Bar Guide 2015: Plew's Brews

By Martin Cizmar

8409 N Lombard St., 283-2243. 11 am-2:30 am daily.

Randy Plew sold off his old St. Johns beer bar, and now his stoner paradise of a beer bar has merged with the newer denizens of the neighborhood—along with some electro-funk DJs—to become one of the weirder hybrid purple-hazy beasts in this or any other city. There are blacklit restrooms and grandma couches that carry the faint scent of Monday night Oregon Medical Marijuana Program meet-ups. By the Killian's Red beer sign (not available), choose from a huge collection of obscure board games and racks of thrifted T-shirts. Plew's is also the spot to find rare local beers such as Awesome Ales, otherwise absent from most tap lists.


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WWeek 2015

Martin Cizmar

Martin Cizmar

Culture editor Martin Cizmar writes about food, beer, jam bands, country music, gangsta rap, bikes, cannabis and the outdoors. He’s originally from a smallish city in the part of Ohio that was once part of Connecticut and has worked as a reporter at dailies in Michigan, Virginia and Arizona and as music editor at the alt-weekly in Phoenix. He’s a passionate advocate for unfettered access to public lands, the repatriation of Oregon wolves, increased urban density and good machaca burritos. He is unwelcome in the cities of Salem and Lake Oswego.

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