It's Pub Night

Every year for the last 10 or so, Carla and I would say "Let's go to New York City this year".  Somehow we never did, until ...

One of the early hits here on It's Pub Night was 2008's Portland Sample Tray Marathon , where Dave and I got hall passes on Father...

For you last-minute holiday shoppers, here are a few books you might consider for the beer lover on your list.  Or for yourself. Hop in th...

Last month I was invited to New Belgium's Sour Beer Blending Symposium at Saraveza .  The event was a fine Monday night offering duri...

Last year's "first annual" Portland Fruit Beer Festival had about twice the attendance that organizer Ezra Johnson-Greenoug...

This is the second in our series of Portland pub crawls (the first one was a mile-long classic SE Portland pub crawl ).  This isn't a to...

Wow!  Word out of Austin is that the bad feelings left by a botched beer festival last weekend is partly to blame for the cancellation of a...

Not long ago I claimed to have invented the Portland pub crawl .  But looking back through the pub crawls I've written up over the year...

It's not often that I pick up a beer scoop around here, but the other day I stumbled on a newly opened bottleshop/taproom in NW Portland...

Yesterday I took advantage of Bridgeport's Monday beer special at their Pearl District pub while watching the Rose Bowl -- $3 imperial p...

Saturday my friend Lindsey and I took advantage of a break in the rain and biked over to Woodstock Wine and Deli for WWD's annual verti...

Fresh hops, click , fresh hops, click , fresh hops... Yes, I am a broken record at this time of year.  It's just that the beers are so g...

I had a nice time Saturday at Hopworks Urban Brewery's bike-in version of Oktoberfest, the BikeToBeerFest  -- the third annual.  They al...

There were lots of good beers pouring at the Beermongers 2nd Anniversary Brewfest this weekend, and lots of space to drink them in, at leas...

For a person who has been wedded to bicycle transportation for about 25 years, it's a wonder that it took me so long to visit Amsterdam,...

On our recent trip to Europe, I expected excellent beer during our 3 days in Belgium, but the most pleasant surprise to me was what a wonder...

For those of you who haven't yet plunged in and plunged out of the OBF this year, Dave and I have put together a list of recommendati...

Our family vacation to Europe has not been, by and large, a beer vacation.  That's OK, I didn't expect it to be, and in fact famil...