MEET FORT GEORGE’S ‘RESIDENT HUMORIST’

May 1, 2023

Kirsten Pierce doesn’t think she’s funny. Not in a classic stand-up sort of way.

And her father, she says with a shrug, doesn’t get her humor at all.

But those weekly newsletters she writes for Fort George Brewery? They’re always tongue-in-cheek amusing, and sometimes downright hilarious.

While nearly all breweries play their beer announcements straight, Pierce has been given the green light to get a little weird. Okay, a lot weird.

The “resident humorist” recently wrote about a group of starving filmmakers who’ve been living in a storage room above the brewing tanks and produced a 15-part Netflix documentary series. The account was linked to Netflix and a video on Instagram.

Loads of readers thought it was true and headed en masse to Netflix, but it was just an elaborate April Fool’s joke.

Pierce, of course, loved the reaction. (As did just about everybody at Fort George).

For more about Pierce and her beer-related humor, read the Thirsty Growler column in The Astorian.

Astoria Brewing loses general manager

After guiding Astoria Brewing Co. through a promising revival, general manager Brad Kenoyer is moving on. He’s landed a top management post for a private company that provides restaurant and visitor services at Yellowstone National Park.

Q/A WITH ANDREW BROWN OF ASTORIA BREWING

Andrew Brown deserves much of the credit for Astoria Brewing’s revival. His arrival as head brewer in March 2022 signaled a major transformation for the city’s oldest craft brewery.

Recipes that had grown stale were updated. New beers appealing to modern tastes were introduced. The inventive side of brewing, long neglected, was also unleashed, with Brown experimenting and collaborating with other North Coast breweries.

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