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In some ways, a brewery or brewpub should
be judged solely on the quality of its beer. But it’s hard not to give
Salmon Creek, Vancouver’s only brewpub, a few extra points. Established
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Santa sees you when you’re sleeping, awake and even when
you’re buying beer. The old man has the coolers covered, showing up in
early October and hanging around until the new year.
It seems
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Medford’s Porter Lombard makes wine unlike anyone.
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Porter Lombard’s laboratory is dim and cluttered, its
shelves packed with mismatched bottles of purple and red fluid
surrounded by knives, beakers, notebooks, plastic tubing and one giant
wood
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We mustn’t begrudge successful rock musicians their
gentlemanly hobbies. As with all gentry who didn’t amass their fortunes
by working too terribly hard, they’re tasked with developing pursu
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I know it’s cool to drink bone-dry ciders right now so you
can show your friends it isn’t a girly drink for girls. But let’s be
real here: There wouldn’t be a second type of diabetes—in
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Good things happen when Brits and Americans swap ideas.
Just as the British co-opted American rhythm and blues to create
catchier rock ’n’ roll, American brewers subsumed British India pale
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Raking through Oregon’s wide selection of seasonal beer.
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Like those soggy leaves you should be
raking up about now, autumn beers come in different shades of yellow,
orange and brown. For brewers, the months between summer’s crisp lagers
and winter
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Block 15 makes beer for the trading scene. The Corvallis
brewery specializes in the unusual, cellar-ready and limited, building a
fan base with open-fermented, wine barrel-aged brews made with gol
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Seattle’s Elysian Brewing is the pumpkin king of the
Northwest, brewing 13 different pumpkin beers and hosting a massive
pumpkin brew festival that draws entrants from as far away as Norway.
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Axes of Evil is a fence mender. Despite
the massive flying skull on the side, Indiana’s Three Floyds Brewing
didn’t make half this beer. (“I didn’t even know that happened,” said
the g
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