Monthly Archives: May 2009

Roll with Oakshire on Saturday to Help Food For Lane County

By BrewerMatt | Published: May 28, 2009
The Second annual Spring Roll, an event to benefit Food for Lane County, is being held this Saturday at Red Barn Natural Grocery and Sam Bond’s garage. Oakshire is one of the many sponsors and if you come down you can score some special edition pint glasses, among other awesome prizes. The event is a... Read More...
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The true cost of an expanding small brewery.

By BrewerMatt | Published: May 26, 2009
The following “pile” awaits my assistance tomorrow morning starting at 6AM. My 3 bay weapon awaits to assist my conquering of the pile. A brewmaster’s job rocks! (especially when Joe arrives at 8 and steps in ;)-thanks Joe) P.S. -a little bird told me a shiny brand spankin’ new slightly more automated keg washer is... Read More...
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Tanks a rollin'

By BrewerMatt | Published: May 19, 2009
The tank shuffle at Oakshire brewing continues. A 30 barrel unitank (a little less than 1000 gallon tank that can be used for fermentation or packaging bright beer) was taken out of service yesterday as a fermenter and will now be our large bright tank. this way we can package our new fermenters in one... Read More...
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We have two beer options for you this weekend.

By BrewerMatt | Published: May 12, 2009
Mr. Weatherman says our weather will be 76 and sunny on Saturday-sweet! You should join us at the Brewers Memorial Ale Fest in at Rogue in Newport. It runs Fri-Sun and we will have Watershed and Overcast. IF you don’t want to run up to Newport for 50 different breweries’ beer, you should drive over... Read More...
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Why I live (and Brew) in Oregon…..

By BrewerMatt | Published: May 10, 2009
….because of the weekends! Beer writer and friend Jay Brooks of Brookston Beer Bulletin often pens top ten lists. Beers, Places, people, and sometimes not beer related. After an exceptionally fantastic and relaxing, and well deserved weekend I realized I had an easy top 5 list to share and I’ve only been here 42 days... Read More...
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