We learned today that a Portland institution was closing down: McCormick and Schmick’s RiverPlace restaurant. It was once the toast of the town, featuring the best view in the city. It was also the home of Full Sail’s Portland outpost, an important formative location in creating Portland’s beer scene.
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Do you like your cask pints sparkled? We have opinions. Do you like them with a dash of horror? We have you covered. Do you like them in Portland? At long, long last, you’re in luck—and now the fun has been old-school gamified. Read on for all the cask news that’s fit to print.
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For hundreds of years, brewers have ranked hops based on their quality. This has led to a sense of nobility among a select class of landrace hops brewers prize the most. But are they noble because they’re old and tested, or because they taste and smell so good?
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For the better part of a decade, non-alcoholic beer has been the Next Big Thing. But is it, really?
No.
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“I was common practice to take the beer that had splashed into a bucket below the hand pump at the end of the day, add a slurry of asbestos and then run them through a filter. The asbestos-filtered “slops” were then served to the first customers into the pub the next day.”
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We can all agree on what a beer currently costs. In Portland, a pint will set you back $7. Before Covid it was $6, and not long before that five. So is $7 expensive? It depends
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Nothing in our living memory could prepare us for what was to come, and human brains aren’t wired to understand events as huge and transformational as what we confronted.
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Last week, London’s Meantime Brewery was in the news. Its fortunes are bound up with Fuller’s and Dark Star—by coincidence three breweries I toured 13 years ago. Show did they get here?
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Oregon is one of the most interesting and important beer regions in the United States, but you wouldn’t know it if you did a web search. No one does a very good job of telling the Oregon story. Until now. I’m excited to announce a new project to promote Oregon beer.
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A small paper suggests that long Covid makes hangovers more severe. Other research hints at similar associations following other viral infections. Could it be that Covid is at least partly responsible for the dent we’re seeing in alcohol sales?
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