Every now and again, an explorer will follow a path deep into a thicket before finally tracing their way back out. The Sherpa has lately been following American-brewed Czech tmavés deep into the underbrush, and today’s edition reveals what he found.
Read MoreHaving been neglectful about actual, tasty beer, I offer a round-up of recent discoveries, both in trends and individual beers.
Read MoreThis annual list began as a way of giving visitors to Portland a place to land when they were searching for breweries to visit. This year, when visitors are absent, it's more like an appeal to preserve our best and brightest.
Read MoreGreat Notion is a polarizing brewery, but for an unusual and—for some—unsettling reason. Both fans and critics of the brewery agree they make beers that taste uncannily like a blueberry muffin, stack of pancakes, or scoop of sherbet. Where they disagree: whether the beer should taste like those things.
Read MoreJust a year old, Beachcrest Brewing has become a must-visit on Oregon’s central coast.
Read MoreThe Beer Sherpa recommends a beer from each stop on his grand European odyssey.
Read MoreWe have become balkanized in our IPA preferences, divided among our tribes of hazy fans and West Coast devotees. But the flagship IPA of Grains of Wrath has something to please everyone.
Read MoreI get emails, dozens of them every year, from people coming to Portland. They want to know one thing: which breweries should I go to? Here's your answer, updated for 2019.
Read MoreRiffing on the name Beervana, I have traditionally identified the best new beer of the year with the Satori award. It honors the beer that in a single instant, through the force of tastiness and elan, produces a similar flash of insight into the nature of beer.
Read MoreThree beers to get your weekend off to a good start from Little Beast, Level Beer, and Pelican.
Read MoreIt’s impossible to keep up with all the new breweries in Portland, but put West Coast Grocery on your short list. It’s got a great location, a great vibe, (an admittedly curious name), but most importantly, really fine beer.
Read MoreHow many breweries are there out there, further than an hour and a half from a major population center, that have beer that would be buzz-worthy in a large city? My visit to Astoria, Oregon and Reach Break Brewing made me wonder how many others we’re missing.
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One of the best new breweries in the Pacific Northwest isn’t in Portland or Seattle, but way down the Columbia Gorge in Goldendale, WA. To get a full sense of the range of the beers on offer, you may have to go visit yourself.
Read MoreOregon is home to around 250 breweries, and rare is a town of any size without at least one. Here are twenty of the best, geographically dispersed so you're never far from a tasty pint of beer.
Read MoreIn recent weeks I have sampled three very tasty beers that fit along the continuum of "hazy," but illustrate the ways in which this catch-all category is fracturing and spreading as different breweries reinterpret it to their own ends.
Read MorePathways saison is the result of an accretion of knowledge Americans have gathered, collectively, over the decades. Upright made great beers from the start, but Pathways represents a level of mastery that only comes from time and practice.
Read MoreOn the remote Big Island, on the remote archipelago of Hawai’i, is a remote town called Waimea. It’s a grassland in which the island’s cattle graze in a semi-western tableau. And yet in this small town is a wonderful little brewpub with excellent food and even better beer: the Big Island Brewhaus.
Read MorePortland, Oregon no longer has the most breweries in the world--though it does have 75 or so--but it may have more great ones than any other city. Trying to figure out which ones to see is a challenge, but if you're visiting Portland in 2018, these are the breweries you should see.
Read MoreIt is an annual tradition: the Satori Award, which honors the best new Oregon beer. That beer will be revealed in due course, but not before I survey the year in beer, not just in Oregon but beyond.
Read MoreIn two days time, most Americans will settle down before a giant feast. Turkey, football, Grandpa Joe--a tradition as old as the country. You can enhance the day immeasuruably with thoughtful libation selection. My vote: Traquair House Ale.
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