Food & Drink There's a battle of Belgians brewing this weekend. A prominent Oregon brewery, Logsdon Farmhouse Ales, backed out of one of Portland's premiere beer festivals just two days before the event, while scheduling a rival tasting across town.Portland's once-quirky and much-beloved Cheers to Belgian Beers, an event started by Belgian-focused local brewers but now run by the Brewers ...   More

Food & Drink The Great American Beer Festival took place this past weekend in Denver and beer fans from all over the world gathered to toast—and in many cases sample to the point of idiocy—excellence in American brewing.But it wasn’t just some 50,000 beer geeks and college kids that got to pick from around 2,700 to choose from: 185 certified beer judges awarded medals in 84 different beer categories that ...   More

Food & Drink Portland breweries usually roll out a couple new beers every month. Some, like Cascade Barrel House, tap several kegs of new stuff every week, more than anyone not behind their bar can track. In the hype-driven craft brew market this makes sense, I guess, as there's no easier way to distinguish your product than to make hundreds of slightly different versions of it.Logsdon Farmhouse Ales' approach ...   More

Drank Logsdon’s white beer has a sweet spot. Made by a Hood River-based organic brewer specializing in saisons—including our favorite Oregon beer of 2011, the Logsdon Fresh Hop Seizoen—it uses O   More

Drank Oregon makes—and drinks—a lot of beer. No one keeps a comprehensive list of every Oregon beer released, but informal estimates suggest at least 2,000 brews were crafted here this year. From th   More

Drank Despite the hoity name, saisons are workin’ man’s beer, originally intended as crisp, low-gravity refreshment for the pitchfork-wielding farmhands moving Monet’s haystacks around. The late Br   More