MEET FORT GEORGE’S ‘RESIDENT HUMORIST’

   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.

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FORT GEORGE DIVES INTO HOP WATER

You may only now be hearing about hop water, a beer alternative made largely by craft breweries.

The craze started about five years ago and is now a multimillion-dollar niche fueled by major players in the beer industry, including Sierra Nevada, Lagunitas and Revolution. 

On the North Coast, Pelican Brewing based in Pacific City was the first to can hop water. Now Astoria’s biggest brewery has entered the market.

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CIDERY STARTS BREWING IN ILWACO

This week, Vinessa and Jarrod Karnofski started brewing their first hard ciders in Ilwaco on the scenic Long Beach peninsula. 

Vinessa, the head cider maker, could have played it safe, starting with a few basic fruit flavors. Instead, she went bold with a wide-ranging initial foursome that showcases her culinary training.

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The Have Nots

A NOVEL BY WILLIAM DEAN

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