Portland

[CPADRE]

I'm heading to Portland, Oregon with the family in June and would love to check out some of the great Craft brews up there. Anyone know some good places we should check out? any recommendations or places we should stay away from?

[maxwell]

If you like sour beers at all, you absolutely must go to the Cascade Brewing Barrel House. A dozen sours on tap including 2 pouring straight from the barrel. Beervana.

[CPADRE]

If you like sour beers at all, you absolutely must go to the Cascade Brewing Barrel House. A dozen sours on tap including 2 pouring straight from the barrel. Beervana.

Thanks Maxwell. I'm already planning on taking the family to Raccoon Lodge. Maybe I can talk the wife into a side trip to Cascade.

[pfooti]

I'm a big fan of the Kennedy School - operated by McMenamin's, it's a big old elementary school converted into a hotel with something like six different bars scattered throughout the place. Grab a pint in the nurse's office. That sort of thing. Plus, pretty good beer on tap. There's also the Green Dragon brewpub, which played a large role in one night I spent in portland that I don't recall much of.

[dminnery]

So many to recommend, here a few breweries

HUB
New Old Lompoc
Deschutes Pub
Hair of the Dog

of course many others, personally I would skip Mcmenamins, the beer is ok but better can be had elsewhere. Mcmenamins is a local brewpub chain that does a good job making each restaurant unique, but if I was basing it off beer, I'd choose someplace else.

[whoateallthepies]

Cart food.

[JohnF]

So many to recommend, here a few breweries

HUB
New Old Lompoc
Deschutes Pub
Hair of the Dog

of course many others, personally I would skip Mcmenamins, the beer is ok but better can be had elsewhere. Mcmenamins is a local brewpub chain that does a good job making each restaurant unique, but if I was basing it off beer, I'd choose someplace else.

It also does a good job of letting PDX fans claim that they have the most breweries of any city (often stated as most per capita which Portland is nowhere close to).

[Holt]

Personally I would skip Mcmenamins, the beer is ok but better can be had elsewhere.

+1

If you can reschedule your trip for July, I would highly recommend attending this event:

http://www.oregonbrewfest.com/