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Romancing the Zwickel

My HopPress colleague in Bend, Ore., Jon Abernathy, wrote up a fantastic advance post on Valentine’s Day weekend’s Zwickelmania, a statewide open house that most of Oregon’s breweries held last Saturday.
Just for fun, I thought I’d follow up with a review of “My 2010 Zwickelmania Experience.”
Based on the region’s wineries that hold open houses twice [...]

The Abyss: The Beer, The Rock Star

Why did people line up in front of the Portland Deschutes public house and wait in the November chill for more than an hour? Front-row tickets to a U2 concert? An all-expense paid trip to Belgium? Nope. The Abyss!