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Steve Jones' latest venture, Cheese Bar, is open for business! After

Recently hit Chinatown’s Ping for some post-work drinks and snackables. Bellied up to the counter/bar, where I prefer eating. At Ping you might smell like a combination of

Soak up some Bay Area beer culture at this new bar and bottle shop near Oakland’s waterfront in Jack London Square. More than a dozen taps pour a rotating selection of cult California faves, while...

Seaside Beach Bite & Brew 03/06 Saturday VIP Tasting Seaside Elks Lodge 324 Avenue A 12–4pm 503-738-6391 events at seasidechamber.com $35 Chef’s Cooking With Beer Competition Includes a

Part 2. N through Z. Part 1 is here. New Cascadia Traditional

Beer flight at (the always reliable and super chill) Saraveza

SOB Tasting 03/02/10 Belmont Station 4500 SE Stark PDX 503-232-8538 6-8pm Meet Southern Oregon Brewing Founder Dr. Tom Hammond. SOB will release the beers in new labels including IPA in bottles for the first time with IPA on draft.

Double Mountain releases The Empire Strikes Back 03/04/10 Moon and Sixpence 2014 NE 42nd Ave Portland 503-288-7802 5:30-9pm Meet Double Mountain’s Charlie Devereux’s and taste his yearly beer for Double Mountain’s Anniversary on 3/13. Last years beer was an alt

Widmer Tasting 03/04/10 Belmont Station 4500 SE Stark PDX 503-232-8538 6-8pm Travis from Widmer’s Q/A Dept will be there to taste the new Deadlift IPA, W’10 Black IPA,X-114 IPA, Drifter Pale Ale+all the other fine Widmer beers. W10 on draft in the cafe.

Double Mountain 3rd Anniversary 03/13/10 Double Mountain Brewery + Taproom 8 Fourth St Hood River 541-387-0042 Noon-11pm Free

There's something for every beer palate in the upcoming week.

Don't forget the Chowder Challenge at Lompoc's Fifth Quadrant or the Nano Beer Fest at Fanno Creek.

Want to know what's really going on in Portland? Then get out of downtown and, in

Snoutenator Chocolate Stout Release 02/24/10 Green Dragon 928 SE 9th Ave PDX 503-517-0606 5pm Caramel, roasted barley, chocolate and black malt are used to create a solid dark toasted malt flavor. Baker’s semi-sweet chocolate was added to the beer at the end of the bo

I've been sitting on this recipe for about 2 months now. Hell, I've been sitting on a ton of new stuff t

Venturing outside of their well-honed Belgian-style beer model, New Belgium Brewing recently introduced the West Coast-influenced Ranger IPA. Balanced with a fruity/floral blend of Simcoe, Chinook...

Meet the Fort George Brewer 02/18/10 Green Dragon 928 SE 9th Ave Portland 503-517-0606 6pm Spencer Goddard, the newly appointed head brewer over at Fort George, will be bringing out four of their stouts for Green Dragon’s Thursday Meet The Brewer night. The beers are their

In just a few weeks, the annual Spring Craft Beer Festival will kick off in Uniondale, NY., where more than 50 craft brewers from around the country will be on hand to pour samples. This is always a...

Self-satisfied? Maybe even a little smug? No, not the happy mug above,

Get your teams together and down some of Ninkasi's PK N'ice Malt Liquor, too.

Upright Beermaker Dinner 02/17/10 Aquariva 0470 SW Hamilton Ct Portland 503-802-5850 6-8pm SOLD OUT The Menu for the evening: 1st Course: Soft Scramble Farmhouse Egg, Heirloom Carrot Ravioli and Vella Jack Paired with Gose 2nd Course: Crudo Sc

Spine Tingler Golden Belgian-Style Tripel Release 03/10/10 MacTarnahan’s Taproom 2730 NW 31st Portland 5-8pm Samples, Pint Specials, Games, Raffle Prizes and Meet the Brewer Oakshire O’Dark:30 Cascadian Dark Ale Release 03/10/10 The BierStein Eugene

02/19/10 Lompoc Sidebar 3901 N Williams Portland 4-10pm The Blackout Party will feature all dark/black beers-including Bourbon Barrel LSD, Munich 69 Baltic Porter, Black Tiger Cascadian Dark, Crazy Dave’s Imp Stout, the yet to be named Dry Stout, plus some lighter beers. Wear all black

Heater|Allen Beer Tasting 02/19/10 Beamont Market 4130 NE Fremont 503-284-3032 Portland 5-7pm

SOB Beermaker Dinner 02/20/10 Bethany’s Table 15325 NW Central Dr. Portland 503-614-0267 6:30-10pm $45 Come meet Tom Hammond brewery owner/founder. Five Course meal paired with

NanoFest 2/28, 2010 Fanno Creek Brew Pub 12562 SW Main St Tigard 503-624-9400 11:30-cl $2/mug $1.25/taste Many BIG BEERS from eleven small breweries will be available for your tasting. A HEATED TENT will be set up behind th

Full Sail Beermaker Dinner 02/28/10 Jake’s Famous Crawfish 401 SW 12th Ave Portland 6:45 $44.95 Limited to 36 people. Reservations required. The Dinner Includes Five Courses of Beer And Five Courses of Food For $44.95 (gratuity inclusive) Venison Te

Seaside Beach Bite & Brew 03/06 Saturday VIP Tasting Seaside Elks Lodge 324 Avenue A 12–4pm 503-738-6391 events at seasidechamber.com $35 Chef’s Cooking With Beer Competition Includes a

Beer Geek Night 03/08/10 Deschutes Brewery-Portland Pub 210 NW 11th Ave Portland 503-296-4906 6pm $5 Featuring 3 or 4 Belgian Style beers including the D. Straat Dubbel and Maiden Oregon.

Hopworks Beermaker Dinner 03/13/10 Restaurant Beck Whale Cove Inn Depoe Bay 541-765-3220 6pm $72 5 course prix-fixe dinner paired with Hopworks beers.

Heater|Allen Beermaker Dinner 03/18/10 La Rambla 238 NE 3rd Street McMinnville 503-435-2126 Join Lisa and Rick for McMinnville release of Smokey Bob

SOB Beermaker Dinner 03/20/10 Historic Prospect Hotel 391 Mill Creek Dr. Prospect 800-944-6490

3rd Annual Chocolate Beer Dinner 03/27/10 Deschutes Brewery Mountain Room 901 SW Simpson Bend 6PM 541-312-6946 $65 per person

Sasquatch Brew Fest Beer Dinner 05/14/10 Hilton Hotel 66 E 6th Ave Eugene $TBD

Part one A through M. Part two is here Portland is well-known for great beers, coffee, and quality European style artisan breads, yet we also boast a very large choice of sweet shops, pa

Better late than never?As I noted on our Twitter feed over a week ago, I went to The Rheinlander as an official secret shopper. I don't tell you that out of pride, I say it out of full disclosure.I was paid (

Sean and Craig at Beermongers are taking advantage of the St. Valentine's Day weekend to showcase how well beer can stand up to wine as a beverage that complements food:

I frequently post little tidbits of news on Twitter and Facebook, but promptly forget to put them on the site. I’m going to clean out my news inbox now. Dovetail Bakery has opened at NE 31st and Alberta. I’m told they used to be be in the wholesale baking business in St. Johns. According to my source, the

Beervana gets two new beers tonight, thanks to the committed homebrewers of the Oregon Brew Crew: Collaborator Ale-X and Michel Brown's Mac Dragon

This is it! The biggest list of Valentine’s Day events you will find anywhere West o

 **  FDA finds 60 day rule insufficient? This week I heard reports from Seattle that FDA officials were buying up raw milk cheese at local shops for testing purposes. Now comes this article (sorry, link has broken) in the trade publication Cheese Reporter regarding the FDA's stance on raw milk chee

It's been --- what --- several months now since your last Oktoberfest, right? Since you last did the chicken dance and ate a sausage on a stick...well, medical experts agree that's too long to go without listening to some oom-pah music, which is why you should travel to Mt. Angel for their Wurstfest --- it's no Oktob

Those fine folks at Rogue are offering free shuttle service Saturday among several Beervana participants in the Brewers Guild Zwickelmania open house.

This President’s Day weekend, dozens of Oregon breweries and brewpubs will open their doors to visitors for the state’s 2nd annual Zwickelmania. Zwickelmania, hosted by the Oregon Brewers Guild (OBG), is a free statewide event that offers visitors a chance to tour Oregon breweries, meet the brewers and sample the

On Saturday's It's Beer O'Clock radio show, guests include Beer O'Clock: Abe Goldman-Armstrong, who discusses recent updates to the effort for Cascadian Dark Ales to become a sanctioned beer style;

EastBurn's Beer Belly dinners feature tasty food, good beer and an informal venue in which to meet and chat with some of Oregon's finest brewers. For the one-year anniversary, Full Sail's John Harris provides the beers to go with the five-course meal.

Probably not the sort of thing we need in a Beervana brewpub, but pub violence is apparently a major public heath issue in England --- The government estimates that for alcohol-related problems cost the National Health Service roughly 2.7 billion pounds ($4.3 billion) per year --- and shatterproof pints glasses could

Beer maven Preston Weesner has several rare European beers in three-, six- and nine-liter bottles, and 30 lucky Beervanans get to sample them.

The beer week starts out with big beers at Lompoc and Deschutes Pub and continues with big bottles at Saraveza.