Wide Angle Brew Off

A slide show with audio.
Story by Michael Werner
Photos by Katie Campbell

Teams of homebrewers from Eugene’s Cascade Brewers Society competed in a beer brew off in June. The competition, dubbed Iron Brewer, was a take off on the cable hit Iron Chef, with brewers given five hours to improvise a recipe and brew a beer using a set of surprise ingredients that included raisins, flaked oats and a special type of hops. With several decades worth of experience between the brewers, the challenge was not thinking up a recipe, but narrowing the options.

To view the slideshow, please visit Etude, the Journal of Literary Nonfiction.