Belmont Station is not just a bottle shop. It is a beer heaven. Beyond the bottles – if I had been shipping beer, I could have dropped $300 easily – there were 14 taps of beers none of us had tasted before (except two). Visiting a place like Belmont makes me angrier than ever at [...]

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Horse Brass Pub. Legendary for its list. We rode the bus to the other side of the city, avoiding hipsters, getting hungry, eager for our first beer of the day. The waiter had a degree in English. I sympathized with him.  Three English professors drinking in the middle of the day enjoying their beer tourism [...]

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Tugboat. Next door to a strip joint. The cab driver that night noted that’s where most of this 17 year old brewpub’s clientele comes from.

Not the greatest ESB in the world.

Bailey’s Tap Room. Across the street from Tugboat. We must have just beat the after work crowd. Another incredible list. I saw a couple of [...]

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Morning coffee before heading over to Portland Bagel Company. The next day we went a few doors down to Kornblatt’s.

Laurelwood

New Old Lompoc

Lucky Labrador

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