Feels like I’ve been out a lot this week! Good time for a Breakside Mo’ Trouble Pale, a west coast pale made with Citra, Mosaic and Chinook hops, which I am writing down so that the next time I make a pale ale, I include those hops. Because I like this beer. The nose has … Continue reading Respite 30\Second Pint PRM
A friend of mine sent me a link on craft beer trends for next year. My take on that? Lagers are due for some attention from craft breweries but I don’t know why they’d show up in fall: seasonally lagers make more sense in summer. That said: lagers don’t get a lot of attention because … Continue reading Trends For 2017
This is one of those dive bars where everyone knows each other and they’ve seen my type before. They’re not even bothering to actively ignore me, because I’m going to leave and never come back, while they have friendships to maintain and lives to attend to. Average age here is probably 53, and it’s worth … Continue reading On the Rail: Wilshire Tavern
I start off with kolsh from 54 40 at the Montavilla Social club. The bartender asks me if I like kolshes and I say, “I do if they’re good!”He’s dubious of my choice already. It is an OK kolsh. Old Town’s kolsh it ain’t but I am immediately distracted from my beer by the conversation … Continue reading On the Rail: Montavilla Social Club
I attempted to go somewhere new, somewhere I had never been. Because the pleasant thing about new places is that they don’t know me. Nothing of who I was matters. When I need to hide, that kind of invisibility and reinvention is comforting. However, the place I drove by either wasn’t what I thought it … Continue reading On The Rail: Bailey’s (Ninkasi Total Crystalition edition)
I saw this thread at the beer Subreddit and read through a great many comments. I have to confess, I cannot read a thread like that and ask myself some questions about my drinking. Portland is a drinking city, too, whether we want to say so or not: along with reading and strippers, great beer … Continue reading Health, Alcoholism and Craft Beer
The Stein Haus is almost perturbingly quiet. Like the opening scene in From Dusk Til Dawn, where there’s so few people I’m almost expecting something really crazy to happen at any moment. Thankfully, nothing does. I think this place may be so empty because of a slight case of not knowing what it is. When … Continue reading Where I Want To Go: Stein Haus
I almost hate to link to this piece because it gives them traffic but in the larger scheme of things, I’m a tiny blogger and they are a media machine. But, the article is essentially suggesting that large breweries could step in to produce styles that craft brewers only do in limited numbers, as a … Continue reading Beating Craft Beer At Their Game
Spring has shown its face to Portland, flashing a bit of leggy sunshine before reminding us why umbrellas are a fashion statement. I’ve come to the Slingshot because it’s close to home: The rain is encouraging me to stay nearby. Winter may have left us, but its crabby sister is here. The Outcast from Crux … Continue reading Where I Want To Go: Slingshot
My first reaction upon entering the Spot was not a positive one. There were televisions everywhere and I really do mean everywhere. I took a seat at a booth that had a television mounted on the wall, just like every other booth in the area, the faint sounds of When the Levee Breaks in the … Continue reading New To Me: Spot 79
A pint for Dionysus 