Portland Cocktail week is mostly a gathering for professional bartenders—it’s like a residential school with classes on mixing drinks and the bar business—but they do have a couple of events that are open to the public, both happening this Thursday and both looking like they could be fun. The first sees the return of the […]
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Beer Festivities Galore!
Brewpublic’s Killer Beer Week (it’s actually a 10-day run) kicks off Friday. There’s a lot happening across 11 craft beer venues, not least because Brewpublic have some special sixth anniversary celebrations going on. Highlights include: – Friday 17: Killer Beer Summit at Roscoe’s. A little bit of everything is promised, including IPAs, sour and wild […]
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Mayor Charlie Hales Finally Has Support for Street Closures! Provided He Drastically Changes Them
Mayor Charlie Hales seems as surprised as anyone that crime-stopping efforts in gin-and-tonic-happy Old Town are suddenly popular. “This has gone from management of a liability to an opportunity,” Hales said earlier this afternoon, at a hearing on the weekly street closures that have raised hackles in Old Town/Chinatown since they began in December 2012. […]
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Despite Opposition, Mayor Hales Will Push to Continue “Entertainment District” Street Closure
Dirk VanderHart Unity’s been hard to come by where Old Town’s bar-laden NW 3rd is concerned, but the neighborhood’s relatively agreed on this point: Weekend street closures in the “entertainment district” need to end. The weekly barricades, begun under Mayor Sam Adams and pushed by his successor, have hurt business and made the area unwelcoming, […]
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Peaches With Your Beer?
Another week, another beer festival. This town is never at a loss when it comes to imagining distinct and precise categories of suds to celebrate—Saturday sees the return of Peche Fest at Saraveza, which celebrates peach beer, cider and mead. 20-plus taps will be available, including barrel-aged and sour beers, lambics, Berliner-Weisses and some exclusives […]
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Looking Pretty on Hawthorne
Perry Prettyman was one of the first settlers around Mt Tabor—his property, a full square mile, stretched from SE Stark to SE Division, and from SE 39th to SE 60th, and he originally built a log cabin on it. He practiced as a doctor and has two claims to fame: he is credited with introducing […]
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Let’s Do Oktoberfest!
German Oktoberfest, which takes place over two weeks in Munich, is a two-century old beer bonanza attracting over six million people from around the world. It’s a booze bacchanalia of revelry, dancing and singing where everyone seems to be able to understand German (or a drunk version of) no matter where they’re from. Oktoberfest officially […]
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The Bird is the Word
Happy birthday Blackbird! In the seven years of its existence the wine shop and cheese bar has established itself as a fixture in the Beaumont District and as an unpretentious refuge for grown ups. It’s one of the best wine shops in town for affordability and choice—owner Andy Diaz is often to be found buzzing […]
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Why the Matador’s Actually Closing (Sort of What You Think, But Also Not)
The Matador’s Facebook page When news emerged last night that beloved Northwest District dive the Matador is shutting down tomorrow, it was easy to cultivate cheap outrage about gouging rents in a rapidly gentrifying city, of Portland institutions being shunted aside in favor of new, more expensive, less charming spots. The Matador’s departure might have […]
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Beer Happiness in the St. Johns Suburbs
Beer-loving residents of University Park and Portsmouth neighborhoods have reason to celebrate: a new tap room and growler shop called the Chill ‘N’ Fill has opened on N Lombard. It’s run by two gents who are abandoning the corporate world to indulge their passion for beer and it seems they’ve got the basics right—plenty of […]
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Damn It. There Goes the Matador.
After weeks of rumor and speculation, the owner of longtime West Burnside watering hole the Matador—by anyone’s account one of the finest bars, dive or otherwise, in our fair city—announced this evening the place will be closing its doors on Friday. Owner Casey Maxwell had told the Mercury as recently as a week ago that […]
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Beer-Con 2014… for Women!
Next weekend Portland hosts the inaugural Women & Beer Conference. Organized by Barley’s Angels, whose mission is to serve “women who seek a comfortable environment to explore and learn about Craft Beer,” the two-day event is aimed at industry professionals and social drinkers (it’s probably good for professional drinkers, too). It features a series of […]