Humm Kombucha helps one if its own

All day today, Humm Kombucha will donate half the proceeds from sales at its taproom (1125 NE 2nd St., Bend) to support one of its employees, Matthew Anderson, who was injured in a trampoline accident about a month ago that resulted in a split kidney, a laceration on his liver and minor lung injuries. Anderson is no longer hospitalized, but is still recovering and has significant medical bills.

Humm is inviting folks to bring in growlers for a fill on what it is calling Fabulous Matt Friday. The event is coinciding with a blood drive at Humm, so you can accomplish a couple of good deeds at once.

Three Creeks Brewing bottle release party tonight at Broken Top Bottle Shop

Over at Broken Top Bottle Shop and Ale Cafe tonight, you can count on a bottle release party for the first brew in Three Creeks Brewing’s Desperado Series. Bulletproof Coffee Stout is a collaboration with Sisters Coffee Roasters. It’s an Imperial stout brewed with 10 different malts and all Cascade hops, according to brewpublic.com. The final beer “is dominated by rich coffee aroma and flavor when fresh but will allow the base stout to poke through as it ages.”

Get a free taste of Bulletproof, or some other offerings from the Sisters brewery, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Also on hand: The Grant Farm, a flat-picking roots rock band that’ll showcase its skill form 7 to 9 p.m.

The party and the music is free. Broken Top Bottle Shop and Ale Cafe is at 1740 NW Pence Lane, Suite 1, Bend.

Bend breweries win awards

The Great American Beer Festival in Denver last weekend was kind to three Bend breweries.

10 Barrel Brewing earned three awards for its beers: bronze in the American-style wheat beer category for its Amber Waves, bronze for its American-style stout, Power to the People, and gold for its field beer, Cucumber Crush. 10 Barrel was one of just four breweries at the annual beer competition to bring home three medals.

In the indigenous or regional beer category, Bend Brewing Co. won gold for its Salmonberry Sour, and Deschutes Brewery took bronze for its Sage Fight IPA.

Seventeen Oregon breweries took home medals out of a total 32 that entered brews at the beer festival. More than 1,300 breweries nationwide submitted approximately 5,700 entries in the competition, according to the festival. During the four-day event at the Colorado Convention Center, more than 700 breweries provided samples of about 3,500 beers from all over the country.

— Bulletin staff report