This Saturday friends from Boston visited for a beer tour. This couple are fellow NERAX executives and activists, very beer savvy, so very much it was game on…
We met at Novare Res for lunch. The patio was quiet, the sun was shining, and the beer list was superb. What a great start.
Our guests went off to the Georgia O’Keefe exhibit at the Art Museum; we, having done the show with many guests, ran errands.
Dinner was at Fore Street. We lined up early at 5:00 to snag four of the ‘walk up’ reservations. Our slot was 6:00, so we went down the street to Gritty McDuffs to enjoy our wait. The cask Bitter and Stout both made our wait more than tolerable.
Dinner was superb, more a wine than beer event, so suffice to say Sam Hayward’s cuisine continues to delight.
After dinner we proceeded to The Great Lost Bear. Four cask beers on offer, including Allagash Interlude (this was really good), five Allagash beers on tap, Six Belgians, etc. A good evening.
At one point we found ourselves discussing Boston vs Portland as beer destinations. Sounded like a toss-up. We are blessed…
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 am
That’s a tough call, but the fact that it is means that Portland is holding its own against a city nearly 10 times its size, population-wise. I know I wasn’t expecting it to be this great when I moved up here last year, but it was certainly a very welcomed surprise. With Novare Res in easy walking distance to many of Portland’s fine restaurants, you have a hard-to-beat combination for a great night out on the town. And the Bear is a much shorter (and cheaper) taxi ride from downtown than you could expect while bar hopping in Beantown…