It's Pub Night

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...

[ Editor's Note: I'm happy to add Pub Night stalwart Lindsey -- developer of It's Pub Night's Six-Pack Equivalent Calculat...

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...

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...

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 ...

I spent an even shorter time than I usually get to at the Lucky Lab Barleywine Festival last Friday, but still had tastes of some amazing b...

It's weird, sometimes the name of one brewery pops up over and over in the course of a few days. Last week, Ninkasi kept invading my c...

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...

We all know that change happens, in fact it can be healthy.  Forest fires opening up the pinecones so the seeds can sprout -- maybe the rece...

Yesterday afternoon was a reminder of how great it is to live in Southeast Portland -- the center of the universe. An assortment of beer lo...

Smallish beer festivals at the Quimby Street Lucky Lab are always a good time, and last weekend's Cheers to Belgian Beers was no except...

I'm sure glad I made a second trip to the Quimby Street Lucky Lab's Barleywine Festival Saturday night. At least half of the beers ...

What a blast! I got submerged in work yesterday and almost forgot to go help the Lucky Lab pick the cones off the hop vines for this year...

Dave and I beat the rush yesterday and showed up right at the opening of the Lucky Lab 's Barleywine and Big Beer Festival. That made i...

It would be great to have lunch every day at Higgins ... get the lunch special or the burger, and have a cask-conditioned pint. But in these...

Since I had some free time this evening, I decided to participate in The Session , which is a kind of synchronized blogging where a bunch of...

Hmmm.... Recently I was wishing for the return of a couple of Lucky Labrador IPAs: Triple Threat, and Super Duper Dog. Then Lee chimed i...

There's an old Trek hybrid bicycle in my garage that I bought used in Austin in early 1996 when both of my bicycles were stolen within t...