Loyal Legion’s mission statement is simple. The beer bar’s “sole purpose is to celebrate the Oregon Craft Brewing tradition,” its website helpfully explains. To that effect, the bar opened in 2014 pouring nearly 100 taps of beer, cider and wine, all from Oregon.
Soon, Loyal Legion will apply that single-minded pursuit to a state that has so far been kept off of those taps: Washington. In spring, the popular bar will head across the Columbia River to open its fourth location — after Portland, Beaverton and the Portland International Airport — in downtown Vancouver.
For Vancouver breweries, it’s a chance to join a lengthy beer list that has long eluded them. For beer fans elsewhere in the Portland metro area, it could mean a chance to sample some coveted Seattle breweries that rarely make it this far down Interstate 5…