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 […]
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My Oregon Craft Beer Month: Thoughtful BBQ’s Suck
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 […]
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My Oregon Craft Beer Month: Adrift on Paulina Lake
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 […]
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My Oregon Craft Beer Month: Joan Crawford. Radiant.
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 […]
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My Oregon Craft Beer Month: Enter the Goddess
“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. […]
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“World’s Strongest Vagina,” My Ass!
Wait… THIS is the woman who has recently gained internet fame for having “The World’s Strongest Vagina“? My mom has a stronger vagina than that!! (I was going to supply some more examples, but on reflection, I consider it unnecessary.) If you want to talk “muscular genitalia,” I’ve seen THIS GUY lift cinder blocks with […]
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My Oregon Craft Beer Month: Hard Realizations
I’ve found there are certain problems with being thoughtful about beer. Not so long ago my method of drinking beer was to simply swill pint after pint and bottle after bottle until I’d reached that warm fuzzy place where I felt smarter and more handsome; the world more pleasant. Then, I would fall fast asleep. […]
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My Oregon Craft Beer Month: Tart Tale
She was a tall strawberry blond, and somehow she managed to punch me right in the brain. Yesterday was a one beer day (though please note that the number here is not the quantity I drank, but rather how many new, unique beers I drank), and what I pulled from my fridge seemed to be […]
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My Oregon Craft Beer Month: The 4th
Now the smoke has cleared and the bangs and cracks of latent patriotism have diminished to the occasional distant report, it’s time to take stock. It’s the day after the fourth day of July and the “red glare” and “bursting” is less likely to come from rockets than a small pounding place behind your eyes—as […]
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The United States of AWESOME! (Part Ten)
That ought to do it. Happy fourth and play safe, you guys.