Flat Tail Brewery

Who:Ian Duncan and Associates
What:Flat Tail Brewery
Where: 202 S.W. First St. Corvallis Oregon
When: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Friday
Why: Brand new restaurant in that just opened in town
How to contact: Ian Duncan (541) 231-0837

Restaurant connoisseur, Ian Duncan, has now accomplished setting a wide variety of restaurants throughout Corvallis’ downtown waterfront. By adding a fourth restaurant to his name, Duncan has now added a more laid back pub style restaurant called Flat Tail Brewery. Duncan’s owns three other restaurants, Terzo, Aqua, and Le Bistro and they are more of an upper class venue, also located in Corvallis’ downtown. Flat Tail Brewery has just opened on First St. in Corvallis.

Flat Tail menu consists mainly of burgers, appetizers, salads, and meat entrees. There are also a few surprises on the menu that people wouldn’t expect from a pub, like fried okra, tempeh, and humus. There are choices on the menu for every type of appetite in Corvallis.

They have put their own special touches to each section of their menu. Prices for beers are very reasonable at four dollars a beer. Food entrees are also priced very reasonable and are less than most other venues around town.

The main focus of the brew pub and hopeful claim to fame is their beers. While their brewery isn’t producing quite yet, they are contracting through Calapooia Brew Co.

“All of the beers that are being produced for them are original recipes made specifically for Flat Tail,” Owner of Calapooia Brewing Co., Mark Martin said.

Since Flat Tail is located in the old Fox and Firkin location, there was a huge renovation that went along with opening the new restaurant. The building was also used as the town’s creamery back in the 1930s. The restaurant part of the 10,000 sq. feet building opened on Feb. 23, but the renovations are no where near being over.

There are two phases left in the future plans of the building. “Phase two is getting the brewery section of the building up and running in the next two to three months,” Duncan said.

After getting the brewery going they will incorporate a brew club and VIP room in the upstairs sections. They will also be adding a billiard table and shuffle board to the two dart boards that are already there.

Phase three will be setting up the rest of the building for space needed to keep the products that will be being produced out of the brewery. They want to start distributing Flat Tail beers through out Oregon.

“We are excited to come to the opening day of the brewery and try all the new styles we are sure to see out of this place,” restaurant dinner, Eric Malrooney said.

After being open for two weeks the cities reaction to the new addition to Corvallis’ restaurant scene is explosive. Flat Tail Brewery will be sure to bring surprises in the future.

Writer choice story

I am going to write a review on a new pub style restaurant called Flat Tail Brewery. It has taken the old location of the Fox and Firkin on first street in Corvallis. The restaurant is being opened by the owner of three other restaurants in Corvallis. The other restaurants are a seafood style one called Aqua, an upper class quite setting restaurant called Le Bistro, and an Italian cuisine called Terzo.

Stephen King- " On Writing"

The most important thing I read in this book that I will take away with me in the future is the reference of the "tool box" something you always are working on and is always growing. You should see your self as the tool box.
Just write! Just let it flow. Then go back and edit later. I get stuck on not knowing how to say the things that are running through my head and getting them into sentences that sound goo.
"Writing makes my life a brighter and more pleasant place." I think that it is very important to have something in your life that does that for you. Writing has always been an outlet for me, ever since I was a little kid. Once I learned how to write words then I was filling up spiral notebooks with my random thoughts.

Haiti vs. Katrina

Who: Haiti people, US government, and the people of the US
What: The issue of helping the civilians of Haiti compared to the efforts of sending aid to hurricane Katrina victims
Where: Country of Haiti
When: From January 2010 to the present
Why: I think it should be brought to some people’s attention
How to get involved: Do a Google search for Haiti earthquake aid and it will come up with a lot of organizations that are sending aid to the people of Haiti. You can pick which one you think is the most valid for you. ‘

As time has passed since the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the country of Haiti on Jan. 12, I have been watching what has been being done in order to help the people of the country recover from the disaster. As information has been coming out I have been growing more and more bewildered by the vast amounts of money, resources, time, military sources and many other things that the United States have been sending to this country.

Not that I am not in favor of our country helping out another country that is in need. The fact that bothers me is the reaction that the people of the U.S. have had towards this disaster that happened in another country.
The citizens of our country and our government have jumped to high measures to help another country out when it took over a week for our government to get any type of resources to the people of New Orleans. Till even this day, New Orleans still needs rebuilding and there are still homeless people, but we just forget about them and move on.

As of this date, “US government has sent 511 rescue workers with dogs, 2.6 million bottles of water, 2.2 million pounds of bulk food, 13,000 US military troops, 20 ships,125, 230 pounds of medical supplies, and more than 60 aircraft along with $ 379 million to aid Haiti,” Reported The New York Times and Associated Press.

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website, they have promised the city of New Orleans $5.8 billion to repair everything from the hurricane, such as libraries, schools, roads, and other things needed to get the city back in working order. Nearly five years after those storms hit. Recent FEMA documents have reported that two-thirds of the money promised for rebuilding work still has not been spent.


While reading an online blog by Gator Sports, I read the most interesting statement that sums of the idea of this article, “When will our government stop borrowing money from future generations to give it to places that do little to nothing to help themselves? This question doesn’t just apply to the Haiti situation, but to every other country we spent borrowed money into over the year with no sign of any sort of progress?”

Is this what we should be doing to our future generations by helping out other dependents from other countries by damaging the people of our own country? Should we be spending the citizens of our countries money for other greedy reasons for things other than trying to be good samaritans?


Photo Source:http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/extra/images/big/jan-june10/haiti.jpg

The Illumination Project

The Illumination Project was brought to Linn-Benton Community College from Portland Community College on Feb. 19. It was a group project done by the students that attend PCC and are involve in social service program. The program was a a set of sketches that the students put on to show different situations that people face that involve racism. I haven't had to deal with much racism, so this made me see how it truly effects people and how racism happens all the time, in different ways, and even when people don't mean to. The main way that this performance effected me was that it made me have the courage to stand up for the rights of people that don't deserve to be treated like that even if I don't know them. We are all still part of this world and have that connections at the very least and that is enough for me to do something about it from now on. It was a valuable event to go to and everyone will connect with it, even if you having been directly effected by racism.

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I am going to.do a different take on the Haiti earthquake. I want to shed lights on the fact thy everywhere I turn there are people trying to help the people over know another country and focus on bhow when it comes to another country we are willing to help but lack in that when it comes to our own country when Katrina happened.

Review on other students blog

Lacey J Blog on Student artist featured at Fall Festival


I liked that the article was about something that is a large part of Corvallis culture over the years. I also like that students our age and in our "student community" of LBCC was part of a bigger community and is making something our themselves with their talents. This story made me want to look up the artist and their work, which as a writer is a great thing to have a reader want to do.