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Gary Corbin is a freelance writer living in Vancouver, WA. In addition to corporate assignment work for clients, his creative and journalistic work has been published in the Portland Tribune, BrainstormNW, and The Oregonian, as well as on-line on GlobalEnvision.Com and other sites.

A homebrewer as well as a maker of wine, mead, cider, and soft drink, Gary is a member of the Oregon Brew Crew and a BJCP National Beer Judge. He won the blue ribbon at the National Homebrew Competition in 2000 for his Prohibition Porter, and he designed and brewed (with Michael Rasmussen) what is now Widmer’s Collaborator “Hallucinator”, a perennial favorite at the Holiday Ale Festival on Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square in December.

Gary started writing about beer in the early 90’s and has published several articles on beer and wine in a variety of sources, listed below.

Beer and Wine Writing

Guest On Tap

Gary was a regular contributor to the Portland Tribune’s Guest on Tap column until its demise in January, 2009:

· "Sipping on the Other Side of the River," December 18, 2008

· Slow Food and Beer, November 6, 2008

· New Beers to Fall For, October 16, 2008

· Portland Oktoberfest: Envy Our Diversity, September 16, 2008.

· The Best Beer for John Deere, July 17, 2008.

· There's Nothing Like The Beer Here In Beervana, July 9, 2008

· The World's Largest Organic Brewers Festival, July 2, 2008

· Welcome Stop on a Road Trip, June 4, 2008.

· Buildings Recycled but the Beer's Fresh, April 29, 2008.

· New Beers for Spring 2008, March 25, 2008.

· The Last Ride of the Day, February 12, 2008.

· Make Beer, Not Cars, November 13, 2007.

· Pagan Beer for Modern Times, October 30, 2007.

· Cerveza with a Sense of Place, June 27, 2007.

· Bookmark your beer

· Foam for Fido

· Thirty Years of Brass

· Brew with a View

· Beer Festival Survivor's Guide (July 18, 2006 Portland Tribune)

· How beer has changed in Oregon

· Buy your Dad a beer

· Good beer - you be the judge of it

· Remember the Little Guys

· A toast to Jim Kennedy

· New beers for spring 2006

· Home brewers: The Innovative Force

· East Coast Hop Monsters

· Brewcast for 2006 - What’s on tap for 2006

· Read his beer descriptions in the annual program guide for the Oregon Brewer’s Festival.

· How to Spot a Beer Geek. Geekery explained and terms defined

· A technical article on water treatment in Homebrewing

· Rock Bottom hits Portland

· An era has Pabst: on the closure of an historic brewery in Milwaukee, WI

· Review of the Valley Mill

· Ivy League Brews

· "Another reason to visit the Gorge: Wines and wineries of the Columbia Gorge," The Oregonian, November 14, 2006.

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