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Commons & Breakside Takeover Portland Craft! Sept 18th - 6pm - No Tickets Required Join our team as we hang out at Portland Craft for the night with our Portland Pals! Jacob and Fred from Breakside will be here as will Josh from The Commons! We've got 5 beers from each brewery on tap, including some very rare or never before seen beers.

10 stark truths (and we're not talking game of thrones here) about dating a beer nerd breakside brewery liquid nitrogen frozen fresh hop beers and a reminder that breakside and the commons are having a tap takeover at portland craft on september 18th (aka thursday) a sneak peek at steel toad the strait loves stateside craft also, a very happy birthday to one of my oldest friends today oldest in time known, not age! not that she reads my blog, but whatever, happy birthday goog!

my liver is happy that vcbw is over for another year the rest of me is a little relieved too - so many good times and good beers, but a person's gotta sleep! i may have only made it to a few events but those events were of the all you can drink persuasion and i do take the list as a personal challenge to complete i have already given my low-down on the business of craft beer so i will begin my vcbw list with the opening night last friday i was volunteering, so there wasn't much drinking at all for me holding this event at a nightclub (gossip) was great from a couple of standpoints:  the performance space was in the same room so there was no need for anyone to have to choose between beer and the show; all the breweries were pouring their beers from an actual bar with access to water so there was no running out of rinse water; and the club provided plenty of different areas, including several with seating, to get away from the fray somehow though, it still manage...

newly available at the legacy liquor store in vancouver: A small craft brewery in Southeast Portland, Oregon inspired by European brewing tradition and Pacific Northwest ingredients, The Commons Brewery, formerly Beetje (Flemish for little) Brewery, started small in the summer of 2010 with nothing more than a single barrel nano system in Mike Wright’s garage. Jump to the summer of 2011 and The Commons Brewery has moved from the garage to a 7BBL commercial space and bottle conditioned beer. Striving to produce brews with moderate alcohol and refreshing, unique character courtesy of yeast strains originating in Europe—truly a beer lover’s paradise—these brews are sessionable and geared towards friends, family and sharing time with one another. So grab a bottle or two and gather ’round! The Commons Brewery Urban Farmhouse - $13.75 A farmhouse ale that fits the bill after a sweltering day working the land. Hazy straw yellow in colour with baking spice, floral hops and a bit of yeast in i...