Deschutes Brewery & Public House - Portland

It's Deschutes--the stuff they're doing might not be cutting edge any more, but it's still pretty well done, emphasis on hoppy beers at my visit. Place was big and clean and food looked good. Good stop, better around.

1200th place rating! Large place but felt cozy. Staff was a little slow at first but eventually were friendly and extremely helpful, even with a weird question I had. Charcuterie board was nice with lots of options. Not bad at $17. All the other food others were ordering looked fantastic. Set flights of six for $16 or pick your own for $18. As expected all the beers I tried were good. Definitely worth a stop when in Portland.

Well established brewpub in the Pearl District. Large space with plenty of seating, large bar. TVs. They have quite a number of taps, ranging from their regulars and widely available beers, to beers specifically brewed onsite and they also had some older vintage kegs (Black Butte). So a few special things worth seeking out just available at the brewpub. Food menu was excellent - I had the salmon succotash, highly recommend! Overall worth a stop.

Super cool looking place in a hip part of Portland. The wood carvings inside this place are seriously amazing. Kind of reminds me of a Thai temple in some ways. Food was ok, I had the pozole soup at the end of the night. It was decent, but I’m probably just a pozole snob at the end of the day and hard to impress in that category. Beer was available in flights, and they had quite a lot of stuff not widely available on tap here. IPAs were fresh and good – the West Coast ones, anyway. Can’t say the same about the NEIPAs they do. Stick to what you’re good at… Service was great.

very nicely done for a big place. carvings, service. good beers mostly hoppy and sesdionable. good bottles to go selection.

Large place, but totally swamped on Saturday evening. Enough obnoxious loud drunks and self absorbed loud 20-somethings to interfere with enjoyment of good beer and food. Staff was overwhelmed by amount of business and as the result service was poor. With the above said, plenty of own beer on tap, excellent burger, flights of 6 available, good wifi, some bottles to go. If you can, visit at less busy time. The place must be a victim of its own success, poorly managed and not sufficiently staffed to handle the volume of customers.

I thought nothing of what i tasted on tap was enjoyable nor decent: it was too sweet, too malty, too one dimensional and just not balanced. Not for me.

Busy place, but if you want to get Deschutes beers, this is excellent. Restaurant section and bar section dominates the place, the brewery section is a bit ”in the back”. Volume is quite loud due to the volume of the building. If you want to get a bite (nothing fancy, rather standard burgers, really) and haven’t booked a table, you get one of those AllCall flashing pucks and can have a drink in the bar meanwhile. Expect about 30 minutes of waiting. Put together your own sampling flight of six beers. Bottleshop offers the standard beers and also The Abyss, various vintages. Also quite a lot of merch.