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Most breweries entering the crowded Portland market
have diversified their portfolio to include a focus on food, but not the
studiously sparse Baerlic, which offers only $1 "bar snacks." This new
brewery, which shares a wall with the Blitz Ladd sports bar, doesn't do
food, and bottles only its super-limited barrel-aged beers. The small
tasting room itself is simple: concrete floor, bare ceiling, industrial
metal chairs, lots of blond wood and no TVs, but the brewery's small
early lineup has expanded into a full lineup of 10 beers, including more
ambitious offerings like an oatmeal Pilsner, a beechwood-aged version
of the Arctos Winter Ale and a dry-hopped barleywine. The best regular
offering is the hoppy Primeval Brown, but the limited releases—like a
barrel-aged barleywine—are showing some serious promise.
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