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 […]
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The Science of What You Eat and Drink
OMSI is kicking off a season of food science tonight with Seed to Cider, an “OMSI After Dark” (read: adults and booze) event that looks at the history and technology behind cider making—it also includes cider drinking, of course. The season is focused on Oregon agriculture, examining where our food comes from and providing an […]
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National Radler Day
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 […]
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Got the Yachats for Beer?
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 […]
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Portland Fruit Beer Fest Begins Friday
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 […]
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The Rural Brewer Comes to Metropolitan Portland June 14
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 […]
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Coalition Brewing Celebrates with Ketchup and Anniversary Beers
There are some silly National Something-or-Other Days out there, but this Friday, June 5, tops them like an all-you-can-squirt fixin’s station. It’s apparently National Ketchup Day, and the third annual one at that. Enter a malty homage to tomato paste and vinegar: two collaboration beers from Portland’s Coalition Brewing (who are gearing up for their […]
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Stung Fermented Won’t Bumble Mead’s Moment
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 […]
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Cascade Whitewashes Again with Napoleon Cherry Sour Ale
When Cascade Brewing introduced Oblique Black & White Stout—a creamy, strong golden ale with robust roasty flavors courtesy of Oblique Roasters coffee—it became one of the first quote-unquote white stouts (a beer that’s naturally always nearly pitch black). This week’s Live from the Barrel tapping—Cascade Barrel House’s weekly series—blanches palates once again with Napoleon Cherry, […]
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Santiam Brewing’s Gin Peche and Upper Lip Tap Takeover
The beacon of the state capital’s emerging brewing scene, Santiam Brewing, will release their first sour ale, Gin Peche, at the Upper Lip—the specialty tasting room above Bailey’s Taproom—on Tuesday, May 26 at 4 pm. As one of only three off-premise accounts (and the only tasting room in Portland) to score a keg, Bailey’s will […]
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Two Threesome IPA Collaborations
Georgetown’s Manny Chao, Ft. George’s Jack Harris, and Pfriem’s Josh Pfriem. Ménage à trois and circle jerk jokes aside, here come a pair of IPAs from two separate brewery trios. First up, it’s time for Fort George Brewery’s annual dalliance partnering with another pair of regional brewers who excel at IPAs. The third in their […]
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Jacobsen Sea Salted Beer
They’re in our ice cream. They’re in our bagel chips, our granola, our bean-to-bar chocolates and everywhere from wood-fired kitchens to discerning food trucks. And now, despite every Portland chef and gustatory artist worth their salt boasting that they use Oregon’s Jacobsen Sea Salt, it has taken Brooklyn’s Sixpoint Brewery to make us salivate by […]