Bar Guide 2014: Brewstop

By Matthew Korfhage

(NEW!) Brewstop

1425 NW Flanders St., 971-400-5950. 4-10 pm Monday-Thursday, 4 pm-midnight Friday, 9 am-midnight Saturday, 9 am-9 pm Sunday.

Tucked behind a lighted garage housing bicycles built for 12, the BrewCycle touring company's new Pearl District BrewStop is a cleanly cut zigzag of a bar in hardwood and concrete, stocked with a smattering of local liquors and 14 taps of impeccable provenance: Upright, Pelican, Barley Brown's, Breakside and Pfriem. It looks a little like a futuristic Kubrick set from the past—when it doesn't resemble the house taproom for a design studio. Somewhere along the way, bike fitness and craft brews converged in the local imagination, and so the clientele is every bit as streamlined as the decor, awash in the bullheaded cheeriness one associates with state-school athletics and good childhood orthodontics. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

WWeek 2015

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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