While at Beer Nuts last night, my wife and I had a chance to meet Dave Marliave, Brew Master for Fire Mountain Brewery. Dave was pouring two beers from Fire Mountain, Oregon Pale Ale (OPA) and Steam Fired Stout. He described OPA as a cross between an English Pale Ale and an American. It [...]

Back in July, I stopped by Oakshire Brewing for one of their weekly Saturday tastings. While Matt was showing everyone the expanded brewery space, he pointed out two bourbon barrels that were being used to age Overcast Espresso Stout and Watershed IPA. He said it was the beginning of their barrel aging program.

Yesterday, [...]

The Great Taste; a charity auction for the Relief Nursery is being held Thursday December 10th at the Valley River Inn in Eugene. The event, now it it’s 14th year, is being presented by Market of Choice. Tickets can be purchased for $35.00 from the Relief Nursery’s [...]

I was already planning a trip to Beer Nuts tonight when I opened this morning’s Register Guard and found an article about the bottle shop. Near the end of the article, it is mentioned that Beer Nuts is holding a tasting tonight for Fire Mountain Brewery’s Oregon Pale Ale. [...]

While I was trying to find output numbers for my last Brewery Statistic post, I came across a monthly report released by the OLCC. The report shows the number of barrels produced and sold in Oregon for the given month. Each report also has a running YTD total. [...]