
Bend, like any region, has its share of bars and taverns, and this being Oregon, most places in town will have at least a couple of local microbrews on [...]

Talking with Greg Koch of Stone Brewing

Regular readers of my other beer blog know that I spent the week after Christmas in San Diego visiting family, and while I was there I slipped in the odd beer-related visit where I could. This included visiting San Diego Brewing, Pizza Port Carlsbad, and Stone Brewing—where I was able to score a visit and [...]

The Bend Beer Scene, Part 4

This fourth installment of Bend, Oregon’s beer scene focuses on Three Creeks Brewing (technically outside of Bend in Sisters, Oregon) and homebrew supply (and bottle shop) The Brew Shop.
Three Creeks Brewing Company
Three Creeks is Central Oregon’s newest microbrewery, located not in Bend but in Sisters, Oregon (population 1,706). In keeping with the theme of the [...]