Loyal Legion
A Portland beer hall in the chat's vocabulary continuously since **2023-01-01**, and the rare venue the Newfound Glory Hole has needed to disambiguate by **branch** (airport vs. southeast).
Loyal Legion
A Portland beer hall in the chat's vocabulary continuously since 2023-01-01, and the rare venue the Newfound Glory Hole has needed to disambiguate by branch (airport vs. southeast).
Loyal Legion is a Portland tap room with multiple Portland-area locations. The corpus contains 15 distinct mentions spanning 2023-01-01 → 2026-03-06, attributed to five different members. It is one of the few hoen-rotation venues whose ambiguity over which physical location is meant has been formally raised in chat.
Origin
The earliest mention is by Cullen Conway on 2023-01-01, in the immediate aftermath of a New Year's Eve hang:
"He was taking gummies at loyal legion when I went home" — Cullen Conway, 2023-01-01
Three months later Evan Bbbender reported direct attendance:
"Hanging out at loyal legion" — Evan Bbbender, 2023-04-03
2024 — the star bar choice
The chat's first documented Loyal-Legion-as-decision-point is 2024-08-16, when Evan Bbbender posted a four-message run putting the venue in pole position over a competitor:
"Loyal legion or star bar at 4?" "Probably loyal legion" "K I'll see yall at loyal legion" — Evan Bbbender, 2024-08-16
Cullen confirmed within minutes ("I am also coming to loyal legion but will be late") but added a note that has since been recurring chat folklore:
"She hates loyal legion and says it has a terrible vibe" — Cullen Conway, 2024-08-16
The she is unnamed in the corpus; the encyclopedia infers Amanda but does not confirm.
2025 — first hoen lunch proposal
The first Loyal Legion proposal explicitly framed as a hoen lunch is by Cullen Conway on 2025-03-14:
"Loyal Legion airport hoen lunch?" — Cullen Conway, 2025-03-14
This is also the first mention of the airport branch as a distinct entity. Later in the year Cullen pairs Loyal Legion with the chat's emerging Cheeky Pint convention:
"Evan and are are gonna wax our bussies at Evo at like 1:30 and grab a cheeky Loyal Legion pint if anyone needs their bussies serviced for the season and/or care for a pin[t]" — Cullen Conway, 2025-12-06
2026 — the branch question
By 2026-03-06 Loyal Legion has been formally promoted to a top-of-list hoen target, with full participation from five of seven members in a single afternoon thread:
"Level and loyal legion look danky" — Evan Bbbender "Loyal legion seems like a good idea, I'd love to sample their pfreim Pilsner" — Daniel Miller "We def doing loyal legion? Later is good for me" — Kyle Derrick "Works for me - the loyal legion one does look danky" — Max Lieberman "Loyal legion @230 ?" — Daniel Miller
The endorsement received a love-tapback from Kyle and is the encyclopedia's standard reference for the venue's beer program. By mid-afternoon the chat had reached the logistical question that no other venue in the corpus has required:
"Airport loyal legion or the one in southeast" — Daniel Miller, 2026-03-06
The decision was made minutes later in favor of the southeast branch. The encyclopedia notes that no other hoen venue has more than one Portland-area location, and Loyal Legion therefore enjoys a unique structural advantage in the chat's geography.