It's Pub Night

At the beginning of the year I got excited when Caps and Corks opened within sleepwalking distance of the office I was renting. Alas, afte...

It all started in May, when Carla and I finally visited the Brewers Union 180 Pub in Oakridge.  Oregon's only 100% Real Ale pub also...

Well, they didn't use the term Honest Pint , but I like the anti-cheater pint sentiment, even if it is just to make sure you get a full ...

Last month I had to spend a week in the Silicon Valley on business.  I took the opportunity to spend the preceding weekend in Oakland and ch...

If you've spent any time at all at Portland's 4-4-2 Soccer Bar , you've heard the Bosnian proprietor say "What can I get fo...

On the plane back from Belgium last week, I read Andy Crouch's opinion piece in Beer Advocate entitled Thinking Small . In it, he disc...

Another place that has opened recently in SE is the 4-4-2 Soccer Bar at 18th and Hawthorne. Okay, okay, it's not a Portland beer geek ...

This picture illustrates what a menace cheater pints are, though I wish it had a better view of the glass bottoms.  These are two sibling 12...

During the fall I became infatuated with Beulahland , the "Coffee and Alehouse" at 28th and Couch. I biked my daughter to soccer ...

I was tickled today to notice that the Portland Deschutes Pub now has a 0.5 liter fill line -- 16.9 ounces -- on their Irish-style pint gla...

In my frequent tirades against high growler prices, I make the claim that the cost of filling a growler with beer should be in the ballpark ...

A visit from one of my years-ago Austin Pub Night buddies gave me an opportunity to check out an eastside pub I hadn't been to before. ...

Bailey's Taproom had been open for more than a year when I finally made my first visit there this past January. For evenings out I te...