{"id":1034,"date":"2013-03-03T18:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T00:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2013-03-03T18:41:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T00:41:48","slug":"travel-eats-portland-beer-wine-and-cocktails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/03\/travel-eats-portland-beer-wine-and-cocktails\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Eats: Portland beer, wine, and cocktails"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is part of a series of posts about my vacation to Portland, Oregon, in late February 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Cascade's<\/a>
Cascade’s Oblique B\/W Coffee Stout, brewed with Oblique Coffee Roasters’ Landauer blend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Consider this my official round-up of PDX libations. Before going any further, I have to tell you about the beer above, which was one of the very best, most memorable beers I’ve ever had. It was a special collaboration between Cascade Brewing and Oblique Coffee Roasters that we tried on our last night in Portland, and I loved it so much that it took several minutes for our waitress to finally convince me that taking a growler on the plane wasn’t the best idea (I settled for a bottle of Blueberry<\/a>, my second favorite). It has the blonde color of a lager, but the body of a stout and the most intense, in-your-face coffee flavor that I’ve ever tasted in a beer. Addictive. Still wish I could have smuggled some back to Chicago…<\/p>\n

We did tasting flights at three breweries (Widmer Brothers, Deschutes, and Cascade), and I was impressed by the variety and character of all three. Widmer Brothers is known for their Hefeweizen, and I also was taken by their Oatmeal Stout; at Deschutes, I liked the Black Butte Porter and Chainbreaker White IPA best, and fortunately those two are available here in Chicago. Wine-wise, we visited the SE Wine Collective to sample from four local wine producers who share the space. Oregon is known for its Pinot Noir, which I don’t drink often, so it was fun to explore new territory and settle on the 2010 Division “Un”<\/a> to take home. Portland offered fantastic fruit-based cocktails as well, including an ultra-fresh, basil-enhanced pineapple mojito at Andina, and my first experience with pungent drinking vinegar in the apple gin rickey at Pok Pok.<\/p>\n

\"Widmer<\/a>
Widmer Brothers Brewing flight: Hefeweizen, X-468, Raspberry Russian, Drop Top, X-291, and Oatmeal Stout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Deschutes<\/a>
Deschutes Brewery flight: Chainbreaker, Black Butte, DB Hefeweizen, Bomb Squad, Old Pilgrim, and Pondhopper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cascade<\/a>
Cascade Brewing Barrel House flight: Apricot, Noyaux, Blueberry, Raspberry, Bourbonic Plague, and more (not all pictured)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ready<\/a>
Ready for a five-wine tasting at SE Wine Collective<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\""Ricardo"<\/a>
“Ricardo” (tequila, orange liqueur, ginger puree, pear puree, lime, cider reduction), H5O Bistro inside Hotel Fifty, where we stayed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Apple<\/a>
Apple gin rickey (Som apple drinking vinegar, gin, lemon, and soda), Pok Pok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Vela<\/a>
Vela d\u2019Oro (Coffee, Flor de Ca\u00f1a 4 yr. rum, orange juice reduction, Galliano cream), Gr\u00fcner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pineapple<\/a>
Pineapple mojito (pineapple amber rum shaken with fresh crushed pineapple, lime juice, basil and cane sugar), Andina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The details:<\/strong> Widmer Brothers Brewery & Gasthaus Pub<\/a>, 929 N Russell St.; <\/a>Deschutes Brewery<\/a>, 210 NW 11th Ave.; Cascade Brewing Barrel House;<\/a>, 939 SE Belmont St.; SE Wine Collective<\/a>, 2425 SE 35th Pl.; H50<\/a>, 50 SW Morrison St.; Pok Pok<\/a>, 3226 SE Division St.; Gr\u00fcner<\/a>, 527 SW 12th Ave.; Andina<\/a>, 1314 NW Gilsan St.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is part of a series of posts about my vacation to Portland, Oregon, in late February 2013. Consider this my official round-up of PDX libations. Before going any further, I have to tell you about the beer above, which was one of the very best, most memorable beers I’ve ever had. It was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44,106,238,338,356,395,416,590,819,856,896,905,914,915,1034,1215],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-eats","tag-andina","tag-beer-flights","tag-cascade-brewing","tag-coffee-beer","tag-craft-beer","tag-deschutes-brewery","tag-drinking-vinegar","tag-h5o","tag-oblique-bw-coffee-stout","tag-pdx","tag-pineapple-mojito","tag-pok-pok","tag-portland","tag-portland-beer","tag-se-wine-collective","tag-widmer-brothers-brewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}