Beerheads take note: SE Division bottle shop and tap room The Beermongers is celebrating their fifth anniversary and have lined up five days of brew events, starting today with a vintage bottle sale and ending on Sunday with one of their renowned bottle shares. Known for their good selection of beer and decent prices, they’ve […]
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And Now It’s Official: Last Week at Tiga
The ink has dried on the deal that will replace beloved NE hang, Tiga, with a Southern-style brunch spot. The bar posted this the other day: After over 8 wonderful years, Tiga will close it’s doors on Saturday September 6th.Over the years we have met a lot of amazing people and developed many meaningful and […]
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Wild About Game: ON
Nicky USA‘s annual, orgiastic Wild About Game event rears its meaty head just over the horizon on Sunday, Sept 7 at the Timberline Lodge in Government Camp. The legendary bacchanal is centered around a competition between four match-ups of Portland vs Seattle chefs, each trying to create the better dish centered around a Nicky protein. […]
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Take Your Pick of Beer Fests
Here’s a stupid question—can Portlanders get enough beer? Of course not, as demonstrated by the sheer number of beer festivals this town holds. There’s one happening now—the Portland International Beerfest, taking place at Holladay Park by the Lloyd Center, while next weekend is the Imperial IPA Fest at Saraveza and their Bad Habit event space. […]
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Those Tiga Murmurs
Word has been spreading that beloved NE watering hole Tiga is going to close, after the owner of a planned Southern breakfast joint (Laura Rhoman of Muscadine) spilled the beans about her plans to take over the lease of the space and open at the start of October. A drop-in last night indicated that Tiga’s […]
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The French Solution to Illness: Wine
Whatever your views of the French—cheese eating surrender monkeys or the fount of all worldly sophistication—they do get some things right as demonstrated by the fact that a hospital in the city of Clermont-Ferrand is opening a wine bar for terminally-ill patients and visiting friends and family. “The aim is to ‘re-humanize’ patients by improving […]
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Another Remarkable Tasting Room to Check Out
Andrea’s review of Cooper’s Hall in the paper this week got me thinking about a lesser known tasting room that also does remarkable food called Tesóaria. Located on North Williams, it’s the Portland outpost of Tesóaria winery and vineyard in Roseburg. Winemaker John Olson takes the approach that if a wine seems fun to make, […]
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Drink Great Beer and Talk About Consequence-Free Weed with The Mercury
Have a seat. We want to talk with you about pot. In November, Oregonians are going to have a shot at legalizing recreational marijuana for the second time in two years. It wasn’t a particularly clean march to the ballot. Infighting between rivaling factions in the legalization movement helped torpedo one effort, and continues even […]
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The Amateur Soccer Tournament (Now with Beer)
Most sports events are improved by the addition of alcoholic beverages—and that’s even more applicable when you’re playing them. So the First Annual Cascadia 7v7 Brewer’s Cup is a dead cert for keen amateur soccer players with a thirst, combining as it does a tournament held over two days and Lompoc beer (admittedly the beer […]
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Best Reaction to 50 Shades of Grey EVER
Your favorite drunk aunt, Kathie Lee Gifford (with her Today co-host Hoda Kotb) delivers the most awesome—and TRUE—reaction to the 50 Shades of Grey trailer ever. Watch it at the 1:30 mark… or watch the hilarious Vine from Isaac at Guyism after the jump!
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Eat, Drink, Be Merry This Weekend
It comes down to this. Stuff that looks interesting. • Oregon BrewFest is already upon us, but you knew that already. Check out this CNN piece praising OBF. Oregon Brewers Festival, Waterfront Park, until Sunday •Red Star Tavern are having a free lunch. Yes, Free! But only if you buy two cocktails, which sounds reasonable […]