News A dispatch from the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion (of Awesomeness): Eat Mobile, WW's annual food cart festival, is back. The giant cheap food blowout gets rolling on Saturday, April 24 under the east end of the Morrison Bridge. And tickets are on sale online or at WW's headquarters RIGHT NOW. They're only $7 ($10 if you get 'em at the fest). We are limiting Eat Mobile's crowd capacity ...   More

News Asheville —a North Carolina burg of 70,000 people— has won the title of BeerCity USA 2010. Asheville bested Portland via an online poll for American Craft Beer Week. It was a close fight with more than 19,000 votes and numerous livid comments en route to Asheville getting 38 percent of the votes. Portland was close behind with 34 percent. San Diego trailed in third with four percent. If ...   More

News Okay, maybe patio-porn isn't a real term (Dwell's sure to co-opt it soon). But the prospect of lazing around and drinking a cold pint on soon-to-be-reopened Produce Row's pretty, new quasi-covered patio—instead of its old, creaky, fern-adorned old patio—in the near future makes me very happy. I am a simple woman. Details about the 36-year old Eastside Industrial suds institution, ...   More

News I'll be the first to admit that I have bad taste in beer. When confronted with the tap selection at a Portland microbrewery, sometimes I find myself pining for a nice Miller High Life or similar beer of ill repute. So I felt a little out of my element at the North American Organic Brewers Festival today, where thousands of beer connoisseurs swished fine organic ales around compostable cups, held ...   More

News The Oregon Liquor Control Commission earned Rogue of the Week dishonors earlier this month for its decision to crack down on home-brewers and amateur winemakers who offer their products at contests around the state. The OLCC said then that it was "actively working on a solution" and working with state lawmakers to devise a fix next year for the problem. Today, the OLCC said definitively in this ...   More

News It's the second day of the Oregon Brewers Festival, the day when the real crowds start to pour in and beer-tasting strategy comes into play. I tasted some 25 brews last night to better equip you, reader, for the weekend before you. Here are the highlights. The Very Good ROGUE 21: A one-off brew to celebrate Rogue's 21st trip to OBF, this complex olde ale contains some 14 ingredients, including ...   More

News “Congratulations, you just saved a fortune on your car insurance by switching to Shimano.” That's the unofficial catchphrase of the New Belgium Brewing Company's Car-for-Bike Swapper , an ongoing effort to convince YOU that you'd be better off on two wheels. How does it work? Well, when the Tour de Fat—New Belgium's annual traveling circus of bicycle mayhem and beer—rolls ...   More

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Miss Dish GENTLE READERS,As many of you may already know, Miss Dish comes from the gutter. Sure, it may seem as though she lives a charmed life and is to the manor born, but nothing could be further from t ...   More