Norwegian Knut Albert is traveling in Germany and writes on his eponymous blog about a specialty shop in Berlin.

Bier-Spezialitäten-Laden

Sind sie eine Etikettensammler or ein Biergenisser, asks the man behind the counter. Are you a label collector or do you enjoy a good beer? Ein Biergenisser, I reply. When I start picking a few bottles, the other customers enthusiastically suggest others, and there is a brief discussion on whether a certain porter is sweet or not.

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Bill at It’s Pub Night tipped us off to a recent visit he made to Belmont Station in Portland, Oregon.

Next Stop, Belmont Station

The new place is bigger, too. I mean, you could still fit three Belmont Stations into John’s Market over in Multnomah Village, but the inventory is comparable. Belmont may be missing some beers that John’s carries, especially at the low end. But there are other Portland International Brewfest sorts of choices at Belmont — Norwegian IPAs, Belgian Stouts — that I don’t see on the John’s Market list.

Another benefit of the new location is the attached pub — the Biercafe — including a few tables on the sidewalk. They only have four taps, but they keep them tasty — or, as the cafe boss Wade put it to me today, “No crap on tap”.

Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark St.
Portland, OR 97215

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(Another unsolicited candy store.)

At their eponymous blog Boak and Bailey have touted the virtues of Utobeer in the Borough Market multiple times.

In describing their first visit…

Beer heroes of the month (June) - Utobeer, London

We went there today, for the first time. Yes, the first time - I cannot believe I have never been here before. A mixture of laziness, and suspicion of Borough market (some great food, but boy, do they charge for it…) mean that we had never got our arses over there in the past.

It was definitely worth it - I have never seen such a fantastic range of porters and stouts in one place. Reasonably priced too - we came away with 10 beers we had never had before for just over £20.

Utobeer
Borough Market
Southwark Street
London, SE1 1TL
(Near London Bridge Station)

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(Another unsolicited candy store. Maybe somebody will submit one of these to us.)

Jon at The Brew Site offers some photos of John’s Market Place he took during his Portland visit last month.

Oh! I almost forgot John’s Marketplace

These are, of course, the tip of the iceberg. There’s a lot of beer there.

John’s Market Place
3535 SW Multnomah Blvd.
Portland, OR 97219

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Well, no one has yet taken us up on our call to “Show us your ‘candy store’“, but I ran across this recently.

Jason at Brewing the perfect beer waxes on about a trip to Julio’s.

Stocking the Beer Fridge

This is an impressive beer store with over 900 different beers to choose from. I was about as excited as a little kid is on Christmas morning, but when I got inside, I found myself overwhelmed…(in a good way). So, after I got myself together, I browsed up and down the ailses in search of some beer.

After about 20 minutes of walking up and down the 4 ailses of beers, i realized I had no idea what I was looking for. I was just a,azed at home many different beers they had, and I wanted them all….and now!! But, cooler heads prevailed, and I paused to reflect on what I really wanted to try, and determined I wanted a little of everything.

Sounds great!

Julio’s Liquors
140 Turnpike Road
Westborough, MA 01581

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