Old Town Brewing’s original Old Town Pizza location is celebrating their 50th anniversary on April 14th from 4-9pm with $2.50 pints, and discounted pizzas and on ‘Believe in Portland’ beer benefiting non-profit Word is Bond. Old Town Pizza opened in April of 1974 in one of Portland’s longest standing buildings in the former The Merchant Hotel, in the historic old town neighborhood. The building is famous partly because of its access to the famous Shanghai Tunnels built below its depths and running from the west hills to the waterfront, these mysterious tunnels have been buried or blocked off ..read more

As part of Earth Month this April, Hopworks Brewery is taking part in the national Earth To Beer campaign alongside nearly 40 other breweries across the country and hosting a showcase for 8 of them on April 19th from 4:30-7pm at their SE Portland pub. Earth To Beer is a national movement with a goal for participating breweries to create a packaged beer that’s better for the planet. The initiative seeks to affect change upstream of breweries by asking them to intentionally source environmentally responsible ingredients for their beer, as well as affecting downstream impact by donating a porti ..read more

The opening sketch video is always a highlight of the Oregon Beer Awards, and the 2024 ceremony opener featuring brewers reading their bad untappd reviews was no different. Though we are biased as to the quality of the video as the New School takes on a producer/director and creative role in the video in collaboration this year with Zzeppelin, and OBA MC’s Natalie Baldwin and Ben Love, and Willamette Week. Enjoy ..read more

Take this self-guided tour to explore some of the most delightful views and brews in Oregon  Explore Lincoln City has launched a Tap and Brew Trail for their section of the beautiful Oregon Coast. This self-guided adventure lets visitors explore Lincoln City's vibrant brewing scene at their own pace. Adventurous travelers can hop from brewery to pub, sampling delicious IPAs, stouts, and everything in between. This trail isn't just about the beer - along the way, travelers will encounter stunning views, like the breathtaking Siletz Bay from a brewery’s outdoor deck. Sunsets simply taste bett ..read more

Oregon craft beer’s prestigious Oregon Beer Awards were announced at another sold-out ceremony at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, April 4th 2024. This was the 9th annual Oregon Beer Awards, which started as a much smaller event first held at the Doug Fir Lounge before expanding into the double-blind judged competition that has inspired similar awards across the country with their high competition standards and gala awards show inspired by the Oscars. The 2024 Oregon Beer Awards succeeded despite the ongoing challenges the industry is facing and record recent closures. In the ..read more

Bauman’s Cider, an Oregon favorite of cider connoisseurs, is opening their new Portland tasting room, restaurant, and production facility - Bauman’s on Oak - this Saturday, April 6th, 2024. Much more than a new home for cider making or simply a place to taste their ciders, Bauman’s on Oak has brought in some real culinary talent in front of and behind the house. Bauman’s Farm in Gervais, Oregon is an institution, operating a year-round farmers market style general store, garden nursery, with sprawling fields, farm animals, and the current cider production headed up by Christine Bauman Walter ..read more

View fullsize View fullsize Nothing could have prepared Threshold Brewing for the challenges they faced this past year with their new Aqua river-aged beer line. The trailblazing SE Portland brewery first dropped anchor (in the form of 4-packs) in the Willamette River in April 2023, strategically placing their renowned stouts and porters up and down Portland’s main tributary. According to Threshold co-owner Sara Szymanski, the initial results were highly promising. “We took regular samples those first few months and the results were immediately impressive: nuanced riverbed coming through and ..read more

Alex Ganum isn’t the type to brag about his accomplishments, but any brewery that makes it fifteen years is worth bragging about. Like the legendary Jazz musician Charlies Mingus, Upright Brewing has been grooving to their own bass line for the entirety of its existence.  Starting as an urban farmhouse-style brewery in 2009 that almost exclusively focused on saisons and open fermentation with just a few variations (more on that later), the Upright of today cranks out IPAs, lagers, barrel-aged beers, British-style cask ales and more while still sticking to the humble vision that Ganum fi ..read more

Brewery dense Hood River, Oregon has been entrenched in the nascent “microbrew” scene since Full Sail Brewing opened in 1987, drawing both tourists and vacationers to the Columbia River Gorge’s most densely populated area. Even during the off-season, visitors from across the country pack pFriem Family Brewers on the waterfront, Full Sail’s name recognition brings in an international audience, and Double Mountain Brewing draws a mix of locals and visitors hitting the downtown shops. Spinning Wheels Brewing Project is very different than the rest, appealing to an almost exclusively locals crowd ..read more

Grodziskie, or Gratzer, is a Polish-style of smoked and low abv wheat beer that was resurrected from near extinction in the 2010’s by small craft brewers and has enjoyed a small cult favorite following since. In 2019 Threshold Brewing & Blending opened in SE Portland’s Montavilla neighborhood, and entered the Grodziskie world with an extra dedication to authenticity as owner/brewer Jarek Szymanski hails from Poland where the style originated. Jarek and co-owner/wife Sara Szymanski have been torch bearers in Portland for the style ever since, and after years of spreading the gospel of Grat ..read more