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Willamette Week’s Guide to Drinking Beer Portland beer drinkers go through stages. First, you move here, or turn 21. Then you realize that every corner tavern is likely to serve 10 excellent microbrews, so you go crazy and try them all--even the fruit beers. Dark beers, you discover, aren't intimidating. Six months, 10 pounds and several hangovers later, it's time to re-evaluate. Hops become your new best friend. Then suddenly, you're ordering Henry's and not because it's cheap. Luckily, turnabout springs eternal. Our Beervana supplement has experienced a similar evolution. Five years ago we were explaining the difference between malt and hops and marveling over all the cool names and colors. Two years ago we wanted to regress to cases of Oly. In 1997, we expanded Beervana to include wine. Now that it's hard to find a bar in Portland that doesn't serve microbrews, we're concentrating on where to drink as well as what to drink. Instead of deciding you want a glass of Mirror Pond, think about whether you'd like to play pool, watch a basketball game or drown your sorrows in solitude while sipping your pint. |
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