Yep. Now it’s a kilt wearing fest with cookie cutter brew pubs that millennials think are cool. Back in the day you’d start with some Spanish coffees at Huber’s, roll down the street and head into the Red Sea and if you weren’t successful at either place, head to the freak fest of all tastes of Panarama.
1) Cookie cutter brewpubs were invented in Bend and Eugene, not Portland
2) You act like I don't live in dive bars like Maui's and the like, they sound like the places you frequented back before Portland became this Millennial dystopia you're crying about.
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The first McMenamins had a lot of character and some still do. The ones here in Gods Country do. One a 1920s house and the other a former safe house for money, Boone’s Treasury, with Herbert Hoover’s own initials cut in the side. That certainly drips with irony I admit.
Portland has 3 cool ones with Edgefield, Forest Grove and the Kennedy School. But the rest are surely cookie cutter.
Yep. Now it’s a kilt wearing fest with cookie cutter brew pubs that millennials think are cool. Back in the day you’d start with some Spanish coffees at Huber’s, roll down the street and head into the Red Sea and if you weren’t successful at either place, head to the freak fest of all tastes of Panarama.
1) Cookie cutter brewpubs were invented in Bend and Eugene, not Portland
2) You act like I don't live in dive bars like Maui's and the like, they sound like the places you frequented back before Portland became this Millennial dystopia you're crying about.
McMenamins says "Hi"
The first McMenamins had a lot of character and some still do. The ones here in Gods Country do. One a 1920s house and the other a former safe house for money, Boone’s Treasury, with Herbert Hoover’s own initials cut in the side. That certainly drips with irony I admit.
Portland has 3 cool ones with Edgefield, Forest Grove and the Kennedy School. But the rest are surely cookie cutter.
Kennedy School and Forest Grove locations are great. FG with the cigar cabin and campus is a good tim.
Yep. Now it’s a kilt wearing fest with cookie cutter brew pubs that millennials think are cool. Back in the day you’d start with some Spanish coffees at Huber’s, roll down the street and head into the Red Sea and if you weren’t successful at either place, head to the freak fest of all tastes of Panarama.
1) Cookie cutter brewpubs were invented in Bend and Eugene, not Portland
2) You act like I don't live in dive bars like Maui's and the like, they sound like the places you frequented back before Portland became this Millennial dystopia you're crying about.
McMenamins says "Hi"
McMenamins is all over the northwest.
What stupid point are you trying to make? Their beer is okay along with everything else they offer. Some of their locations suck, some are cool. Shocking, I know.
Tell me what's cool and I will go there and see for myself.
Yep. Now it’s a kilt wearing fest with cookie cutter brew pubs that millennials think are cool. Back in the day you’d start with some Spanish coffees at Huber’s, roll down the street and head into the Red Sea and if you weren’t successful at either place, head to the freak fest of all tastes of Panarama.
1) Cookie cutter brewpubs were invented in Bend and Eugene, not Portland
2) You act like I don't live in dive bars like Maui's and the like, they sound like the places you frequented back before Portland became this Millennial dystopia you're crying about.
McMenamins says "Hi"
McMenamins is all over the northwest.
What stupid point are you trying to make? Their beer is okay along with everything else they offer. Some of their locations suck, some are cool. Shocking, I know.
Tell me what's cool and I will go there and see for myself.
Otherwise shut the fuck up.
They have some cool locations. Edgefield's has a great amphitheater for summer music events. The one consistent is the legendary McMenamins service. Geezus they seem to have cornered the entitled wait staff attitude.
Yep. Now it’s a kilt wearing fest with cookie cutter brew pubs that millennials think are cool. Back in the day you’d start with some Spanish coffees at Huber’s, roll down the street and head into the Red Sea and if you weren’t successful at either place, head to the freak fest of all tastes of Panarama.
1) Cookie cutter brewpubs were invented in Bend and Eugene, not Portland
2) You act like I don't live in dive bars like Maui's and the like, they sound like the places you frequented back before Portland became this Millennial dystopia you're crying about.
Yep. Now it’s a kilt wearing fest with cookie cutter brew pubs that millennials think are cool. Back in the day you’d start with some Spanish coffees at Huber’s, roll down the street and head into the Red Sea and if you weren’t successful at either place, head to the freak fest of all tastes of Panarama.
1) Cookie cutter brewpubs were invented in Bend and Eugene, not Portland
2) You act like I don't live in dive bars like Maui's and the like, they sound like the places you frequented back before Portland became this Millennial dystopia you're crying about.
McMenamins says "Hi"
McMenamins is all over the northwest.
What stupid point are you trying to make? Their beer is okay along with everything else they offer. Some of their locations suck, some are cool. Shocking, I know.
Tell me what's cool and I will go there and see for myself.
Yep. Now it’s a kilt wearing fest with cookie cutter brew pubs that millennials think are cool. Back in the day you’d start with some Spanish coffees at Huber’s, roll down the street and head into the Red Sea and if you weren’t successful at either place, head to the freak fest of all tastes of Panarama.
1) Cookie cutter brewpubs were invented in Bend and Eugene, not Portland
2) You act like I don't live in dive bars like Maui's and the like, they sound like the places you frequented back before Portland became this Millennial dystopia you're crying about.
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I like about half of what's in Bend, and almost nothing in Eugene.
Yep. Now it’s a kilt wearing fest with cookie cutter brew pubs that millennials think are cool. Back in the day you’d start with some Spanish coffees at Huber’s, roll down the street and head into the Red Sea and if you weren’t successful at either place, head to the freak fest of all tastes of Panarama.
1) Cookie cutter brewpubs were invented in Bend and Eugene, not Portland
2) You act like I don't live in dive bars like Maui's and the like, they sound like the places you frequented back before Portland became this Millennial dystopia you're crying about.
McMenamins says "Hi"
McMenamins is all over the northwest.
What stupid point are you trying to make? Their beer is okay along with everything else they offer. Some of their locations suck, some are cool. Shocking, I know.
Tell me what's cool and I will go there and see for myself.
Otherwise shut the fuck up.
Somebody's fragile ego leans Portlandish.
Burn anything recently?
So no suggestions?
Find your own dive when you're drunk and lost. There used to be several good ones in the NW district before it gentrified. Even places like Bridgeport - closed now - was great when the parking lot was dirt and train tracks. When they updated and gentrified the area, the best dives closed or relocated. There are still a couple good watering holes in the NE - didn't memorize the names, just look for the pool tables - and SE/Hawthorne area, but that area is a patch on what it used to be. Like Capitol Hill in Seattle, gentrification has destroyed the dive bar culture in Portland, too. It's a city of poseurs, much like Seattle, but at least the darker bricks in their gentrified architecture harkens back to the Shanghai days and the turn of the last century. Seattle has ruined block after block with beige facades and faux limestone/sandstone, more indigenous to the Middle East than the Pac NW.
Fuck it all. Seattle sucks, Portland sucks and SF sucks. The bonus for Seattle and SF is the access to the water and a prettier natural landscapes.
Grunge should have started in Portland, because it was way grungier than Seattle BITD and bay cities>>>>>river cities, especially in the US.
Yep. Now it’s a kilt wearing fest with cookie cutter brew pubs that millennials think are cool. Back in the day you’d start with some Spanish coffees at Huber’s, roll down the street and head into the Red Sea and if you weren’t successful at either place, head to the freak fest of all tastes of Panarama.
1) Cookie cutter brewpubs were invented in Bend and Eugene, not Portland
2) You act like I don't live in dive bars like Maui's and the like, they sound like the places you frequented back before Portland became this Millennial dystopia you're crying about.
McMenamins says "Hi"
McMenamins is all over the northwest.
What stupid point are you trying to make? Their beer is okay along with everything else they offer. Some of their locations suck, some are cool. Shocking, I know.
Tell me what's cool and I will go there and see for myself.
Otherwise shut the fuck up.
Somebody's fragile ego leans Portlandish.
Burn anything recently?
So no suggestions?
Find your own dive when you're drunk and lost. There used to be several good ones in the NW district before it gentrified. Even places like Bridgeport - closed now - was great when the parking lot was dirt and train tracks. When they updated and gentrified the area, the best dives closed or relocated. There are still a couple good watering holes in the NE - didn't memorize the names, just look for the pool tables - and SE/Hawthorne area, but that area is a patch on what it used to be. Like Capitol Hill in Seattle, gentrification has destroyed the dive bar culture in Portland, too. It's a city of poseurs, much like Seattle, but at least the darker bricks in their gentrified architecture harkens back to the Shanghai days and the turn of the last century. Seattle has ruined block after block with beige facades and faux limestone/sandstone, more indigenous to the Middle East than the Pac NW.
Fuck it all. Seattle sucks, Portland sucks and SF sucks. The bonus for Seattle and SF is the access to the water and a prettier natural landscapes.
Grunge should have started in Portland, because it was way grungier than Seattle BITD and bay cities>>>>>river cities, especially in the US.
Bridgeport was great. 10 Barrel and Rogue and some of the places next to where it was, just isn't the same.
As a student in the Ewe District I liked Hales, at least for getting some exercise on the Burke Gilman and picking up stuff if I didn't get stabbed on the way there/back.
There are shitty hipster pubs in most big cities in the western US. That will continue, you older gents can always vote with your wallet of course.
There's still a bunch of great places in both cities. As long as I can shit poast in peace without the Benny's of the world putting pressure on them to go exclusively organic beer and vegan only options, I'm good.
Yep. Now it’s a kilt wearing fest with cookie cutter brew pubs that millennials think are cool. Back in the day you’d start with some Spanish coffees at Huber’s, roll down the street and head into the Red Sea and if you weren’t successful at either place, head to the freak fest of all tastes of Panarama.
1) Cookie cutter brewpubs were invented in Bend and Eugene, not Portland
2) You act like I don't live in dive bars like Maui's and the like, they sound like the places you frequented back before Portland became this Millennial dystopia you're crying about.
McMenamins says "Hi"
The first McMenamins had a lot of character and some still do. The ones here in Gods Country do. One a 1920s house and the other a former safe house for money, Boone’s Treasury, with Herbert Hoover’s own initials cut in the side. That certainly drips with irony I admit.
Portland has 3 cool ones with Edgefield, Forest Grove and the Kennedy School. But the rest are surely cookie cutter.
Wasn't the original a Grateful Dead dive bar in the industrial area of NW Portland before it went through its gentrification phase in the 90's? We always ended up there at the end of the night to play pool.
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Portland has 3 cool ones with Edgefield, Forest Grove and the Kennedy School. But the rest are surely cookie cutter.
Burn anything recently?
Fuck it all. Seattle sucks, Portland sucks and SF sucks. The bonus for Seattle and SF is the access to the water and a prettier natural landscapes.
Grunge should have started in Portland, because it was way grungier than Seattle BITD and bay cities>>>>>river cities, especially in the US.
As a student in the Ewe District I liked Hales, at least for getting some exercise on the Burke Gilman and picking up stuff if I didn't get stabbed on the way there/back.
There are shitty hipster pubs in most big cities in the western US. That will continue, you older gents can always vote with your wallet of course.
There's still a bunch of great places in both cities. As long as I can shit poast in peace without the Benny's of the world putting pressure on them to go exclusively organic beer and vegan only options, I'm good.