About the Author

Jeff Alworth

Jeff Alworth is the author of The Beer Bible, Cider Made Simple, and The Secrets of Master Brewers. He has been writing about Oregon beer for over two decades for newspapers and magazines, including Sunset and All About Beer, as well as on his long-running blog, Beervana.

Fresh-Hop Beer Season, Explained

August 30, 2018
It begins a couple weeks after Labor Day as the summer heat begins to ebb. There’s no official start date to the season, which depends on the hop harvest. Rather, notice starts to spread by word of mouth. A sighting! The first of the fresh-hop beers come in a trickle, but soon there’s a steady flow, and then, by the first of October, a flood. More
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The Terroir of Beer

November 9, 2016
What we’re talking about is risky beer making — because obsessive and fastidious brewers must give up a little bit of their influence. More
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Oregon Cideries Bottle Up the Bounty

December 2, 2013
As of September 2018, there were a whopping 57 cideries operating in Oregon, almost four times as many as five years ago. More
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