This one is mild on the blood orange but it’s definitely there and makes for a nice easy drinker without overwhelming your taste buds in any way. In a city with so many excellent breweries, parents don’t have to choose between spending time with their kids and enjoying a great pint of beer. Kid-Friendly Breweries in Portland In a city with so many excellent breweries, parents don’t have to choose between spending time with their kids and enjoying a great pint of beer. Portland Beers by Style Ordering a pint in a city with 70+ breweries can be intimidating — use our insider’s guide to Portland beer styles to sip your way through Beervana’s best IPAs, saisons, stouts and other brews.
The event still spreads out over a large open-air landscape sandwiched between shiny new condominium towers and a view of the Fremont Bridge over the Willamette. Since 2017, the annual holiday ZooLights display at the Oregon Zoo has gotten a grown-up spinoff. For two nights every November, BrewLights takes over the zoo. Tickets include adult-only access to the festive display and samples from local breweries.
Happy Hour food and drink specials are offered Monday through Friday from 4 – 6pm. For our glass-half-full kinda people, happy hours in Portland are where it’s at. Whether you’re looking to try out a new spot on the cheap or get beer and shot week portland together to decompress after work, these discounts on beer, wine, cocktails, and snacks will turn that frown upside down. For a mid-century happy hour experience, it’s hard to beat the old-school lounge at Clyde’s Prime Rib.
Brackets will be available and prizes to those who come and guess the winners! Expect beers from Deschutes, Hopworks, Double Mountain, Laurelwood, Widmer and Firestone Walker with brewers all in attendance. Lots of prizes and schwag plus special beer and food pairing menu items. Brewery 26 Sabado Lager – it may not be the cleanest lager at the fest but it’s one of the most approachable and probably enjoyable for the novice craft lager drinker.
As in all things media, please take the time to evaluate what is presented for yourself and to check for any overt media bias. There are a number of places to investigate the credibility of any site presenting information as “factual”. If you have any concerns about this or any other site’s reputation for reliability please take a few minutes to look it up on one of the sites below or on the site of your choosing. Leikam Brewing RhineStone Eyes Altbier – an Altbier should be malty with a rich caramel and nutty quality but with a moderately dry and hoppy finish to balance it. Unfortunately this one is too sweet, muddled, and worty unfermented quality that tastes a bit like an unfinished homebrew and not the clean focus this style requires. Ex Novo Brewing Perle Haggard Pilsner – An Oregon Beer Awards gold medal winning Pils that does everything you want it to do.
McMenamins Hillsdale Brewery and Public House (Portland’s original brewpub, brewing since 1985) hosts the Hillsdale Brewfest. Also known as the “Battle for the Belt,” this annual competition pits the pros from across McMenamins’ empire against one another — and lets fans taste offerings from all 22 McMenamins breweries in one spot. A Pop-a-Shot tournament to land a Fort George beer for the Summer. Come out and cheer on Fort George with a Vortex in hand as we out-shoot the other breweries… with a Vortex in hand! Attendees will receive a FREE PDX Beer Week pint glass.
