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Red Onion will curb your Thai cravings, but there’s a whole new world
off the menu.
Ned Lannamann once told me he’d been a beer guy. We were at a staff get-together. I was lamenting something stupid that I’d said about beer or brewing on the blog and whining about what jerks the beer nerds were for pointing it out. “I was a beer nerd,” Ned replied in that matter of […]
Kettleman Bagel Company celebrates the opening of their new NW Lovejoy shop [2314 NW Lovejoy] SW Taylor and 4th location by handing out one free bagel with cream cheese to all comers between the hours of 6 am to 6 pm tomorrow. Let me repeat this… Free. Bagels. Tomorrow. That is all.
Those are my tasting notes, hand written on whatever scrap of paper I can get my hands on: envelopes, vintage notepads, ATM receipts, old maps. Nothing is safe when I’m drinking beer. I’m not sure why I’m generally so ill prepared for drinking. When I was a younger man and fancied myself a poet, author, […]
Today I’m saving the jibber jabber and just jumping straight into some tasting notes. If anything, the last week and a half have shown a big blinding light through the holes in my beer knowledge, which when I think about it, is a good thing. As I look towards the coming days and weeks, I’m […]
You might think I’m having a great time this month… And, I am. I’ve tasted more unique Oregon beers in the last few days than I have since moving here 15 years ago. When I tell people about this project, and about how much beer I have in my fridge, the response is often, “When […]
Ladies and gentleman, it’s time to erase the stigma of the morning beer. For too long we’ve suffered beneath the yoke of mannered society. Well, I’m done yoking around! We’ve given in to the outrageous supposition that consuming alcoholic beverages before noon (or in extremis, 5 pm) is a sure sign of alcoholism; that if […]
Maybe it’s label empathy, but I’ll be damned if I don’t want to be in a canoe right now, drifting in the water of Paulina Lake. But I’m not in a canoe. I don’t even own a canoe. I own a big beat-up purple couch named “wooly bully,” and that’s where I am, sipping a […]
Don’t worry… it’s only a little amber. It won’t hurt a bit. I imagine a craft beer loving Joan Crawford coming into my apartment. For some reason she is in her house coat, her face whitened by an exfoliating cream. I’m taking a nap on the couch. She looks at me sleeping there and smiles […]
Part three of a monthly column dedicated to Portland’s taco trucks and
the tacos they create.
“People ask me all the time what my favorite beer is,” says Lisa Morrison. “I always tell them it’s my next one. You know, because there’s always that anticipation.”I know what she means. We are perched side by side at the bar in the Green Dragon pub [928 SE 9th] staring down my sampler tray. […]
If my life were a pie, it would probably be a coconut cream—the funniest of all pies—thrown during a messy, confused melee in hopes of finding comic purchase on someone’s surprised mug. Or, perhaps it would be a tart rhubarb pie, something a bit sweet but a bit biting. Or, better yet, it might be […]
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