I am headed to Oregon for the first time. Any recommendations on pubs and running routes in the Portland area?
Thanks.
I am headed to Oregon for the first time. Any recommendations on pubs and running routes in the Portland area?
Thanks.
There is no good beer in Oregon, all trash. Go with something good like Bud Light or THE BEAST.
They are all the same anyway.
My Top 3
1. Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB)
2. Lucky Labrador (Both locations)
3. Rogue Distillery & Public House
bridgeport brewery. best beer in the known world.
"Breweries"
First off you must hit Henrys on Burnside. More varieties of beer on tap there than anyplace in the city. Second the other poster regarding Rough and HOP works.
Running just like the beer, best if organic and found on your own. Try Forest Park. There are a couple good running groups that are always running in there on the weekends.
Have fun. I would leave the car though at the hotel and walk everywhere downtown. It is on a half block grid and all the pubs are with in a few block radius besides HOP which would take you the better part of a day to get to and back from.
Bridgeport and Rogue are not very good.
McFadden's brewpub off 2nd street in downtown Portland is terrible... :)
The various McMenamin's brewpubs around town are fun if you're a hippy freak.
+1 Lucky Lab.
Nanobrewery wrote:
Bridgeport and Rogue are not very good.
Everyone has their own tastes and I certainly don't like all brews in any pub, but I've had some very good beer (IMHO) at Rogue. Dead Guy is a standard that I like but they had a seasonal one called "100 Meter Red" or something like that which I really liked.
Another vote for Rogue.
One vote for HUB
and surprised no one has mentioned Deschutes
Isn't Deschutes in Bend?
The Deschutes Brewery is in Bend but they have a pub in the Pearl in Portland.
So you're going to try a 'pub run'. Good luck... don't drink too much at the first few pubs because if you have to run a few miles between a pub during the last few... you may die.
Hopworks ia excellent. Organic beer, great food.
Bridgeport - good beers, crappy atmosphere. God I wish they had never remodeled.
Old Lompoc (NW PDX)/Fifth Quadrant (North Portland) - same brewery, different locations.
Deschutes - Portland outpost. Food is a tad expensive, but the beer selection is good.
Amnesia Brewing. Fantastic beer. My top choice. Food choices could be better, but the beer is out of this world.
Alameda Brewehouse - good beer, good food.
Laurelthirst (NE PDX and NW PDX) - decent food, decent pizza, decent, but not great beer.
Roots Brewing. Organic beers like Hopworks, but without the same quality of food.
Lucky Lab - It has a following. Beers are good, nothing earth-shattering. Food is fine. You'll walk away satisfied, but not blown away.
McMenamin's. A step below Lucky Lab. Food is average. Beer is average.
Widmer. Good beers, lousy food.
Rogue. Good beers and food.
Portland Brewing. Good beer. OK food.
Whoever said Henry's should be slapped upside the head. 100 beers on tap. Great. It's not a brewery, just inside the shell of the former Blizt-Weinhard brewery. Skip it unless you want to hang out with a bunch of twenty-somethings who don't appreciate a true brewery.
Outside Portland - Hood River has Double Mountain and Full Sail. Both good choices. Stevenson, Washington has Walking Man Brewery.
Running - look up prevoius threads on places to run for more information, but Leif and Wildwood in Forest Park should be tops on the list.
go to Mary's
Horsebrass, and their fish sandwich and fish and chips are the best in the US.
If you are downtown, there is a good scenic walk/bike/running loop of about 3 miles from the Hawthorne Bridge to a railroad bridge that goes all along the Willamette river. Just go down to the river from downtown and start running. Its pretty hard to miss.
A little northwest of Downtown there is the wildwood trail. I call it a hiking trail, but they are well maintained and people can and do run on them. There are multiple entrances to it.
I would love to see a nice soft bark or wood chip running trail somewhere in Portland like Eugene has with Pre's Trail and Amazon, but there isn't really any thing like that.