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Food & Drink: Barrelhouse brews in Garden City

It wont be long before Boise imbibers see these cans of Crooked Fence 3 Picket Porter and Rusty Nail Pale Ale in local retail stores.

There is so much happening craft beer-wise in the Treasure Valley these days that it's almost hard to keep up.

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Patrick Orr: 10 Barrel opening about six weeks away

Every Boise beer person who drives by 9th and Bannock streets and sees the construction fences around the brick building on the northeast corner has the same questions: When is 10 Barrel Brewing going to open its brewpub? And what will it be like?
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Patrick Orr: So many new beers, so little time

Boise beer year 2013 is shaping up to be pretty crazy. How much more can the craft beer universe expand in the Treasure Valley? Are we reaching critical mass, or is steady growth the norm for a while? So much is going on right now, so let’s get right to it.
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Patrick Orr: Sawtooth Brewery thrives in Ketchum

It’s been open for more than a year, but I finally got myself over to the Sawtooth Brewery in Ketchum for the first time over the holidays — and I wish I would have visited sooner.
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Patrick Orr: Craft beer + holidays = awesome

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I always enjoy getting beer swag and maybe a double-deuce or two under the Christmas tree.
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Patrick Orr: Win a taste of rare Utopias

Sometimes fate gives you a gift, and you realize it’s such a bounty that the best thing to do is pay it forward.
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Boise beer business blows up

Man, has this been the summer of craft beer awesomeness in Boise or what? There is so much going on these days, from tap takeovers and new breweries opening to beer fests and the great 10-Barrel debacle (insert incompetent government joke here) that I’m going to use this column to update ...
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Stoneapalooza 2012! One great beerfest.

Over the last year or so, it’s been one excellent beer event after another in Boise. Special kegs. Tap takeovers. Firestone Walker and Heretic beers finally showing up in town. Idaho beer week.
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ORR: New digs for brewfest

More shade. Taxi service. More parking. Fewer people. More rare beers than ever.
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Orr: Sockeye Brewing goes all in

Ihad a conversation with Sockeye Brewing’s Josh King in early 2011 about Boise’s place in the craft beer universe, how we had a thriving local scene but were otherwise an unknown entity in the beer-crazy Northwest.
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ORR: Payette, Sockeye brewers get a can-do attitude

Payette Brewing Company may have just recently celebrated its first birthday, but the company is set to do something that has eluded local producers of craft beer for more than a decade — sell a six-pack at the store.