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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