Pubs & Profs

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Let’s just say that my college is pretty cool.  Aside from a kick-ass softball squad, Linfield has a new series kick off coming up that is right in my wheelhouse.  Except for being in Portland and not L.A.  Here’s the blurb: the “Pubs & Profs event is for all alumni, parents, students and friends of Linfield College. Every few months, we will invite a Linfield professor to publicly present a culturally or socially relevant topic for our community. These events will typically be held at restaurants, pubs, breweries and wine bars in the Pacific Northwest.”

If all my classes were based on dinosaurs and beer at Lucky Labrador, well, I would have been to every class every single day. The first P&P is on Thursday, June 11 with Dr. Leonard Finkleman, assistant professor of philosophy, with a presentation on “Fuzzy” Logic: Dinosaur Feathers, Jurassic Park, and the Philosophy of Science.

Lucky Labrador Mutt IPA

I love quirky ideas that grow big, and one of these is the dog friendly Lucky Labrador.

They have taken it a step further by having a IPA made with a bunch of different hop varietals and calling it MUTT. Brilliant in my book. They grow hops at a couple (maybe more now) of their locations and get more from friends of the brewery and it becomes this communal hop pickin’ party that ends up in a brilliant IPA a few months after.