http://brewdies.com/taxonomy/term/151/all en http://brewdies.com/blogs/2010/09/brew-town-%E2%80%93-portland-oregon <!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Greetings from Portland, Oregon, the city from which, along with former figure skating angel, Tonya Harding, I have called my home for most of my life. This is the place that Kerouac called the land of bridges, whose nicknames vary from; the Rose City, Stump Town, P-town, Rip City, PDX, and which the former mayor dubbed ‘Brew Town’, a city that had double-digit unemployment long before it was popular, more strip joints per capita than anywhere else in the country (and most recently made news for the first ever vegan strip club), home to an active volcano within city-limits, soapbox derbies, and naked bike rides where attendance is in the thousands, and where at one point in history was the world capital of the white slave trade which according to various local legends, drunken citizens awoke to find themselves facing the decision of offering their services on a boat in the Pacific or a long swim home. </p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><p><a href="http://brewdies.com/blogs/2010/09/brew-town-%E2%80%93-portland-oregon" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://brewdies.com/blogs/2010/09/brew-town-%E2%80%93-portland-oregon#comments beer brew town goonies kerouac micro-breweries microbreweries p-town pabst pbr pdx portland rip city rose city stump town weinhardts widmer brothers Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0000 Levi J. Lieb 75 at http://brewdies.com