Food & Drink Laws were broken. Lots of them. Exactly how many, I couldn’t say. Dozens, surely. But we did it. We got a craft beer from all 50 states for a blind taste-off.It wasn’t easy. Favors were called in from friends back East and hundreds of dollars were spent to buy and ship cheap lagers available at the grocery store in their native land. And we bootlegged—a lot.Some of the beers we sampled for t...   More

Food & Drink We're drinking the flagship craft beer from every state in the Union, counting down from 50-1, to find which is home to the President of Beers.
#50: Yuengling Lager: D.G. Yuengling & Son, Pottsville, PennsylvaniaState: The large and unloved Commonwealth of Pennsylvan...   More

Drank You won’t find any woodruff syrup for sale in Portland. That’s a shame, because it’s just what we need to take Full Sail’s excellent Berliner Weiss to the next level. In Germany, the sli   More

Drank Though it’s labeled a porter, Black Butte XXIV is as stout a brew as you’ll find. Stouts are  basically stronger, thicker porters, often using roasted barley to give a beer more coffee an   More

Bar Reviews They don’t make Zima anymore. I know this because I tried to order the original alcopop at Jones (107 NW Couch St., 971-271-7178, jonesbarportland.com), the new ’80s- and ’90s-themed dance clu   More

Food & Drink Day 25 of our month-long ice cream crawl, Scoops' out for Summer, we visit a shop worth crossing state lines for.Ice Cream Renaissance
1925 Main St. Vancouver, Washington, 360-694-3892, icecreamrenaissance.com.Price per scoop: $3
Most popular flavors: H...   More

Food Reviews & Stories It’s tough to get behind Team USA at this year’s Olympics. It’s bad enough that both LeBron James and Mitt Romney’s dancing horse are representing our country in London, but now American c   More

Drank Beer festival—wooooo! Woooo? Come now, surely I can get a “woo” for this weekend’s Oregon Brewers Festival, known as the biggest and best of Beervana’s keg-based parties. There wil   More

Food & Drink Two third of the way through our month-long ice cream odyssey, Scoops' out for Summer, Internet sensation Martin Cizmar braves the summer cold for an underrated food cart favorite.Scoop
A La Carts pod, 4926 SE Division St.; and North Station pod., 2730 North Killingsworth St., scooppd...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Portlanders are obsessed with authenticity, especially when it comes to Asian food. We’ll huddle for an hour outside a tarp-sided shanty, poring over a menu and sprinkling pompous little annot   More