Grizzly Growler

Man, there’s nothing worse than coming back from vacation to find out one of your community members is hurting. I love all the taproom folks that I’ve met over the years, but Angie Oakins, who works at Kettlehouse Brewing Company, is one of my favorites. She’s one of the few who greets me by name [...]

My buddy, Dan de Carbonel, is celebrating his birthday today. Many years ago, he and I started the first ever newspaper craft beer blog at the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon. Rather than getting paid for our work, we would blog for beer, thus the name, “Will Blog for Beer.” The blog is long gone, along [...]