An article from OregonLive.com depicts the misery caused by a downtown power outage yesterday.  When I got to work in the morning, all I had to do was creep around a basement prep kitchen in the dark.

Unfortunately for a few beer related businesses , things were  bit worse:

“Among those businesses was Widmer Brothers Brewing Co., 929 N. Russell St. Co-owner Rob Widmer said the brewery lost 250 barrels, or the equivalent of 62,000 pints, of Deadlift Imperial IPA, a new brew and its most expensive beer, because of the outage.”

“For us the painful part is the loss of 62,000 pints of delicious beer,” Widmer said”

Well said Rob.

The beer wasn’t a complete waste, however.  The ruined brew was sent to local farms as feed and fertilizer.

Lucky cows.