Audioblog: An Overview of Portland

06/27/22 • 12 min

Today's post kicks off Portland Travel Week. To get things started, I’ll offer an overview of the Rose City, a bit of beer-centric history, and some of the key features of the local drinking culture. Craft breweries follow a familiar model, and if you just go from one to the next, you might miss some of the character behind all that steel.

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Show 162: Away Days Brewing

On June 11th, Portland’s English-themed, pro-cask Away Days Brewery hosts a cask ale festival with several regional breweries. As you know, Jeff and I love cask ale and have been promoting it for over a decade—all to little apparent effect. Something changed in the past few years, though, and now several Portland-area breweries have regular cask offerings (we toured a chunk of them on a podcast extra between Shows 155 and 156). That something may very well be Away Days, which has shown the kind of sustained commitment to cask that has helped raise its profile in the city. In advance of the fest, we wanted to sit down and talk to some folks from the brewery

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Show 163: Portland's Best Breweries

Portland has many breweries. Old breweries, new breweries, big breweries, small breweries. But which, among this dense thicket, are the best? For visitors to Portland, that’s an important question, and we’re here to help! This past week, Jeff posted his annual Best Portland Breweries list, and we go through it and discuss the breweries he chose—and whether his choices are correct.