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When someone comes in from out of town, particularly if they haven't been out for a long time, it's good to take in some sights. My thoughts tend to run to the beach, Mt. Hood, Timberline, the Gorge…places that will put beautiful pictures in someone's mind, places that will give them not only a sense of how

Imperial IPA fest this long weekend, barrels in Bend, a special dinner at Laurelwood Northwest featuring beers from Walking Man, Upright, Everybody's Brewing and the host, and a busy week at The Beermongers as they celebrate their first year.

If you're skipping my First Thursday show tonight, you can learn more about beer, and hoppy beer at that, from the folks at Oregon Beer Odyssey.

Full Sail New Release 09/09/10 Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub 506 Columbia St Hood River 541-386-2247 5-6:30

Farmers Feast Beer Dinner 09/11/10 Deschutes Brewery Mountain Room 901 SW Simpson Bend 541-312-6946 6-10pm $65

Oktoberfest 09/11/10 Widmer Brothers Brewing 929 N Russell Portland 503-281-2437 3pm Free Admission $5 Mug

Lompoc Oktoberfest 09/11/10 Lompoc 5Q 3901 N Williams Portland 503-288-3996 12-8pm

Tour de Lab 09/11/10 Lucky Lab Beer Hall 1945 NW Quimby Portland 503-459-4508 10-5pm $35

Beervana wouldn't exist without brewpubs, and McMenamin's History Pub celebrates the 25th anniversary of Oregon's brewpub law with a panel of the people who helped make it so.

The Sept/Oct issue is arriving in mailboxes and stores, and it's full of great articles and recipes. For our cover story, we compiled a list of our top 50 favorite seasonal bottled beers, including a...

Biketobeerfest, Pints for Pakistan, how Oregon's brewpub law came to be, Rogue's Nano Fest, Hop Madness, Lucky Lab's back porch hop-shuckin' bee, blues and brews at the good 'ol state fair, Roscoe's Imperial IPA summit, Oregon Beer Odyssey class at Upright and some of my Eastern Oregon/Washington rustscapes on displa

Hop season is upon us and here in one of the world's best hop-growing areas, it's a big deal... It starts with a couple of events in the next week and continues into a month or more of brewers making special fresh-hop beers that show off the Northwest's bounty of hops.

China's remarkable growth is as apparent in beer consumption as it is in more formal economic indicators. In the space of a couple of decades the country has gone from barely touching a drop to become the world's biggest beer market, a considerable distance ahead of America

Bend Brewfest returns; Andy Crouch has a good new overview of US Craft Brewing, Belmont Station has a couple of good tastings, Full Sail debuts the newest Brewers Reserve beer, Sanctuary and two brewers dinners: Upright and Urban Farmer and Deschutes at 360 Pizzeria in Vancouver...

Big IPAs and BBQ at Blitz Ladd and craft beers and BBQ at Montavilla Brewfest...a fine Saturday, all in all...

You know that I'm joking. If I were to list 25 wines that I want to drink in hot weather, I cannot imagine that Cornas would appear. Who wants to drink rustic and earthy northern Rhône Syrah when it's very humid and 94 degrees outside?But the other night I had dinner with a good friend who is somewhat of a shor

Abita Brewing Company is sending out an SOS after the Gulf Coast oil disaster with the recent release of its limited-edition Save Our Shore beer. The brewery is donating 75 cents from each bottle...

The September/October issue of Imbibe is hot off the press and arriving in mailboxes, and this issue’s cover story is all about beer. You’ll have to pick up your own copy for the details, but in the...

The Bite of Oregon, Deschutes Street Fare, Fanno Creek Nano Beer fest and a new beer from Upright Brewing make for a typically busy Beervanan weekend...

Today is International Beer Day. For those who enjoy craft brews, you can thank that fucking commie cocksucker Jimmy Carter: To make a long story short, prohibition led to the dismantling of many small breweries around the na

So last week, Podnah’s BBQ annouced they were moving to NE Killingsworth, and bu

This fine North Portland bottle shop/wine bar/ beer bar/cocktail spot The Hop & Vine turns two on Thursday with a party thyat illustrates why this is such a fine place...lots of special beers, cocktails and snacks...

The streets of Thailand are now going to be a few miles closer to my house. To quote from a pres

2nd Annual Nano Beer Fest 8/7-8/8, 2010 Fanno Creek Brew Pub 12562 SW Main St Tigard 11:30-cl $2/Mugs $1.25/taster 15 Breweries&17 Beers Pelican Pub& Brewery– Pacific City / Kiwanda Cream Ale Beer Valley Brewing – Ontario / Leafer Madness Imperial A

Late Harvest Release 08/08/10 Upright Brewing 240 N. Broadway Leftbank Project Ste 2 Portland 503-735-5337 1-6pm It’s the first building east of the Broadway Bridge where Broadway turns into Weidler. Celebrate the release the limited bottling for Late Harvest at

Fremont Fest 08/07/10 Pub Crawl 12-4pm $10 Includes a mug+5 tokens. $1 for additional tastes Look for a table near main stage or near Doc George’s – 4605 NE Fremont. All alcoholic beverages will need to be consumed on the premises of the participating business!

Brothers Day 08/11/10 Widmer Brothers Brewing 929 N Russell St Portland 4-8pm Celebrate brotherhood in the beergarden with $3 Widmer Brothers brews, food and music. CONTEST – Submit your most memorable, interesting, or funny photo of you and your bro, be it man or woman, fr

Craft Brewers Alliance, Inc., the Portland-headquartered partnership of Widmer Brothers Brewing and Redhook, will merge with Hawaii’s Kona Brewing Co. after a nine-year partnership. Under the agreement, Kona will become a wholly owned subsidiary of CBA, which also distributes the beers of Chicago’s Goose Island

Beer and Cheese Pairing Class 08/12/10 Oakshire Brewing 1055 Madera St Eugene 541-688-4555 $10 Five cheeses paired with five beers – Brewmaster Matt Van Wyk and Head Brewer Joe Jasper and Eriel Hoffmeier discuss beer and cheese pairings.

Women Enjoying Beer Meet-up 08/12/10 Lithia Springs Resort 2165 W. Jackson Rd Ashland 515-450-7757 7-8:30pm $20 Beer&Salsa pairing includes a 5 course pairing of beers, salsas with chips & crackers RSVP by 08/10/10

If you haven't been to a Mac's release yet, you're missing one of Portland's best beer parties, especially on an evening such as the one we'll have, sitting on one of the city's best outdoor patios, talking to the brewers, watching the West Hills slip into shadow and sipping what should be an excellent beer.

Concordia Cup 2010 results Deschutes Brewery Portland Pub – Hop Henge Experimental Batch #8 Wins Concordia Cup 2010 Cam O’Connor Head Brewer at Deschutes Brewery Portland Pub has won this event three times in a row, winning the “Oregon Only” Imperial IPA Concordia Cup for three strai

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For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the Krakow Cafe was in the new(ish) Overlook condominium building along the section of Interstate in what used to be called the Polish neighborhood. The reason for closing is “the economy”. I liked the Krakow for it’s eccentricities, but as a fr

During this second summer hiatus, there’s so much food I consumed and want to tell you about: smokey barbecued ribs and craft beers in Asheville, N.C.; farm fresh micro-greens and local fruit juice pops at the tiny Penn Park market in Charlottesville, Va.; corned beef and pickled tongue sandwiches with health salad (k

BIKE DAY 7/31 Maurie Jacobs Park Eugene; Noon-6pm Outdoor beer garden with Oakshire beer

Ninkasi Carts+A Cool One 08/01/10 Ninkasi Brewing Patio 272 Van Buren St Eugene 5-8PM $15.00 www.slowfoodeugene.org 541-505-4952 Slow Food Eugene and Ninkasi Brewery bring you “Carts and A Cool One.” This is a cook off between cart vendors from all over

THE OREGON CRAFT BEER SUMMIT 07/30/10 Roscoe’s 8105 SE Stark Portland 503-255-0049 5 p.m. Meet the MacTarnahan’s Brewers All Oregon craft beer tasting including MacTarnahans Inkblot Baltic Porter Deschutes “Frosty the Snow Quad” – Sour

Roscoe's Oregon Craft Beer Summit and Oakshire/Madisons dinner tonight, Brewpublicrawl and Baileys third birthday Saturday, Bones and Brew and the Concordia Cup Saturday and Sunday...and there'll be more...such as Salty's Halibut Fry next Thursday, which I just now added...

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Fin is the new restaurant in the old Sel Gris space. Trent Pierce will be taking the reins as executive chef, the owner is Joan Dumas. An important goal is to source locally, and sustainably. A couple of friends who were invited to private dinners have reported back that the

Mold in ice machines at six stands at Miller Park in Milwaukee. A cockroach crawling over a soda dispenser in a private club at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh. Food service workers repeatedly ignoring orders to wash their hands at a stand at Detroit’s Ford Field. Sports fans don’t always see

With fewer than two months remaining until the Great American Beer Festival (Sept. 16-18 in Denver, Colo.) tickets are already 66 percent sold, with the Saturday afternoon Members-Only session 94 percent sold out...

Groovitate to vintage funk spun by HUB brewers Ben Love and Speck while sipping a pint of their ridiculously wonderful Velvet ESB, ot head over to The Beermongers to see why Mt. Tabor Brewing is building all that well deserved buzz...

With all the hoopla over locavores, 100-mile diets and plowing up lawns to make gardens, you'd th

UPRIGHT BEER DINNER 7/25 The Hop&Vine 1914 N Killingsworth Portland 503-954-3322 $30

Publisher's Weekly just announced that Portland beer writer Christian DeBenedetti just signed a deal with National Geographic Books to write a book called (at the mment) "Portland to Portland:The Craft Beer Lover's Guide to the 500 Greatest American Watering Holes." Pub date is planned for fall 2011.

No, it's not open yet, the new Hair of the Dog Brewery and Tasting Room at 61 S.E. Yamhill, but a private party Friday(no beers were bought or sold) in conjunction with the Oregon Brewers Festival gave some of us a chance to get the feel of the place and the universal reaction was something like "this is great...I

MEET THE LAURELWOOD BREWERS 7/26 The BeerMongers 1125 SE Division St Portland 503-234-6012 6-8pm New beer release+Green Elephant Organic Imperial IPA.

Back in the day, back in LA, everyone was making videos and short films. I wrote "Drive Baby Drive" for Paul Rachman

MacTarnahan’s Brewing Tasting 7/24 The BeerMongers 1125 SE Division St. Portland 503-234-6012 Sample Amber Ale, Grifter IPA, Lip Stinger+new beer InkBlot Baltic Porter.