Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| Last week, the folks from Gambrinus organized a day-long retrospective of BridgePort Brewing. It seemed partly to be for the benefit of the eight or ten media folks, and partly for members of the management who may not know the story of the last three decades. The agenda called for speeches from some of the historical figures and a trip down to Goschie Farms to see where BridgePort sources most of its hops. The idea was to focus on the brewery’s hugely influential IPA and use that as a launchpad for visualizing the future. We were meant to walk away thinking about BridgePort as the brewery of hops, past and future. Instead, I was left with a much different impression.
The Past BridgePort is now Oregon’s oldest brewery. Perhaps more importantly, it was the first brewery to successfully fuse its identity and Portland’s, owning the unofficial city beer, Blue Heron. Its line of beers, including Pintail and Coho Pacific, were the most Oregonian of the early beers, and BridgePort bank … |
Source: Beervana
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