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What happens when you ask brewers to make art outta beer?

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BY KELLY CLARKE | kclarke at wweek dot com

[September 16th, 2009]


IMAGE: vivianjohnson.com

A handful of people in this town have elevated beer-making to an art form, but never before have the brewers of Portland been asked to create, well, art beer. That’s exactly what the Portland Art Museum and Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice Program proposed earlier this year. PSU’s Eric Steen challenged Zack Beckwith (New Old Lompoc), Ben Flerchinger (Lucky Labrador) and Chad Kennedy (Laurelwood) to choose an artwork from the museum’s permanent collection and create a pint of suds inspired by what they see. They’ll serve the results at Shine a Light, a giant nighttime party the museum is throwing this Saturday dedicated to new ways of connecting with art, from watching local musician Honey Owens of Valet serenade The Liberation of Peter by Gerard van Honthorst to taking oddball tours and dancing to E*Rock beats out in the sculpture garden. Each brewer reacted to the project in a wildly different way: Laurelwood’s Kennedy crafted a historically accurate molasses- and honey-rich brew based on The Homesteaders, a rustic Works Progress Administration oil painting by Arthur Runquist of a group of men building a house. “In the painting, to the right of the man working, is a jug with a cork in it. And instantly it was like, ‘Ah-ha! I can tie that in to what I do,’” says Kennedy. “The homesteaders remind me of our industry of small craft brewers.” Beckwith took the mixed-media approach of Whiting Tennis’ Bitter Lake Compound as inspiration for a “beer collage” that blends a variety of New Old Lompoc brews together, including a Belgian saison flavored with grapefruit rinds, black peppercorns and candied ginger. And Flerchinger? He’s aiming for a brew with a creamy head that mimics the swirling texture of Jules Olitski’s abstract piece Noble Regard. “The painting just jumped out at me,” he says. “It looked just like a pint of poured nitro.”


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