Cheektronic
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Wanted to take at least one day to visit a brewery. Which day during the festival is the slowest and what would be the best brewery tour around downtown?
Get there as early as possible on the first day, and avoid the weekend. Hopefully Dogfishhead sends something that doesn't taste like Robitussin this year.
lol, good suggestions. The Motel 6 on Powell is about as cheap as it gets in Portland, and is next to HUB and Safari and is an easy bus ride to OBF.The Paramount is nice, pretty central to everything downtown. Though you'd be even closer if you did something right by the waterfront like the Marriott. If you don't mind a bit of a walk, you can easily get from downtown across the river to Cascade, Green Dragon, Lucky Lab, etc. and Sassy's
If you want cheap but hip, check out the Jupiter on East Burnside. Also close enough to the above, plus Burnside Brewing. and Union Jack's
Some states are now producing lists of breweries in that state. Is there anything like that for Oregon? If so who produces it or where might I go to find it?
The servers are all volunteers. The knowledge problem is the fault of the OLCC. OLCC regulations prohibit anyone from having a drink prior to serving alcohol, so servers aren't allowed to have a taste of the beer they are serving. So, unless they have prior experience with that particular beer, there's not a lot they're going to be able to tell you besides the small blurb the brewery has provided. It's the main reason I no longer volunteer to pour beer at events.I went last year for the first time. It sucked. Super crowded and none of the servers knew anything about the beer they were pouring, they were just event staff. I'll never go again.
So true..!Mongrel said:The servers are all volunteers. The knowledge problem is the fault of the OLCC. OLCC regulations prohibit anyone from having a drink prior to serving alcohol, so servers aren't allowed to have a taste of the beer they are serving. So, unless they have prior experience with that particular beer, there's not a lot they're going to be able to tell you besides the small blurb the brewery has provided.
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