All posts in On the Outside

  • Destination: Bend BrewFest 2011
    2011/08/31, No comments

    Photo ©2011 Ian Lass. If you’ve spent enough time living here in Portland then odds are that you have made the 3 and a half hour trip southeast to our other beer mecca that is called Bend. If you haven’t… well then cr ...

  • Beer Roadtrip: Scotland (Part 2)
    2011/04/20, 2 Comments

    Black Isle Brewery’s first brewing location, now supported by a new larger facility. From Inverness, we traveled north to Black Isle Brewery, an all organic brewery producing a current lineup of about ten beers, all available in bottl ...

  • Beer Roadtrip: Scotland (Part 1)
    2011/04/18, No comments

    Becky and I decided to head out of Portland, hopped on I-205 North, and a couple of turns later ended up in: Scotland.  Alright, there was a bit more to it than that, but this isn’t a blog that specialized in travel planning. Most be ...

  • On The Outside: Goose Island’s Bourbon County Stout
    2009/12/28, 5 Comments

    Yesterday, my girlfriend noticed a beer bottle in a seldom seen area of the refrigerator, mixed in with the secondary condiments.  She asked me why I was hiding a bottle of Bourbon County Stout (BCS).  I yelled from my spot on the couch t ...

  • On the Outside: Firestone Walker 13
    2009/11/30, No comments

    Firestone Walker 13 We like to keep most of our coverage on the local Portland beer scene, hence the URL portlandbeer.org. Makes sense to us.  A lot of beer news happens outside of our little beer utopia though.  Some of it is relevant, s ...