Portland, ORBeer Halls and Biergartens

Willamette Week counts four zones for guzzling liters and dunking pretzels in mustard at this North Mississippi German bier bar. Garage doors open the dark wood room to the street, a fire pit heats the benches and three picnic tables, and a second outdoor area sits under heat lamps within sight of the taps. Prost also spreads into the adjoining food cart pod, where an enclosed picnic table section joins 18 tables in all, most fitting six. Portland Monthly says Stammtisch came from its creators. Order a liter of the steady Pilsners, dunkels and bocks.

Portland Monthly describes Stammtisch as a German beer hall and eatery from the creators of Prost, opened in 2014 in the reworked Spints Alehouse space at Northeast 28th and Flanders. The airy room runs a bar into a second space, a huge accordion window opens the front, and a beer garden patio adds about 30 seats. The list runs 18 taps, from a malty floral maibock to a smoked helles lager. Willamette Week says a dozen tables sit outside. Order the Hausgemachte Wurst plate on sauerkraut and share it.

Willamette Week's Matthew Korfhage went looking for Munich in St. Johns and found a German style brewery that had built a bar upstairs with a balcony looking at the St. Johns Bridge. He liked the Urban German bratwurst and the house made mustards, called the dark Occidental beer balanced and malty, and found the traditional pretzel a little dry that visit. The paper's later listing puts the Wursthaus inside Occidental Brewing with a large beer selection for a brauhaus. Order the bratwurst with the house mustard and take the balcony for the bridge view.