The OLCC has put out final figures for Oregon beer sales, and they reveal less horrors than you might have expected. As a matter of fact, there’s quite a bit of good news here.
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Who knew a book promotion could be so thrilling?
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With apologies to Tolstoy, successful breweries are all alike, but each failing brewery fails in its own way.
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Last week, I prepared a guide to Portland’s Best Breweries for 2019. I hope visitors to the city will find it useful. But breweries alone don't paint the whole picture. There's a reason Portlanders immodestly call their town "Beervana," and this will help you understand why.
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I get emails, dozens of them every year, from people coming to Portland. They want to know one thing: which breweries should I go to? Here's your answer, updated for 2019.
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The news is shocking, but it isn’t terribly surprising. BridgePort has lost over three-quarters of its Oregon volume since 2010, and hasn’t adapted to the modern market.
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Barrel-aged stouts have gotten so excessive I now tend to cringe when I see one. But Ecliptic was founded by the man who created Black Butte Porter, and has spent a brewing life perfecting the art of making dark ales.
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Now that drinkers want variety and novelty, having a flagship can become a liability as fashions change and sales drop. Who wants to be stuck with a fruit IPA flagship that accounts for 10% of the volume and tastes like 2015?
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On February 6th, Portland learned that decade-old Burnside Brewing was apparently no more.
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Bud Light spent the Super Bowl sending a pointed message about the ingredients of domestic light beers. It might not have been the best way to elevate their brand.
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Sometimes it takes an outsider to make you see how insular your world has become.
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10 Barrel Brewing recently released a fantastic video that has been viewed broadly. But what if you lack the funds an AB InBev-backed brewery has? Creative Director Jordan Wilson describes how Old Town Brewing gets its exceptional results on a budget.
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This morning, London’s last Victorian-era cask brewery announced it had sold its beer business to Asahi. That news should alarm anyone interested in the health of cask beer in Great Britain.
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Less than a year after Craft Brew Alliance turned the Widmer brewpub into a taproom, it’s shutting the whole thing down, citing “profitability challenges.”
Read MoreAfter forty years promoting good beer, Charlie Papazian is stepping down from the Brewers Association. It would be difficult to overstate his legacy.
Read MoreIt is difficult to brew with spices, and no one does it as well as the Belgians. In this first part of a two-part series, St. Feuillien brewer Alexis Briol offers the philosophy that guides Belgian thinking.
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One of the new crop of Trappist beers has arrived on American shores, and it turns out there’s quite a bit about the monastery, project, and beer that are out of the ordinary.
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Why do we have a more emotional connection to beer than, say, toothpaste brands? Because of evenings like these.
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