Wayfinder Beer

Microbrewery in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Wayfinder Beer

Established in 2016

Contact
304 SE 2nd Ave, Portland, OR, 97214, United States
Description
WAYFINDER BEER is a new brewery project in Portland, Oregon. We have transformed a 8,900 square feet of a century-old brick warehouse in Portland's Central Eastside into a classic destination for beer and food lovers.

Wayfinder is the brainchild of Charlie Devereux (co-founder of Double Mountain Brewery), Matthew Jacobson (co-founder/owner of Sizzle Pie, Quality Bar, and Relapse Records) and Rodney Muirhead (co-founder/owner of Podnah's Pit and La Taq). Our mission: to bring simple and authentic pleasures of the highest quality to the Rose City and beyond.

Guests to Wayfinder will find enjoyment in our 110-seat taphall, or outside on our massive patio. Our menu of handcrafted comfort food features deliciousness from a custom wood-fired grill. We're using our four-vessel, 10-barrel brewhouse to create world-class lagers and ales for onsite enjoyment and wholesale distribution.

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Poured from a 16 oz can dated August 09, 2024. Aroma is fairly hop forward with notes of grapefruit, orange, tangerine and tropical citrus. Hints of passion fruit and dank, oily resin. Light bready, cracker malt notes and hints of alcohol. Pours a fairly clear, yellow straw color with a medium large, thick, fluffy, white head that recedes slowly to a small film that lingers. Moderate lacing and faint legs. Flavor is slightly sweet with light cracker and bread malt notes. Medium high bitterness and light alcohol notes. Moderate hop notes of grapefruit, tropical citrus and tangerine. Lighter notes of passion fruit and some dank, resin notes that linger in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium light bodied and crisp with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a solid cold IPA. Nice crisp malt notes with a balanced, albeit a bit light hop profile. Bitterness is accentuated a bit by the crisp finish. Alcohol is well hidden.

Tried from Can on 03 Sep 2024 at 04:44


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from Tavour. Pours clear light amber with a moderate creamy white head. Aroma of amber malt and some black tea notes. Med body or so. Flavor is the aroma. There's some prickle/spice/pepper aspects. Guess could be from the tea. Dry, something stands in for hop bitterness. Gets black tea astringency.

Tried from Can on 01 Sep 2024 at 23:38


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Poured from a 16 oz can dated July 12, 2024. Aroma is hop forward with moderate notes of grapefruit, floral notes and some.loght dank, resin notes. Light bready grain notes and hints of rice and alcohol. Pours a fairly clear, pale, yellow color with a large, thick, fluffy, white head that slowly recedes to a small film that lingers. Medium lacing and faint legs. Flavor is slightly sweet with light bready grain notes and some rice. Medium bitterness and light alcohol notes. Light floral, grapefruit and dank, resin hop notes. Mouthfeel is light bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a clean easy drinking lager. A fairly basic beer, but the hop notes are very pleasant. Really light malt profile that carries the bitterness well enough.

Tried from Can on 30 Aug 2024 at 05:01


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

16oz can pours out crisp straw topped with a white head. Nose is nice citrus hops some bread malts and some grassy notes. Taste is more of the nice big citrus hops and some grain grass touch.

Tried from Can on 18 Aug 2024 at 02:49


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

16oz can pours out pale straw topped with a white head. Nose is nice crisp grain malts some corn touch. Taste is more of the nice crisp grain malts some grass touch.

Tried from Can on 18 Aug 2024 at 02:38


8

This has got some gorgeous foral/tea hop notes upfront, clean crisp finish, delish.

Tried from Can on 13 Aug 2024 at 18:06


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at brewery. Pours clear gold with white head. Aroma has wheat and dry grass. Flavour has dry grass and wheat. Pretty solid malty beer.

Tried from Draft on 11 Aug 2024 at 05:14


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at brewery. Pours clear yellow with a white head. Aroma has dry grass and straw. Aroma has straw, grassy hops; a bit damp. High carbonation.

Tried from Draft on 11 Aug 2024 at 05:11


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap at brewery. Aroma has straw; a bit ricey. Flavour has rice, straw, and grassy hops. Solid but simple.

Tried from Draft on 11 Aug 2024 at 05:09


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On tap at brewery. Pours clear yellow with a white head. Aroma has straw, dry grass, damp. Flavour has straw and dry grass hops. Solid pilsner, well-hopped.

Tried from Draft on 11 Aug 2024 at 05:08