Portland Brewery Still Life
Portland’s breweries have, in the main, been quite resilient in the face of the Coronavirus. Still, things are rough out there. I was speaking with the owner of a fairly prominent local brewery yesterday and learned 70% of their volume had been draft. Ouch.
Most of the city’s activity, once focused on commercial hubs, has moved to residential streets. What’s happening with the breweries? Earlier this week, I decided to go have a pedal around the city and put together a photo essay to illustrate how the breweries are doing.
Baerlic Brewing’s walk-up window.
Grixen Brewing. “Beer to go.”
Ground Breaker. Sounded like brewing inside.
Hair of the Dog. Completely still.
Inside Hair of the Dog.
Wayfinder, which is delivering, all buttoned up.
McMenamin’s White Eagle. Poignantly, the posted music schedule at the left has the acts for February. (McMenamin’s, a chain of brewpubs, is in serious trouble.)
Two blocks down from the White Eagle—The Labrewatory.
Ex Novo. The front doors were wide open and I felt a powerful urge to stroll up to the bar.
Hopworks Urban Brewery (Northeast). Completely silent despite the delivery sign.
Inside Hopworks.
Ecliptic Brewing, the open doors of which also called out to me. Seemed to be bustling inside.
StormBreaker was rocking—literally. Music was pouring from the open doors as someone worked inside.
Alberta location of Great Notion.
Culmination Brewing, silent.
Inside Culmination.
Migration Brewing.
Migration.
10 Barrel and Rogue, which would normally be packed on such a lovely day. No one is even parked on the streets in the densely-populated Pearl District.
Rogue on Northwest Flanders—no activity.
Deschutes Portland, still and silent.
Deschutes.