Belmont Station

Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark St
Portland, OR 97215
http://www.belmont-station.com/


This is a quality place. They have a cafe with four taps, but the great part about this place is that it's also a beer store.

Connected to the cafe is a store with over 1000 beers. So, you can sit down, have a beer from one of the taps, and then get up, walk next door and pick a bottle you want to drink, carry it to the bar, and drink it.

It seems to be a really good method, because I have heard of other beer bars that have 1000+ beers, and their organization is horrible (Brickskellar??). Food is a little lacking, but there's no kitchen, just a few panini presses and a cold food case.

This place's purpose is not food, it's good beer. The first few times I came here I wasn't too impressed by their taps, but today, they had Cantillon's Lou Pepe Framboise, Batch 2 of the Signature Collaboration by Tomme Arthur (Port Brewing) & Dirk Naudts (De Proef), Fort George Coffee Girl Imperial Stout and Skagit River Scullers IPA. These are good beers, and the atmosphere in this place is definitely good for beer drinking.

With a nice neighborhood location, this is a very comfortable place to enjoy some very quality beers.