Beervana Blog
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Founded by Jeff Alworth in 2006, the award-winning Beervana Blog has been the leading source for beer news, insights about brewing, beer culture, and opinion in the world of beer. I've worked harder to turn the site into something more than a blog, where posts are often disposable and unpolished. I have published a variety of deeply-reported pieces, and have a number of ongoing series.
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In the spring, Dan and others from the brewery head off to a forest just west of town. The trees must be a certain height to harvest, and they can’t pick too much of the new growth. “We bring a load of grain bags out with us—it’s beautiful,” he said. “I love it.” It takes more than one visit to collect 200 pounds of tips ..read more
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Detroit native George Johnson founded Assembly Brewing in 2019, bringing the authentic pizza from his hometown to Portland. Over the weekend, he opened a second location. It is a great opportunity to revisit the tale of George’s incredible perseverance ..read more
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I have spent the last ten days in Central Europe catching up on the local beer scenes and talking to brewers from the region. Here’s an overview of what I found. ..read more
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Last week, London’s Meantime Brewery was in the news. Its fortunes are bound up with Fuller’s and Dark Star—by coincidence three breweries I toured 13 years ago. Show did they get here ..read more
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I managed to get inside the old brewhouse at U Fleků yesterday, and offer this illustrated peek inside. ..read more
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3w ago
People typically talk about “American” or “Pacific Northwest” hops as if they’re a monolith. Yet Oregon’s Willamette Valley, on the wet side of the Cascades, is vastly different than the arid Yakima Valley. The hops grown there are different, too. ..read more
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We learned today that a Portland institution was closing down: McCormick and Schmick’s RiverPlace restaurant. It was once the toast of the town, featuring the best view in the city. It was also the home of Full Sail’s Portland outpost, an important formative location in creating Portland’s beer scene ..read more
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Our friends at AB InBev have offered us a new beer promising a “fathomless palate squeeze.” Wait, what? And ? That does not sound appetizing. What is going on here ..read more
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“I was common practice to take the beer that had splashed into a bucket below the hand pump at the end of the day, add a slurry of asbestos and then run them through a filter. The asbestos-filtered “slops” were then served to the first customers into the pub the next day ..read more