Daily Stank Image Bank: Malice at the Holiday Ale Festival

I went to the Holiday Ale Festival yesterday with the Amplify-Interactive crew. There were a lot of people and a crazy amount of good beers. I had one in particular called Scaldis Noel that was 12%. That was some tasty but rough stuff (C-block didn’t fare so well for the experience of having one after 3 or 4 other beers).

Anyway, it is still going on–and you too might see Portland’s most famous adult dancer (also model, actress and Rock video essential), Malice, out there.

More info on the Holiday Ale Beer Festival in Pioneer Courthouse Square

Reminder: Holiday Ale festival, “the most prestigious winter beer sampling opportunity on the West Coast”

Warm, cozy, beer drinking…does it get better than that? No, no it does not. I said no. From Earlier post:

Nov 29: “The only beer festival in the Northwest to be held outdoors in the dark, cold and often wet month of December.”

November 20, 2007 — Julian Chadwick

Check out HolidayAle.com if you haven’t recently seen a website that contains frames and looks like it was built with Microsoft Office/Frontpage in 98, here ya go. Good stuff…I remember those times…a simpler time indeed..now let’s drink some holiday ales

From Holiday Ale:

Welcome to the Holiday Ale Festival, the only beer festival in the Northwest to be held outdoors in the dark, cold and often wet month of December.

Despite chilly temperatures and often-inclement weather outside, attendees stay warm and dry at the festival under a large clear tent that covers the venue while allowing for views of the city lights. Gas heaters create a cozy ambiance under the boughs of one of the region’s largest decorated Christmas trees.

More than three dozen potent winter ales are featured at the event, all of which are created specifically to bring warmth and cheer to the holiday season. The beers are rich, robust and full of complex flavors.

Cheers to the Season!

Located at:
Pioneer Courthouse Square

701 SW Sixth Ave (between Yamhill and Morrison Streets) Portland, Oregon 97205

Right on the MAX line!
Thursday: 11am to 10:00 p.m.
Friday: 11am to 10:00 p.m.
Saturday: 11am to 10:00 p.m.
Sunday: 11am to 6 p.m.

Holiday Ale Festival gathers three-dozen rare beers for the

West Coast’s most prestigious winter beer sampling opportunity

Scrabble Every Tuesday at The Gotham Tavern

*Julian Chadwick edit/shout-out: Oregon Literacy noticed my inabilities and is now contributing *

Neighborhood: North

Map: 2240 N. Interstate Ave, Portland, Or, 97227

Scrabble- It’s free and it’s every Tuesday at The Gotham Tavern

Oregon Literacy hosts free scrabble games every Tuesday evening at The Gotham Tavern, located at:
2240 N. Interstate ave. from 6-9pm.

Join us for lightly compeitive rounds with a chance to win prizes, meet new people, and enjoy the yummy food and delicious beverages The Gotham Tavern offers. Ten percent of your food/beverage tab goes to supporting Oregon Literacy.

Please feel free to call us, send an email, or visit our website for more information on this and other events, ways to promote literacy, and for volunteer opportunities.

www.oregonliteracy.org
www.myspace.com/oregonliteracy

email: oregonliteracy@gmail.com
phone: 503-244-3898

“Check out Portland’s 260+ happy hours”; Meet Tom Potter at one perhaps

A message from Bryan at UrbanDrinks.com (I like that he made it sound as it came from me–I didn’t edit this to come from him, because that is probably what I would say…sort of, but close enough)

Be sure to check out UrbanDrinks.com — they’ve added many new
features recently, including revamped user profile pages (mine is at
http://urbandrinks.com/people/JulianChadwick), and a so-easy-to-use-
that-a-fingerless-monkey-could *Edit Below*

-do-it star rating feature for bars and
restaurants.

 

You can literally rate your 50 favorite places in less
than five minutes. Also, if you have an account, you can add tags,
friends, photos of your nights out, and brutally honest reviews of
your favorite and not-so-favorite drinking holes.

Check out Portland’s 260+ happy hours here: http://urbandrinks.com/
happyhour/usa/or/portland.

Edit: Bryan emailed me to say that this monkey-line probably didn’t come out right. But, you know, when you are visiting 260+ Happy Hours, you might get sloppy at times. I hit 4 or 5 a week, and I get sloppy

He wanted me to remove it but then he would lose 8 hyphen points; that kind of hyphen-domination would win any scrabble or boggle tournament–so it stays–and the point is that it is so easy to use that Tom Potter wouldn’t even need to create a committee to figure it out.

And as we all know, Tom Potter likes to drink beer and he likes his committees…so he probably is looking.

More on Tom Potter’s drinking issues on the Pipeline:

Mayor Tom Potter gets to drink on the job–how sweet!

Mayor Tom Potter Continues to Drink on The Job!

Is it Intervention-Time for Mayor Tom Potter?

Sept 8: “Why Tiger Woods is Moving to Portland” Part 2

A message from PDX PARK GOLF:

With September being in the title of a bulletin, it indicates that summer is nearing an end. So come on out for possibly 2007’s last hot day in the Park. Sad we know - but let’s all go out having fun in the sun and most likely go for drinks at the Night Light Lounge following. They have a great sunny deck and an awesome happy hour menu.

Scheduled Tee time is 2:00pm at Powell Park (SE 26th & Powell).

More info: Sept 3: “Why Tiger Woods is Moving to Portland”

Daily Stank Image Bank: Top 9 Searches Landing at PDX Pipeline Today: Greg Oden, Piercing, Plan B

This is what people typed into google or yahoo (msn, etc) and came to the PDX PIPELINE from 5PM yesterday to 5PM today (Midnight GMT is what WordPress uses).

So, let’s take a look…

1. greg oden
   • Greg Oden…really honored….I need to put more info about you to direct those people to right place/info (but it looks like they are finding your blog from my earlier posts). I’m sure I’ll be writing Blazers stuff when the season starts (email us if you want to)…Rip City baby!

   

2. Plan B Bar 1305 SE 8th Ave portland oregon
   • Nice - the searches for Plan B Bar are going up every day. Good for Jeff! I’m all about the Plan B (and the B-Triangle) success.

   

3. plan b bar portland
   • yep 2 and 3–Plan B is almost Hansel/Flexcar hot!
4. black tangerine music
   • black tangerine music must be playing a show this weekend or just getting more popular, but here is some info on their pioneer square noon tunes show with a link to their site.
5. piercing
   1. hmmm…weird, must be because of this Dante’s show where there was live tattooing and piercing going on and THE SMOOCH GIRLS!

   

CNN: Formulaic Writing on Portland Continues? Oh YES!

This was sent over to my Calvin (check out his site!)

Is it yet another Portland Formulaic Article?

Let’s see?

• Rain (super check)
• Stumptown (yessir)
• Voodoo Doughnut (straight to the hole)
• Ace Hotel (new and popular entrant into theses article, but Aced here for sure)
• Hipsters (check, apparently they are at the Ace Hotel, and don’t raise my taxes for that Mr. Mayor)
• Doug Fir (I think they licked the tables)
• Powell’s Books (” Looking for something good to read?” -we are going with a check)
• McMenamins (Bagdad baby…Kennedy School is so last year for these people)

Now, here’s a taste (small taste) of other subjects/places that could be covered…let me take you on a ride

• Beer (Bueller? Bueller?)
• Strippaz (Bueller…not even Malice?)
• Art (apparently it is all at Ace Hotel, did the Ace pay for this? –We’re still BFF though)
• Chin Yen, Slammer, Sandy Hut, B-Side, Basement Pub, Pearl Insider, Jace Gace, Aalto, Club 21, Nipple Trickle, Low Brow, Julian’s Domino club (Bueller?) OH yeah…we gots an Ikea in case you didn’t hear…

PORTLAND, Oregon (CNN) — In the winter, the residents of this Pacific Northwest city hunker down for the gray rain that drills the city sidewalks for days on end. Locals drink loads of strong coffee, read books and take up knitting with zeal reserved in other parts of the nation for church going or clubbing…Read More (not bad actually, and it has my ‘hood/park- Laurelhurst)

PS: CNN–I like that whole CNN PIPELINE idea you are running with, catchy name…sounds familiar though?

A Great Beer or…..The Greatest Beer Ever? You Decide!

This is now my favorite IPA in Portland, and yeah, I love Roots Brewery Beer.

Their Tag Phrase is “Save The Planet, Drink Organic, One Beer At A Time“.

I plan on saving the planet Sunday in this manner when they have pitcher specials.

Check out their Myspace Site

Reminder: Tour de Fat is August 18th

From the earlier post on Tour de Fat(Tour de Fat - New Belgium will trade you a bike for you car!):

Tour de Fat is coming to Portland on August 18. New Belgium will be giving a custom bike to one chosen person for the title of their car.

Information sent over from Bryan @ New Belgium Beer:

We’re looking for one dedicated person to hand over their car, title and keys to the Tour de Fat altar at each stop this summer. In exchange for this tremendous gesture, New Belgium will award you with a hand-crafted, fully loaded, Fort Collins-built…READ MORE on Tour de Fat

August 10: Burnside Bridge Bash Tonight: Graffiti Wall, Disjecta benefit

A message from Carmen on tonight’s Burnside Bridge Bash

Hey friends!

A friend of mine is throwing a little (or not so little) bash this Friday August 10, 2007. All proceeds will benefit Disjecta and the advancement of the visual and performing arts in Portland. J As you will see from the flier, it is not your typical venue!!! Hope you can all come out–it will be a blast!

Cheers,

Carmen

DETAILS:

· $10 per ticket / First drink free — you can still get tix at the door! J

· Live music by Keegan Smith

· Live music by The West

· DJ coverage by DJ Wann

· Dance Floor and Lounge spaces

· Three Bars with beverages provided by: Widmer Beer, New West Liquor, Hi-Ball Energy Drinks, Aloha Mixers, Hint Water

· A special bar sponsored by “The Chesterfield” mixing the party inspired drink, “The Burnside Bomber”

· Graffiti Wall — yes, you too, can explore your artistic side!

and now, the dirty flyer (need help)