Willamette Week

The Greatest Beers I Drank This Year

Our beer critic’s favorite beers of 2018.

Strange Loop’s Debut Beer May be the Smash Single of the Summer

It’s is the carbonated equivalent of a single the trio posted to Bandcamp without telling anyone.

The Future—and Present—Is Bright at Ruse Brewing’s New Home

Few places shine as brightly as the new location of Ruse Brewing. The long-awaited home of brewers Shaun Kalis and Devin Benware’s Culmination Brewing-incubated brand has massive western-facing windows and a knotty wooden bar.

Baerlic-Migration’s New Brut IPA Is the “Champagne of Hops”

Hi-Li is a tightly wound spring of flavor.

The Best of What’s Left of Portland Beer Week

The “week” kicked off June 7, but there’s still plenty left on the docket.

The Five Hottest Beer Trends of the Season

Summer guzzlin’

Culmination’s Unorthodox Brews Are Some of the Best in the State

Two years ago, Culmination started as fast, furious and eclectic as any brewery in Portland—with one of the city’s best IPAs in Phaedrus, a Burton ale called Trumpet Major that was one of our favorite 10 beers of 2017, and a wild range of sours, browns and farmhouses.

You Can Now Eat Spicy, Funky, Kashmiri Soul Food at One of Portland’s Best Breweries

Kashmiri food is all about the devil’s dirt. Asafetida, which has acquired all sorts of hilarious nicknames going back to Alexander the Great, is a bulbous fennel known for its strong and funky odor. But when you cook its resin, the spice smooths into deep umami, an almost leeklike smoothness.

We Tasted Damn Near Every IPA in Portland in a Blind Tasting. These Are the 10 Best.

In the 22 years since Portland’s BridgePort invented the American IPA, the hop-crazy style has become a craft-beer juggernaut. Today, more than half of all craft beers ordered in America have the bitter, sweet and piney goodness of hoppy pales. At Willamette Week’s Oregon Beer Awards being held this week at Revolution Hall, no category received more entries than IPA.

The Five Places We’re Most Excited to Eat This Week

Where to eat this week.

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