Grains, hops, yeast, gear
Brew Beer
Brew on our pro kettles
Visit Pub
8 taps, paninis, darts
Play & WinPoker, slots, sports & casino talk
Brewing Supplies, On-Premises U-Brew, a Pub, and a Place to Play
Welcome to Portland U-Brew & Pub. We are all about brewing great beer and you can do it right here. And when the batch is boiling, there is a card table, a widescreen and plenty of talk about where the regulars play online.
We are the U-Brew that does scratch recipe professional grade All Grain brewing. No malt extract or generic mash like our competition!
Are you an experienced beer geek ready to get the next batch of home brew under way? We have all the brewing supplies you need. Grains, malts, yeasts and hops, along with equipment and hardware are all available in our store.
Have you really wanted to brew beer but were unsure of how to go about it? You can brew your first batch right here using our professional equipment, with our expert brewmasters on hand to show you how. Better yet, get your friends together for a brewing party. The more the merrier. Experiment with different styles and recipes. If you tell us what you like, we guarantee we can help you make it, and we'll do all the clean-up.
Do you like to try new beers? Our pub has numerous beers on tap to try while your batch is cooking. Or, just come by the pub any time to say hello, throw some darts, expound on the virtues of top fermenting yeasts, watch the game on the wide screen, or sit in on Thursday poker night.
Brew your own beer, right here!
Five hours of boiling, and what the regulars do with them
A brew day on our kettles takes about five hours, and most of that is waiting. The mash rests, the boil rolls, the chiller hums, and the conversation at the bar drifts the way it always has in a pub: from the hop schedule to last weekend's game to who hit a bonus round on their phone while the wort was coming up to temperature. We have stopped pretending otherwise. Half the regulars keep an online casino open on the second screen during the boil, and the other half are arguing about the Blazers line on the widescreen. This page, and the Pub Games section behind it, is where we write that side of the pub down.
It is not a new thing. Granddad Joe Webb's Bricklayer Arms in Tottenham had a fruit machine by the door and a card school in the snug, and he used to say a pub without a game in it is just a shop that sells beer. The games have moved online, that is all. Where Joe's customers fed shillings into a three-reel machine, ours compare the best slot sites over a flight of our single-hop series and tell each other which ones actually paid out on a Friday night. We keep notes on that, the same way we keep notes on a yeast strain that behaved well.
Brewing teaches the right habits for it, too. A recipe is a bet on how a yeast will behave; a fermenter is a four-week wait to find out whether the bet came in. You learn to know the numbers before you commit, to set a limit, and never to chase a bad batch by throwing more grain at it. That is exactly the mindset we ask of anyone reading our casino reviews or looking up a sportsbook before Sunday's slate: know the house edge, decide the budget before the first pint, and treat a loss as the price of the evening rather than something to win back.
So here is how the pub works now. Tuesday is growler fill day. Wednesday is three pints for ten dollars. Thursday the private room becomes a free, low-stakes poker table from seven, and the regulars who want to keep playing afterwards trade tips about the online poker rooms that still have soft tables after midnight. Saturday and Sunday are brew days, with college football and the NFL on the screen and somebody at the end of the bar explaining what minus four and a half means. Come for the beer. Stay for the rest of it.
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