Mcmenamins Brewery

Pros: Sophisticated adult approach to beverage alcohol; the booze resort.
Cons: Pricey, paper plant fumes, shared showers, slightly eerie artwork can be unsettling.

It's midnight, and I'm hard at work in the Power Plant. That's one of the bars at McMenamin's Edgefield resort (one of... oh, hell, I lost count. There's at least five), the one where I wound up after a full afternoon in the Distillery Bar and ...

Pros: Good food & great beer
Cons: Poor service

While visiting Portland over St Patrick's Day weekend, I was looking for somewhere good to have dinner, that served vegetarian food. The restaurant I was actually looking for was closed by the time I found it, but this McMenamins was just down the...

Pros: good drinks, neat pool, theater,
Cons: small parking lot,

KENNEDY SCHOOL has been the center of a northeast Portland neighborhood since opening in 1915. Over the years, thousands of kids have congregated here to decipher the three R's, eat macaroni & cheese on Mondays, and labor hand over hand up the gym...

Pros: beautiful architecture, great beer
Cons: often very crowded

This is one of my favorite McMennamins pubs, and if you are from the pacific northwest, specifically the Portland, Oregon metro area, you probably know about and have been to a McMennamins at one time or another.
If not, I will described a little...

Pros: cheap beer, neat dance floor,
Cons: bad neighborhood,

The Crystal Ballroom opened in 1914 (known as the Cotillion Hall), a time when Portland residents could be arrested for dancing. Today, the Crystal Ballroom is one of many McMenamins attractions.

As like most McMenamins, this dance hall is...

Pros: great pizzas, cheap movies, and not a bad stout
Cons: there isn't one all to close to my house

Although I am not what you might call the biggest beer fan in the world, I do like a nice, dark beer every once in a while. McMenamins' Terminator Stout can be a good choice with a large basket of their greasy fries on a lazy weekend. And this isn't...

Pros: cheap beer, no cover charge
Cons: greasy food, bad location

What is now known as simply Ringler’s was once an automotive dealership and service garage for the people of Portland. Montrose Ringler and his wife had known Paul van Fridagh, a prosperous insurance agent and real estate developer, for many years. In...

Pros: Atmosphere, good food, good beer, good people, good music.
Cons: Service can be hit and miss but otherwise nothing.

This review is a general review which takes into account all of the McMenamins I've had the pleasure of visiting. Simply put you can't go wrong at a McMenamins. Whether it is one of their signature properties or one of the small pubs in a strip mall I've ...

Pros: great flavor, always fresh
Cons: can't get it anywhere else.

I've been told I need to add a lot to this review. Fine.

I'm a beer drinker. I like drinking beer. The taste was acquired, but ever since that first time I got drunk with my friends having a good time just drinking beers, I've been hooked....