TimBrewz
Well-Known Member
So, I live in Portland,OR and have a huge choice in craft beers. I like the McMenamins locations-they are very cool. The beer has become a big disappointment for me, which I find to be an opinion shared quietly by a number of Portlanders who seem to accept that the incredible coolness of the places where one can drink microbrew and eat pizza while watching a movie is enough compensation for medicocre beer. I am not saying that McMenamins makes bad beer-though I have had some that was just not right. It's just not up to what I consider to the Northwest standard (a very high one). When I go to a McMenamins I pray for a guest tap- that's pretty bad.
Seriously, I can think of 20 other microbreweries I can go to in Portland that are better and that's just the Eastside. I know the McMenamins sort of helped push the craft beer movement, and it seems damn near sacreligious to say anything negative about them to some people around here. I have tried to pinpoint what it is that makes the beer not so great-it seems to have gotten worse in the last 5 years or so...not going to go there right now.
Do any other of you Northwesterners feel this way too?
Seriously, I can think of 20 other microbreweries I can go to in Portland that are better and that's just the Eastside. I know the McMenamins sort of helped push the craft beer movement, and it seems damn near sacreligious to say anything negative about them to some people around here. I have tried to pinpoint what it is that makes the beer not so great-it seems to have gotten worse in the last 5 years or so...not going to go there right now.
Do any other of you Northwesterners feel this way too?