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Old dogs are notoriously reluctant to
perform new tricks. So someone give Hair of the Dog brewmaster Alan
Sprints a good belly scratching for his new Lila Maibock. Sprints’
brewery will celebr
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Oregon rieslings are not like German rieslings.
Grown in the cool
climates along the Rhine river, traditional German rieslings are sweet
and fruity. Though the Willamette Valley is also known fo
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A massive blind taste test of Portland-area apple ciders.
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Like the national census or U2’s popularity, a cider boom
recurs about once a decade. We’re nearing the crest of a wave right now,
according to Wandering Aengus co-owner James Kohn.
“The n
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The Ale Apothecary’s Paul Arney revels in making
concoctions that are tough to wrap your head around. The former
Deschutes brewer, who now works alone in a small barn outside Bend,
outdid hims
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Chili peppers—25 varieties of them—were once the top crop at the Tilley family’s 25-acre farm in Eugene. Hops now get more attention from Ben and Nate Tilley, but they haven’t plowed the peppe
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Is IPA the new Amber? Though still the
top-selling style of craft beer in Oregon, lately it’s seemed as though
brewers have exhausted every possible permutation of suitable hops and
malts. For
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Rogue Ales has been mashing the
vino-centric concept of terroir into beer more aggressively than anyone
else in Oregon. Some of the Newport-based brewery’s initiatives have
been mostly about m
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The nearest stretch of the Oregon coast
does not yet have the amenities Portlanders have come to expect. The
scenery is great, of course, but high-quality food, drink and
entertainment are in sh
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Pfriem Family Brewers, which opened in Hood River last
year, has a lofty goal: capture sunlight in a bottle. Pfriem’s Little
Saison, light but not little, almost gets there. Saisons began as
t
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Portland’s most-hated beer blogger switched to wine.
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Dr. Wort is a gadfly in the Socratic sense: an anonymous
blogger who bites the lumbering steed that is Portland’s brewing scene,
whipping local beer geeks into a fury with what he says is in the
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