Best secure brewskies are at PDX's Widmer pub on concourse D.
The best landside (aka kiss-n-cry) place to enjoy a microbrew is
the Woodford Reserve restaurant in Louisville. I shuttle Wife and visitors from CVG to SDF so often the servers recognize us
If you can't imbibe landside, Bluegrass Brewing Company (who beers Woodford landside) has a thriving operation after security there, but I haven't gotten to try it yet