Sunriver Brewing to begin local beer production
By Brooke Snavely The Sunriver Brewing Company is making good on a resolution to begin brewing its beer in Sunriver in 2014. The company’s production facility, located in what used to be the Bowers Building in the Sunriver Business Park, was expected to begin brewing five types of beer in late December. “We’ll probably have an amber and a black ale first, those are the quickest to brew,” said Brett Thomas, Sunriver Brewing head brewer. “They will be
followed by a pale ale, an IPA and a stout.” “We need to get our beer back in the brew house (in The Village at Sunriver) so we can drink it,” said Brian Cameron, Sunriver Brewery co-owner. “It will be the Sunriver Brewery with our beer.” Until recently, Sunriver Brewing Company leased tank space in Redmond to brew its beer. In a daring business strategy, the brewery allowed the supply of its namesake beers to run out and put other local beers on tap
in its pub for nearly a month while finishing construction on its new brew works in the business park. Beer from the Crux Fermentation Project, Boneyard, Goodlife and 10 Barrel breweries, all in Bend, took over the vacant taps. “Our goal was to have people miss our beer, and have its return be a cause for celebration,” said Cameron. “We won’t let people forget.” “Running out was planned. It was intentional,” said Thomas. “We are in the process of
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visit gravesites of their dearly departed to chat, drink, and picnic. Superstitions passed down from the ‘babas’ (grandmothers) are taken very seriously,” they wrote. The Romans, Byzantines, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia have governed Macedonia over the centuries. It became an independent nation in 1991. Macedonian, a Slavic language, is not spoken widely outside the Balkans. English is being introduced in the schools as an important world language. In spite of the language barrier, the Merrigans have developed a number of friends and acquaintances including a Roma family of musicians who play traditional oriental-style drums. “When our time here is over, we’re certain that we will miss a lot of things about the town of Delchevo, which is only a few miles from the Bulgarian border. We have become fond of our neighbors: Kircho was a captain in the Slovenian Army and his wife, Milka, worked for 30 years in a local garment factory. They do not speak a word of English, yet we visit with
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Sunriver Brewing Company co-owner Marc Cameron, right, and head brewer Brett Thomas.
installing new brewing equipment and testing it. As soon as we are comfortable that the equipment is working properly, we’ll begin brewing.” Testing of the Sunriver Brewing Company’s new production equipment was expected to
take one day. Water was to be flowed through a hot liquor tank (essentially a water heater), into a mash tun tank in which water is blended with grain to create wort, and then into a boil kettle where the wort is Turn to Brewing, page 12
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A holiday parade in Delchevo, Macedonia, above. Mule or horsedrawn carts remain a common mode of transportation, below.
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www.newberryhabitat.org them nearly every day. “People often ask us if we would do it all over again – leave our comfortable Sunriver lifestyle, our dishwasher, central heating, clothes dryer, tennis
and bridge games. Despite the challenges, discomforts, and inevitable hassles which accompany adjustment to a foreign culture, yes, we probably would,” the Merrigans wrote.
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