Beer

Brian Yaeger McMenamins 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop is now open It’s been 30 years since Portland was introduced to McMenamins Terminator Stout, first brewed as the 12th-ever batch at Mike and Brian McMenamin’s Hillsdale Pub by original brewer Ron Wolf to satisfy the Irish brothers’ love of Guinness. And it’s been more than 38 years […]

If the short Cherry season this past July left you wanting more, you can find plenty of cherries in liquid form at the first annual (would that be inaugural?) Cherry Festivus, taking place at Bazi Bierbrasserie on November 20 and 21. The event is from fruited-beer impresario Ezra Johnson-Greenough, who muses, “What simpler pleasure than […]

Brian Yaeger Laurelwood sees their name in lights, sort of, at the Great American Beer Festival. It was supposed to only be brewed one time, but when Laurelwood‘s double IPA came in second with a silver medal at the Great American Beer Fest earlier this year, the brewery had to give fans a second helping. […]

At the Mercury‘s third annual Chili Jamboree this Sunday (White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th), there will be 11 chefs slinging not-so-classic bowls of chili. It ain’t about chocolate or butternut squash or peanut butter or tamarind paste as a hidden, secret ingredient—it’s about how many different dishes can they prepare and still loosely […]

‘Round here we tend to take beer pretty seriously. But this Friday kicks off Brewpublic’s seventh annual Killer Beer Week to coincide with the beer blog’s seventh anniversary, and running down the list of daily events makes one wonder if event organizers Angelo De Ieso, Darus “DJ” Paul, and Bailey’s Taproom’s Nick Rivers were watching […]

Foraging for things like nuts, twigs, and berries—or any other edible plants found along nature trails—is the hallmark of Beers Made By Walking (BMBW), a program that invites beer and nature lovers to go take a hike… with their local brewers and cidermakers. This Saturday, October 10, even if you consider the trail from the […]

This is a flask of P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., not of beer. The Mercury’s Malt Ball is great for once-a-year music-and-beer pairings, but McMenamins’ Crystal Ballroom and Brewery is giving us a taste of musical beer and fermented music on a quarterly basis. It starts Wednesday, October 14 with the release of Make It Through the Night Light […]

Photo © Brewers Association Today through Saturday, September 24-27, more than 800 breweries from around the US will make their annual descent upon Denver for the 34th annual Great American Beer Festival. And 32 of them will be from Oregon. Actually, I like to think 28 are from Oregon but brewing companies such as Barley […]

Hops have reared their piney, floral green heads here and there, but tomorrow, Thursday, September 24, hopheads can finally find a bouquet of fresh-hopped beers on tap at one place: The Civic Taproom and Bottle Shop. A full dozen fresh-hop beers—beers seasoned with resinous hop cones fresh off the bine, rather than kiln-dried so as […]

What’s a Feast without a little something to wash it down with? While the focus this Thursday through Sunday is on the creative munchies, the brothers Widmer and their ragtag team of brewers have concocted four beers for the occasion, to pair and partner with some of this town’s machers of the nosh. The four […]

Here’s to a long life and a merry one.A quick death and an easy one.A pretty girl and an honest one.A cold beer—and another one!-Irish toast Nitrogenated Irish IPA: Guinness pint Think Irish beers and the first image to pop into your brain is a pitch black proper pint of Guinness Draught Stout with that […]

I suspect you won’t read about this royal wedding in the tabloids because no one in attendance was Instagramming photos. That, or it’s been over 200 years since the Prince Ludwig tied the pretzel knot with Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. While you weren’t invited to the wedding, the anniversary is better known today as Oktoberfest. […]