Bar Guide 2014: Apex

By Matthew Korfhage

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1216 SE Division St., 273-9227, apexbar.com. 11:30-2:30 am daily. 

Apex is a cash-only beer bar with a mile-long draft list to fuel a patio packed with flirting 20-somethings, and a lead bartender who answers to "the sheriff" and often plays the part. Actually, all of the bartenders sort of play that role. It's a surly place, they don't serve food and it's not cheap. But you'll end up here anyway. In a city where "beer-geek bar" is often an excuse to throw all notion of amenities to the wind, Apex boasts probably the best summertime, sun-drenched patio of the bunch. All that and an insane number of taps from all over the country and world; in local-centric Portland beer culture, Apex is willing to mail it in. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

Happy hour: HA HA HA HA HA HA. No.

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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