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something new every chance you get?
Yeah, I really cannot keep up anymore. It’s really nuts how quickly the beer scene
here is changing. I have a bottle shop/bar that has rotating specialty taps, and they
have a really good selection of bottles. I usually just go there and ask them if there’s
anything interesting in a certain category or whatever. I’m trying new stuff all
the time. I do end up with favorites for a while, but I find if I’m always getting the
same thing after a while it gets boring. Then I try a new one, and I’m like, “Amaz-
ing!” Then, if it’s been a while, I’ll come back to the other one and be like “Oh, this
is amazing!” I kind of like to mix it up and try different things. There are so many
different kinds of beers in Portland now and so many great breweries. It’s really
daunting. I have my favorites, but I’m amazed at how often there’s a really new
great one that I haven’t heard about, and they’ve been around for two years.
Still one of the greatest is one of the first, which is Hair of The Dog in Portland.
They don’t produce a ton of beer, but they just do amazing stuff. They have Blue
Dot IPA that’s still, I think, just one of the best straight-up IPAs. Then they have
one called Ruth, which is a pale ale that’s incredible. They don’t produce a ton, and
it’s not cheap, but it’s the best. So good. They’ve been around for a long time. The
founder is one of the pioneers of homebrewing in the Oregon scene. And then, on
the other end of the spectrum, there’s a brand-new brewery here called Great No-
tion. They’ve been around a few years, but they are sort of a brewpub. I don’t think
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