Christine in Portland » beer http://christineinportland.com Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:57:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Not a lucky dining choice http://christineinportland.com/2009/04/not-a-lucky-dining-choice/ http://christineinportland.com/2009/04/not-a-lucky-dining-choice/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:35:29 +0000 Christine http://christineinportland.com/?p=130 I nodded my head in agreement to most of the predictable recommendations for where to go when visiting Portland in a recent Shelterrific post. Part of me thinks there would be a lot less for bloggers to write about if they were required to first Google whether the question had previously been asked and answered, [...]]]> I nodded my head in agreement to most of the predictable recommendations for where to go when visiting Portland in a recent Shelterrific post. Part of me thinks there would be a lot less for bloggers to write about if they were required to first Google whether the question had previously been asked and answered, as at ask.mefi. But whatever. Ask away! However, I shuddered a bit seeing Lucky Lab strongly recommended by a couple of posters. Their pizza is at best adequate, if you can tolerate 40+cloves of overroasted garlic on a pizza, and their beer…oh, don’t get me started. Metallic and bitter are the main descriptors that come to mind. I know the place has many loyal fans, but describing the pub as a good choice for beer fans is just plain silly.

]]> http://christineinportland.com/2009/04/not-a-lucky-dining-choice/feed/ 1 Wasted beer and flash http://christineinportland.com/2009/04/wasted-beer-and-flash/ http://christineinportland.com/2009/04/wasted-beer-and-flash/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:12:36 +0000 Christine http://christineinportland.com/?p=118 While having a really good beer this evening at The 5th Quadrant, I was reminded of a terrible beer we tried at Alameda Brewhouse a couple weeks back. The two don’t really have anything in common, besides being beer.

Or so the server at Alameda Brewhouse claimed; in fact, their random blond seasonal she talked us [...]]]> While having a really good beer this evening at The 5th Quadrant, I was reminded of a terrible beer we tried at Alameda Brewhouse a couple weeks back. The two don’t really have anything in common, besides being beer.

Or so the server at Alameda Brewhouse claimed; in fact, their random blond seasonal she talked us into ordering tasted more like a root beer. So maybe it was very popular there, but the pub in question is dangerously close to Vancouver. Presumably the Washingtonians are throwing her count off. From my perspective, it was truly the worst beer I have ever tasted, outside of a friend’s undrinkable homebrew.

There’s a flash equivalent to the awfulness of that beer. Oh yes. It is to web design what that blond ale was to drinkable liquids. My eyes hurt. [Via Brooks, via something on teh internets]

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