Here Are the Winners of Willamette Week’s Beer & Cider Pro/Am 2018

Unusual ingredients and hazy IPAs won big at Willamette Week’s Beer & Cider Pro/Am 2018.

The Five Top Places to Drink This Week

Where to drink this week.

Four Portland Beer Spots Got Major Upgrades This Year

The Five Best Places to Get a Drink This Week

Where to drink this week.

Stop Into Upright’s Newly Refurbished Taproom and Ask For a Little Head Butt

It’s a lovely beer—and for now the bottled version is on tap at a renovated Upright tasting room that now has both a bar and a Square reader to accept credit cards. Stop in for a head butt.

Upright Brewery Serves Some of the Most Creative Beers in Portland

Everything in this cozy, no-frills speakeasy-style brewery and taproom feels like a work of art.

Beer of the Year 2018: Upright’s Pathways is a Miracle, a Complex and Ambitious Farmhouse for Just $6 a Pint

Pathways is a torrent of taste, an ever-evolving mix of earth, fruit, funk and lemony hop.

We Took an Audio Expert to Assess the Sound at Portland Coffee Shops

I asked Alpern to spend the morning with me, driving around to Portland coffee shops to critique their sound. I’ve never paid close attention to the sound in local coffee shops, but given all the vinyl and vintage equipment on display, I expected that Alpern would have some small suggestions for each, and that we’d all walk away a little wiser.