Beer Guide 2015: Raccoon Lodge

By Parker Hall

Raccoon Lodge

7424 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy., 296-0110, raclodge.com. 11 am-10 pm Monday-Saturday, 10 am-9 pm Sunday.

[STILL NOT A DIVE] It's still true that an undiscerning local might drive by the giant Raccoon Lodge sign on Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway and think the building housed either a giant strip club or a sketchy roadside motel. Climbing the stairs and into a palatial suburban brewpub, it is immediately clear just how wrong you are. The multi-story building hides the brewhouse of one of Oregon's foremost ale houses, Portland brewing pioneer Art Larrance's Cascade Brewing. The family-friendly upstairs restaurant has an open-air vibe and serves mostly non-sour ales, such as our perennial favorite Oblique coffee blonde stout. They do offer four rotating sour selections if you want a pucker. The real gem here, though, is a downstairs bar called the Den, with windows into the brewhouse and a lottery-machine-housing suburban bar vibe.

DRINK THIS: Oblique, which tastes like coffee, looks like a blonde and feels like stout.

WWeek 2015

Parker Hall

Parker Hall

Parker Hall is a writer, musician, and home brewer from Portland. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, where he studied jazz percussion with drum legend Billy Hart (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock). Now a freelance writer and professional member of the city's jazz and indie rock scenes, he spends most of his days writing, playing music or drinking brews in his spacious North Portland basement.

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