Here we are, just over a month into summer and at the market, I am greeted by a floor display of Okto. With the seasonal brews being rotated off the shelves, I figured I should post my summer beer roundup before they all disappear. Starting on a positive note, none of the seasonal beers I’ve tried this [...

I’d like to open my Oregon Brewers Festival report by saying that I can’t think of a better hobby than writing about craft beer. In the last year, I’ve had the opportunity to travel, try fantastic beers from all over the world, join a community of like-minded individuals and meet, converse and correspon

This coming Thursday marks the start of the 23rd Annual Oregon Brewers Festival at Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Hmm…a very capitalized sentence (58% – Statistics Editor). Anyway, the OBF is the state’s premiere brewfest, which is saying a lot considering the quality of festivals

When I started brewing my Sour Mash Belgian Pale last month, I was shooting for something close to Russian River’s Redemption, but with a more pronounced sour

Cloud 9 in Corvallis is hosting another beer dinner. This time the menu is vegetarian and Ninkasi is providing the brews. I also want mention that the area outside Ninkasi’s tasting room, is really taking shape. Here is a picture of the “patio”, lifted from the brewery’s Facebook pa

I noticed a post this morning on the OLCC’s official blog (www.olccblog.blogspot.com), explaining the agency’s new stance on homebrew competitions. Here is the post in its entirety. The Oregon

Cascade Brewer, AHA Governing Committee member and all-around homebrew rockstar Denny Conn left a great response to my post yesterday about the OLCC law that everyone is talking about. Here is his response in its entirety. I’m a member of the Cascade brewers Society in Eugene. In addition, I’m on the Governing

A couple quick website updates and a comment on the “new” homebrew-restricting OLCC’ law should do it for today. Eugene Beer Directory When I posted my Eugene Beer Directory a few weeks ago, Bill and Jack were qui

Just a quick note that Curtis from Cascade Brewing will be at Sixteen Tons tomorrow (6/24) from 3-5pm offering tastings of The Vine. Beer Description Cascade The Vine spends over a year of lactic fermentation and aging i

While I have been pleading for some additional Willamette Valley beer bloggers, Central Oregon has been chewing through them. Bend’s long-running (since ‘06) homebrew blog Brewerman abruptly stopped in January and ‘10 newcomer

Now that the last games have been played, let’s take a look at the results from group Y. Beer MP W D L GF GA Pts Oak Aged Yeti 3 3 0 0 5 1 9 Regular Yeti 3 1 1 1 4 3 4 Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 Espresso Oak Aged Yeti 3 0 0 3 0 5 0 Oak Aged Yeti: Oak Aged was far and away the best of

Last week I brewed my first sour mash beer, a Belgian Pale. Before we start; yes, Belgian Pales are not traditionally sour. This bastard recipe actually began life as a clone of Russian River’s Redemption; one of the few commercially brewed Belgian Singles of Enkels. Vinnie Cilurzo (RR Brewmaster) had graciously pr

While writing my “The State of Beer in Eugene” post last week, I realized that there wasn’t a tidy collection of  information on Eugene area breweries and br

A couple of weeks ago, the Register Guard ran an article titled “Welcome to Brew-gene,” about the city’s recent cr

Oakshire is hosting two release events for their summer seasonal, Line Dry Rye. The first, a bottle release, is tonight at The Bier Stein, from 6-8pm. In addition to Line Dry Rye, Glen’s Hop Vice ‘10 will also be available. A second release and tasting will be held tomorrow at Corvallis Brewing Supply, from

If you haven’t noticed yet, I’ve been a little light on my posting lately. A big push to finish a project at work, coupled with the long-overdue death of my 8+ year old Powerbook (from which I normally write my posts) has left me needing a small vacation. Fortunately, as of yesterday, the retailer I [...]

Eugene’s newest bottle shop, Sixteen Tons is having two grand opening parties; the first starting in less than an hour. Here is the information for the two events: Sixteen TonsBeer Store & Tasting Bar We’re having

This year’s Sasquatch Brewfest had a much different tone than last year’s. Sure, the festival was still filled with craft beer enthusiasts hotly debating their favorite brews. But this time around there was another

Tuesday night I attempted to brew an “old-fashioned” Scottish 70/-. Most commercial Scottish ales are brewed with a generous amount of crystal/caramel malts, but traditionally kettle caramelization was used to create the rich caramel flavor and color. Kettle caramelization occurs during very long boils, when

I had planned on writing a nice little piece today, expanding on Wednesday’s post about the opening of Sixteen Tons, Eugene’s newest bottle shop. That was until I flipped open this morning’s Register Guard and saw that they had

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Apparently my spidey senses are broken. While my wife and I were eating dinner Friday night at La Perla, a new bottle shop was opening across the street; literally viewable from our table. Sixteen Tons is Eugene’s third bottle shop; joinin

Earlier this year, my wife and I signed up for Winter Green Farm’s Community Farm program. How it works is: we buy a share in the Community Farm, then every week from mid-June to mid-October, we pick up a box of fresh prod

I received an e-mail from HUB’s Ben Love earlier today with the beer list for this year’s (and this weekend’s) Portland’s Cheers to Belgian Beers festival. For the two people reading this post who have neither heard of PCtBB, nor read any of the other beer blogs where the event will undoubtedly be

Update: The demo below now asks IBU and SRM questions in addition to ABV. It’s been about a week since my last post. Don’t worry, I haven’t lost my interest in beer; I’ve just been busily working on my latest coding project, a Beer Quiz. I have pulled all the BJCP style guideline i

While bouncing around the interwebs trying to hunt down some information on Munster Alts, I somehow ended up on the Beer News page of Bayern’s website, where I found the following: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Bayern

I was getting ready to type up a post about the Oakshire Brewer’s Dinner at Davis Street Tavern next Tuesday when I realized I hadn’t yet mentioned the BridgePort Beer Dinner, being held tonight at Cloud 9. BridgePort Beer Dinner When: Saturday April 17th – 6:00pmWhere: Cloud 9 Bistro and

The Register Guard ran a story today about the closing of Project One Audio; a Eugene sound studio co-owned by famed home brewer and Patron Saint of the Batch Sparge, Denny Conn. While I have never had the opportunity to meet Denny, his

Last week I received a sample bottle of the latest brew in Redhook’s Limited Release series, 8-4-1 Expedition Ale. Description Hand crafted by 8 brewers working in 4 teams, this Imperial Brown Ale was developed from their individual recipes carefully blended into one distinctive ale. Rich and flav

I received an e-mail from New Belgium last weeks announcing their cLips of Faith Beer and Film Tour. The brewery is currently accepting fan submitted videos and short films; the best of which will be compiled into a feature-length film and shown at each stop of their 14 city tour. In addition to an outdoor screening