How To Help Your Favorite Businesses

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Cash is king, especially for small businesses. You may have noticed more businesses requiring a mimimum purchase amount before they accept a card. Every time you use your credit or debit card businesses lose 1%-3% of your bill. That cashback that Discover Card advertises?  That comes from a charge to the businesses.  That is why … Read more

Cheese Bar On Belmont

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6 Beers on tap, 50+ bottles of beer, and  200+ types cheese.

I had a chance to talk to Steve of the Cheese Bar on Belmont near 61st. It’s great to talk to someone who has a passion for what they do.  Steve has been selling cheese for 15 years.  Steve and his wife started experimenting with pairing cheese and beer and loved the results.

“Beer pairs better with cheese than wine.” It seemed like a bold statement but he had some good points.  Beer is made of grain and the animals eat grain. It isn’t a gigantic leap why they should work.

Steve has three ways to pair cheese with beer.

1) Comparative – Acid to acid, pairing bright wheat beer with Chevre,goat cheese.

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Adelsheim Vineyard

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On a beautiful June day in 1971, David Adelsheim and Ginny Adelsheim stood above an open field and were taken with the beauty of its orange and purple wildflowers.  Five hundred feet below, Oregon’s north Willamette Valley stretched out in a patchwork of orchards, pasture and native trees.  The field, rich with clay-loam soil, had … Read more

Jimmy Mak’s

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Cindy from The Portland Happy Hour Guide mentioned Jimmy Mak’s on Facebook today.  I had heard the name before but didn’t know much.  I feel silly, even USAToday knows about Jimmy Mak’s. “Don’t miss nationally known Jimmy Mak’s jazz club” – USA Today I will admit that I am not a huge Jazz fan.  As … Read more

Breakside Brewpub

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I just came upon the Breakside Brewery this weekend. I didn’t have a chance to stop by but I wanted to promote a new venture, especially when it already has 16 reviews on Yelp in the matter of two months. Tammy E. – “I can’t find any reason to not give this place 5 stars, … Read more

Teutonic Wine Company

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From Tuetonic Wine Company – Teutonic Wine Company is a boutique winery focusing on terrior-driven style wines. Our primary focus is to bring out the flavors of the soil where the fruit was grown in each bottle of wine. We do this by practicing spontaneous fermentation, which means we use the natural yeast found on … Read more

Dutch Bros.

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I didn’t not know until recently that Dutch Bros. was an Oregon company. Maybe it was the name that threw me or the many locations with their polished image but Dutch Bros was founded by brothers Travis and Dane Boersmain in 1992 in Grants Pass.  The former dairy farmers started with a push cart and … Read more

Oregon Brewers Festival Pictures

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Yesterday was my first Oregon Brewers Festival. It wasn’t what I expected. Normally if there is an event at the waterfront you have all tons of booths selling stuff, businesses promoting themselves, and just weird stuff. You don’t have that here but I did see a guy with a pretzel necklace like the candy necklaces … Read more

Oregon Brewers Festival Kicks Off Today

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The Oregon Brewers Festival is one of the nation’s longest-running and best loved craft beer festivals, held annually in Portland, Ore. the last full weekend in July. The 2010 festival will take place July 22 through 25.  Join the parade today at 10AM starting at Deschutes Brewery. Twenty-three years ago, three local microbreweries – Portland … Read more