Summer and our G.O.A.T. Pack calls for great backyard barbecues! We’ve made hosting the G.O.A.T. easy by providing you with four easy grilling recipes to pair with our G.O.A.T. Pack. Pick up a G.O.A.T. and create one, two, or all four of the below recipes and you have yourself a winning combination of summer fun. […]
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Win a Eugene staycation! We could all use a date night about now. When you make a reservation to check out The Ninkasi Better Living Room during May or June (5/25-6/30), you’ll be automatically entered to win a Eugene staycation to enjoy this summer on the date of your choice, subject to availability. Prize pack
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We’ve missed sharing a pint with you over the last 13 months and invite you to join us for drinking and dining on-site beginning on May 25th, just in time for Memorial Day weekend! We’ll be open with limited capacity in order to follow all state safety guidelines. What’s New: We’ll be opening our NEW outdoor
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When you crack open a Ninkasi beer, we want to make sure it’s the best beer you could possibly enjoy. We work hard to make sure our wholesale partners and retailers provide you with the freshest Ninkasi beer. How do we do this? Each and every bottle, can, case, and keg of Ninkasi beer is
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Here in Oregon we spend a lot of time dreaming of sunny weather. And the rolling from spring to summer means that it’s finally time to sip some Maiden The Shade in the backyard, dust off the charcoal grill and start enjoying the outdoors to its fullest. While the sun provides us with Vitamin D
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Breweries need good water to make good beer; in fact, 95% of beer is water. Every brewer will tell you that water is an essential part of making beer. We are fortunate to have fresh and clean water sourced straight from the McKenzie River Watershed, originating atop the High Cascades and continuing its journey to
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Since the 1930s, beer has been produced in cans. The initial cans were steel, looking more like a soup can than a modern beer can. They were opened by punching two holes in the top with a churchkey, and imparted a metallic flavor to the beverage. Soon, cone-top cans were invented that could run through
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Welcome back! In our second installment of Why We Taste, we’re diving deep into the world of sensory, this time learning about what it takes to be a professional beer taster. (Missed our first post? Check it out here!). Each week, our sensory panelists evaluate our beers to make sure they are true-to-brand. Spoiler alert:
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When Ground Control launches each year, the geekiness level at our brewery certainly reaches a new extreme. Brewed with yeast that traveled to space and back (77.3 miles above Earth to be exact!) we’ve enjoyed sharing this beer with space and beer nerds alike—including the one-and-only Neil deGrasse Tyson. While the thrill and excitement of
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While it’s hard to deny that sampling beer as part of a job isn’t great, there’s actually a lot to designing and activating a sensory program that relies on trained tasters to help keep our beers in-check. Each week, we run a series of sensory panels (blind tastings) to gain deeper understandings when it comes
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