It's Pub Night

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 ...

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,...

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...

About 11 months from now, when you're asking yourself, "Self, should I pony up the $X to go to Fred Fest this year?", make sur...

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'...

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...

On our way back from Yellowstone last week, we spent Saturday night in Baker City. It was a family vacation, not a beer vacation, but the ...

"Technical doesn't taste good." Thus was I rebuked Saturday at Hair of the Dog's Fred Fest, when I asked Fred Eckhardt i...

My thinking got confused a couple weeks ago when I was writing about the Portland Democrats who want to raise the excise tax on beer by 200...

Last week at the Green Dragon I ran into Rich Phillips, one of the founders of Integrity Spirits , the startup distillery that shares the s...

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...

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...

Hands down, the most unusual brewpub in Portland is Tugboat Brewing Company , hidden away on a downtown alleyway which is actually a disconn...

Hair of the Dog is less than two miles from my house, but somehow I never make it over to their Earth Day open house events, despite years ...

We have an embarrassment of riches in Portland. There's so much excellent beer here, that we get to look down our nose a little bit at a...

Tuesday night the Pub Night neighbors and friends headed over to the Green Dragon for Meet the Brewer. It was an exciting time, because th...

In the past, I've lauded Greg -- the one-of-a-kind Hair of the Dog ale at Higgins -- and I've panned it. This beer is art: som...

Carla makes me take my clothes off and leave them on the side porch whenever I come home from the Horsebrass . Then I dash naked to the sho...

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 the Hawthorne Bridge is the center of the Pub Night universe, it's about time I got around to writing about the Pilsner Room , th...