Bridgeport

A good walk from Portland Brewing toward the industrial end of town is Bridgeport. First time me and my friends walked there, we thought our maps were wrong. Seemed like the wrong place to put a restaurant. If your walking there, just keep walking. In fact, some car pulled up to us to ask us how to get there after we left. We must have been staggering home and they figured we new where it was!

The place hasn’t changed a whole lot since it got *big*. We had the tour there a couple of years ago when they were still using small fermenters instead of the 170BBL fermenters used today. Anyways, it wasn’t quite as crowded as it usually is during the fest’. Food consists of Pizzas and the beers are usually best in a pitcher. Mark and I lucked out and got the late night tour allowing us to check out the fermenters and stuff first hand.

Best time to visit is probably in the afternoon when you can hang out on the docks and kick back a few. The docks over look a hop trellis that swings from the brewery to an adjacent building. Its gets a little busy of course out there because it popular so try and get there early.

Beer of choice: Bridgeport IPA. Hoppy of the hoppy for a hoppy IPA. Hop head's delight.