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Last week, Pravda Brewery, located in Lviv, Ukraine shifted from making beer to Molotov cocktails. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, the brewery has opened up their recipes and artwork to the world’s craft brewers. Pravda Brewery has made available the recipes and artwork of their award winning beers. The recipes include – Syla […]
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March 15, 2022 The practice of drinking green beer on St. Patrick’s Day is steeped in a conundrum of traditions. You may or may not find that this St. Patrick’s Day tradition is an American appropriation, but it sure does make for a festive occasion! Dr. Thomas Curtin, a coroner’s physician and eye surgeon, reportedly […]
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145: Retire Early | Deacon Hayes • Order of Man – 1; } /* Disable tracking if the opt-out cookie exists. */ if ( __gtagTrackerIsOptedOut() ) { window[disableStr] = true; } /* Opt-out function */ function __gtagTrackerOptout() { document.cookie = disableStr + ‘=true; expires=Thu, 31 Dec 2099 23:59:59 UTC; path=/’; window[disableStr] = true; } if […]
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Redmond, OR – March 6th, 2022: During the weekend of March 4-6th, professional brewers and judges from as far away as Switzerland descended upon Central Oregon to judge over 2,700 entries in the 2022 Best of Craft Beer Awards competition. Breweries of all sizes sent over 16,000 containers of their finest product for evaluation across […]
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Dave Hollis was a high-profile exec at Disney, but he left all of that behind to focus on his wife’s (Rachel Hollis) budding business. As someone who works with his wife, I was eager to speak to Dave about the challenges they face and what it’s like to be in a business where his wife […]
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Wild Heaven Smiling Eyes, a dry Irish stout debuts Friday at both brewery locations. This lower alcohol beer is brewed with black and chocolate malts, for a pronounced roasted flavor. A super-abridged Dry Irish Stout history. The Irish Stout started in London over 300 years ago. Then, it was called a porter, specifically a London […]
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The Firestone Walker Invitational is a pretty epic festival, held in June each year. It sold out in 2020, and ultimately was canceled due to the growing pandemic. After two years, Firestone Walker is ready to host the festival once again, announcing the brewery lineup as well as a own “Ultimate Firestone Walker Experience” A […]
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As I write we’re experiencing again what the Belfast-born poet Louis MacNeice recorded in Autumn Journal, composed in 1938: “the heavy panic that cramps the lungs and presses/ The collar down the spine.” In words that resonate uncomfortably today he writes “we cannot take it in and we go to our daily/ Jobs to the […]
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