It's Pub Night

I love the OBF.  Sure the Oregon Brewers Festival gets crowded as the weekend wears on, and it's often hot and dusty, and there is only...

McMenamins really put their back into the rehabilitation of the old Club Portland building into the new Crystal Hotel and its ground-floor ...

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

Portland's Beer Goddess herself, Lisa Morrison, is the author of a new guidebook: Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest , published in p...

A couple weeks ago on my way home from Zwickelmania at Breakside, I decided to pop in to the Broadway Grill and Brewery at NE 17th and Broa...

Saturday I crossed two things off my list that I should have done before, but hadn't.  Killed two birds with one stone actually:  finall...

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

For a while now, I've been intrigued by McMenamins' "sister pub" arrangement. Since not every pub in the chain has a br...

Yikes!  I finally sit down to grind out this ridiculously late post on Hair of the Dog's new tasting room -- well, it opened in mid-Aug...

In a town with hundreds of taverns and dozens of beer bloggers, I guess it was inevitable that a beer blogger would open a pub. Bushwhacker...

Another place that has opened recently in SE is the 4-4-2 Soccer Bar at 18th and Hawthorne. Okay, okay, it's not a Portland beer geek ...

The recent spate of pub openings in SE Portland has overwhelmed our tiny newsroom here at It's Pub Night. Plus, we wanted to give you r...

The Green Dragon saga continues... After three years and two ownership changes, the pub is finally serving its own house-brewed beers, unde...

Yesterday I went on part of a pub crawl organized by Marc Martin and Charles Culp. Not unusual in and of itself -- I'm often drinking b...

A couple years ago I wrote up a meandering guide to the Oregon Brewers Festival. The most useful part of it was a map showing things to do...

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...

It's not as though we lacked choices for beer bars in Southeast Portland, but the newly opened Apex at 12th and Division has generated ...

Friday evening Carla and I made an accidental stop at the Cheese Bar , a new, uh, cheese bar at about 60th and Belmont. I had heard about th...

If I had written this up the day after my visit to the Upright Brewing tasting room, I could have made John Foyston look like a copy-cat. I...