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Portland West Cafe's Daily Dow Specials
I'm quickly becoming a fan of The West Cafe. My wife and I stopped in a couple weeks back for some drinks and Jazz. Excellent drinks, excellent music and perfect service.
Shortly thereafter I started following The West Cafe on Twitter and realized just how smart and cool the people running this cafe are. First they offered an exclusive coupon for people who follow them on twitter.
Now they've got a regular Daily Dow Special where they take the point drop or percentage drop and make a drink special out of it! Tonight's special:
Daily Dow Drink Deal: Down 2.42% so we'll take $2.42 off call martinis all night!! Stop by for an extra dry one, shaken not stirred.
It's great to see a business be so savy with new media and so in touch with its customers
Oregon Brewer's Festival – Fresh Hop Beer Tastival
Oregeon Brewer’s Fresh Hop Beer Tastival
Packed! That's the best way to describe the Oregeon Brewer's Fresh Hop Beer Tastival at the Hop Works Urban Brewery this Saturday. Two tents filled with people enjoying the Indian Summer and a bounty of new beers with hops from the recent Oregon Hop Harvest.
$5 got you a nice pint glass and then each 4oz taste was $1. Unfortunately I was only able to taste 3 beers at the fest:
Hopworks Urban Brewery Parsec Pale Ale -I figured I had to give some love to the hosting brewery and that may Pale Ale days would be few and far between as we get into the winter. This Pale Ale is a light and tasty beer that is very clean with only a hint of hops.
Lompoc Brewing Proletariate Red – a sweet and hoppy beer with a nice clean edge,,very drinkable and if I had more time I would have enjoyed a full pint.
Beer Valley Brewing Black Flag Imperial Stout – WOW! They were only giving people 4oz tastes and that's a shame because this is quite a stout. Super Dark, Bold, flavorful and hoppy. This was a beer that really got my attention, and I'd love drink again.
I also had a chance to taste Deschutes Hop Trip before the event, and I have to say it's one of my favorite of the fresh hop bunch. I've also got a bottle of the Bridgeport's Hop Harvest in my fridge which I hope to try soon.
There's no question that Portland supports local brewery events and the excitment around the local brewers sceen is really exceptional.
Stout Time Has Arrived
Photo by david.nikonvscanon
For dinner the other night I went to the Bye and Bye (1011 NE Alberta St). I did what I always do: I stared at the menu for a long time and ended up ordering the exact same thing I always get – The BBQ platter. Rather than order an IPA to accompany my meal I realized that it was 'Stout Time'.
Stout time comes when the air is crisp in the morning, the clouds migrate back into the sky and it begins to rain again. It's a time when you retire the summer IPA's and wheat beers and pick up the dark stuff.
The Stout I had was Alemeda Brewing's Black Bear XX Stout – an amazing chocolaty, coffee-esque, dark but clean beer that was the the perfect start to autumn and a fantastic accompaniment to my vegan BBQ platter.
Happy Hour runs 4-7 at the Bye and Bye and I plan to be drinking many more of those stouts in the weeks to come.
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