Nationally distributed Omission is also brewed in Portland, with traditional ingredients and a special process to remove gluten.īaerlic Brewing: Great beer with a sometimes eclectic sensibility. They brew a variety of G-F beers with roasted chestnuts and the like. Sister Doris: Germany’s last beer-making nun Portland has a dedicated gluten-free brewery, Ground Breaker, where no barley malt nor wheat shall ever tread. Oregon celebrates its hop bounty with several fresh-hop beer festivals every fall, and pubs such as the Lucky Labrador Brewing Company hold hop-picking parties harvesting backyard hop plants.ġ1. Portland created the fresh-hop beer category, when brewers trek to local hop farms for just-picked hops and make special beers. Can thousands of brewers and industry types be wrong?ġ0. Portland is the site of the national 2015 Craft Brewers Conference. Nobody’s done a festival count, but Portland hosts a couple of hundred a year, including specialized events such as an organic beer festival, a fruit beer festival, Peche Fest (only peach beers and ciders on tap) and Biketobeer Fest.ĩ. There are also brewers dinners, beer tastings and Roscoe’s monthly beer summits. There are beer events every week of the year thanks to great bottle shops such as Belmont Station, BeerMongers, By The Bottle, Imperial Bottle Shop and Taproom and others that organize a couple hundred beer releases, meet-the-brewer events, tap takeovers and the like every year. Beer festivals happen year’ round in Beervana, such as December’s Holiday Ale Festival, when thousands of big-beer fans drink can’t-find-‘em-anywhere-else winter beers in big, heated tents in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square.Ī covered, heated patio at Belmont Station means ample year-round seating for beer lovers. We have the biggest outdoor beer party on the continent, July’s Oregon Brewers Festival, which attracts more than 85,000 people a year – many of whom are out-of-state or international beer tourists – to its five-day run at Tom McCall Waterfront Park.Ĩ. If you don’t want to walk, there are several beer-tour companies including Brewvana beer bus tours (with Japanese-language tours, as well) and the u-pedal aerobics of Pedalounge, which is a sort of 12-person pedal-powered bar with stools and an awning, except you can’t drink on the road.ħ. Toss in pubs such as the Basement, Apex, White Owl Social Club, Blitz and the BeerMongers, and you have a walking beer tour that could fill a couple of days.Ħ. In close-in Southeast Portland, a dozen breweries and brewpubs populate just a few square blocks. It’s hard to imagine the critical mass of more than 60 brewing establishments in a town. Speaking of growlers (large, re-fillable bottles that allow you to take large amounts of freshly tapped beer to go), the Portland-designed, Steampunk-styled uKeg keeps beer cold and carbonated and people love the idea: Growlerwerks LLC hoped to raise $75,000 in its Kickstarter campaign and so far nearly 5,000 people have donated $665,000 – with about three weeks to go.ĥ. We keep finding new places to serve beer, such as growler-fill stations, which have opened in major grocery stores, as stand-alone establishments and in a Southeast Portland mini-mart that anywhere else would sell fried chicken and half-racks of Milwaukee’s Best.Ĥ. Many come from around the world for the event. More than 85,000 people attended last summer's Oregon Brewers Festival in Portland, Oregon. Dublin indubitably.Įven Asheville, North Carolina, which rather noisily voted itself Beer City USA a few years back, is now in the running for real with an impressive roster of local breweries and big new production breweries built by New Belgium, Oskar Blues and Sierra Nevada. Prague, of course, where golden lager was born. England, where craft breweries are sprouting even as traditional Brit pubs close weekly. Various Asian capitals – Beijing, Singapore, Tokyo – all have thriving beer scenes.īerlin, where Stone Brewing is building a big beer hall and brewery. And none of those breweries makes swill.īut the world is changing for the better – and catching up to a movement pioneered by Portlanders.Ĭraft beer is worldwide now and other cities nip at our Birkenshod heels in the crucial best-beer-city-in-the-world race.ĭenver and San Diego are contenders without a doubt. Portland, Oregon, has more breweries and brewpubs than any other place – in the sixties now – ergo, it’s the world’s greatest beer city. It used to be as plain as a beer-foam mustache.
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