This morning we slept in but then got rolling fairly quickly one we were awake. We checked out of our hotel and did a short tour of some other Seattle neighborhoods before stopping at a small breakfast place called Chase's Pancake Corral, where I fell in love with lingonberries. Seriously, I'm obsessed.
Next, we drove a short ways to Snoqualmie Falls, where the wind was really whipping the mists up into the cliffs.
We arrived in Portland just in time for the hotel's evening wine reception. Hans had a really exceptional sauvingnon blanc, and my pinot noir was pretty good. We immediately went from wine tasting to beer tasting at Deschute's brew pub a few blocks away and proceeded to get pretty blotto. Hans' burger was pretty inventive, but kind of a "cacophony of flavors" (as Hans put it), my meat pizza was really great, but their PRETZEL. Aw...it was good!
As for the beer, we tried the Black Butte Porter, Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Inversion IPA, Obsidian Stout, Chainbreaker IPA, Red Chair NWPA, Chainbreaker White IPA, Hop Henge, DB Hefewizen, Albedo Experimental IPA, Bachelor Bitter, Claddagh Nitro Stout, Biere de Garde, and the Double D Imperial Spelt Ale.
OK. Most of these were 4-oz samplers....but we were still pretty hammered at the end of the night.
The Falls
The Beer!
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