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The upstairs events space at The Loyal Legion will host a weekly beer hall each Sunday.

(The Oregonian/Oregonlive.com)

The Loyal Legion, Southeast Portland's upcoming 99-tap, all-Oregon-beer bar, will open early next month, owner Kurt Huffman says.

Huffman, a onetime brewer turned Portland's most prominent restaurateur, has tapped Herb Apon of Beaverton's Uptown Market to put together the tap list, which will include mead and cider as well as beer. Expect to find 120 seats including booths and bar stools wrapped around a long, rectangular bar, plus a menu of simple salads, pretzels and nine types of Olympia Provisions sausages.

Later this year, the upstairs of the former Portland Police Athletic Association building will be transformed into an airy events space and one-day-a-week beer hall. The space, with room for nearly 600 people, will host specific breweries each week -- a chance, perhaps, for Washington and California beers to get in the mix -- and, for 16 days each fall, will morph into Portland's headquarters for all things Oktoberfest. Get your steins ready.

The Loyal Legion will pour its first beer on July 8 at 710 S.E. Sixth Ave. The upstairs hall should follow in mid September.

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-- Michael Russell