Tag Archives: Oregon Beer
ORIGINAL EVENTS: HOLIDAY HAPPY HOUR
December 3, 2012
All that shopping's enough to make you dizzy. And yet you endure it all, simply to give gifts to those you love. Well, what about you? You're in need of some receiving, too, aren't'cha? Somebody's gotta take of you, and if...
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ORIGINAL DRAFTS: DESCHUTES BREWERY’S ABYSS
June 24, 2012
It comes but once a year and like the blossoming of the cherry tree, it lasts just a few short weeks, during which everyone you know is happy and gay. And then, in an instant, it's over. If you love beer,...
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ORIGINAL DRAFTS: HOPWORKS ORGANIC IPA
June 18, 2012
So, that old story about British brewers heavily hopping casks of pale ale to preserve it all during colonial voyages to India turns out to be not so true. Sometimes ales were spiced with extra hops, but only when shipping...
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ORIGINAL BEER: SESSION LAGER
June 12, 2012
Session beers are so named because they're the kind of beers (emphasis on the session's plurality) that you can drink during long conversational sessions without getting completely legless. In other words, because of their relatively low ABV percentages, session beers...
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ORIGINAL STARTERS: FRIED PICKLES
May 24, 2012
Pickling's been around not only for centuries, but for millennia, and it is doubtlessly one of the oldest methods of preserving food. It was often used to preserve meat, but now we generally use it as a method to our preserve...
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