What the article glosses over is that there are already beer carts quietly operating alongside food carts, with no apparent ill effects. Captured by Porches has been selling beer from their beer buses for a year and a half now, and Buckman Brewery (a.k.a. Rogue's Green Dragon) has a cart at the food cart pod just up Belmont from the Horse Brass. The article does mention that "carts asked the OLCC about regularly selling beer and wine" two years ago, but it fails to point out that carts are already selling beer under temporary licenses, though the online version links to an earlier story about CbP's cart near 33rd and Division.
The online version has a fairly staid headline, but in the print edition today it is "Alcohol with food carts gives city indigestion". What gives me indigestion is the podunk worldview of our local paper -- and friends, I lived most of my life in Oklahoma and Texas. The Oregonian is an unending source of disappointment for me in many ways, though their declining beer coverage -- they're cutting back John Foyston's The Beer Here column in the Friday entertainment section to once every two weeks, and last year they referred to Colorado as "Beervana" -- seems ill-advised when the local beer culture is continuing to grow at a healthy pace.
I mentioned the CbP and Buckman carts. Are there any other beer carts around town right now? [Update: Jim points out in the comments that there is a Lompoc beer cart at 51st and Foster.]
