Archive for January, 2010

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 [...]