{"id":193,"date":"2007-04-05T06:25:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T13:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/me-too-in-portland-not\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:18:03","slug":"me-too-in-portland-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/me-too-in-portland-not\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Me too&#8217; in Portland? Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on Stephen Beaumont&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsthespirit.com\/en\/blog\/default.asp?Display=39\">lament on &#8220;me too&#8221; pubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/thebeerhere\/2007\/04\/waiter_theres_a_dragon_in_my_a.html\">John Foyston<\/a> (Warning: reading a blog about the Portland, Ore., beer scene may leave you severely depressed unless you live in Portland) reports that long beer journalist- publican-brewer Jim Parker and brewer Lorren Lancaster are opening a new brewpub called the Green Dragon Ale House &#038; Bistro.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in an area with four microdistilleries, three brewpubs and a bunch o&#8217; good pubs. Just a typical Portland neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the nut:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Being a publican is a higher calling than just being a barkeep,&#8221; Parker said, &#8220;and I&#8217;m telling distributors that I don&#8217;t want flagship beers, I want the beers they&#8217;re having the hardest time selling. If you can get the same beer down the street, I don&#8217;t want to pour it because I want Portland&#8217;s smartest beer drinkers to come to my place. If I serve them just the standard beers, I&#8217;m not giving them any credit for their knowledge and sense of adventure&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pub is due to open in June. Parker is looking for people to join the Founders Club: Loan him $2,500 for five years and you get your own barstool and a guaranteed place at the bar; and your first beer free and 10% off your bill on every visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on Stephen Beaumont&#8217;s lament on &#8220;me too&#8221; pubs. John Foyston (Warning: reading a blog about the Portland, Ore., beer scene may leave you severely depressed unless you live in Portland) reports that long beer journalist- publican-brewer Jim Parker and brewer Lorren Lancaster are opening a new brewpub called the Green Dragon Ale House &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Me too&#8217; in Portland? Not\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/me-too-in-portland-not\/\" aria-label=\"More on &#8216;Me too&#8217; in Portland? Not\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-portland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-37","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9989,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/9989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}