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BeerMongers is about as no-frills as nerdy beer bars come: a cash register, some high tables, 8 taps, and two wall-sized refrigerators packed with both hard-to-find and popular imports and micros. Pick up a sloppy burrito from Los Gorditos across the street, grab a cold 22oz from their fridge, and recall a time when all of Division was like this. Read more...
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Portland, Oregon has more breweries per capita than any other city in the world, and yet it does not have a signature beer hall to celebrate the tremendous tradition of Oregon Craft Brewing. The craft brewing movement may have officially started in a neighboring state but it is universally acknowledged that Oregon redefined the craft brewing movement and established itself Read more...
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This beer hall from the folks behind North Portland’s Prost, lures bierstube enthusiasts deeper into the world of Germanic brews while raising the bar for the country’s comforting cuisine. Stammtisch’s airy space and sidewalk beer garden boasts an impressive, rotating 18-tap beer list that ranges from a rare, malty maibock to a smoked helles lager—the kind of craft beers one Read more...
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This Belgian beer bar in Southeast Portland is a must for any serious brew aficionado. With 17 taps dedicated to Belgian-style ales—yeasty, malty, and puissant—and a happy hour that stretches leisurely between 3 pm and 7 pm daily, there is much to like here. The specials include a $5 cocktail, usually something potent and tropical, along the lines of a blood orange Read more...
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Dark woods dominate the Woodsman Tavern, the first food project from Stumptown Coffee Roasters owner Duane Sorenson. The state’s bearded forefathers would feel at home amid these thick slab tables, cast-iron table legs, and atmospheric Edison bulbs. Chef Jason Barwikowski, who made a name for himself with edgy, rustic cooking at Clyde Common and Olympic Provisions, teams up with bartender Read more...
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The Alameda Brewhouse, a Northeast hop spot that features agreeable edibles and décor that drapes steely modern flash over its blue-collar torso, turns 10 this summer. Brewmaster John Eaton, who’s been tending the tanks for the last four years, touts all the selections brewed on the premises: Black Bear XX Stout is an award-winner, and the Klickitat Pale Ale is Read more...
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The age-old pleasures of Bavaria have finally found a home in Portland at Prost, an obsessively authentic German beer hall on N Mississippi Avenue. Picture windows rimmed with golden orbs of light frame the small pub, its walls bedecked in dark wood and grainy photographs of co-owner Chris Navarra’s ancestral farm in Germany. Inside, spires of glassware brim with frothy Read more...
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Everyone’s been pinching pennies lately, but the power players frolicking in this dimly lit, Sinatra-inspired dining room don’t seem to have noticed. Perhaps they’re distracted by the high-quality dry-aged steaks, a fine Caesar salad, and a wickedly delicious bananas Foster (flambéed tableside) at prices that remind us of the surplus-happy Clinton years. Still, El Gaucho has a soft spot for Read more...
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A sort of Martha Stewart version of a German brew house, Gustav’s nonetheless proffers some excellent Happy Hour deals—schnitzel, fondue, cabbage rolls, sausage and sauerkraut—and boasts a superior selection of European beers. Time to launder the liederhosen! Read more...
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It’s difficult to ignore the inviting bar at the front of this four-decade-old Portland institution—especially when you spy diners huddled in booths, feasting on bacon-wrapped dates as they sip superb manhattans. But the dining room in back, as well as the patio outside, make the bar worth forgoing. Exuding both casual opulence and Old Portland charm, this waterfront bastion of Read more...