Blair Stenvick

Apr 19, 2024 | portlandmercury.com | Blair Stenvick

Zero-proof drink entrepreneur Andy McMillan has a story he tells where, in 2021, he approached several Portland breweries about teaming up on a non-alcoholic craft beer. He got ā€œlaughed out of the room,ā€ he says, by brewers who didnā€™t see NA beer as real beer. A few years later, that seems like shortsightedness on behalf of the brewers, whom McMillan politely demurred to name in an interview with the Mercury.

May 17, 2023 | portlandmercury.com | Martha Daghlian |Blair Stenvick |Kate Murphy

Say Nice Things About Portland [Welcome to our "Say Nice Things About Portland" guide to the city! Did you know that this feature package is also in PRINT?? That's right, this is our first print product since the start of the pandemic, and we're psyched to produce a lot more.