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Makahiki: The Thanksgiving Most People Don't Know About
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Your Guide to the 2016 Oregon Brewers Festival
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July means beer month here in Oregon, and the Oregon Brewers Festival is the highlight and culmination of it all. Craft beer has become not only a highly sought libation, with craft brewers selling an estimated 24,076,864 barrels of beer in 2015, but also a huge industry all over America, creating over 424,000 jobs and contributing $55.7 billion to the US economy in 2014. Nowhere in the state is this more evident...
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8 of the Best Shandies to Enjoy This Summer
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Summer shandies, as the name suggests, are the perfect beer for the summer season: light, refreshing, and delicious. But what are they, exactly, and where did the trend start? The shandy (and its cousin, the radler) is said to have gotten its start when an enterprising Bavarian innkeeper created a combination of beer and lemon soda to give to thirsty bike riders traveling through in the summer of 1922. The radler is usually made with a lager like a pils or helles, while the shandy is traditionally an ale, but both are mixed with equal parts beer and either lemonade, ginger...
Of Sabers and Pairings: The Eclectic Wine Scene of Portland, Oregon
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At the recent launch party for Matt Wagner’s Tall Trees of Paris at Gigantic Brewing (a great success, by the way!) we were honored by not one but TWO of Portland’s premier champagne sabreurs: Michael Ecker and Christopher Graham. Champagne sabering, or sabrage, is a delightfully ostentatious technique for opening a bottle of champagne with—you guessed it—a saber! Sabering dates back to Napoleonic times, but artisans like Michael and Christopher are carrying on the legacy with panache. You can see a snippet of Michael in action here.Michael embarked on the path to mastery at his wedding, where an official champagne...