It's Pub Night

One of the early hits here on It's Pub Night was 2008's Portland Sample Tray Marathon , where Dave and I got hall passes on Father...

The last few years have seen explosive growth for beloved California brewer Lagunitas .  This Beerpulse article says production increased b...

In college we used to say, "You don't buy beer, you rent it".  That statement may become more true than ever if a trend that s...

Last month there was a fair amount of chatter on Beervana , the New School , and even here about Ezra's racy label for Upright's ch...

Even though I try to decorate every post on It's Pub Night with a picture of some kind, I have to admit that my photography skills are p...

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

A few weeks ago when I was writing about Full Sail Session Lager, I had my wife take some pictures of my favorite party trick: opening a tw...

I tend to recite the caption of this James Thurber cartoon whenever someone asks me if the wine is good. It's a stale joke; wine critic...

Back before the election, Brett sent me this picture of a bottle of Ommegang that his friend in New York bought at some kind of Obama fundr...

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...

I'm always willing to blog a dead horse, so I'll write a little more about the brewed-on-premises marathon that Dave and I put ours...

Since Portland has so many breweries in a concentrated area, I got it into my mind to see how many beers one could taste in a small amount o...

It happened before April Fool's Day, but someone out there came up with another prank to make fun of the Ebay beer auctions: a wax-dip...

When I conceived my prank, it came with a good blog-post title: "Nobody Wants My Collectible Bottle". But then someone out-pranked...