SPECIAL FEATURE: OREGON CRAFT BEER
A fine beer may be judged
with only one sip, but it's
better to be thoroughly
sure.
THE HISTORY
OF OREGON CRAFT BEER
1852
Henry Saxer establishes the
Liberty Brewery in Portland
1856
1933
Oregon and the nation ratify the 21st
Amendment, bringing prohibition to an
end
1985
Henry Weinhard and George Bottler
establish Portland's second brewery,
City Brewery
The Oregon Legislature legalizes
brewpubs
1914
2011
Five years before national prohibition, With 40 microbreweries located withthe voters of Oregon approve a statein its city limits, Portland becomes
wide ban on th e manufacture, sale and the world's foremost manufacturer of
advertisement of intoxicating liquor
craft beer
He was a wise man who invented beer. - Plato
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