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Celebrate Oregon Beer Newsletter
Published 2 days ago • 4 min read
Celebrating Oregon Beer
Your fortnightly round-up of all the beer and hop news from the Beaver State.
What a #PubJanuary turnout! (Living Haus, Jan 8th)
We are halfway through #PubJanuary, and it seems like people have heard the call to action! The brewery pubs we've been visiting this month have had robust crowds of happy people. Below, we have a whole raft of fun opportunities in every region of the state. Of course, you can also visit your friendly neighborhood pub just for a meal and a beer (non-alcoholic if you're observing Dry January.)
Let's keep up the good start!
If you are looking for more news, events, and conversation between these emails, visit our feeds at Instagram, Facebook, or Bluesky.
News
As the new year gets rolling, the news seems to be returning to its usual pace. And huzzah--we have news of new brewery openings!
New Breweries
In their annual post, The New School rounds up all the new brewery openings we can look forward to in 2025. There are some good ones!
In the town of Lostine in beautiful Wallowa County, you'll find an amazing store that sells, among other things, beer. This lovely video is worth a watch.
Read the frustrating tale of how Worthy Brewing's new mural has been deemed illegal, not because of the content, but because it was painted on the wrong surface.
The Oregon Coast is dotted with picturesque towns and villages from Astoria to Brookings—but none of them are very large. Despite this, the region is home to some of the oldest and most-beloved breweries in the state. In fact, three of our coastal breweries do a wonderful job of telling the story of American craft brewing. Founded roughly a decade apart, they detail the founding period of craft brewing, its growth as an important marker of local culture, and finally, a potent force able to help rebuild their local neighborhoods and even whole towns.
Newport, 1980s – Rogue Brewery 1988 was a watershed year in the history of American brewing. What we now called “craft brewing” was a decade old, but it had hardly made a dent in the landscape. A year earlier, just 73 brewing companies operated in the US, but 55 opened in '88. These included future stalwarts like Goose Island, Deschutes, Brooklyn Brewery, Great Lakes—and a brewpub in Southern Oregon called Rogue. Wait, Southern Oregon? Few breweries are as associated with their home town as Rogue is with Newport, on the central Oregon coast. Yet the Newport site was an offshoot from the original pub that arrived just a year later (initially bearing the name “Bay Front Brewery”) in 1989.
Since we have so many events for Pub January, we'll do shorter announcements. Note that we are not listing live music and trivia nights--they are legion! Check your local brewery website/Instagram for those listings.
Meanwhile, send us all your #PubJanuary events at the following email so we can include them in our weekly roundups: events@celebrateoregonbeer.com
Baltic Porter Festival. Jan 18, noon-9pm. 10 local versions + Polish bottle share, Threshold Beer (Portland)
Gigantic Record Swap. Jan 18, 1-4 pm. 9 record vendors with stacks on stacks of vinyl gold, Gigantic Brewing (26th Ave location, Portland)
8th Annual Wassail Festival. Jan 18, 3-8 pm. Live music, parade, costumes, all amid the trees, 20 cideries. McMenamins Cornelius Pass Roadhouse (Portland Metro)
Beers with the Brewers. Jan 18, 6 pm, brewers talk about their beer with tasting & small bites, Bevel Brewing (Bend)
S'mores and Pours. Jan 18, 5-7 pm, the s'mores are free! Cascade Lakes (SE Bend & Redmond pubs)
LGBTQ+ Family Game Day, Jan 18 4-6 pm, everyone welcome, games avail or bring your own, Bierly Brewing (McMinnville).
For everything Oregon, please visit the Celebrate Oregon website. On it you’ll find information about the state’s brewing heritage, breweries (including region by region travel guides), the state’s unique hop regionand characteristic varieties, and info about our amazing fresh hop beer and season. We have a searchable, sortable database of all Oregon’s breweries and taprooms (though the full information for each brewery is not fully completed) as well as a map so you’re never far away from a tasty pint. In the coming year, new features will appear at least as often as this newsletter, where you can stay informed. Next time, we'll have a look at Oregon's ten most unusual breweries.
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