It's Pub Night

I've spent a lot of time over the years obsessing about fresh hop beers , in fact fresh hops are the subject of the first post on the ...

Fresh hop season is the reason I started writing It's Pub Night a few years ago.  The first post here -- a copy of four emails I sent ...

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.  Now that we are aware that some breweries -- most notably Sierra Nevada -- label certain products as "f...

We're just a week away from Oregon's granddaddy Fresh Hop event, the Hood River Hops Fest , next Saturday September 29, 2012.  My ...

Fresh hop beers have exploded in Portland the last few years, and they are also catching on more and more in our sister city of Seattle.  Th...

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...

Early autumn in the Northwest is marked by the return of the rain and drastically shorter days, but brings with it a special compensation: b...

The 2011 Hood River Hops Festival is Saturday (October 1), and I'm going to make it over there for the first time. Maybe the hops are ...

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

Last year I made a map of places around town that had Fresh Hop beers on tap. The 2010 Fresh Hop Map got surprisingly full; I think the tre...

The Lucky Lab Hop Harvest that happened Tuesday on the Lab's patio was another enjoyable time, just like every year.  If you ever get a...

The hop harvest season is upon us. This is one of my favorite times of the beer year, and it's the reason I started It's Pub Night ...

The insistent rain made for a damp day Saturday for the Oregon Brewers Guild/Oregon Bounty Fresh Hop Tastival at Oaks Park, but it was stil...

This year I've kept a pretty good streak going of trying a different fresh-hop beer each day: today makes it the three-week mark. By th...

Last Monday I listed the fresh hop beers I had tried so far, and promised more updates along the way.  I thought I might be able to pull of...

Some years I try to keep up a streak of tasting a different fresh-hop beer every day while they're out. I'm going for it this year,...

I'm going to milk this month of fresh hops for all it's worth. Partly because I love fresh-hop beer; partly because I don't hav...

We're getting into that wonderful few weeks when the fresh hop beers start rolling out.  I've been so patient waiting for them this ...

It's Pub Night is usually written in past tense, as a diary of what I've been up to, since other Portland bloggers cover the event c...

You must be completely bored by now with all the fresh-hop talk on It's Pub Night. One last gasp from me: I'll list the ones I'...