I've visited Burnside Brewing two or three times since they opened a year ago. It seems popular, but for one reason or another, I never became a fan. Sure, it's only about a mile away from my front door, and sits strategically positioned at the half-way point on my daily bike commute. Then again, Burnside isn't the only brewery I can say that about; Hair of the Dog, Cascade, Coalition, Migration... there are a ton of really good breweries and brew pubs out here, all within a mile or two of each other. Maybe I was drinking the wrong thing, but nothing at Burnside Brewing every struck me as memorable. The only thing I really do remember is that they had really weird-tasting ketchup. Well, Burnside started bottling a month or two ago, so now I get to do an "official" review. I decided to start with my favorite beer style, the IPA. Burnside's IPA pours an orange-ish amber color. There's a little bit of a hops aroma, but it's pretty faint. The taste itself is very straight-forward: bitter, grapefruit hops, and a fair amount of balancing malts. A little sweet. Lingering bitter aftertaste. So: good. Nice. Pleasant. Solid, but not exciting. A perfectly fine IPA, but also very ordinary and unmemorable to me. Would I order this if I found myself at the brewery again? Probably. But in a bottle shop, on a shelf next to many, many other local offerings? No, probably not. I don't think this beer is ever going to find itself on a list of Portland's (or Oregon's) best IPAs -- not mine, at least. Not by a mile.