Regional meetups with forummates!

Kite006

Wish I’d found this thread earlier, for us NY people there’s always Wonderville in Bushwick - probably too hard to orchestrate Killer Queen get-togethers regularly, but otherwise they hold tons of events (or just any given weekend works as well)

exodus

◉◉maru yes what I’ve heard is that a group of people broke off from Portland Maine and went west and started their own Portland, because one group wanted to be more racist than the other group but I don’t remember which one is which.

Lunarchivist

antillese
cool, see ya there!

kory

Heading to Portland today! Thanks @antillese for organizing, looking forward to meeting some fellow dirtbags :)

rejj

Dang, have a great time those that are going!
I had a quick look at the bar’s website, and saw the beer tap list. I’d be trying the fresh hop ipa, fresh hop pilsner, and sour if I were there.

antillese

rejj I think I’ve mentioned this in another IC thread, but Portland in the early 2000s was one of the main fronts in the Hop Wars. All craft breweries were trying to get beers hoppier and hoppier and ultimately undrinkable and you ended up with beers with names like, “Hop Smack”. Ultimately this did get a single positive benefit because many beers now have their IBU (International Bitterness Unit) printed on the bottle. This means you get to educate occasional beer drinkers who tell you that they don’t like “dark” beers that they really don’t like, “bitter” beers and to get something low on the IBU scale.

Also, looking over that list, it’s neat that all of the breweries are in Oregon/Washington and all of them are pretty good except for Sunriver which is “fine I guess”.

antillese

Portland Meetup Update:

The spirit of 77 is closed because of veterinary surgeons and we are neither. For the record we have moved to “Wayfinder Beer” at SE 2nd and Oak!

https://www.wayfinder.beer/menu

If you are interested, please come!

dylanfills

2501 central NJ

yeah hello I forget to check this thread but this is me

(obviously unrelated to the current Portland meetup but do enjoy)

Gaagaagiins

I’m probably among the most remotely located forum members, but just saying, I’d go to meet @yeso on Pie Island

kory

Gaagaagiins wait, what happened to your signature? (It came up tonite lol 😂)

connrrr

Gaagaagiins that island looks pretty. Can you climb the mesa?

DaveedNoo

connrrr holy fack! I’d only seen Pie Island from above where it uh.. looks like most other islands which I guess often are sorta round like a pie. NOW I GET IT.

Gaagaagiins I theoretically live close enough to get to Pie Island. To be fair to Yeso you should probably split the distance and meet in Sumner

Gaagaagiins

kory wait, what happened to your signature? (It came up tonite lol 😂)

This might be good news for the signature haters but I am starting to forget to include it more often (plus it’s a pain in the ass to copy and paste it on mobile)

But here is some impetuousness for my adoring Portland fans!!!!!!!

antillese

It came up, but not like in a positive way @Gaagaagiins

You should have flown out to defend yourself!
😛

Additionally we heard from a reliable source (I do not burn my sources) that IC Show panelist Frank Cifaldi knew about this meetup, seemed to think it would be a fun time, and then specifically chose not to attend.

Frank, if this is true, that’s hilarious and first round is on me next year.

exodus

antillese I told him about it but the more likely scenario is he was busy or tired!

Gaagaagiins

antillese It came up, but not like in a positive way @Gaagaagiins

You should have flown out to defend yourself!
😛

I’m Alexander the Great

kory

exodus I ran into him on the way to our original meeting place (which was co-opted by the concurrent veterinary surgeons’ conference, sadly!) and I can confirm that he appeared both busy and tired

Lunarchivist

exodus

oh no, those were his words verbatim. tbf he and Kelsey were in the room until at least 10:30 so the Frank™ branding was just a front for responsibility. I’m sure he was sobbing on the inside.

kory

Gaagaagiins I think I finally understand how someone’s style might be described as “impetuous”

yeso

the sigs as currently available are sort of a half measure. Just needs to be ramped up and more elaborate. It’a also hard for gaagaagiins to be the one person rocking one. The sig-haters have a quasi-racist mindset if you think about it

connrrr

You don’t even necessarily need an image in your sig, just copy and paste as many of the replies from this thread as you want in there.

Gaagaagiins

connrrr You don’t even necessarily need an image in your sig, just copy and paste as many of the replies from this thread as you want in there.

Por que no los dos

~“Bury me with my posts”~ - Gaagaagiins of the Abyss

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