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One of the greats of the craft beer revolution has left the bar.
Don Younger passed away but I firmly tell you that his legacy will live on. He was the first beer booster and without him places around Portland might not exist and I sure as hell wouldn’t be writing about beer.
Craft beer is diminished today but without him it would be a shadow of what it is right now.
This is blatantly taken from Jay Brooks’ wonderful Beer Bulletin: take a listen with a pint in your hand.
If you want to hear one of the people that made craft beer drinking as easy and fun as it is today, then take a listen to part 1 of Lisa Morrison’s interview with Don Younger of Horse Brass fame.
You can listen on iTunes HERE or go to her website HERE to listen to Don as well as learn about Fort George Brewing’s expansion and Full Sail’s Bump in the Night.
To learn about where craft beer was back in the 1970’s is amazing. Most bars had one tap and that one tap had one beer. Their beer menu was the neon sign outside that said either Olympia, Blitz, Rainier or one of the other breweries.
” I didn’t want to do what was right. I didn’t want to do what was wrong. I just wanted another beer.”
-Don Younger