A Rose City by any other name tastes just as sweet

Editor’s note: Bullpen member Amy O recently went to Portland and found just a few things to write about. I know, big shock, lots of beer stories from Portland. Here’s the first article about a beer festival that’s being added to my personal beer bucket list. — Stoutmeister

Rose City (or City of Roses), Rip City, Stumptown, Bridgetown, P-Town, PDX … the list goes on and on. Whatever you want to call it, Portland, Oregon, really is a beer Mecca that consistently ranks in the top three beer towns in the United States. I lived there for six years and I go back and visit a few times a year, usually in conjunction with one or another of my favorite Portland beer festivals. There are many. One of my favorites was last weekend, the Portland International Beer Fest (the festival also has a “twin” Seattle International Beer Fest.)

This year the three-day festival returned to a previous, larger location in Holladay Park. The park has plenty of

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