Horse Brass Pub
Pub in Portland, Oregon, U.S. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Horse Brass Pub is a British-style pub in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.[1][2][3] Established in 1976, the bar and restaurant serves British cuisine and has approximately 50 beers on tap.
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 The pub's exterior, October 2017 | |
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| Established | 1976 |
| Street address | 4534 SE Belmont Street |
| City | Portland |
| County | Multnomah |
| State | Oregon |
| Postal/ZIP Code | 97215 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 45°30′59.0″N 122°36′55.8″W |
| Website | horsebrass |
In The Beer Geek Handbook (2016), Patrick Dawson called owner Don Younger "the godfather of 'American Beer Geeks'", who "helped blaze the path for good beer in America".[4]
Horse Brass Pub is a British-style pub on Belmont Street[5] in southeast Portland's Sunnyside neighborhood. The pub has dark wood, exposed beams,[6] and darts.[7] It has approximately 50 beers on tap and is "especially popular with the late-night crowd".[8][9] The menu has British cuisine[10] such as bangers and mash,[11] fish and chips,[7] meat pies, sausage rolls, and Scotch eggs.[12][13]
Horse Brass Pub was established in 1976.[14] The bar was owned by Don Younger.[15][16][17][18]
Prior to Oregon's ban on indoor smoking, the pub was known for having a smoky atmosphere.[19][20]
Thrillist says Horse Brass Pub "has never not been a great place to knock back a few. It’s the best British pub outside of Britain, right down to the halibut fish and chips".[14] The bar has been described as "venerable"[21] and "a pre-eminent beer destination in a city full of brewpubs and beer bars".[22] It has also been called "a beer-supping shrine run by the godfather of Portland's beer scene".[23]
Melissa Stranger included Horse Brass Pub in Business Insider's 2015 list of the "best Irish pubs in 19 big cities around the US".[24] David Greenwald included the pub in The Oregonian's 2017 list of 38 "kid-friendly" beer establishments in Portland.[25] Men's Journal included Horse Brass Pub in a 2017 overview of "America's Founding Craft Beer Bars", or "beer bars that set the pace for the rest of the country".[26] In 2022, Julia Silverman of Portland Monthly said Horse Brass Pub was "perhaps the most authentic of Portland’s British pubs".[27]
In 2017, Willamette Week's Ezra Johnson-Greenough said "Portland's status as a beer mecca can be traced back to a grungy, smoky, dimly lit neighborhood British pub".[28] Reporting on the bar's early history, in 2018 the newspaper's Parker Hall said Horse Brass Pub "would eventually become one of the most iconic beer bars in the United States".[29] The bar placed second in the Best Beer Selection on Tap category of Willamette Week's annual "Best of Portland" readers' poll in 2020.[30]
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