Food & Drink We're drinking the flagship craft beer from every state in the Union, counting down from 50-1, to find which is home to the President of Beers.

#41: Southern Pecan: Lazy Magnolia Brewing, Kiln, MississippiState: For a full list of all the love/hate elements of the Ma...   More

Food & Drink We're drinking the flagship craft beer from every state in the Union, counting down from 50-1, to find which is home to the President of Beers.
#45: Calico Brown Ale: Tenaya Creek Brewery, Las Vegas, Nevada
State: Initially known for its precio...   More

Food & Drink On May 16, the three Portland breweries which make gluten-free beer—Widmer Bros., Deschutes, and Harvester—stood shoulder to shoulder as Mayor Sam Adams declared it Gluten Free Beer Day.
Such innocent times!
A new ruling is complic...   More

Food & Drink As is the case with most beer weeks across the nation, Portland's Beer Week buzz doesn’t really hit until 10 days after it starts—if you’re able to keep slugging them back that long. I advocate picking one event per day and drinking vicariously through Tweets through the rest.
But, this year, Saturday, June 9 looks to be a beerath...   More

Food & Drink Suck it, hops.
There's a new sheriff share of crops in town. Burnside Brewing welcomes the return of the Fruit Beer Festival, which will feature over 30 breweries and even more fruitastic beers.
The website    More

Food & Drink On the heels of a big festival celebrating the confluence of beer and music—the daylong Malt Ball that paired local bands with their brew counterparts—Eugene-based Ninkasi reveals it will brew a exclusive light, summer ale for the Annual String Summit.The four-day twang-fest featuring bluegrass, folk, and jam bands is always headlined by ...   More

Food & Drink Oregon has well over 100 breweries, nearly 700 wineries and at least half a dozen cideries but only a couple meaderies. Those figures sync up well with what the market demands—well, except for the fact that Oregonians drink about 11 million gallons of wine annually compared to 80 million gallons of beer.
They also roughly match our collective education level. We know beer. We k...   More

Food & Drink For the last five years, much-decorated Belgian brewmaster Dirk Naudts, who develops beer recipes for brewers throughout Holland and Belgium, brings an American brewer over to his village, Lochristi, to collaborate. The chance to work with Naudts at his Na De Proef Brouwerij is much ...   More

Food & Drink It’s the Oregon Brewers Guild’s job to disseminate information about its member breweries to you, the drinking public. There’s no better way to start spreading the brews than by inviting you, the drinking public, to sample their wares—most of them free and fresh. Saturday marks the    More

Food & Drink [Recent San Francisco import Brian Yaeger is all about the beer. In fact, that's one of the reasons he moved to town. The author of the cross country beer odyssey Red, White, and Brew and S...   More