From Rogue:
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON - All the beautiful snow that fell here at Rogue Farms is gone, replaced by the floodwaters of a rising Willamette River.
This morning the Willamette River started to creep over Wigrich Road, the only road leading to and from the farm. After last week's snowfall things warmed up too quickly, causing a massive melt that filled up creeks, streams, rivers and eventually our farm.
Shortly after noon Thursday, the National Weather Service issued a Flood Watch for Northwest Oregon and warned of things only getting worse. The snow melt, they said, will be followed by two major rain storms and the river rising another five feet in the next few days.
The Weather Service says the high water might stick around for another week, but it's all in the hands of Mother Nature.
Beer and Spirits begin in the dirt. Flooding is part of the natural cycle here in the Wigrich Appellation - and we are grateful for it. The rich alluvial soil where we grow our hops, rye, pumpkins, marionberries, jalapenos and honey is the legacy of centuries of Ice Ages floods and seasonal winter floods that smothered this land with volcanic dirt. If not for the floods we may not even be farmers.
Rogue Ales & Spirits is an agri-fermenter of craft beverages with farms in Independence and Tygh Valley, Oregon. We grow more than a dozen ingredients, creating a proprietary palate of flavors of known terroir for Brewmaster John Maier to craft beers and spirits of distinction.
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