Two friends, David Schleef and David “Rusty” Caldwell, went hiking in Oregon’s Mount Hood National Forest on a summer day in 2015. Pausing for refreshment, they quaffed lukewarm light beers they’d...
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Recipe: Little Island Bake Shop’s Boozed-Up Fruit Cake
Baking is not just an exact science but also a labor of love — often a work-intensive, time-absorbing and painstaking craft. For Jana Roerick, baker-owner of Jana's Bake Shop on British Columbia's...
All-Sensory Extravaganza with 22nd Annual Taste Washington
The CenturyLink Field Event Center this past weekend was truly an all-sensory extravaganza. Bookended by the highly-anticipated Red & White Party on Thursday night and the epic Grand Tasting on...
5 Beers Cans that Look Good on You and Taste Even Better
They say not to judge a book by its cover but sometimes the cover is just so eye-catching that you can’t stop yourself. The same can be said for beer cans whose labels are becoming an art unto...
4 Questions with Dave Marliave of Flat Tail Brewing
For nearly 10 years, Flat Tail Brewing in Corvallis, Oregon, has churned out beers that defy easy description. Flat Tail brewed more than 100 unique beers in its full year alone and has since made a...
Effortless Drinking with Sprezza Canned Spritzer
Effortless style. That’s what the Italian word sprezzatura roughly translates to and it’s what the team behind Sprezza — the latest canned alcoholic spritzer to hit the market — hope to offer...