So hoppy to be in Portland
It’s no secret, we like our beer.
The Portland area’s microbrew cluster, anchored by longtimers such as Bridgeport, Widmers and McMenamins, offers up a total of 49 microbreweries and brewpubs, scattered from Vancouver to Clackamas to Hillsboro.
Make that an even 50, starting May 2, when Bend-based Deschutes Deschutes opens its hip-cool new brewery in Portland’s Pearl, across from the Gerding Theatre.
Deschutes invested a reported $5 million to renovate an auto body shop that now includes a grain silo nestled into the building’s roof, tables crafted from massive reclaimed beams, and a brewhouse that was trucked across the country from North Carolina to brew 650 gallons per batch here in Portland.
Deschutes expects the new brewery to produce 130,000 gallons of beer annually for Portlanders. And we expect to drink them.
Check out Deschutes’ April 26 pre-opening benefit for Oregon Trout, whose good work helps clean up our rivers and streams.
More Metrofacts:
Where there’s beer, there’s pizza.
Greater Portland, with 352 pizza places, is the pizza capital of the West.
With 16 pizza joints per 100,000 residents, the metro area outranks Seattle (with 13), L.A. (10) and San Francisco (a mere seven).
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