Brian Yaeger

Imagine this: After you’ve placed your order for a pepper bacon cheeseburger (or spicy Anasazi bean burger or wild Alaskan halibut fish ’n’ chips), you skip the soda and make a beer-ikaze with splashes of IPA, porter, pilsner, saison, and raspberry wheat. The Vancouver, Washington, based Burgerville, which operates 40 locations mostly in and around […]

I could go on about Helios’s golden chariot making its longest race across the sky today and how riding those golden wheels build a big thirst that only a frosty pint of beer, cool glass of lemonade—or both—could slake. But I won’t, because this shouldn’t take that much thought. That today is National Radler Day […]

Charlie Van Meter gets into his work. Less than a year ago, Charlie Van Meter was in his mid-20s, standing on beer’s most auspicious podium. He was at the Great American Beer Festival, collecting the silver medal in one of the most coveted categories: American-style Brett beer, for Logsdon Farmhouse Ale’s Peche ’n Brett that […]

There may not be 53 beer festivals in Portland, but it certainly feels as if they occur at a rate of more than one a week. Having said that, only a handful feel like cornerstones of the yearlong sudsy celebration, and the upcoming fifth annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival is deservedly one of them. The […]

Perhaps Portland has more breweries than any city in the world because it has more diehard craft-beer drinkers who live to let their livers process as much new, unique beer as possible. But along with in that scenario comes the “problem” that folks will always want to try something they haven’t tasted before. For one […]

Steven Shomler It doesn’t look like much now—basically an insane-asylum solitary confinement cell missing one wall and a patient in a straightjacket—but meadmaker Brooks Cooper is the guy crazy enough to turn this space into Stung Fermented. It is Portland’s only dedicated meadery. Amid the current beermania, cideries have already taken root, but for those […]