It's Pub Night

Are you surprised to hear the price of beer is going up?  The Portland Beer Price Index isn't.  Here are the numbers I gathered around P...

What if they had a beer price index and nobody came?  Apparently nothing, since I skipped reporting the PBPI for the spring quarter of 20...

As predicted by a couple of industry followers of the Portland Beer Price Index ( PBPI ), beer got more expensive in Portland this quart...

This quarter's installment of the Portland Beer Price Index ( PBPI ) won't surprise anyone.  Prices in every category are up, in s...

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...

Portland now has a second liquor store which the OLCC allows to sell beer and wine:  Hollywood Beverage at about 30th and NE Sandy.  A co...

For a person who has been wedded to bicycle transportation for about 25 years, it's a wonder that it took me so long to visit Amsterdam,...

Alcoholic beverage word association, quickly:  "France?"  Of course you said "Wine".  Good beer is available in France, ...

A new brewery in Newberg is stealthily making a presence in Portland. Long Brewing first caught my eye when the Cheese Bar mentioned havin...

Pearl Specialty's Beer and Cigar Selection Since I realized the other day that Bridgeport ESB had been discontinued by the brewery , ...

John had a nice article in the Oregonian the other day about two eagerly awaited Southeast pubs: Hair of the Dog and Cascade's Barrel...

It's hard to believe that the days are only going to get shorter from here, since the clouds have kept the days from seeming long at all...

The thing that got me started comparing and tracking beer prices was the observation that it usually costs you more -- ounce for ounce -- t...

Sunday is the spring equinox, so it's time once again for the Portland Beer Price Index. As a reminder, this survey is not a complaint ...

Not long ago I was mocking the little beer store on Hawthorne just east of 20th for their pitiable selection. But today Dave radioed me th...

The Fred Meyers on Hawthorne seems to think that Blue Dot and Blue Moon have something in common. They shelved them right next to each othe...

I'm talking about bottles, of course. Back in college or shortly thereafter, my friend Bret was contentedly sucking down a can of Milw...

It's the winter solstice, time once again for the quarterly Portland Beer Price Index. In response to comments on the first PBPI back i...

A few weeks ago, when the oddly-named Stout, Microbrew, Wines and Market -- with no real microbrews in stock -- opened near 20th and Hawtho...

This week, Belmont Station introduced two-tier pricing on its bottled beers: customers paying cash will pay about 4% less than those using ...