There are a lot of ways a beer can go sideways, and the most difficult to discuss is when it happens as a function of poor recipe design. The perfect test case for this presented itself to me on Monday, when I sat down behind a Pelican Sun Flare pale ale.
Read MoreFirst up is a brewery, and one I have long adored: the Lucky Lab. Launched twenty-three years ago in a vast hall that, from 1922 to the Lab's opening in '94 served as a roofing and sheet metal warehouse, it pulled together several threads of Portland culture and instantly became an icon.
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