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Several Small, Interesting Things

Over the past week, I had a half-dozen moments where something interesting and beer-related floated by on the digital stream.  None warranted a post by themselves, but I can’t help rattling them off, along with an opinion or two.  (You’ll find some/all of them interesting, too.)

1.  Will Ohio’s Fat Head’s Brewery Thrive in Portland?
Fat Head’s is a popular brewery from suburban Cleveland, successful enough that it expanded to Pittsburgh and then to … Portland.  [Correction: Fat Head’s started as a beer bar in Pittsburgh, then opened their brewery in Cleveland.] It will open two weeks from today in the Pearl District (13th and Davis), ground zero for the city’s priciest real estate.  Fat Head’s is famous for an IPA they proudly call “West Coast.” 

Comment:  This is endlessly fascinating.  Portland has 978 breweries (estimated), and they’re all “West Coast.”  Portland is legendarily provincial, a place where locals gleefully eschew anything non-Oregonian.  (Forty years ago, a certain loc …

Source: Beervana

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