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| Posted by Nick B. on 2015-07-04 03:04:06 |
| It is a beautiful part of the world, and I did indeed drive out to Newport via Mary's Peak, and then the next day to Pacific City via Newport. Got lucky with the traffic on the various highways, for one thing, THANKFULLY. Pelican has grown. But the beer seemed as excellent as ever, even with the disadvantage of keg gassiness. Pity though - everyone else in the world seems to have discovered the place, even on a weekday. Used to be a sleepy little place, but heck, lots of people seem to want to come to Oregon and NOT heed the late great Governor McCall's heed to "please, for heaven's sake, don't *stay* here." Spent about 30 hours travelling back with large boxes of stuff between PDX - SEA - AMS - NUE, so am a bit run down at the moment, 12 hours after arriving. The beer got to be tiresome in the end. Just not for me any more. Mostly. And this whole "sours" [sic] business...nope, really don't understand all the hype. Good lambic is worth hype and premium pricing, but slightly soured (artificially) variants of fruit & vegetable beer? Let the kids have their fun, keeps them away from crowding out other places, I guess. But there is some excellent Germanic beer being brewed in OR these days! My discovery and love of British pubs (and ale) post-dates my earlier time in Oregon. I.e., I'd never been to an English pub when I had last visited or lived in Oregon. So, my impressions of Oregon taverns from 22 - 11 years ago are obsolete now. It was hard for me to enjoy most of them, with the fundamental differences between British & American watering hole culture. Stools at the bar, keeping to one's self at the bar, the whole not-knowing-the-serving-size-or-price-let-alone-alcohol-content-without-asking thing, etc., &c. Deschutes's Portland operation is much too cavernous and restaurant-y for me. Also, back then, you had to drive off 3 hours into the desert in order to visit their original brewpub, just having a Deschutes operation right there in the big city just isn't right, somehow. No beer in the cask there when I was in. Bridgeport's IPA was great the 3 or so times I went in. And Lucky Lab on Quimby had excellent Stumptown Porter, which would give repeat Champion Beer of Britain Elland 1872 a good run for its money. Would be an excellent comparison, those two. Actually, I kept going back to various McMenamins pubs, some of whose brewers are doing very well these days. With basic styles of ale, anyway. And even lagers. Wouldn't mind having some McMenamins pubs here. Right. Away from the computer... |
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 Germanic Beer in Oregon is mostly Excellent by Nick B. on 2015-07-04 03:05:01 |