Rain on Thursday morning and showers all day. After a brief hard hat property tour of "Jupiter Next Door", we took an Uber and moved to our next hotel: the brand new Porter Hotel in Downtown Portland (pic). We were really fortunate and got our room at 10 am, threw in our luggage and went out again.
The streetcar brought us to the Central East Side, going over one of a dozen Portland bridges: Tilikum Crossing, exclusively for pedestrians/bikers and streetcars. Besides the Portland Opera (first pic), the Heritage Railroad Center and OMSI, the Natural History Museum with a submarine anchored at the waterfront, are the main attractions here.
On to a brewery tour of "Brewvana", which was pretty good, though much too long for us: almost five hours in total! We were a group of six and stopped at four breweries, spread out. The tour consisted of a lot of sampling, of course, would personally have loved to get a bit more information about the breweries. The breweries - Culmination, Laurelwood, Ex Novo and Upright - were very different, the latter tiny, in the basement, Ex Novo a non-profit company, and Laurelwood more "established". New trend seems to be sour beers (gose) and hazy IPAs.
It was almost 6 pm when the tour ended and we took the streetcar to Mississippi - another up&coming neighborhood (pics below) - and checked it out. There are murals, shops and another big food cart pod adjacent to "Prost", a German restaurant, which we, of course, ignored. Instead, we grabbed a bite to eat at another brewery there: Stormbreaker. Back to the hotel at around 9 pm.
And that's why Portland is called "The City of Roses" – they are blooming already!
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