Visiting Portland - Fall/Winter 2016-17 Alternative Thread

Sad!

 

Make Portland Great Again!

 

Huuuuuuge breweries. Impressed. BIGLY!

 

These brewers have by far the highest IQ of any brewers ever assembled.

 

de Garde link is great

 

The line at Grape Lotion and De Garde were twice as long as those at Holy Mountain! The media's crowd estimates - and their aerial photography - are LIES!

MAKE AMERICA GRAPE AGAIN!

 

You can just walk right up to these places and grab their brewskies. They don't even care.

 

Aw man, I thought for sure the Great Notion link was gonna take me back to that "craft beer is white privilege" site. I like the DeGarde link though.

Now if you add Fremont and Holy Mountain you've covered the entire NW

 

Some breweries are also adopting the 'pay what you want' model. The last place I visited had a brass spittoon where you were encourage to 'throw' your money into. Sorry, throwing is too violent. They actually encouraged a gentle underhand toss using your off hand.

 

I think Budweiser and Rainier are the best beers brewed in the PNW. PERIOD. No questions.

Sure, some of you in the media may say these are not brewed here but that's typical of the leftist type. We present " alternative facts" to support our case. Period.

 

I will build a great wall--and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me--and I'll build them very inexpensively. I'll build a great, great wall around just these two breweries, and I will make all the other breweries pay for that wall. Mark my words.

 

I am so glad Cloudburst already has a beer called Alternative Facts.

 

Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you visit these breweries. The concept of 30,000 additional Portland breweries missing from this list is a hoax invented by the Chinese to make other beer markets non-competitive.

 

Somebody talk about sour beer in Portland......any suggest ???

 

courtesy of @maltmaster420


Upright - lots of saisons and other brett beers, with occasional sour gems like Fantasia. bottles available
Cascade - pretty much all lacto-fermented sours, with a heavy emphasis on fruit. Bottles available
Great Notion - rotating collection of "food themed" sours like Zest Berliner Weisse & Blueberry Muffin Sour. Mostly draft, but you can get crowlers of some things
de Garde - all spontaneously fermented sours & wild ales. Bottles available, but you'll probably have to drive to Tillamook
Ale Apothecary - all spontaneously fermented sours. Bottles available all over town
Breakside - nothing regularly available, but there's a steady stream of one offs like oud bruins, gin barrel wild ales, etc. Bottles widely available when beers are released
Logdson - awesome farmhouse ales, most of which use brett & some with fruit. Bottles available all over town
Solera - occasional spontaneously fermented one offs, many of which feature fruit grown nearby. draft only.
Block 15 - sporadic brett saisons & fruited sours. You can occasionally find bottles in town, but plan on driving to Corvallis if you want more than a sinlge bottle.
pFriem - quarterly fruit sour releases & sporadic wild ales and other sours sprinkled in throughout the year. Bottles available, but they tend to go quick.
The Commons - Flemish Kiss is their year round brett fermented Belgian Pale, and they release other things throughout the year. Bottles available
Bend Brewing - Ching Ching is the most widely available beer outside of Bend. Bottles show up semi-regularly.
Alesong - saisons & other brett fermented goodies. Bottles available at every good bottle shop in town.
Culmination - Usually one or two sour/wild ales on tap, and semi-regular bottle releases like the Kriek that should be around town right how.
Double Mountain - occasional draft only stuff, and a couple bottled releases per year of their two kriek variants.
Lompoc - sporadic one offs, mostly draft only, and often only available at their 5Q location
Ruse - brett fermented saisons. Multibeast is the only one regularly available in bottles, but other draft only beers can often be found on tap at Culmination.
10 Barrel - Cucumber Crush & Raspberry Crush (fruited berliners) are available all over the place.
Agrarian - farmhouse ales & "field beers" abound. Bottles are now showing up in more and more palces around town.
Deschutes - not readily available, but they put out occasional bottles like Dissident & often have at elast one fun wild offering on tap at the pub.
Ecliptic - They have a kettle soured peach beer available in bottles year round. Other bottles and draft offering pop up occasionaly.
Flat Tail - They have the Dam Wild series, which is a sour blonde base beer aged on different fruits/herbs/hops/etc. The current bottled version is marionberry & pink peppercorn.
Crux - Freakcake Oud Bruin gets bottled once a year & should be easy enough to find. Other draft offerings pop up on occasion.


Other American breweries that are available here & produce sours/wild ales/etc:

Almanac
Against the Grain
Boulevard
Bruery
Crooked Stave
Epic
Goose Island
Green Flash
Jolly Pumpkin
New Belgium
Off Color
Smog City
Stillwater
Tahoe Mountain
Trinity
Urban Family
3 Magnets
Anchorage
Firestone Walker
Russian River
Perennial
Prairie

Imported sour/wild/lambics that are often available:

Girardin
Hanssens
Lambik X
Lindemans (Cuvee Rene Kriek is all over town right now)
Oud Beersel
Petrus
BFM
DeProef
Mikkeller
Boon
Bzart
Verhaeghe (Duchesse, Vichtenaar)
de Dochter
Bockor (Cuvee de Jacobin)
Fantome
Van Steenberge (Monk's Cafe sour red)
Omnipollo