It's Pub Night

As the days grow longer and the weekends start filling up with Portland beer festivals, I thought it would be a good time to highlight some ...

No, no, no!  This isn't how it was supposed to go. Starting in the middle of 2011, the Portland Beer Price Index ( PBPI ) looked...

Now that it is properly wintertime, I don't mind giving a shout out to some fine winter beers.  There are so many of them, that I don...

[ Editor's Note: Another excellent guest post by Dave . ] Please excuse this interjection, but I felt the need to sic the blogosphere...

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

This is kind of a slow follow-through, but a couple of weekends ago I helped judge Blitz Ladd's blind tasting competition of Oregon IPA...

Circumstances came together miraculously last night to allow me drop in on the grand opening of the Hopworks BikeBar on North Williams.  It...

For the last couple months I've been playing around with blind-tasting sets of three Double IPAs, a.k.a. Imperial IPAs.  Hopworks Ace o...

Last month Dave and I sat down and blindly tasted three Imperial IPAs . At that sitting, we preferred Hopworks Ace of Spades, followed by P...

Imperial IPA is kind of a ridiculous term: it has no historical significance, and Double IPA is a better description of the same thing. Nev...

The second annual BikeToBeerFest held at Hopworks this past Saturday was a nice sequel to last year's festivities . If there were any ...

A few months ago Google Maps added bicycling directions as one of the options for how to get from A to B on their maps.  There's a wa...

[Editor's Note:  Since several of the finer Portland beer blogs are now having guest bloggers, I decided to get with the program and sol...

Had a great time Saturday at Hopworks for the 4th annual Portland Cheers to Belgian Beers festival. The upper parking lot was bustling wit...

You gotta hand it to Christian Ettinger for taking a chance on BikeToBeerFest. Closing both parking lots at Hopworks Saturday was a bold m...

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...

The sun is shining on me, and it looks like there's a break in the weather for the next few days. You might have a mind to hop on your ...

When I complain about the price difference between six-packs and draft growlers in Portland, I always get comments pointing out that pubs ha...

This week we had a house full of old Texas friends. In honor of Lee 's upcoming 40th birthday, Bret, Todd, and I took him on a bicyclin...

A couple weeks ago John Foyston worked a short review of Hopworks into the Oregonian under the O's Cheap Eats rubric. No slam on e...