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gonna be in portland? go to cider week! Celebrate Oregon Cider Week with Cider Riot! Cider Summit Portland Friday June 19, 2-8pm Saturday, June 20, 12-6pm The Fields Park NW 9th and Overton Cider Riot! and 50 other cidermakers from around the world will pour their wares at this two day festival. Cider Riot unveils a limited release Cherry Brettanomyces cider aged on Bogmyrtle, in addition to our standard and seasonal offerings. Cider Riot! Dinner at Bushwhacker Cider Woodlawn Tuesday, June 23rd Bushwhacker Woodlawn. 6.30pm. $50/ticket Tickets available at Bushwhacker Cider- limited to 25 seats. Join Cider Riot! at Bushwhacker Woodlawn for their first Cider Dinner Menu: Amuse Bouche - Kingston Black cider vinegar with Olive Oil and Baguette paired with Cider Riot! Burncider Dry Draught Cider Course the First - Salmon Tartare with Grilled Honey vegetables paired with Cider Riot! Lavender Cider Course the Second - Grilled Romaine Caesar Salad p...

new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store: Coal Harbour Brewing Black Sunshine Blackberry Weizen Refreshment exploding on your tongue like the rays from the summer sun. True taste: Refermented with blackberries for a subtle tart fruit flavour. Granville Island Limited Release Ginger Beer Spiced with the blog flavour of hawaiian ginger. This sessionable ale combines water, malt, hops and yeast. Big kahuna ginger creates a refreshing taste with a spicy kick. Urthel Hop-It Special Blond Through the use of large quantities of aroma hops, the hoppy character and bitterness of Urthel Hop-it are unequaled. Hops, water, malts, hops, sugar and yeast. there is also a free tasting on saturday: STANLEY PARK BEER TASTING 2:00 to 6:00 PM Aug 11, 2012

12 craft taps at pat's pub ? anti-hipster heaven! well, i'm not sure the 12 taps really all qualify as craft but i'm not going to quibble with a place that's trying to reinvent itself through craft beer they're trying! and, you know, they do brew and can their own lager on-site and its pretty good no really, it is try it, you'll like it! dude, its $3.50 a pint, $13 a pitcher and only $12 for a six-pack to go i'm not going to lie to you it was a couple of weeks ago that i stopped in at pat's pub on a tuesday night around 9 there was no one else there which just meant the bartender gave us lots of attention and back story on the lager but... it also means that i do not have total recall of what's on those 12 taps... thank goodness they list them on the website!! cannery:  ipa and blackberry porter r & b:  red devil pale ale russell:  cream ale, wee angry scotch tree brewing:  cut-throat pale ale big rock:  traditional ale, ...

Tonight is Rail Ale Tuesday at The Railway Club. They will be tapping a cask of Bumbleberry East Side Bitter, from R & B Brewung. Here's what the folks at R&B have to say about it: A mix of blueberries, blackberries and raspberries stuffed into a a cask full of ESB that has been dry hopped in the conditioning tank and again with the berries in the cask. Tapped @ 5pm and facebook suggests i have a beer at 5:00 for jack layton sounds like a plan is born   i had the r&b pale ale cask at the whip on sunday afternoon dry-hopped with czech hops it tasted kinda like iced tea which on a hot and muggy afternoon was a very good thing! just had the one pint though