Dave Knows: Portland

After Flugtag head to SE Portland to honor your ancestors; Oregon Buddhist Temple (3720 SE 34) is hosting Obonfest 2008 this Saturday, August 2nd from 4pm-9pm.
A smörgåsbord of food options await you, including, yakisoba, yakiniku/yakitori/Korean short ribs, chirashi sushi, spam musubi, corn on the cob, manju, shave ice, and berry dessert.
Enjoy your beer in the [...]

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Redbull’s Flugtag (not to be confused with the Bognor Birdman) returns to Portland this Saturday, August 2nd.
In 2004 Portland hosted a Flugtag at Waterfront Park. I joined about fifty thousand other people getting sunburns, drinking beer, and watching the silly people wearing funny costumes launch their harebrained contraptions (and themselves) off the end of [...]

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For the first time in recorded history, I missed the brew fest.
If I’d gone I would have tried to get there early, like this guy. And left early, before the lines got so long that a obtaining a 3 ounce sample would be a 20 minute ordeal.
But this particular brew fest weekend [...]

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The Big One starts today.
In years past I’ve been more excited about this festival than any others. Times change. The Organic Brewers Festival has been my favorite the past few years. The Big One keeps getting bigger, and more crowded, and the good beers run out too damn early. I don’t [...]

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The lingering morning clouds and slightly cooler temperature today (high of 72!) might put you in the mood for an un-summery beer. But it’s July; unless you have a personal beer cellar, where will you find a wintry ale in the middle of summer?
You’re in luck.
Lucky Lab on Hawthorne is serving up winter ales [...]

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I’m off to the hinterlands this weekend for some good ol’ fashioned car camping. We’re hoping to see some old growth forest and to stay dry (we weren’t so lucky last time).
Meanwhile back in and around Portland y’all will be . . .

Drinking beer at the Portland International Beerfest
Averting your eyes as kilts fly [...]

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As soon as I can sneak out of the office early Friday I’m jumping on the Yellow Line; The North American Organic Brewers Festival (NAOBF) returns to Overlook Park this weekend.
It’s my favorite summer beer festival in town; it’s not (yet . . .) nearly as crowded as the Big One, nor as expensive as [...]

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Head on out to the Horse Brass Pub on Tuesday, July 1st for an Oregon Craft Beer Month kickoff event.
The Oregon Brewers Guild has a comprehensive list of this year’s events. Some Portland highlights:
All month Long
July 1st - July 31st
Eight Guest Taps from Oregon Craft Brewers
Horse Brass Pub, 4520 SE Belmont, Portland
Daily, Monday - [...]

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The Oregon Brewers Guild has a new website. One of the new features is On Tap: the OBG Blog. Judging from the nascent posts (first post was on May 31st, 2008), it looks to be the One Stop Shopping place for Oregon beer news, events, and factoids; the Fred Meyers of Beer Blogs, [...]

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The grand opening for Deschutes Brewery’s first Portland pub (210 NW 11th Avenue) is scheduled for next Friday, May 2nd. This Saturday, April 26 the pub is hosting a (sold out) pre-opening fundraising party to benefit Oregon Trout.
We’d heard rumors, however, that the pub might be open already for lunch, so Amy and I [...]

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