Skip to main contentOregon City Brewing Co.
1401 Washington St., Oregon City, 908-1948, ocbeerco.com. 2-10 pm Monday-Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday, 2-7 pm Sunday.
[O.G. O.C.] Oregon City Brewing Co. is brand-new this year
and looks it, right down to its taproom's contemporary design
flourish—hundreds of ancient-looking Edison bulbs strung up like it's
Christmas. The spartan, curvilinear-windowed space in the O.C. downtown
is one of the best stocked beer bars in the 'burbs, with 44 taps on a
digital system, including six Cooper's Hall wines and four nitros. It
also includes a few of the brewery's own early beers, crafted by a
family of homebrewers: Oregon-City-born Bryce Morrow, his father Craig,
and his father-in-law Rajiam Pursifull. The house brews mostly aren't
quite there yet, including a farmy IPA, a red ale tinged with the
off-note of vanillin, and an over-sweet chocolate pale. The most
successful so far is Hank's Marionberry, a blonde tinged with the
ever-so-slight tartness of Oregon's favorite fruit. But since the brews
are tapped next to the 90-Minute from Dogfish and experimental saisons
from Breakside, the brews may be allowed to mature relatively
gracefully, away from the spotlight.
DRINK THIS: Hank's Marionberry blonde, which may be the most subtle fruit beer in existence, with its marionberry like a juicy rumor.
WWeek 2015