The Beermongers

By Matthew Korfhage

The Beermongers always feels like you should need a password to get in. From its drab, industrial strip-mall exterior, it looks like a malt supply store. But when you poke your head inside, it's a drinker's dream garage, a rough-edged beer cave decorated with soccer flags on every surface that doesn't have a case of rare beer pushed against it. The bar's always cramped—even more so during barrel-aged beer fests—but somehow it seems you can always find a seat. And the eight taps, while fewer than at most halls of beer, always include unexpected surprises, whether a Mosaic-hopped Revival cider from Reverend Nat's or a 2014 Ashtray Heart stout from New York's Evil Twin that's just about as smoky as it sounds.

Entertainment: Like all geeky Portland mancaves, this is a Timbers bar.

1125 SE Division St., 503-234-6012, thebeermongers.com. 11 am-11 pm Sunday-Thursday, 11 am-midnight Friday-Saturday.

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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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