Visiting Portland - Need Help with IPAs Please

Off hand I'd list fresh Crux Outcast and/or Half Hitch, Fort George 3-Way w/ Boneyard & Block 15 should be in shelves by then, Fort George The Optimist, Laurelwood Workhorse, Breakside India Golden Ale. These are all dated on the bottles/cans so you can see how fresh it is.

 

Gigantic - Ginormous

 

If you can find anything from Boneyard on draft, growlers of those are highly recommended as well.

 

As ggfunk said, anything from Boneyard, and I'll add in Barley Brown's. There's lots of good, even great, hell even drop dead amazing IPAs around here, but they all pale in comparison to Boneyard an Barley Brown's. Unfortunately, they're both draft only, so you'll have to do growlers if you want to take 'em home with ya

 

boneyard hop venom is around town. Notorious is around as well, and may be around still when you come up. barley brown's is great as well. Check out NWIPA and there are other places around as well, a lot actually.

 

If you're downtown, check out Whole Foods, World Foods, or Bailey's Taproom. Crux Outcast and Off Leash have been my favorites for a while now. Make sure to check those bottling dates, though.

 

Also give us a heads up (reminder) when you arrive. Many of us can check online what is on tap at that time. Which makes it easier to tell you where to go. But in general the stuff above is all legit.

 

Downtown unfortunately is a bottle dessert compared to other parts of the city. That doesn't mean you can't find decent bottles around though. The whole foods downtown should have a few of the below mentioned bottles.

My recommendations would be:

• Laurelwood Workhorse (12 ounces and bombers)
• Breakside Wanderlust (bombers)
• Crux IPAs (though not my my favorite and verrrry expensive) (375 ml)
• Laurelwood Green Elephant (should be out by then) (bombers)
• Fort George Vortex / 3-way IPA (cans)
• Goodlife Descender IPA (cans)

As mentioned before the real Bell of the ball in the PNW is Boneyard and Barley Browns but these are on tap only. If you really love him - you'll buy him a growler of one of these.

 

In addition to everything else, I would give a vote to Oakshire's Watershed IPA and HUB's IPA (single hop Centennial preferable but regular IPA is delicious as well). Both of those in cans and very cheap.

 

Baileys also sells bottles to go.

 

Block 15 usually comes to town to drop off Sticky Hands on the first Wednesday of every month, so there's a slim chance you'll luck out and find some bottles of that.

 

If you have an hour to spare, the trip over to Belmont Station is probably worth it given that you'll have a car. They have an online bottle list so that gives you a chance to scout it out a bit beforehand. Hell, you could even just have your boyfriend pick and choose what he'd like to try from the list, assuming the surprise aspect of your plan isn't too big of deal.

 

Some people have got some bottle shippers and brought them on the plane with them. Others have just mailed the beer back to their home. It kind of depends on what you want to do. I haven't went on a plane since the TSA have treated people like inmates, but I hear it's easy to pack a box and have it checked in. Not sure what they charge for that though. Might be cheaper to use Fedex and mail it back.

 

On another note, who sells bottle shippers? I like the spirited shipper type and also prefer the styrofoam ones over cardboard.

 

not sure, never bought any. There was a thread a while back where someone said what shops to go too for a good price.

 

You could keep an eye on http://imperialbottleshop.com/. They will properly cap a bottle to go for an additional fee... From time to time I've seen Boneyard Hopvenom and Notorious on tap, as well as Barely Browns.

 

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