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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 [...]

Spokane: Surprise Beer City

I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest for long enough to know better, but until a recent trip, I never realized that Spokane was such a great beer town.
In truth, I had never really been to Spokane at all, except once on a layover on my way to a wedding. So it was high time I [...]

I Don’t Blog

A venerable beer writer who also is an internet addict finally takes the blogging plunge. Find out why.