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One of the problems with the cutting edge
of brewing is, you’re just as likely to get nicked yourself. Gigantic
Brewing, with its eclectic array of brewing oddities and schizophrenic
label des
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Old dogs are notoriously reluctant to
perform new tricks. So someone give Hair of the Dog brewmaster Alan
Sprints a good belly scratching for his new Lila Maibock. Sprints’
brewery will celebr
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The Ale Apothecary’s Paul Arney revels in making
concoctions that are tough to wrap your head around. The former
Deschutes brewer, who now works alone in a small barn outside Bend,
outdid hims
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Chili peppers—25 varieties of them—were once the top crop at the Tilley family’s 25-acre farm in Eugene. Hops now get more attention from Ben and Nate Tilley, but they haven’t plowed the peppe
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Is IPA the new Amber? Though still the
top-selling style of craft beer in Oregon, lately it’s seemed as though
brewers have exhausted every possible permutation of suitable hops and
malts. For
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Rogue Ales has been mashing the
vino-centric concept of terroir into beer more aggressively than anyone
else in Oregon. Some of the Newport-based brewery’s initiatives have
been mostly about m
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The nearest stretch of the Oregon coast
does not yet have the amenities Portlanders have come to expect. The
scenery is great, of course, but high-quality food, drink and
entertainment are in sh
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Breakside’s Dry Irish Stout is shockingly
simple next to the brewery’s more exotic dark beers, which include
Coconut Pumpkin Sweet Stout and a porter made with caraway, dill and
fennel polle
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Chocolate orange wine from Astoria’s
Shallon Winery is all about love. Octogenarian winemaker Paul van der
Veldt opened his doors in 1980 and has single-handedly run the operation
since. Van d
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The tiny town of Parkdale doesn’t have a
stoplight, but it has a brewery. Journeyman brewer Jason Kahler took
over the shuttered Elliot Glacier Public House last April, making his
own brews in
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