Craft beer lovers and baseball fans will be able to “get their pickle on” at all Portland Pickles baseball games this summer, thanks to Coin Toss Brewing Co.’s “Caught in a Pickle Lager.” The beer is a unique and refreshing blend of bread-and-butter pickle juice and the brewery’s house lager. Originally created as a one-off beer…
National organic and natural retailer Natural Grocers will soon expand its Cottage Wine and Craft Beer concept to six stores in Oregon. The Natural Grocers Cottage Wine and Craft BeerSM section is a nook within the store where customers can purchase specialty alcoholic beverages such as local, organic and gluten-free beer options, organic and biodynamic wine, local hard…
Lompoc Brewing is proud to announce the upcoming release of Portland Parkways Premium Pilsner in six-packs of 12-ounce cans. The event will take place at Lompoc Sidebar from 4pm to close on Thursday, May 10. Lompoc’s Portland Parkways Premium Pilsner is an unofficial tie-in to the City of Portland’s monthly Portland Sunday Parkways, a series of events that offers traffic-free routes encouraging…
Cascade Brewing released Melonius Blond today, its first-ever bottled melon sour. The Northwest sour ale is a blend of blond and wheat ales aged in oak barrels for up to 14 months with cantaloupe and Summer Kiss melons. This limited offering is available in 750 ml bottles and on draft through Cascade’s regular distribution channels, as well as in-house at both its Portland…
On January 25, 2018, BridgePort Brewing reached new heights with its signature IPA-style brew, shooting it into space to mark multiple milestones for the 34-year-old Portland-based brewery. After an hour and a half, the bottle flew slightly above 22 miles in the sky as a nod to celebrate the 22ndanniversary of The Original IPA, the opening of…
Fido’s – The World’s First Dog Tap House, is having it’s Grand Celebration on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 @ 11am. Fido’s brings to the beer scene a new concept never seen before. Fido’s blends foster housing for shelter dogs with a craft beer tap room. Patrons will be able to drink craft beer and play with shelter dogs,…
Highlighting an assortment of IPAs, Ninkasi Brewing Company, offers up the perfect way to enjoy this ever-evolving beer style no matter the occasion. Following the release of the first Ninkasi beers in cans, Ninkasi opted to offer even more variety by mixing cans and bottles in its newest Spring IPA Variety 12-Pack. Available February through…
Columbia Distributing today announced it will purchase all stock of General Distributors, Inc. (GDI), based in Oregon City, Oregon. The nearly 100-year-old GDI represents a portfolio of more than 100 international, national and local beer, energy and water suppliers. The transaction is expected to close on March 31, 2018. The acquisition will allow Columbia to…
One of Oregon’s original cidermakers, Portland Cider Co. will celebrate five years in the industry this spring, and the company is celebrating with an anniversary party and two limited release ciders. The party will take place on Saturday, March 3 from 4pm to 10pm at the company’s Clackamas Pub & Cidery, located at 8925 SE…
A celebration of the blossoming Northwest cider industry, the 5th annual Cider Rite of Spring will take place on Saturday, March 10, from 1pm to 6pm at the Left Bank Annex, located at 101 N Weidler St. The event features more than 100 ciders served by 35 different cidermakers and cidery representatives from the Pacific…
Cascade Brewing is pleased to announce the dates for the 7th annual Sour Fruit Fest. The event will take place Feb. 28 through March 3, from Noon to close daily, at both the Barrel House and the Lodge at Cascade Brewing. The Sour Fruit Fest will feature more than four dozen exclusive Cascade sour fruit beers on rotation…
The Belmont Fermentorium in Portland is officially making beer! This ranks pretty high on our list of “holy shit, this is really happening” moments. Not only did we just crank out batches of Blazing World, Ice, and Orderville on the new system–which is running like a frickin’ dream–but we brewed our first collab at the…
Cascade Brewing will release Sang Rouge 2015 today in 750ml bottles and on draft. It will be made available through Cascade Brewing’s worldwide distribution channels, as well as at its two Portland pubs: the Cascade Brewing Barrel House at 939 SE Belmont St. and The Lodge at Cascade Brewing at 7424 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy. Sang Rouge is a blend of sour red…
Ten years ago, three-dozen Oregon breweries opened their doors on a Saturday in February for the first-ever Zwickelmania, a free statewide craft beer celebration that allowed visitors to tour Oregon breweries, meet the brewers and sample beers. About 4,000 craft beer fans took part in the inaugural event, which was designed as a way to promote Oregon’s craft beers and the brewers…
Baerlic Brewing to release two new beers in 16oz cans on Jan 9. The beers are “What the Fluff,” a NE IPA and “Dark Thoughts,” a black IPA weighing in at 6.66 ABV and 66.6 IBU. This is the first time Baerlic Brewing has released 16oz cans in 4 packs. WTF – What The Fluff…
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