The Grant’s era ended somewhere between Bert’s death and the introduction of Mandarin Hefeweisen, but the closing of its brew pub probably provides the best symbolism. Yakima Brewing and Malting failed to meet its financial obligations, and is being evicted from the lovely railroad depot.
Despite the shame of the closure itself, the loss of a 22 year old institution to downtown Yakima is another tragedy. What’s left?
Happy birthday to Bridgeport Brewery on their 20th Anniversary. I can’t speak highly enough of their IPA, which I consider an all time favorite. Their other beers are also terrific, especially Old Knucklehead and Porter. It really doesn’t hurt that the brewery/pub are in a gorgeous building, and serve some of the best pizza and ceasar salad in town either. And the casks – two magnificent casks!
The Oregonian has a nice article that celebrates the anniversary well, and treat’s Portland as the beer mecca that it is.
Denver Post Columnist Al Lewis thinks government should be run like a brewery. A quick read of his column doesn’t actually include any reasons that have any merit, so I suppose we can assume that Al is a Coors man.
The breweries that are successful, like Coors, end up that way from years of making compromises, most of which result in a crappy product. The columnist attributes Coors’ shaking its white-trash image to Peter, who has brought some class back to the brewery by changing its sales tactics. Now they objectify women in their advertisements. Wait a second….
He also points out that Coors should provide stable leadership because its hard to be a megalomaniac while sipping a brewski. I guess sipping a brewski only leads to cool problems, like pollution, union busting, racism, rape, domestic violence and crappy beer.
We all are aware that many of the founding fathers were ale drinkers. However, they didn’t brew themselves. Usually it was the women in their lives that brewed, on only smaller batches, and only ale, not sub-lager. I’m not buying the connection.
Like college all over again!
This weekend New Belgium Brewery with several local bike groups put on a festival in Sellwood Park. The brewer donated beer, and each purchase went to local bike & alterative commuting groups. Also, because New Belgium is so hip, the keg cups were biodegradable, and all the waste was to be composted. The entire event was zero-waste. Well, until the alt-theater bike group threw shaving cream pies and cabbage everywhere. Regardless, there were lots of cool bikes, great beer, and sunshine. Please come back next year!
I was just in Nebraska for a family wedding, and it was light beer or no beer for the whole trip. I chose no beer.
Actually, we did get bumped from a flight and spent the night in Denver, where I had a wonderful porter. It was strong enough to tide me over.
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A friend forwarded a link to a gallery of old Oregon trademarks and lables, including many different beers. Its a really cool gallery, but I really like the beer labels especially. Like Mt. Hood, or this Salem Beer. Mmm…. Salem beer…. |
There’s something really disturbing about this game. Why would you throw bottles at people? Plus, how do you know if they’re minors? Maybe the reprocussions of this game were never considered.
After taking a hint from another site, I check New Belgium’s website to see if the 2003 Tour de Fat was going to hit Portland. After all, we’re hip, we like bikes, and, well, we’re Portland. Turns out we’re on the list, and Tour de Fat is on August 16th. Excellent.
This April 7th lift a glass of beer for “New Beer’s Eve” to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition. Cheers!
Just a reminder – Don’t forget to vote for you favorite beers in realbeer.com’s Battle of the Beers