Update: Interview & Photos With Malice: Let Her Entertain You

I went to the Holiday Ale Festival yesterday with the Amplify-Interactive crew. There were a lot of people and a crazy amount of good beers. I had one in particular called Scaldis Noel that was 12%. That was some tasty but rough stuff (C-block didn't fare so well for the experience of having one after 3 or 4 other beers).

Anyway, it is still going on–and you too might see Portland's most famous adult dancer (also model, actress and Rock video essential), Malice, out there.

More info on the Holiday Ale Beer Festival in Pioneer Courthouse Square

Nov 29: "The only beer festival in the Northwest to be held outdoors in the dark, cold and often wet month of December."

November 20, 2007 — Julian Chadwick

Check out HolidayAle.com if you haven't recently seen a website that contains frames and looks like it was built with Microsoft Office/Frontpage in 98, here ya go. Good stuff…I remember those times…a simpler time indeed..now let's drink some holiday ales

From Holiday Ale:

Welcome to the Holiday Ale Festival, the only beer festival in the Northwest to be held outdoors in the dark, cold and often wet month of December.

Despite chilly temperatures and often-inclement weather outside, attendees stay warm and dry at the festival under a large clear tent that covers the venue while allowing for views of the city lights. Gas heaters create a cozy ambiance under the boughs of one of the region's largest decorated Christmas trees.

More than three dozen potent winter ales are featured at the event, all of which are created specifically to bring warmth and cheer to the holiday season. The beers are rich, robust and full of complex flavors.

Cheers to the Season!

Located at:
Pioneer Courthouse Square

701 SW Sixth Ave (between Yamhill and Morrison Streets) Portland, Oregon 97205

Right on the MAX line!
Thursday: 11am to 10:00 p.m.
Friday: 11am to 10:00 p.m.
Saturday: 11am to 10:00 p.m.
Sunday: 11am to 6 p.m.

Holiday Ale Festival gathers three-dozen rare beers for the

West Coast's most prestigious winter beer sampling opportunity

The Holiday Ale Festival is a joyous tradition among beer lovers who treasure the big beers of winter. Held outdoors in the chilly month of Dec., the festival pours more than three-dozen robust winter craft brews, the majority of which have either been created specifically for the event, or are vintage or reserve beers not available in the general market. It is effectively the most prestigious winter beer sampling opportunity on the West Coast.

The 12th annual Holiday Ale Festival will begin on Thursday, Nov. 29, and continue through Sunday, Dec. 2 at Pioneer Courthouse Square, located at 701 SW Sixth Ave at the intersection of SW Broadway and Yamhill streets, immediately on the MAX Light Rail line. Hours for the event are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Thursday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission into the venue is free. A purchase of a 2007 souvenir mug is required for tasting beer, and costs $5. Patrons purchase script for $1 apiece. It takes $4 in script for a full mug of beer, or $1 for a taste. The event is for ages 21 and over.

Despite winter-like temperatures and often-inclement weather, attendees stay warm and dry under a large clear tent that covers the venue while allowing for views of the city lights. Gas heaters create a cozy ambience under the boughs of one of the region's largest decorated Christmas trees. In addition to beer tasting, the festival also features on-site food, beer merchandise, complimentary sodas for designated drivers, mead sampling, and seasonal background music.

The Holiday Ale Festival annually draws more than 15,0000 people to the event. To alleviate long lines and facilitate better access to the beer, festival organizers have increased this year's event space by 20 percent.

Also returning to the event is the fourth annual Brewers Brunch, taking place on Dec. 2 from 10 a.m. to Noon on the upper level of Pioneer Courthouse Square. The auxiliary event features breakfast and an assortment of local and imported winter beers not available at the festival itself. Tickets cost $30 and are available at www.holidayale.com.

The roots of brewing special winter and holiday beers trace back to the mythologies of Greece and Rome. The pagan celebrations of the winter solstice marked the return of light to the world, and triumphant ale was brewed to mark the occasion. Today, these "winter warmers" ward off the chill of winter and warm both the palate and soul. Complex in aroma and flavor, these heavier beers are big in body and high in alcohol. Thanks to an extra dose of malt, most of these beers are rich and bold, with chocolate, caramel or coffee flavors; others benefit from the addition of herbs, spices, and fruit. In keeping with the flavors of the season, there are often hints of nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves in the brews.

*Julian Chadwick edit/shout-out: Oregon Literacy noticed my inabilities and is now contributing *

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Map: 2240 N. Interstate Ave, Portland, Or, 97227

Scrabble- It's free and it's every Tuesday at The Gotham Tavern

Oregon Literacy hosts free scrabble games every Tuesday evening at The Gotham Tavern, located at:
2240 N. Interstate ave. from 6-9pm.

Join us for lightly compeitive rounds with a chance to win prizes, meet new people, and enjoy the yummy food and delicious beverages The Gotham Tavern offers. Ten percent of your food/beverage tab goes to supporting Oregon Literacy.

Please feel free to call us, send an email, or visit our website for more information on this and other events, ways to promote literacy, and for volunteer opportunities.

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Be sure to check out UrbanDrinks.com — they've added many new
features recently, including revamped user profile pages (mine is at
http://urbandrinks.com/people/JulianChadwick), and a so-easy-to-use-
that-a-fingerless-monkey-could *Edit Below*

-do-it star rating feature for bars and
restaurants.

 

You can literally rate your 50 favorite places in less
than five minutes. Also, if you have an account, you can add tags,
friends, photos of your nights out, and brutally honest reviews of
your favorite and not-so-favorite drinking holes.

Check out Portland's 260+ happy hours here: http://urbandrinks.com/
happyhour/usa/or/portland.

Edit: Bryan emailed me to say that this monkey-line probably didn't come out right. But, you know, when you are visiting 260+ Happy Hours, you might get sloppy at times. I hit 4 or 5 a week, and I get sloppy

He wanted me to remove it but then he would lose 8 hyphen points; that kind of hyphen-domination would win any scrabble or boggle tournament–so it stays–and the point is that it is so easy to use that Tom Potter wouldn't even need to create a committee to figure it out.

And as we all know, Tom Potter likes to drink beer and he likes his committees…so he probably is looking.

More on Tom Potter's drinking issues on the Pipeline:

Mayor Tom Potter gets to drink on the job—how sweet!

Mayor Tom Potter Continues to Drink on The Job!

Is it Intervention-Time for Mayor Tom Potter?

With September being in the title of a bulletin, it indicates that summer is nearing an end. So come on out for possibly 2007's last hot day in the Park. Sad we know – but let's all go out having fun in the sun and most likely go for drinks at the Night Light Lounge following. They have a great sunny deck and an awesome happy hour menu.

Scheduled Tee time is 2:00pm at Powell Park (SE 26th & Powell).

More info: Sept 3: "Why Tiger Woods is Moving to Portland"

So, let's take a look…

1. greg oden
   • Greg Oden…really honored….I need to put more info about you to direct those people to right place/info (but it looks like they are finding your blog from my earlier posts). I'm sure I'll be writing Blazers stuff when the season starts (email us if you want to)…Rip City baby!

   

2. Plan B Bar 1305 SE 8th Ave portland oregon
   • Nice – the searches for Plan B Bar are going up every day. Good for Jeff! I'm all about the Plan B (and the B-Triangle) success.

   

3. plan b bar portland
   • yep 2 and 3–Plan B is almost Hansel/Flexcar hot!
4. black tangerine music
   • black tangerine music must be playing a show this weekend or just getting more popular, but here is some info on their pioneer square noon tunes show with a link to their site.
5. piercing
   1. hmmm…weird, must be because of this Dante's show where there was live tattooing and piercing going on and THE SMOOCH GIRLS!

   

6. rockfest 12 portland pictures
   • Again, that's that bad mojo KUFO 101 has created with hummer/bummer–get a hybrid or a biodiesel…come on, it's been 2 months since you said you would/lied.

   

7. morrison hotel portland
   1. Morrison Hotel was actually top yesterday and their searches are going up dramatically. Good for them. Now, I want a free beer for this press I'm serious. I'll take this 40 of Old German in fact.

• 8. bike commuting
  • Cool, but you should really go see the expert in Portland on this, Mr Jonathan Maus of BikePortland.org
• 9. Diggnation
  • See Kevin Rose and Alex–you gotta do a Diggnation in the PDX. Portland has really, really, really good beer as you know and we've got 47 digg votes to prove it as of this moment (get those up!).

Is it yet another Portland Formulaic Article?

Let's see?

• Rain (super check)
• Stumptown (yessir)
• Voodoo Doughnut (straight to the hole)
• Ace Hotel (new and popular entrant into theses article, but Aced here for sure)
• Hipsters (check, apparently they are at the Ace Hotel, and don't raise my taxes for that Mr. Mayor)
• Doug Fir (I think they licked the tables)
• Powell's Books (” Looking for something good to read?” -we are going with a check)
• McMenamins (Bagdad baby…Kennedy School is so last year for these people)

Now, here's a taste (small taste) of other subjects/places that could be covered…let me take you on a ride

• Beer (Bueller? Bueller?)
• Strippaz (Bueller…not even Malice?)
• Art (apparently it is all at Ace Hotel, did the Ace pay for this? –We're still BFF though)
• Chin Yen, Slammer, Sandy Hut, B-Side, Basement Pub, Pearl Insider, Jace Gace, Aalto, Club 21, Nipple Trickle, Low Brow, Julian's Domino club (Bueller?) OH yeah…we gots an Ikea in case you didn't hear…

PORTLAND, Oregon (CNN) — In the winter, the residents of this Pacific Northwest city hunker down for the gray rain that drills the city sidewalks for days on end. Locals drink loads of strong coffee, read books and take up knitting with zeal reserved in other parts of the nation for church going or clubbing…Read More (not bad actually, and it has my 'hood/park- Laurelhurst)

PS: CNN–I like that whole CNN PIPELINE idea you are running with, catchy name…sounds familiar though?

Their Tag Phrase is “Save The Planet, Drink Organic, One Beer At A Time“.

I plan on saving the planet Sunday in this manner when they have pitcher specials.

Check out their Myspace Site

Tour de Fat is coming to Portland on August 18. New Belgium will be giving a custom bike to one chosen person for the title of their car.

Information sent over from Bryan @ New Belgium Beer:

We're looking for one dedicated person to hand over their car, title and keys to the Tour de Fat altar at each stop this summer. In exchange for this tremendous gesture, New Belgium will award you with a hand-crafted, fully loaded, Fort Collins-built…READ MORE on Tour de Fat

Hey friends!

A friend of mine is throwing a little (or not so little) bash this Friday August 10, 2007. All proceeds will benefit Disjecta and the advancement of the visual and performing arts in Portland. J As you will see from the flier, it is not your typical venue!!! Hope you can all come out–it will be a blast!

Cheers,

Carmen

DETAILS:

· $10 per ticket / First drink free — you can still get tix at the door! J

· Live music by Keegan Smith

· Live music by The West

· DJ coverage by DJ Wann

· Dance Floor and Lounge spaces

· Three Bars with beverages provided by: Widmer Beer, New West Liquor, Hi-Ball Energy Drinks, Aloha Mixers, Hint Water

· A special bar sponsored by “The Chesterfield” mixing the party inspired drink, “The Burnside Bomber”

· Graffiti Wall — yes, you too, can explore your artistic side!

and now, the dirty flyer (need help)