The most significant contribution to the growth of craft beer might be the most overlooked: liquid yeast. Wyeast Laboratories pioneered the sale of liquid yeast to brewers in 1986. Drawing on her food science background and laboratory experience grow...

I am occasionally asked why I write many of my food and beverage pieces in the first person. If you remember what you learned in your English classes, you know the first person is me, second person is you and third person is them — loosely speaking,...

For the first time in the Eugene/Springfield area, a new brewery occupies a house.

“Portland, Bend and Eugene all have allowances for home-based operations,” explains Tyrone Reitman, a Silverton native who’s lived in Eugene since 1996. “We’re not ser...

Moonshrimp Brewing

Nope, Moonshrimp beers don’t contain shrimp. The name instead comes from a funny story about a shrimp on a cracker: As founder Dan McIntosh-Tolle explains it, that’s how he’s always seen the moon.

Available around Portland and at the...