Horse Brass Pub

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Horse Brass Pub
Restaurant information
Established1976 (1976)
Street address4534 SE Belmont Street
City Portland
County Multnomah
StateOregon
Postal/ZIP Code97215
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 45°30′59.0″N122°36′55.8″W / 45.516389°N 122.615500°W / 45.516389; -122.615500
Website horsebrass.com

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.

Contents

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]

Description

The bar's interior, 2021 Horse Brass Pub, 2021 - 3.jpg
The bar's interior, 2021

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]

History

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]

Reception

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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