Portland Beer Week

Runs from today through the 18th.

http://pdxbeerweek.com/events-calendar/


From what I can tell, this is nowhere close to an exhaustive list of events, but it'll give you some idea of what there is around town.

For example... the event list references the Culmination tap take over at Lardo West tonight, but for some reason contains no information about what appears to be a spectacular FW tap takeover at Beer Belly (right next door).

 

:-) In fact, I think this is the 7th year.

 

Agreed. I even thought twice about bothering to post the website.

5 or 6 years ago, it seemed like "beer weeks" were all the rage. Every large (and even not so large) city seemed to have one (or wanted to have one). When I lived in Baltimore, Philly beer week was a huge event, and was something I marked off on my calendar every year. I would try to hit at least 5 or 6 events each year... and I still remember trying my first Hill Farmstead, Half Acre, and Funky Buddha beer during Philly beer week.

This year, the Philly beer week thread is barely two pages long, and the comment/observation you made is one that permeates that thread as well. Beer week events don't look all that different from what you can find in the area on any given weekend. Pretty much just like here.

There are some pretty interesting and fun looking tap takeovers on the event calendar, and the gin and gin event over at Loyal Legion looked pretty interesting to me (even though I abhor gin). The beer pairing dinner at HOTD tonight looks pretty fun, and if my wife liked beer, I probably would have gone to it.

But yeah... it really isn't all that much different from any other week here in Portland.