The annual Oregon Brewers Festival is opening a day earlier this year. Starting next Wednesday, the 24th there will be a full five days of drinking on the waterfront. No more plastic cups. For $7, you will now be buying a 12.8 oz. glass (down from 14 oz. last year), which can be filled for – Read more…
Portland Cocktail Week Is Nearly Here!
The 6th Annual Great American Distiller’s Fest is nearly upon us, and oh my how it’s grown! Starting as a one-day tasting event held in the middle of summer at Rogue Brewing , the GADF has blossomed. Now it’s nearly a week of spirits seminars, special dinners, a black-tie gala plus other events, and known – Read more…
The 2010 Oregon Brewer’s Festival
More than twenty years ago, the founders of the Oregon Brewers Festival (Portland Brewing, Widmer Brothers and Bridgeport) collaborated on bringing together beers not available in Portland and serving them up to thirsty Portlanders on one sunny July weekend. Now, the Oregon Brewer’s Festival (OBF) brings in 81 brewers and serves as a major tourist – Read more…
Taste of the Nation — A Battle Plan
Nearly fifty restaurants, more than three dozen wineries and breweries, plus sake and spirits! And just four hours. I’ll echo the words of my old friend Tom, a notorious lothario, who would enter a room and after surveying it, place arms akimbo and declare: “We cannot possibly have them all…but we can try.” Whether you’re – Read more…
Just another weekend in Beervana
Under perfect summer skies on the banks of the sparkling Willamette with Mt. Hood towering in the distance, 72 wildly wonderful beers will pour for the denizens of Beertopia and the folks who are lucky enough to visit here. It’s the most perfect weekend of the summer, and following is a preview of how you’re likely to spend it.
Now 21 years old, our Oregon Brewer’s Festival (OBF) has become the stuff of legend. Some say it’s the largest outdoor beer festival in the country. I say it’s just another one of the many things that make our city great.
Think Globally, Drink Locally
Portland has become positively civilized with its recent explosion of small distilleries. Let’s raise a glass and have a proper drink toasting the city’s burgeoning local, made-by-hand liquor producers. Classic cocktails are nothing new, but small-batch artisanal liquors are showing up in liquor stores, restaurants and bars all over town. It should come as no – Read more…
Review: Westcafe
6/17 – Westcafe has closed Westcafé is a a sunny downtown outpost offering brunch, lunch, dinner, happy hour, coffee, take-out, snacks, cocktails, and dog-walking (just kidding on that last one). I am often in that neighborhood, and had been walking by Westcafé for months this past summer, curious to see what was going into the – Read more…
Oregon Brings Home the Gold, Silver and Bronze at Beer Festival
DENVER – Oregon is still Beervana, at least in the eyes of the judges at the Great American Beer Festival. Over the weekend, 2400 beers from 450 breweries were judged in 69 style categories. Oregon brewers earned 14 of the 207 medals awarded, topping last year’s medal take of eight. —– The 25-year-old Great American – Read more…