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By LISA BRITTON
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — When Tyler
Brown was asked to brew a beer with
Oregon-specifi c ingredients, he knew it
wouldn’t be a stretch for his brewers.
“It was easy for us — we already make
a lot of beers with Oregon ingredients,”
said Brown, owner of Barley Brown’s
Brewpub in Baker City.
The new beer was brewed as part of a
campaign to celebrate Oregon agriculture.
Called Cheers to the Land, it’s a project of
the Oregon Agricultural Trust, a nonprofi t
land trust that protects agricultural land
from development.
Nine breweries across the state have
developed limited-edition beers for the
campaign.
Some, like the pale ale at Barley’s,
will be available only on draft.
Brown said they made only 40 kegs.
“It’s a one-time-only beer. It turned
out phenomenal,” he said.
Eli Dickison, Barley Brown’s head
brewer, created the recipe. The beer is
a 6.5% alcohol IPA that is described as
“bright golden in color and has fl avors
and aromas of tropical fruit, citrus, with
a hint of cherry.”
Barley’s India pale ale was brewed
with barley grown in Enterprise and
malted at Gold Rush Malt in Baker
City, along with Mosaic and Citra hops
from B&D Farms in St. Paul and a
blend of other Northwest hops.
All nine of the limited edition beers
will be labeled “Cheers to the Land.”
Six of the beers will be packaged in
four-packs and distributed in specialty
grocery stores.
All breweries will donate a por-
tion of sales to the Oregon Agricultural
Trust.
“Breweries in Oregon have a huge
following, and we tend to be very
involved in our community,” Brown
said. “This one made sense — we defi -
nitely have a massive tie to the farming
and agriculture industry.”
Knight gives $1M
to Drazan campaign
Kate Brown defeated the Repub-
lican challenger, former Rep.
Knute Buehler, R-Bend. The fi nal
SALEM — Nike co-founder tab on the race hit $40 million.
As in 2018, the biggest wallet
Phil Knight is hedging his bet on
the outcome of the Oregon gover- in the race has been Knight’s. He
backed Buehler in 2018.
nor’s race, giving $1 mil-
Buehler left the
lion on Thursday, Oct. 6,
Republican party and is
to Republican Christine
now supporting Johnson.
Drazan.
Knight had also
The move comes
backed Johnson over
after Knight has given
Drazan, until Thurs-
unaffi liated candidate
day afternoon’s $1 mil-
Betsy Johnson $3.75
Knight
lion drop into Drazan’s
million, the largest con-
account. Johnson —
tribution total of his long
involvement in Oregon political and now Drazan — have bene-
fi ted from the continued support
races.
Knight’s dual contributions to of Knight, 84, the richest per-
the two candidates helped push son in Oregon, according to the
total fundraising for the gover- Bloomberg News Service, with
nor’s race to over $45 million, a an estimated worth of $35.7 bil-
record for a campaign for an Ore- lion. He is ranked as the 29th
richest person in the world.
gon political offi ce.
The Beaverton billionaire has
Knight’s ultimate goal is to
defeat Tina Kotek — he’s given tumbled down the rankings over
$4.75 million to date to candi- the past two years as the stock
dates opposing the Democratic of Nike has taken a beating due
nominee. The change in tactics to the downturn in sales during
comes amid a fl urry of polls and COVID-19.
Bloomberg says Knight and
forecasts that show Drazan as
neck-and-neck in the campaign his family were worth $65.1
billion in late November 2021,
with Kotek.
Polls issued over the past and $42.5 billion as recently
week by the Oregonian newspa- as mid-September. Knight’s
per and Emerson College, along wealth is largely tied to Nike.
with forecasts by FiveThirtyE- Nike’s portfolio includes the
ight and the Center for Politics Converse and Jordan sports-
at the University of Virginia, also wear brands.
The 2022 totals do not
shared a common theme: John-
son’s insurgent campaign was include third-party spending
drawing less than 20% of voters. for negative ads, which has been
The three-way race for gov- a major feature of the 2022 cam-
ernor has blown past the record paign as digital advertising has
for fundraising set four years ago, taken in a larger portion of politi-
with millions more likely to fl ow cal money than in previous years.
The September contribution
to campaign coff ers in the month
by Knight to Johnson was the
left until the Nov. 8 election.
Knight gave $2 million to largest of 14 individual contribu-
Johnson, the unaffi liated candi- tions of over $250,000 reported
date for governor, on Sept. 1. It by the three candidates for gover-
was the biggest splash in a cas- nor over the past month.
The full scope of money piling
cade of cash that also went to
up in the campaign coff ers of the
Kotek and Drazan.
As of Thursday afternoon, the trio only fully emerged in the past
constantly shifting totals of cam- few days. As of Sept. 27, Oregon
paign contributions showed just election law requires campaigns
over $45 million had been raised to transition to a shorter dead-
for the 2022 race since Jan. 1, line for reporting money raised
and spent. Previously, campaigns
2021.
The previous record for an could wait 30 days to tell the Sec-
Oregon governor’s race was set retary of State about money com-
in 2018, when incumbent Gov. ing in and going out.
By GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
Eric Steen/Contributed Photo
Add Collard talks about how Barley Brown’s depends on agriculture for ingredi-
ents used in the brewpub’s craft beers.
Contributed Photo
Nine Oregon breweries, including Barley Brown’s in Baker City, brewed special
beers for Cheers to the Land, a project of the Oregon Agricultural Trust, a nonprofi t
land trust that protects agricultural land from development.
Special events
events, visit www.cheerstotheland.com/
events.
Those close to Loyal Legion locations
can fi nd all nine beers during tap takeovers
Oct. 14 at the Portland location, and Oct.
15 in Beaverton.
“One of the major reasons we have
some of the best beer in the world is
because Oregon has such fertile farm-
land,” said Nellie McAdams, Oregon
Agricultural Trust executive director. “Our
farmers grow 5% of all the hops in the
world and we have some of the best soil
on the planet. But you can’t unpave farm-
land; once it’s gone it’s gone. So Cheers to
the Land both celebrates our farmland and
raises awareness about the importance of
protecting it for agriculture, forever.”
The Oregon Agricultural Trust will
host special events at each brewery during
October.
A meet-and-greet is planned for Tues-
day, Oct. 18, at Barley Brown’s brewpub
and taproom from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The evening will feature Ore-
gon-sourced food specials but, again,
Brown said that’s standard for the pub’s
menu items, such as serving Country Nat-
ural Beef.
For a full schedule of all the special
• Barley Brown’s (Baker City): Pale
ale. Draft only.
• Block 15 Brewing (Corvallis): West
Coast India Pale Ale featuring Gold Rush
Malt from Baker City and Zappa and
Comet hops, both grown at Crosby Hop
Farm in Woodburn. Cans and draft.
• Gorges Beer Co. (Cascade Locks):
Golden Ale fermented on 120 pounds of
apricots from an orchard in The Dalles.
Participating breweries
Aged for two months till perfection. Lim-
ited edition crowlers and draft.
• Falling Sky Brewing (Eugene): Cas-
cadian dark ale with Oregon-harvested
spruce tips, Salmon-Safe malt from
Goschie Farms in Silverton, and Salm-
on-Safe hops from Crosby Hop Farm in
Woodburn. Cans and draft.
• Ferment Brewing (Hood River):
Hoppy pale ale brewed with Mecca Grade
malts from Madras, oats, and hops grown
on Oregon trellises. Cans and draft.
• Fort George Brewing (Astoria): Dou-
ble India Pale Ale utilizing Salmon-Safe
hops and grain. Cans and draft.
• ForeLand Beer Co. (Portland): Dry-
hopped Pacifi c Northwest lager with
Salmon-Safe Lorien and Sterling hops,
and Oregon-grown Salmon-Safe malt
from Mainstem Malt. Cans and draft.
• Pelican Brewing (Cannon Beach):
A 503 Pale Ale with ingredients grown
entirely on Goschie Farms — Pilsner Win-
tmalt and Willamette, Fuggle and Santiam
hops. Draft only.
• Wolves & People Farmhouse Brew-
ery (Newberg): Mixed culture rye pale ale
made with Oregon-grown Mecca Grade
malt, aged in casks with Willamette Valley
Robada apricots. Cans and draft.
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