Beer Guide 2013
4th Street
77 NE 4th St., Gresham, 669-0569, 4thstreetbrewing.com. 4 pm-1 am Monday-Friday. Noon-1 am Saturday-Sunday.
Among the offerings at Gresham’s 4th Street Brewing you’ll
spot the
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Mike Wright looked like a different man a
year ago. When Wright opened his Commons Brewery to a gaggle of local
beer writers last March, he was clean-shaven and wearing a polo shirt,
resembling
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No. 2: Oblique Black & White Coffee Blonde Stout (Cascade)
Cascade Brewing’s Oblique Black and White
Coffee Blonde Stout has a logic-defying, tongue-twisting name. It fits
the beer wel
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WEST OF THE WILLAMETTEThe west side of the Willamette River may lack the east
side’s dizzying cultural output. It may lack the great restaurants, the
edgy aesthetic, the diversity (read: “youn
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The Coast
Astoria: In 1985, Chunk and Mikey stole our heart. In 2006, Fort George Brewery (1483 Duane St., Astoria, fortgeorgebrewery.com) came
for a piece of our liver. Fort George’s Vortex IPA
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Widmer Brothers Brewing started in 1984, when six breweries
controlled 90 percent of the American beer market. With the help of
family, including their father, Ray, brothers Kurt and Rob Widmer op
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Chuck Klosterman once observed that every teenager goes
through a Led Zeppelin phase. Sometimes, it lasts a week. Other times,
for a year. But it happens.
This
axiom holds for homebrewing. As
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Portland is a beer town
surrounded by wine country. That, as much as anything, gives us reason
to be take suds seriously. And nothing says “sophisticated” like a
cellar stocked with rare vin
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A selected and mostly accurate glossary of beer terminology.
Beer Guide 2013
Abbey: From, or in the style of, beers made by quiet little men who have forever forsaken a woman’s touch.
Aging: A time-out for overly aggressive young beer. It’s left to sit in a cool, dark p
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Do you prefer BridgePort IPA or Full Sail ESB?
The last time Willamette Week published
a beer guide, that was the hot debate. The editor of our 1999 guide—a
guy named Jeff Alworth—couldn’t
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