The first time I paid Southern Pacific Brewing Company a visit it was with no advanced knowledge or preparation—in fact, I was hard pressed to find anyone who’d heard of it much less visited it. Tucked away on Treat Avenue in the Mission District of San Francisco a

The next Session is coming up next week, on June 7, and we’re joining Beer is Your Friend to discuss something many of us bloggers might experience: compulsion.

Apologies for the general “blog wasteland” around here lately: my past 8 days have been consumed by Central Oregon Beer Week and my time just completely got away from me. I’m sure I’ll have a more detailed summary to write up, but in the meantime

Central Oregon Beer Week starts in exactly one week from to

Big news to come out of McMinnville’s Golden Valley Brewery this week: Brewmaster Mark Vickery is leaving to start

A little background to this post… one of the things I love most about living in the Bay Area, especially compared to Southern California, is how commutable the

I have been noticeably lagging on my blogging lately, and this is what has been taking up all of my spare time: planning this year’s Central Oregon Beer Week!

I am shamefully behind on blogging in large part because I am helping plan this, which I will have a post about soon; in the meantime here it is May already and I’ve got a couple of outstanding notes about Deschutes Brewe

I am late with my Session post this month, not for any lack of interest in the topic but because I’ve be

Last weekend’s trip to Silverton for the

This past Thursday night as a prelude to the Oregon Garden Brewfest, the Oregon Garden Resort hosted the Brewer’s Tasting Dinner featuring six courses paired with special beers (and one cider) all fr

A quick post on this weekend’s Oregon Garden Brewfest (until I get a chance to write a more in-depth article). With two full days to go and beautiful w

Excuse the personal plug (I swear it’s connected to beer!) but I happen to work for a terrific start-up called Madefire and we’re producing a cutting edge digital reading experience whose DNA firmly resides in comic books. The first Thursday of every month we host a “Story Ni

I had a great time at Saturday’s Traveling Brewers’ Dinner Party held at McMenamins Old St. Francis School; all four breweries involved (McMenamins, Boneyard Beer, Crux Fermentation Project, and GoodLife Brew

There won’t be any “Oregon beer news” posts for the rest of this week (scintillating as they may be!) due to several things, predominantly getting ready for the Oregon Garden Brewfest and heavy planning duties on

Happy Earth Day! Here’s is all your environmentally-conscious and friendly news in Oregon beer. As usual, I’ll be periodically updating this post throughout the day with the latest n

With this year’s

When I first learned I would be relocating to the East Bay late last summer, I immediately began scouring the area for local brewpubs, beer bars, etc., through beermapping.com, my dog-eared copy of Good Beer Guide West Coast USA and as

TGIF! Sometimes I think the end of the week couldn’t get here soon enough, and there’s plenty of beer things going on to make it a big weekend. Here’s the Oregon beer news for Fri

The next Session has been announced for May, and it’s being hosted by Chuck of allbrews: The Business of Brewing. Like sandlot baseball players or schoolyard bas

Here’s the news in Oregon beer for Thursday, the 18th of April. As usual, I’ll be periodically updating this post throughout the day, so check back often for the latest news. If you

Happy Hump Day! Here’s the Oregon beer news for Wednesday, April 17th. As usual, I’ll be periodically updating this post throughout the day with the latest news, so check back often

There’s a cool event in Bend this Saturday the 20th that’s put together/hosted by McMenamins Old

Here’s the news in Oregon beer for Tuesday, the 16th of April. As usual, I’ll be periodically updating this post throughout the day, so check back often. And if you have news to share

Happy Tax Day! Hopefully you’ll have found yourself with a tax refund this year, but if not, I’m sorry—either way, sounds like an occasion for a beer. Meanwhile, the news rolls

Happy Friday! I’m getting a late start on this weekend news post due to many other things going on today, but I’ll post what I can. As usual, I’ll be periodically updating this

We recently found ourselves returning home from a family oriented day trip when we were approaching Fairfield, CA. Having only managed snacking throughout the early afternoon (as it was a finger-food potluck gathering that we were retreating from) we started discussing the possibility of getting a bite to eat and my wife

Here’s the news in Oregon beer for Thursday, the 11th of April. As usual, I’ll be periodically updating this post throughout the day with the latest news, so check back often for updat

The Oregon Garden Brewfest over in Silverton this month is bigger than ever before, hosting 62 breweries (and meaderies

Happy Hump Day! Here’s the Oregon beer news for the middle of the week, Wednesday the 10th of April. As usual, I’ll be periodically updating this post throughout the day with the lat