Hopworks Organic Brewery here in Portland loves thinking about beer and bikes and now they’ve literally put the two together. The bike holds two kegs, a stack of pizza, a bar, and has a built in sound system. I’m not sure if this will be a delivery system or a “party pub” but either way, it’s awesome. Metrofiets built it and someone from Steinbarts homebrewing did the beer plumbing, and a number of other bike and beer people worked on this. It’s a nice collaboration, bringing two groups with their own cultures together both in the process of building and in any residual parties, events, and products. The Hopworks beer-bike is a symbol of true Pacific Northwest style utopian aspiration.

Hopworks will unveil this bike at their Biketobeer Fest which is on Sept. 19, 2009, the same day as Art & Beer – the event I’m putting on at the Portland Art Museum. Now you must choose between this or that or both.