Oregon Ale Adventures

We arrived in Southern Oregon on Friday night - just in time to have our evening meal at the Wild River Brewery's (http://www.wildriverbrewing.com/) outlet in Medford. Their ESB was pretty good.

For my belated Father's Day present from our daughter, I went to a new outlet in Grants Pass to fill my growler - Oregon Pour Authority (https://www.facebook.com/OregonPourAuthority) - where I sampled a few of their interesting selection, finally choosing Fort George/Boneyard/Block 15's 3 Way IPA. Typically, it's pretty strong at 7.2% and it's apparently a collaboration between the 3 breweries mentioned, with the former actually brewing it.

I think everyone here must now have their own growlers because yet another new outlet has opened up in Grants Pass - Frank n Stene's Monster Growlers (https://www.facebook.com/FranknSteneMonsterGrowlersLLC). It doesn't even have an "on" licence. It will be interesting to see if it survives on merely supplying and re-filling growlers. I chose one of the lightest pale ales I could get - Green Flash of San Diego's 30th Street (http://www.greenflashbrew.com/our-beers/30th-street/) - "just" 6%.

Today we went back to one of our favourite haunts - Kaleidoscope (http://www.kaleidoscopepizza.com/) in Medford - a family owned Pizzeria & Pub, with a Grateful Dead theme. This was today's beer selection:

As designated driver today with precious human cargo, I could only try a little of the Stone Go To IPA, which had the lowest alcohol content.

"Craft" beer is more prominent here now as an everyday phrase. It used to be all about microbreweries, but nobody seems to use that phrase any more. Even the local supermarket chain, Albertson's displays it thus:

Haven't come across any cask conditioned beers yet - but I'll keep looking and asking.