Brewers to brew charitable beer

Chico, California-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is asking brewers across the country to brew its Resilience Butte County Proud IPA on Tuesday and give 100 percent of the proceeds to relief efforts for the Camp Fire. CEO and founder Ken Grossman explained the effort on the Sierra Nevada website.

“We are working with malt, hop and yeast suppliers to provide raw ingredient donations to all participating breweries and are asking those breweries to donate 100 percent of their sales to the fund, as well,” Grossman said.

Hundreds of brewers pledged support including Crux Fermentation Project, Boneyard Beer, Silver Moon Brewing, Worthy Brewing, Immersion Brewing and Cascade Lakes Brewing.

Multnomah scenic route open

The Oregon Department of Transportation on Friday opened a 6-mile section of the Historic Columbia River Highway that had been closed since the Eagle Creek Fire in September 2017.

The section of road is between Bridal Veil and Ainsworth State Park. Drivers had to wait so long because it was necessary to remove 9,000 trees that could have fallen into the road and install 3,000 feet of protective fencing, a press release said. This means the popular scenic route to get to Multnomah Falls is accessible.

Winery to change misleading labels

A California company accused of putting misleading labels on wines to make it appear they were produced in Oregon says it will change labels after selling the remaining 900,000 bottles.

Joe Wagner of Rutherford, California-based Copper Cane LLC says the Napa Valley winery will put new labels on two brands of wine made with Oregon grapes.

Wagner said Friday the wines called Elouan and The Willametter Journal will get new labels saying the wines are grown in Oregon and made in California.

If a wine label claims or implies it’s from an American Viticultural Area within Oregon, 95 percent of the grapes must be from that appellation of origin.

Oregon wine producers say the state’s $5.6 billion wine industry needs to be protected from false claims.

New push for cannabis cafes

A group wants Oregon lawmakers to allow cafes where people can smoke legal pot.

Current law says people can only smoke it in private. The New Revenue Coalition wants to change that.

The group says people aren’t able to smoke in private because many rental units bar smoking indoors.

The group will have to persuade lawmakers to allow waivers to the Indoor Clean Air Act, which aims to protect people from secondhand smoke by creating smoke-free public places.