Ezra Johnson-Greenough

Best of the West national IPA competition announced the 2026 award-winning beers from across the country. Oregon breweries topped the leaderboard with 19 medals, with California following closely with 17 medals. Overall, breweries from 11 states took home medals.

Its too early to know if Oregon Hop growers can retain the #2 ranking for hop production in the U.S. after narrowly beating Idaho in 2025. But, Oregon grow

Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery has announced the release of Devil’s Cuvee Kriek and Peche Mode in their Brewers Reserve Sour Program. Double Mountain’s D

Portland goes to the pandas! Portland Cider Co. debuts Red Panda Cider, and national touring Asian food & drink festival Panda Fest takes over the waterfro

The North American 2026 hop harvest has started in Oregon and farmers say this year’s crop is promising. Fresh Hop beers will soon hit the taps and get pac

The recent devastation in Nepal after caused by a massive glacier collapse has me thinking not only of many governments refusal to address global warming on a meaningful level, but also of Oregon’s craft beer connections to the Himalayas. Reading the news and scrolling endless social media clips showing the horrific disaster that stretches from Tibet to Nepal had me recalling a dinner with Nepalese immigrants Nurbu and Pema Sherpa of High Camp Taphouse in Sisters, Oregon, and all the surprising connections between Oregon craft beer.

The Oregon craft beer industry continues to grow, despite recent closures and sale signs there are expansions and new locations opening all the time that go mostly ignored by the mainstream media and negative social media reactions. The past few weeks have seen a series of notable openings from breweries from Eugene to the Oregon Coast and in Portland and the Willamette Valley. These are six new openings that you should know.

PFriem Family Brewers and Fort George Brewery have collaborated on two IPAs that are born from the same grain and hop bill, but let the breweries' own proc

It’s a late summer Thursday evening on the banks of the Columbia River. The sky is a deep blend of pink and blue turning to purple with the majestic Mt. Hood and St. Helens looming in the distance. A bustling crowd of cheerful locals and tourists sip on beers, eat dinner, and bask in what is likely one of the last stretches of pleasant weather before the rainy gloom of the Pacific Northwest fall and winter truly sets in. If you happen to be present for all of this, you might think you have stepped into a portal back to a time when brewpubs were always busy and the beer industry was blissfully unaware of the challenges that lay ahead in the form of neo-prohibitionism, the industry-disrupting pandemic, and inflation making it damn near impossible to turn a profit. Yet, here in the quaint Oregon town of St. Helens that is best-known as the filming location for movies like Halloweentown and Twilight, Crooked Creek Brewery is the kind of success story most of us are dying to hear about nowadays.

Oregon City Brewing will commemorate its twelfth year of existence with a party featuring beer and merchandise specials and four bands on Saturday, October