The days have come for the kegs to be tapped, the bottles to be uncapped, and the empty glasses to be filled with brews locally crafted in Oregon. People across the state are dusting off their...
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Culinary Chemistry: Beer Crust Pizza
Unless you live in a pizza mecca where artisanal pies are commonplace, finding a really good slice of ‘za can be a challenge. Rather than expending all your resources trying to track down the...
Terravista Vineyards Fandango 2012, Okanagan Valley
Try pouring this for someone blind if you want to confound and amaze. Albariño and Verdejo? From Naramata in the Okanagan Valley? And a stunning one at that? Definitely fandango-worthy. This is the...
Drifters: The Heathman Hotel
The art of service. A vaguely-articulated ideal parlayed in one form or another to lofty-sounding slogans for hotel after hotel over the decades. What happens when a hotel really backs those words...
Alpenfire Cider Spark! Semi-Sweet Cider
If it only takes a spark to start a fire, then it only takes one sip of Alpenfire Cider’s Spark! semi-sweet cider to start a long lasting relationship between you and this Port Townsend, Wash.,...
We Dig: Rooftop Rendezvous’
A drink in one hand, the heat of the sun warming your face and shoulders while a view of a busy city sits on the other side of your sunglasses… does anything sound better? Be it you are in need of a...