Cool, I'm sure I'll be in Portland again sometime. I had a great time last time I was there with the large amount of breweries we hit up.
The damn zoo was renovating the elephant section though! It was a travesty.
Meh, the negative attention is silly though. No one is forcing anybody to buy these ships. The answer is to just not spend money on it. If people stopped buying them they would stop putting them up for sale.
My absolute top choice is always Chimay Bleu, but I'm good with Gulden Draak as well.
If I'm aiming darker I go for a Storm Brewing Black Plague or something similar (Backhand of God, etc.)