Henry’s 12th Street Tavern

August 14, 2008
Big place. Food was not that good. Selection is nice. Tasting platter is not available, but you can get a sample of a couple of brews for free. Kinda nice.

July 15, 2008
Incredible place, a hip and modern bar where not only beer where in focus. Impressive selection of Whiskeys and other stuff plus plenty of colorful cocktails. Yes, the place where really crowded with plenty of yuppies, but what the heck. It’s nice when you might find a great selection of craft beer somewhere else than in dark brown joint miles away from the town center. For the beers I would have come early afternoon. I really don’t mind a quite dark pub, but I also believe this might be what it take to let the young people discover craft beer.

June 4, 2008
Wow, what a place, I’d love to have a place like this in Copenhagen. 100 taps and continuously rotating when a beer runs dry a new one is on in a matter of minutes - I could have stayed forever and will come back one day. A hip modern decorated place open kitchen, big screen tv’s, huge rectangular bar. Very busy when we visited on an early Thursday night. The service was friendly, but since the place was busy, not so informative.

July 16, 2007
This place is lousy with yuppies.Prices are asinine.If your THAT type with more money than sense OR taste,you’ll love this place. If the place REALLY wanted to improve the Portland Beer Scene,it would move to Seattle where every third person is a phony/trendy/"hipster".

April 25, 2007 [ Updated September 9, 2008 ]
A great place to go get some good beers. Over 100 different beers and most on tap this was a fun place to sip and have some beers. They are spendy and high priced but it was a great afternoon and watching sports it was great they bar with the ice in the middle made it just that much more awesome. When busy watch out they are slow slow and slow. They have some huge TV’s so if you are into reading books you better not stop here. They are loud and have the beers flowing. The frozen bar top is a nice idea and keeps people talking. Some beers are not to be served that cold but hey it is a place for all to attend. This is not for the kids and take the plastic like I said it is spendy.

February 4, 2007
Service was good. Food selection was Ami pubkos with some interesting other dishes. Beer selection was good, but uninspired. They have only the alehouse standards, but they have all of them. But I quarrel with them on two important points. 1: They are seriously overpriced. I do not pay $7.95 for a small snifter of beer. At least I do not do it twice. And they serve all their beers too cold. Imperial stout should be served at cool room temperature. They serve it at lager temperature. There are better, more reasonably priced beerhouses around.

September 14, 2006
Decent place, it took some time in actually going there as the general trendiness around the Pearl District just isn’t my thing. Silly bar with silly ice strip to keep your Coors the coldest tasting beverage ever. Service was prompt and friendly. I was there around 3pm and it wasn’t terribly crowded. Beer list is decent although nothing that is really difficult to find around PDX. Food was decent with happy hour pricing it was damn affordable! There were no doormen but the sign on the door said that DA and batkins were persona non grata.

September 4, 2006
Are you a "POWER LUNCHER" or "TRENDY HIPSTER"? Then, THIS is your place! Located inside the Old Henry Weinhard Brewery, the decor is granduous, modern and hip. Beautiful blend of old and new...! Service is very good too! That’s about as good as it gets... Being that Henry Weinhard was an Oregon and Brewing pioneer and his legacy is immense; One would expect some kind of museum cornered off for the MAN or at least, some old brewing artifacts or plaque. Nope! Nothing! This place isn’t about Henry Weinhard, Portland History or Brewing History, it’s about one thing....MONEY! Your money! The 100 beers on tap are everything you’ve already had and don’t care to drink again! Run of the mill, local grocery store beers and micros. The Beer Menu was put together by someone who just pciked EVERY beer in the Distributor’s standard index..... No effort! The food run from standard pub grub to Chinese Food to Seafood specials... Moderately tasty, but notthing real exciting for the price. Price? $8-9 Burgers. $14 Chinese food. $20 seafood. The atmosphere is rather aloof and stiff. Although, the servers were very nice and helpful. It’s a beautiful place, but not a quality or respectable "beer person" venue.

August 19, 2006
This place was recommended to me by Matt at Liquid Solutions, and it was a good choice! This is a huge restaurant/bar in the Portland downtown/old town area. It was plenty busy on a Friday evening, but at about 6:00 PM I was seated immediately and had a been in front of me within minutes. The beer selection is spectacular, they must have about 50 or more taps (I forgot to count), including several that I’d never tried before. The taps are heavily weighted toward the lbeers of the local region, with the usual suspects from national marketing campaigns as well. The menu seemed fresh and unpredictable, with a nice selection of appetizers and a good - but not overwhelming - choice of entrees for dinner. The service was fine - though the waiter did confuse my first beer order with aonther. However, he did remove the charge for the beer in question from mh bill and brought me a sampler of the right beer as well. Overallk this was a very enjoyable place.

July 12, 2006
Love this place! Wish it was in Houston. Lots of wonderful local and national craft beers on tap....quite a selection. Food is great too....and the happy hour prices are just great. I’d drink/eat here everyday if I could...fantastic.