Five Great Portland Breweries

The secret is out: Portland has good beer. We've got more than 100 craft breweries within an hour's drive of the city—all of which you can learn about in our craft beer guide in print or on wweek.com—but 2016 has seen a handful truly stand out from the pack. Although you should certainly visit every single brewpub in Portland, here are some that have been particularly impressive this year.

Upright Brewing

240 N Broadway, Suite 2, 503-735-5337, uprightbrewing.com.

(Matt Wong) (Matt Wong)

In Upright's basement tasting room, you can enjoy its small selection of top-quality Belgian-style beers to a soundtrack of quiet conversation and Frank Zappa's Hot Rats on vinyl. Beers are cheap, and the cash-or-check-only policy reflects owner Alex Ganum's homebrew roots. It feels like you've stumbled on an incredible secret: It is very possibly the best brewery in Portland.

10 Barrel Brewing

1411 NW Flanders St.

(Emily Joan Greene) (Emily Joan Greene)

10 Barrel's Bend-brewed beers are good and all, but what you really want is this Pearl outpost's house beverages from brewer Whitney Burnside, who's knack for lagers and sours has made her among the city's most consistent brewers.

Fat Head's Brewery

131 NW 13th Ave.

(Hilary Sander) (Hilary Sander)

A short walk from 10 Barrel, head brewer Mike Hunsaker's Semper FiPA was voted by a panel of Portland's beer experts to be the city's best IPA in a blind taste test. Hunsaker's IBUsive was voted second-best. Go and drink some IPAs at Fat Head's.

Great Notion Brewing and Barrel House

2204 NE Alberta St., No. 101.

Great Notion (Maya Setton)

Great Notion is making what are probably the best fruity, juicy, low-IBU IPAs in Oregon, and is the best brewpub Alberta has ever seen.

Cascade Brewing Barrel House

939 SE Belmont St.

(Bridget Baker) (Bridget Baker)

Sultans of sour Cascade Brewing release a new beer literally every Tuesday. There's your midweek beer covered.

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