03/17/2009
Meet the Brewer
Silver Moon Brewing
Green Dragon Bistro
928 SE 9th
6-9pm
503-516-0606
www.pdxgreendragon.com
Meet the Brewer features Tyler from Silver Moon Brewing. He’ll be bringing Snake Bite Porter and Hop Knob IPA.

03/18/2009
Fort George A Quintet of Celts Beer Dinner
Fort George Brewery + Public House
1483 Duane St.
Astoria
503-325-Pint
Webbie

A Quintet of Celts
Intro
Lentil Soup
Hearty soup from northern Spain sprinkled with goat cheese.
Estrella De Galicia

Irish Soda Bread
A traditional favorite speckled with currants and served with Irish butter.
Beamish Dry Stout

Sausage
Welsh-style pork sausage filled with leek and ginger.
Felinfoel Double Dragon

MAIN COURSE
Baked wild salmon topped with a Scotch Whisky butter sauce.
Alba Pine Ale

DESSERT
Brittany Cake: rich tarts served with compote of fresh strawberries and thick cream.
Jolly Pumpkin Oro De Calabaza

3/16/09
Full Sail Brewers Share Beer Release
Meet the Brewers Share Brewer
Kyle Larsen

Broken Paddle IBA
Full Sail Brewing Co.
Full Sail Tasting Room
506 Columbia St.
Hood River
541-386-2247
5-6:30pm

Full Sail Brewing Company is proud to announce the next beer in their “Brewer’s Share” line up of small batch draft beers. called “Brewer’s Share.” To celebrate the release of Kyle’s Broken Paddle India Black Ale (IBA), brewed by Full Sail brewer, Kyle Larsen, invites you to the brewery invites you to “Meet the Brewer and the Beer” and taste his “Broken Paddle India Black Ale (IBA)at) at their Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, on Monday March 16th, from 5:00 to 6:30PM.

“This is a great way to give our customers a chance to meet the brewer who crafted the beer and gives the brewers a chance to show off their mad brewing skills,” says Jamie Emmerson, Full Sail’s Executive Brewmaster. “So come celebrate with Full Sail and raise a pint or two of his IBA with brewer Kyle Larsen.”

According to Kyle, Broken Paddle IBA is an unconventional beer. At first glance it appears to be a stout, but upon further investigation you will find a complex brew with many an identity crises, stuck somewhere between an IPA and a Stout. ABV 6 IBU 65

When asked what his inspiration was for Broken Paddle, KyleLarsen replied, “I wanted to brew a unique creation, something new to Full Sail and I did not follow any style guidelines. I combined both of my favorite Full Sail beers, IPA and Humma Gumma Oatmeal Stout to create a Black IPA. In my quest for the perfect beer I decided that a hefty portion of spicy rye malt would complement the roastiness and aggressive hop characteristics of a black IPA.

03/16/2009
Steve’s Bike Town Nut Brown
Collaborator Release Party
The EastBurn
1800 E Burnside
503-236-2876
Web
6pm

03/15/2009
Fort George Turns 2
Fort George Brewery + Public House
1483 Duane St.
Astoria
503-325-Pint
Web

Sunday, March 15th, Fort George celebrates being open two years. Patrons sporting their Fort George apparel will receive special pricing and there will be hourly drawings for free stuff. There will be live music to toast to from 2:00-4:00 p.m. and from 8:00-10:00 p.m.

St. Patrick’s Day, Tuesday March 17th, will feature holiday-related food and drink
specials as well as Irish tunes by Porter Dodge 7:00-9:00 p.m.

The following evening, Wednesday March 18th, features the Quintet of Celts Beer Pairing
Dinner. The menu includes a culinary adventure of food and beers from Spain, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and France. Reservations required.

3/8-3/14
Imperial IPA Week
Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark
Portland
503-232-8538
Website

Special tappings (subject to change, watch our website daily or join our Twitter for updates)
Sunday March 8: Ninkasi Imperial Sasquatch & Fort George 16th Chapel
Monday March 9: Bend Brewing Eclipse & Laurelwood Arctic Apocalypse (Imperial Black IPAs)
Tuesday March 10: Russian River Pliny the Younger & Steelhead Hoposaurus Rex
Wednesday March 11: Moylan’s Hopsickle & Bear Republic Apex
Thursday March 12: Anderson Valley Double IPA & Victory Hop Wallop
Friday March 13: Avery Maharajah & Bear Republic Racer X

Bend Brewing Co. announced last week that the company’s award-winning brewer, Tonya Cornett, has been invited to serve as an international guest brewer for U.K. pub company J.D. Wetherspoon’s annual International Real-Ale Festival.
Cornett is the first female brewer to be invited to participate, and will be the only representative from the United States. “J.D. Wetherspoon invites only five brewers from all over the world to guest-brew each year,” Cornett explained. “I am thrilled and honored to be included.”
Cornett has been with Bend Brewing Co. since 2002 and is a graduate of the World Brewing Academy of Germany, a partnership between Seibel Institute of Chicago and Doemens Academy of Munich. In recent years she has garnered several gold, bronze and silver medals for her beer and in 2008 was honored as the first woman to win the title of Brewmaster of the Year at the World Beer Cup.
Cornett will travel to the U.K. on March 14 with a beer recipe of her choosing, with which she will brew 325 barrels (over 10,000 gallons) of beer in two days. She intends to make an amber beer with American hops. The beer will be distributed at J.D. Wetherspoon’s over-700 pubs, where customers will have the opportunity to vote on their favorite of the guest-brewed international ales.
The festival, billed as the “World’s Biggest International Real-Ale Festival”, takes place each fall. Wetherspoon’s festival organizer, Jonathan Yates, said of last year’s event, “We brewed four overseas beers in the U.K. for the festival, and it was a fantastic opportunity for our customers to sample beers not previously available in the U.K.”

3/9 3 OR Brewers Go to final 8 of National IPA Challenge – Deschutes Inversion, Rogue Yellow Snow & Laurelwood Workhorse http://bit.ly/YQX8u

Winner of the coveted Chowder Cup:
New Old Lompoc

Most Flavorful:
Rogue Ales

Best with Beer:
Hedge House

Most Authentic:
New Old Lompoc

There was a total of 326 votes.
Rogue Ales took second.
The event raised $3,300 for Locks for Love.

For those who attended here’s the key:
#2 Oaks Bottom Public House
#3 Alameda
#4 Hopworks Urban Brewery
#5 Rogue
#6 Eat, an oyster bar
#7 Horse Brass Pub
#8 Hedge House
#9 New Old Lompoc
#10 Fifth Quadrant
#11 Laurelwood
#12 Lucky Lab

02/23-03/22
Widmer Brothers Brewing
25th Anniversary
Poster Contest
929 N Russell
Portland

Widmer Brothers Brewing is celebrating its 25th Anniversary! Kurt and Rob are looking for a killer poster to commemorate their milestone, and want you to design it. Showcase your creativity and artistic talent by creating a limited-edition 25th Anniversary poster for the bros, and you could be the winner.

The winning artist will be rewarded with:
* Five Benjamins (a.k.a. $500)
OR
* A trip for two for the Widmer Brothers’ 25th Anniversary Party in Portland, OR, where you’ll get special props for your poster!

Second place will be outfitted with $250 in Widmer Brothers Brewing merchandise.

Entries must be sized to 18 inches wide by 24 inches tall and must include the Widmer Brothers 25th Anniversary logo, which can be found here.

To enter, send your design by e-mail (PDF or JPG format – 1MB maximum size) to postercontest@widmer.com, or mail/deliver it in person to
Widmer Brothers Brewing Co., 929 N. Russell Street, Portland, OR 97227.

Submissions will be accepted from February 23, 2009 to March 22, 2009 (All entries postmarked later than March 22, 2009 will be disqualified).

First and second place winners will need to provide 300 dpi artwork and the art files for printing. Website for details