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September 14, 2018

Widmer Brothers Brewing puts CHEETOS on a burger

It's gonna me YUGE! The best burger deal in the history of burger deals!

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September 14, 2018

Crowd-Sourced Open Sourcery Beer Pairs Tech And Brewing To Formulate An Evolving Recipe

“It’s a great collaboration,” Penley says. “Mozilla is kind of an older brand in their industry as well and together we’re doing something at the forefront of innovation and acting like a small agile brewery. This beer is constantly evolving.”

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September 14, 2018

Willamette Week: We Tasted Damn Near Every IPA in Portland in a Blind Tasting. These Are the 10 Best.

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September 14, 2018

Brewvana Blog: Portland's Best Breweries 2018

With a lineup of excellent pub-only beers led by Tom Bleigh on the experimental system. You'll find beers as unusual here as any of the newer, buzzier breweries.

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July 07, 2017

Eater Portland: Widmer Brothers Brewing Unveils Pop-Up Beer Garden for Summer 2017

To wash it all down, the beer garden will serve beers from Widmer’s small-batch brewery, with a focus on experimental brews. The brewery’s iconic hefeweizen will also be available in can-form. 

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July 06, 2017

Paste: Drinking 6 Summer-Friendly Pilsners from Oregon

"This is also a hoppy pilsner from Portland’s Widmer Brothers that was originally brewed as a small batch beer for the Widmer Brothers pub. Now it’s joining the brewery’s year-round lineup. The hoppiness is more restrained...taking a more classic approach with just a layer of floral, bitter hops."

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June 30, 2017

Thrillist: The ‘Official’ Beer of Every State

“These days, it's the de facto craft beer at bars across the state. The brewery's changed over the years, going national with corporate sponsorship. The Hefe hasn't.”

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June 22, 2017

American Craft Beer: 5 Great “Summer Ready” Craft Beers

“Widmer Brothers has returned a “blast from the past” for the summer. Widmer Brothers Drifter Pale is a 5.6% ABV summertime seasonal that we’re happy to see back in the marketplace.”

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June 12, 2017

PDX Monthly: These Beers Have Defined Oregon through the Eras

“As Portland’s late, great beer writer Fred Eckhardt once told me, ‘It revolutionized craft beer in town. It had flavor!’”

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March 29, 2017

The New School: Widmer Leads Through Innovation to New Pilot Batch Tasting Room

"As Oregon’s largest brewery, makers of the ubiquitous Hefeweizen, Widmer Brothers regularly brews on a 250 barrel system into 1,500 to 1,750 barrel tanks, but the brewery has never forgotten the small batch experimental brewing that got it to where it is today."

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February 28, 2017

Willamette Week: You Haven’t Had a Widmer Hefe Until You’ve Tried it Fresh From the Source

“He's right, though—you haven't really had America's Original Hefeweizen® until you've had it fresh at the pub, where it's extra soft and the haze takes on an ethereal quality.”

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February 15, 2017

Food & Wine: The 25 Most Important American Craft Beers Ever Brewed

“19) Widmer Hefeweizen”

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September 14, 2018

324 of the Best IPAs, Blind-Tasted and Ranked

Oh, and speaking of a brewery you wouldn’t expect to see in a hazy IPA conversation … it’s Widmer

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September 14, 2018

25 Beers That Changed America

The solution? Just don’t filter the weizenbier and serve it cloudy. And just like that, hazy American-style hefeweizen was born.

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