Uptown is participating in the rib challenge at YNOT Have Fun / LaserPort / Bar & Grill benefiting the ADAPT Training's Advanced Scholarship fund.
April 23rd 1-3pm.
$25 gets you 2 ribs from each participant, 8 total and a great plate of sides!
Purchase your tickets here:
Get your tickets to the Portland Spring Beer and Wine Fest and grab a Hero or Oatis Reddin' at the Uptown Market booth!
Saison de Lis
Belgian Style Ale brewed with chamomile flowers
By Perennial Artisan Ales
750 ml, 5% abv
This review comes from one of our owners, AJ! As always feel free to ask any of our bartenders and servers what they would recommend. We're your source for beer advice!
The first sip has a slight tart taste. The second brings the experience of the effervescence throughout the mouth and then lingers and bounces off sour sides of the tongue. The finish is actually smooth and soothing where the taste of the chamomile along with a slight bit of sweetness resides. The nose of the beer exudes sweetness and not surprisingly, flowers.
This beer has a good mouth feel as like many saisons and farmhouse ales. The addition of the flower brings revealing notes of sweetness and tartness at the same time which is unique and fun. This is definitely a beer for when the summer sun is out or along with a light dish of food such as fish or chicken.
What's better on a Wednesday then ladies night and a Bull Run Cider tasting? Nothing... literally nothing comes to mind. So grab a gal pal and come try some cider!
This weeks beer review of Old German Premium Lager by Pittsburgh Brewery comes to you from the infamous Brixton!
The story of this beer goes: "Little Herman" or the Old German himself, learned the recipe from his Oma and Opa (Grandma & Grandpa) brewing it at home. As demand grew he wanted to spread and share his original recipe with everyone for an affordable price. Hence the great pricing at a dollar a can!
As far as qualities go for this standard German lager:
-Appearance: Light golden yellow to straw yellow. With a light amount of head retention no more then a centimeter once the head settled.
-Aroma: A little musty, grainy scent to it. Very subtle.
-Mouthfeel: Mostly Clears off the palate in seconds, light bodied.
-Taste: Light Apple-like sweetness upfront, bready they the middle with a lingering metallic taste.
-Overall: (3.5 of 5) straight forward & affordable lager, I'd take any day over any macro-brew.
Thanks Brix!
Starting March 15th you can flip us for your food bill from 7pm-9pm so bring your friends and come hungry!
A dozen regional restaurants and pubs will vie for the coveted Chowder Cup at the 10th annual Chowder Challenge on Saturday.
This year’s participants are Lompoc Beer 5th Quadrant, Burnside Brewing Co, Cascade Brewing Barrel House, D'S BAR, Farm House Cafe, Pelican Brewing Company, Produce Row Cafe, Saraveza, Sports on Tap,Stormbreaker Brewing, Uptown Market and Widmer Brothers Brewing.
Patrons (ages 12 and up) pay $10 for a tasting tray featuring a dozen two-ounce samples of New England-style clam chowders served in non-labeled tasting cups. After tasting all entries, attendees vote for their favorite. The chowder receiving the most votes is named the People's Choice Winner and takes home the coveted Chowder Cup and a cash prize; awards are also given for second and third place.
The event also features live music, a beer garden, a raffle with gift cards from the participants, and pub food for purchase. The event is open to all ages.
All net proceeds are donated to Portland’s Community Transitional School, which provides important educational services to children who are homeless or otherwise at risk of school failure.
Get a taste of the dark side at the 4th annual Black Out Beer Fest! Taste nearly 30 dark beers from breweries around the Northwest.
It's FREE to hang out and enjoy live music by Train River. To drink, admission packages are $15 and include a souvenir glass tasting mug and 8 beer tickets. Additional beer tickets are available for $1 apiece. It generally costs four tickets for a full mug or $1 for a taste. Mugs and tickets are puchased at the door. This event is 21+.
Come check out the brewery on Saturday February 13th and sample Uptown Brewing's own creations!
You can pre-order your salad as your class starts and it will be ready for pick up with us at the end of class!
We have a special 4-pack of beer wrapped up and ready to be gifted to your beer lover! Just $17.50 Alameda Brewing Co.Love Squirts, Lagunitas Brewing Co- Brown Shugga,Samuel Smith's Brewery-Chocolate Stout, Lindemans-Framboise
For your Valentines day dinner we have a great selection of wines at every price point.
10% off all Chardonnay through Sunday!
2013 Liberty Schools Chardonnay- $14
2013 Michael David Chardonnay-$13
2013 Z Alexander Brown Uncaged Cabernet Sauvignon-$15
2010 Hestia Malbec-$28
2012 Bergstrom Old Stones Chardonnay- $35
2014 Bergstrom Gregory Ranch Pinot Noir-$60
Veuve Clicquot Brut Champagne- $65
Biutiful Brut Nature Cava-$14
This weeks beer review comes from me (Liz) Uptown's CheersLeader/Marketing Director. I'm lucky enough to get to go between both locations meeting people and drinking fantastic beer. I've now had Yeti at both my home and Lake Oswego because I forgot to take a picture the first time... I excel at my job. As I'm not a regular stout drinker myself I took the recommendation from one of our staff and tried Great Divide Brewing Co.-Yeti Imperial Stout and attempted a serious review. Let's get to it!
Style: Russian Imperial Stout ABV 9.5% 75 IBU
Poured into my giant wine glass this jet black stout has a creamy caramel colored head that lingers creating lacing that persists to the end of the glass. The sweet chocolate aroma is accentuated with coffee notes. The powerful roasty malt base leads into sweet caramel notes. As the beer warmed up roasted toffee and oak become more noticeable to the taste. The underlying bitterness of the self described “hefty” 75 IBUs are ever present while the mouth feel is full bodied with slight carbonation.
Overall this award winning Imperial Stout lives up to its reputation. Although the strong alcohol presence is clearly perceptible in the flavor, especially in the lingering aftertaste, I found this stout to be smooth and well balanced for its style. It was the perfect rich and tasty desert after a long of day of professional Facebooking! Cheers!
Friday Sept 25th!
The Food Cart got a bit of a menu-makeover!
Get a pint and a sausage dog for $7.00 All snacks and small bites 1/2 off
It's Friday, come eat and drink... it's gonna be great.
Bavarian Crown Prince Louis, later King Louis I of Bavaria, marries Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. The Bavarian royalty invited the citizens of Munich to attend the festivities, held on the fields in front of the city gates. These famous public fields were named Theresienwiese—"Therese's fields"—in honor of the crown princess; although locals have since abbreviated the name simply to the "Wies'n." Horse races in the presence of the royal family concluded the popular event, celebrated in varying forms all across Bavaria.
The decision to repeat the festivities and the horse races in the subsequent year gave rise to the tradition of the annual Oktoberfest, which now begins in late September and lasts until the first Sunday in October. Alcohol consumption is an important part of the modern festival, and more than 1 million gallons of beer are consumed annually at Oktoberfest.
Today, Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September (and running to early October). It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an enjoyable event with an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.
Oktoberfestbiers are the beers that have been served at the event in Munich since 1818, and are supplied by 6 breweries known as the Big Six: Spaten, Löwenbräu, Augustiner, Hofbräu, Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr. Traditionally Oktoberfestbiers were the lagers of around 5.5 to 6% abv called Märzen - brewed in March and allowed to ferment slowly during the summer months. Originally these would have been dark lagers, but from 1872 a strong March brewed version of an amber-red Vienna lager made by Josef Sedlmayr became the favourite Oktoberfestbier.
This year, Uptown Oktoberfest will feature a Paulaner tasting, live music, German pretzels from Fressen Bakery, and hopefully lots of folks in lederhosen. Tasting begins at on September 26th, but the party will continue on with more festbiers and frivolity! Join us!
Prost!
Hoppy Ciderfest will feature the best & hoppiest ciders of the Northwest! We'll be offering Swift Cider, Apple Outlaw, Red Tank Cider, Portland Cider Company, and of course, a brand new cider by Uptown Market (Cider by Hunter)! Hop-heads and cider lovers alike will be able to indulge in a wide range of flavors ranging from the sweet and fruity to the piney and citrusy. This Friday, August 14th from 5pm to 8pm.
We're having a good old fashioned Crawfish Boil! All you can eat crawfish, shrimp, potatoes, corn on the cob and andouille sausage with french bread at Uptown Market on Scholls Ferry. August 5th.
Tickets are on sale NOW and are very limited. $20 for Mug Club Members and $25 for Non-Mug Club members. Stop by either location or call in to purchase yours!
3970 SW Mercantile Dr
Lake Oswego, Oregon
This Friday at Uptown on Scholls Ferry, get ready to try some new beers from Ordnance Brewing! "Ordnance is a ghost town in Umatilla County that was established in 1943, nestled between Hermiston and Boardman, Oregon. The town was named after the military depot and the community that worked there and raised their families. By the 1960's, after the war, it was no longer a community.
Now Ordnance is back and has evolved into a craft brewery, established in 2014, located in Boardman, Oregon.
The new life of Ordnance is left with the mission to spread the love of beer."
Tasting at Uptown Market from 5pm to 8 pm on Friday, July 24th.
It started as a dream... Or maybe a flashback. Back to the days of the hometown brewery…before Prohibition. A time and a place where citizens in towns and districts all over America rallied around beer that was theirs. Beer that was crafted for them, in accordance to their tastes. Beer that was an expression of their lives and passion. This passion, in a tiny tucked away town aptly called Hopland, drove the dream into existence in the humble but intrepid foundation of the Mendocino Brewing Company on August 14th 1983.
The Hopland Brewery was the first brewpub opened in California (2nd in the US) after the repeal of the 18th Amendment (by the 21st Amendment) in 1933. The passion, it seems, was a shared one (currently there are about 1500 craft breweries in operation in the United States). It did not take long for the Hopland Brewery to become a landmark, a point of pilgrimage on famed California Highway 101 (“take the Golden Gate Bridge out of town for 2 hours; the brewery is on the right”).
It’s been a long strange trip from Hopland in 1983. We’ve trekked from a 1983 production of about 400 barrels (5500 case equivalent) to the current production of about 75,000 barrels (over one million cases)…from distribution over the bar in Hopland to nearly nationwide distribution in countless stores, restaurants, bars and tap houses. As we roll into the second decade of a new century, we’ve come from making a handful of ales to the manufacture and distribution our Seasonal Releases, the new Imperial Series, (IPA, Stout & Barleywine) Organic Ale and Lagers (under our Butte Creek Label), our industry jarring Cast-
Tasting at Uptown Market this Friday, June 19th from 4:30 to 7:30.
"What do you do when you’re frustrated by the quality of the commercial cider available? You start making your own! What do you do when friends and family keep telling you it’s the best cider they’ve ever had? You start a business! That is the essence of how the Portland Cider Company got its start. Founded by Jeff Parrish, an Oregon native, and his wife Lynda, an ex-patriot from the Somerset region of England (the Mecca of cider), the Portland Cider Company is based on the belief that good cider comes from good fruit, honest practices, and attention to detail.
Our cider starts with fresh pressed juice from Northwest grown apples. We then carefully ferment it using yeast that protects the delicate characteristics of the fruit. The results are cider blends that are easy to drink, refreshing, and downright delicious. Drink it, it’s good!"
-Portland Cider Co.
Tasting at Uptown Market Beaverton on Thursday, June 25th from 5pm to 8pm.
Hours:
Monday - Thursday 12pm to 10pm
Friday & Saturday 12pm to 11pm
Sunday 12pm to 9pm
