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Posted by Jeremy James, Cosgrave Attorney On May 23, 2013, the Oregon legislature passed HB 2296, allowing new and existing businesses to designate themselves as “benefit companies.” What is a benefit company, you wonder, and what does this have to do with beer? Well, to answer the first question, a benefit company is a new kind […]

Posted by Marcus Reed One of the Cosgrave firm’s excellent brewery clients, Ecliptic Brewing, was unveiled to the public this past Sunday, April 28. The now-barren 14,000 square foot facility at the southern tip of the Mississippi District in Portland will soon (this Fall) be one of the gems of the Portland craft beer scene. […]

It’s not just google that has a sense of humor.  Check out some of our favorite breweries’ and bloggers’ April Fool’s shenanigans. Lagunitas + Bronner’s: http://www.its-pub-night.com/2013/04/lagunitas-buys-dr-bronners-soap-company.html Pope says no more Trappist beers: http://beervana.blogspot.com/2013/04/pope-francis-to-trappists-no-more-beer.html Burnside and Breakside merger: http://brewpublic.com/oregon-beer/burnside-brewing-and-breakside-brewery-cease-desist-turns-into-merger/ Fort George sea lion solution: http://www.oregonlive.com/beer/index.ssf/2013/04/fort_georges_commonsense_appro.html Bonus! Rogue’s Beard Beer gets released for real: http://www.oregonlive.com/beer/index.ssf/2013/03/is_rogue_kidding.html http://www.oregonlive.com/beer/index.ssf/2013/04/the_beard_rogue_is_not_kidding.html Thanks […]

Posted by guest blogger Hanna Laney Our fair city is noted as one of the greatest beer cities in the world. Rivaling Marzen-soaked Munich, delightfully style-diverse Denver or super-hopped San Diego, Portland holds a special place in a beer lover’s heart. With a plethora of places destined to make a seasoned zymurgist proud, those who […]

Well, we all have to turn 40 sometime.  I appreciate the bottle bill  aka “The Beverage Container Act” going first.  Love it or hate it,* 2012 marked the bottle bill’s 40th anniversary in Oregon, the first state to adopt such a bill.  If you delve into internet research on the bill, there is a lot on the […]

I’m amused and impressed by the media connections between beer and voters.  Willamette Week recently did a piece entitled “The President of Beers,” which got mixed reviews.   The article selected a popular micro-brew from each state and ranked them from 1 to 50 (Deschutes Black Butte Porter came in 7th).  I liked it, probably […]

Posted by Marcus Reed As if Oregon needed yet another reminder of the predominance of its craft beer industry, it now has a new standard-bearer in Hillsboro’s Single-A baseball team. The team’s owner announced yesterday that the Yakima Bears will now be called the Hillsboro Hops. According to the team’s general manager, the name is […]

If you live in Portland, you know that the great fluoride debate is raging again.  Some don’t want anything added to Portland’s good pure water. Others like the dental hygiene benefits and convenience of not having to give their kids fluoride drops. The debate peaked my interest when it turned to beer. Will fluorinating the water […]

Henry Weinhard’s Private Reserve (Henry’s), a Pacific Northwest stand by brew for generations will finally no longer be brewed in Oregon. Henry’s has always been near and dear to my heart–I grew up with hop aroma wafting from the Blitz-Weinhard Burnside brewhouse, it was the first beer I tasted, and I wrote my history thesis on the man […]