Weekends are a great time for enjoying fun and rocking the preverbial casbah of brew. On Friday evening, we honored my brother’s hooding ceremony at Portland State University where he received his Masters Degree. Woo hoo! It was only appropriate that I honored him by quaffing a few scrumptious beers at Full Sail’s Riverplace brewpub in Portland. This included the Summer D-Light Berliner Weiss straight up (no woodruff or fruit squirtings this time ’round, thank you, just rejuvenating sour heavenliness) and a crisp pint of the LTD 03, a delicious German-styled pilsner that set me straight.

Full Sail Riverplace

Later on in the evening on Friday, I thought I’d take in some live music and what worse place to do so then at a greasy swill beer pub with dirty tap lines and cheater shakers of $4.25 “pints.” The venue I’m referring to here is the River Roadhouse in lovely Milwaukie, Oregon. An icy 13 ouncer of Whistler Pale Ale started me off before I opted to sneak slugs of my home-brought Lagunita’s A Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Ale. Like most hoppy Laggy’s offerings, the Sumpin’ Sumpin’ was beautifully citrusy beer.  It is a wheaten IPA with a bold boozy malten spine that slid down the old pipes with an utmost wonderment and propitiate approbation. At the Roadhouse, that had all the fixin’s of a true rockabilly pit, the whiskey flowed and the Pabst spilled to the sweet Cashian tunes of Portland’s Dry County Crooks. The Crooks played three sets of bourbon-fueled rock and blues and really capped the night as a winner.