![]() Then there’s Four Play, a cask-aged saison with just enough cherry flavor to shake off the usual doldrums of putting down a whole pint of wheat beer. It’s hard to imagine a beer as simple as Engelberg Pilsner offering such a dynamic spread of hop flavors, yet even the most diehard IPA stan will have a tough time ordering just one. At the heart of this sentiment is Ganum’s dedication to life-changing French, Belgian, and English ales that bloom gently with a soft gradient of flavors across the palate. You’re here because your buddy who homebrews says this is the only brewery he’ll actually spend any time in, and the general consensus around town is that this may be one of the only breweries worth saving if a mass culling is in the works. ![]() To be clear, brewmaster Alex Ganum does offer an IPA, and an awesome one at that, but that’s not why you’re here, and it’s definitely not why you’ll stay. Upright BrewingĪn understated basement brewery beloved by industry types for its aversion to trends and devotion to European classicsįew scenes in the Portland beer world are as inspiring as the sight of an ironclad Haze Bro stepping into Upright Brewing for the first time. Be sure to pay a visit to their new location out in “the Numbers” at Glendoveer Golf & Tennis, which is where you’ll find ex-Commons brewer Sean Burke running wild with foeder-conditioned blended ales, smooth lagers and pilsners, and plenty of updates of the classic farmhouse ales that originally put the Commons on the map before they shuttered in 2017. Few breweries ascended to world-beating status as quickly as Von Ebert, but the proof is in the potion, as they say, which in this case are progressive takes on Euro-centric ales like a smoked Vienna lager, a toasty baltic porter and a tart ale that’s bursting with local berries. Enter Von Ebert and its wildly diverse portfolio of top-flight beer. It then packed up abruptly in 2017, but franchise owner Tom Cook knew the location was still ripe for sustained success in the beer world. ![]() The spiritual heir to the Commons and Fathead, complete with a location on a golf course and another in the heart of the Pearlĭespite its doofy-dad branding and outsider status, Cleveland-based brewery Fatheads was a hit when it landed in the Pearl District in 2014.
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