Pub #25 -- Backwoods Brewing Company, Portland, November 16

Joining our friends Heather and Mark for another play (Macbeth, #27), we also convinced them to join us for another brewpub visit, meaning that they're now neck and neck with Vicki and Mike and my mom and brother's family for the second-most brewpub visits with us during the 50 in 50 effort, after Ben and Jim and Kathy Wert, who took us to three in Toronto over two days (!).

Backwoods Brewing was a little place we found in the Pearl District, previously unknown to us, but only a few blocks away from the Armory (Portland Center Stage), Deschutes Brewery (where we tried to go first, but was way too crowded), Rogue Brewery, and many others in this upscale commercial center of NW Portland.

Having already eaten a big Lebanese lunch and needing to get me back to Corvallis to see Next to Normal (for the second time!), we only had beers, but they were quite impressive.  I got the Pecan Pie Porter and C got the Dreamsicle, actually made with some Sunny Delight!  Backwoods definitely held its own, amidst the Big Boys in the Portland craft brew landscape.  Well done!

This marks the halfway point for brewpubs, putting us a little behind the plays, but also just within the 6-month range.  I imagine we'll be okay for making 50.  :-)