Adam on December 27th, 2009

If your refrigerator is like mine, there is beer in it.  You can’t see all the beer due to there being beers in front of other beers…not a bad thing…but you often don’t fully know your beer inventory at a given moment.  While rummaging around in search of something to quench my thirst…I stumbled across [...]

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Adam on December 2nd, 2009

Having a Port Brewing High Tide IPA while making split pea soup.   A cream base with red onions and bacon…how can it be bad.  No…not the beer…the soup.

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Adam on November 19th, 2009

Working tonight from home with a deadline tomorrow at noon.  I’m wiped out…and it is only Thursday.  I was thinking an IPA would be nice, but didn’t think I had any.  Lucky me I found two.  A Sculpin and a Wipeout.  I chose the Wipeout and don’t regret it a bit.

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Beer Sage on September 5th, 2009

They’re brewing High Tide, a fresh-hopped IPA, over at Port Brewing and The Lost Abbey this week. Actually, they’re brewing 9 times over a period of three days with each batch requiring a hopback full of freshly picked hops. Naturally several hundred pounds of hop flowers lends itself to some photogenic goofery. Here’s a little [...]

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Beer Sage on March 10th, 2009

That “man” in the headline is me, of course. I’m currently enjoying a cold pint of Hot Rocks, the new stein-style brown lager from Port Brewing Company. Yes, it is delicious. For those who don’t know the backstory on this one, Hot Rocks is a collaboration between Port Brewing’s Tomme Arthur and Bend Brewing’s Tonya [...]

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Beer Sage on February 12th, 2009

So the Release of Lost Abbey’s Red Poppy was a couple weekends ago and all the usual suspects were in tow along with a whole group of new peeps. Beyond just getting some great beer, we also drafted a whole bunch of folks into peeling a few hundred pounds of Mandarin Oranges for a couple [...]

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Beer Sage on August 11th, 2008

Duuuuudes! This weekend is Stone Brewing’s 12th Anniversary party and beer invitational. More importantly, it’s also Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey’s annual Pre-Stone Party Brunch! If you’re not familiar with this tasty ritual, before Stone’s “A” Session kicks off around 11 a.m., The Lost Abbey flings open it’s doors and serves up a massive [...]

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World Beer Cup Champion Brewery Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey will be celebrating its second anniversary next weekend with a big party, music, food, and (of course) lost of Port / Lost Abbey beers. Additionally, they’ll be putting out three new releases including Port 2nd Anniversary (a huge double IPA), Inferno (one hell of [...]

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