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• 50 Must Taste Winter Beers for 2011 from BREWPUBLIC
  If you are a craft beer lover and were fortunate enough to be in the best beer city on Earth between November 30 and December 4, 2011, then you more than likely were in attendance for the 16th Annual Holiday Ale Fest. This magical marvel of merriment tented more than 50 of the most palate wowing one-offs and seasons to be found on earth; beers designed with the Beer Advocate and uber geek in mind. Read More

• All Hail Ninkasi from The New School
  The hippest brewery in Oregon - and more Portlandia than any in town - Ninkasi just dropped a new blitz of various non-traditional marketing and packaging strategies. A series of new video commercials on each of its beers, a Ninkasi-ized version of classic boardgame Hungry Hungry Hippos, and a cool new Four Pack of 22oz bombers. What makes the four pack unique is that it comes with a Ninkasi Northwest Local MP3 Compilation download code. All of this comes on the heels of the brewerys recent rollout of 6-packs for its core lineup, and the announcement that OLCC sales numbers put them above the likes of Bridgeport Brewing. Lots more on these below... Read More

• ‘Tis the Season (Part Three) from foodgps.com
  Showing the range of what holiday ales can possibly be. This Eugene based brewery seasonal release is a dark double alt. So this is what the malty/chocolate beer lovers will be craving so it’s a good thing that their distribution has made its way down the 5 freeway to us.
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• In Razor-Thin Vote, Most Wired Beer Is Crowned from wired.com
  Two contenders stood face-to-face — well, keg-to-keg — at Wired headquarters Thursday night. Beers that had paved their own unique paths to potential fame vied for a coveted crown that only one would wear. From Oregon, Ninkasi’s Believer Double Red Ale represented the proud craft brew traditions of the Pacific Northwest. And from the Bay Area, Devil’s Canyon’s Full Boar Scotch Ale represented the best of the American tradition, with a profile that harked back to the pre-Prohibition age. In the end, only one challenger would hold claim to the title of Most Wired Beer. And as dozens of celebratory onlookers drank and voted with their hearts and minds, here’s how the drama ultimately played out.
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• Visit to Ninkasi Brewing Company from craftbeer.com
  The lure of seeing a football game at perhaps the loudest stadium in the nation seemed worth the flight from Denver to Portland and the 100 mile drive south to Eugene. Autzen Stadium, home of the Oregon Ducks, lived up to its deafening reputation, but this weekend trip was about more than football. We were in search of something quintessentially Oregon: craft beer.
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• Men’s Journal names Total Domination IPA one of the 25 Best Beers in the World from mensjournal.com - October 1, 2010
  Oregon’s Ninkasi is one of the nation’s fastest-growing breweries, thanks in large part to this unsubtly named beer (Ninkasi was the ancient Sumerian goddess of brewing) — a potent, aggressive IPA with pungent hops and flavors of citrus rind and caramel.
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• Sunset Magazine says Total Domination is one of the 12 Ways To Throw Yourself into the Colors of Fall from findarticles.com - published in Sunset Magazine, October 2010
  The Northwest’s amber waves of grain give birth to many fine ales. One standout is Total Domination IPA from Oregon’s Ninkasi Brewing Company: Layers of floppy flavor with a bright finish make it an ale to toast autumn by. Try it at the tasting room in Eugene.
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• Not All Breweries Are Built Alike from beervana.blogspot.com
  From the very start, Ninkasi was designed to grow. Jamie Floyd had worked in a medium-sized brewpub, and when he and Nikos Ridge set plans for Ninkasi, they very intentionally decided to create a "production brewery" (a brewery producing bottled and kegged beer for wholesale--not a retail location with attached pub). The growth spurt Ninkasi has enjoyed wasn’t probably in the plan, but Floyd and Ridge have been extremely aggressive in growing the brewery. As Jamie took us around the plant, it was pretty amazing to hear the hours he’s worked.
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• 15 of the Best Winter Beers from brewpublic.com
  Ninkasi is not afraid to rock your ass with hops in most of their beers. However with this malt-driven winter warmer, an salutatory balance grapefruit hops complemented by excellent malt spine that shines and deserves an ovation. Grainy biscuit, crisp nuttiness, and sweet fruitiness all align to result in one perfect beer.
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• Ninkasi Heads to Wired’s Beer Tournament Final Four from wired.com
  The Believer Double Red knocked out Ninkasi’s Total Domination IPA (the beer that brought this brewery to our attention in the first place because it aligns neatly with Beer Robot’s goal of World Domination) in the first round. It went on to win a tough match against Mad River’s Steelhead Extra Pale Ale, another Wired favorite. Along the way it has made believers out of many of us, and continued to win over new tasters last night.
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• Oregon Brewery to Take On Bay Area Brew for Most Wired Beer from wired.com
  Believer has also consistently pleased regular dark-beer drinkers like me, as well as surprising people who would never try a dark beer unless it was given to them for free in a beer tournament and they were told they were required to taste it. The beer has earned believers among the Wired staff and readers alike, inspiring thoughts of tattoos and beer strikes. Kishore Hari of UCSF said that if Believer didn’t win the match, he would “quit beer” or take his anger out in the comments section, or worse.
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• What Would Santa Drink? from blog.seattlepi.com
  Ninkasi Brewing of Eugene, Oregon may just be my favorite newer brewery in the Northwest. Unlike the majority of the breweries opened in the past ten years or so, Ninkasi is not so much concerned with the "Test of Manhood" style of over-hopped ales as with Balance. They certainly know a thing or two about hops - their ’Tricerahops" Imperial IPA is my vote for best IPA made in the West - but their beers all maintain a lovely frisson of malty mellowness vs. hoppy edginess. The Ninkasi "Sleigh’r" Winter Ale is a dark, woodsy, potent brew that offers up chocolate and coffee in a German Alt form that is surprisingly true to the style, once you get past the sheer intensity of the stuff. This is an Alt with BODY; all fat richness, underpinned by an assertive hoppiness that serves as a flattering foil to the sweetness of the malts. At 7.2% ABV, it’s a strappin’ Alt but solidly in the ballpark for repeated drinking all through the holidays. I’m a BIG fan of these guys - especially the "Tircerahops" and "Oatis" Stout - and "Sleighr makes it a troika of year-round goodness from down there in duck country.
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• Baxter installs brewhouse, beer coming in January from sunjournal.com
  An enormous, stainless steel brew house finished the trek from Eugene, Ore., Thursday afternoon and was swiftly loaded into Bates Mill No. 1 by crane before it was to be bricked up inside, centerpiece of the unique, can-only Baxter Brewing Co.
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