Visiting Portland - Summer 2017 update

Thanks for all of your help.

Thursday night was pre-interview, so I took it easy I hit Back Pedal Brewing. Beers were good, the sours were definitely the stars, cool place and great staff. I then when to Fat Heads for dinner.

Friday night I hit Beer O'clock and had lots of solid beers. I really liked the peach sour. After beer O'clock I headed over to Sizzle Pie and had some dinner.

Saturday started at Great Notion. There was a line for Pine State Biscuits that wrapped around to the brewery, but there were about 20 people there at open for GN. There was also a line for Salt & Straw as well. The beer here was definitely the highlight of the trip. All the IPAs were delicious as was the double stack. The blueberry muffin beer was sadly not on tap, something to look forward to. Next up was Scout brewing, really cool space, really cool bartenders, but the beer offerings sadly were not all that good. It was also weird that they had food available but the bartender didn't ask me if I wanted a food menu. I then went to Apex and they had a surprisely pedestrian list of beers on so I had to suffer through a Pliny. Walked through Ladd's Addition to get an idea of some housing stock, and then hit a little Thai place called Kala's. It was fantastic.

Sunday morning I hit Irving St for brunch. The Bloody Mary was great, as was the Moroccan poached eggs.

Finally the interview went well, hopefully I'll get to try some of the other recommendations on here.

Cheers!
Keith

 

Glad to know GN had double stack! Hopefully they'll have it this week when I come up!

 

Their tap list is updated via untappd and shown on their webpage.

 

This thread is much appreciated, has helped me narrow down the choices for my brief trip. But...my brother is more of a football fan than beer fan, so on Sunday morning is there a good place where we could watch some NFL games while I continue to get my beer geek on? Belmont Station (already on my itinerary based on friends' recommendation) doesn't look like it will work. We're staying at the Doubletree on Multnomah, close to that would be cool but we'll have a rental car or can uber/lyft if my bro wants to imbibe, so pretty flexible.

Bonus question: how early will we have to line up at Screen Door on a Friday night to avoid a long-ass wait?

Thanks for any help; and I wish all you NW peeps well in dealing with the fires.

 

Closest place would be Spirit of '77, roughly .5 miles away. You can check out their TV schedule online to make sure they'll be showing the game(s) your brother is interested in. My favorite spot for watching football is Belmont Inn on 33rd and Belmont. It's classic dive bar atmosphere, but they've got ~20 taps and enough TVs that they can show every game that's playing at any given time.

Get there 15 minutes before they open at 5pm and you should be good to go for the first seating.

 

That sounds good, thanks.

 

Saraveza would be a good pick for football, too. They're a Packer bar if that matters.

 

My, oft reapeated, advice is this: pick the bar that has what you're looking for. The beer will be there. Choose "spoartsbar"; they will have an interesting taplist. That's just how we roll 'round these parts. Enjoy your visit!

 

Always good advice.

A quick word for another option: For those times I'm looking for non-local sports, or local sports I don't have a ticket for, the SE Portland Growler Guys gets it done right. Two screens, two decent food options right next door, and 40 taps that always have excellent choices. And you're perfectly situated for post-game beer hunting.

 

But, but, what if dude wants good beer and peelers? Then what? I bet PDX ain't got that covered, buncha hippies.

 

Any beer bars showing the Canelo GGG fight? In from Austin and cant find any so far.

 

Thanks, I'll check those out. The fight is Saturday I think, so NFL shouldn't be a problem.

 

The Ducks game is at 4pm tomorrow and the Timbers play at 6:30, so those might be on a lot of places.

 

Haha. Cool. BTW any pliney around Portland?

 

Horse Brass and Apex seem to regularly have Plinly/other RR beers on tap (at least most times I end up at those places). Oddly found it at Blitz Ladd too randomly but no idea if it was a one time thing or what since I don't go there often.