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About the Author Brian Yaeger

Brian Yaeger is the author of Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey and Oregon Breweries. He contributed to the Oxford Companion to Beer and is a frequently published by All About Beer, Draft Magazine, CraftBeer.com and his locals in Portland: Portland Monthly and Willamette Week. He spent a year living in Amsterdam hunting the best stroopwafels. He runs Inn Beervana Bed & Beer along with his wife, Half Pint, their son I.P.Yae, and German Shorthair Pointer, Dunkel.

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Nuts for #Coconut: #Beer’s Favorite Tropical #Fruit

Brian Yaeger,

Coconut cream is the piña colada’s best supporting role (coconuts are not nuts at all but are a drupe fruit). Coconut, to me, however, belongs first and foremost in Hawaii’s quintessential Maui CoCoNut Porter. I’ll never forget when I visited the brewery and co-owner Garrett Marrero pulled out a baking …

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Join Us As We Explore Some Bloody Good British Ale

Brian Yaeger,

Ted Sobel stands behind the bar. All of his ales are served from six hand pumps; there are no kegs and no CO2 hoses. Rather, Ted’s ales are conditioned in firkins—which look like kegs, but sound cooler and hold 40 liters, or 72 imperial pints, of cask ale. Hand pumps, …