Re: Portland

Malachi Kenney wrote:
> On May 14, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Everett Warren wrote:
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>> I have never tried any Rogue brews,
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> Some of them are very, very yummy. Many of them are so big and sweet that I suspect they were inspired by a dare. All of them are best enjoyed on tap, preferably within spitting distance of the brewery -- because the brewery itself is a damned ugly place to drink, and it smells a bit like a monkey's armpit.
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What the Rogue brewery does have going for it is a metal silo that one
enters through that has amazing acoustics; the one time I went there was
with my madrigal group when we performed at the old Glastonbury Faire in
Newport, and we sang Weep O Mine Eyes and Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus in the
silo, and it was gorgeous.

The new Glastonbury Faire, in Toledo, OR, is at a much less felicitous
site than the old one. Toledo is a very cute small town perched on a
hillside -- as long as you don't turn around. In the other direction is
a giant paper mill, which we nicknamed Mordor. The faire was last
weekend; my group performed, but I missed it on account of having to go
to my sister's graduation in St. Paul, MN, instead.

Owen