Hood River Hops Fest
10/03/09
Parking Lot
5th+Cascade
12-9pm
Free Admission
$5/mug
Required to taste
$1/4oz sample
Minors til 6pm
www.hopsfest.com
6th Annual Hood River Hops Fest will feature more than 50 beers from 27 Northwest breweries, including 32 Fresh Hop beers. Hops Fest features live music all day, local food and art vendors, and a Kids Zone to keep the young ones happy.

Fresh Hop beer is made during the short window of hop harvest every year, with straight-from-the-vine hops. Instead of the usual process of immediately drying and sending baled hop cones to cold storage, the fragile fresh hops are taken straight to the brewery and, in most cases, used in the beermaking process that very same day. Fresh hops possess a whole range of aromatics, flavors and resinous textures that are often changed during drying.

The Beer List:
Fresh Hop Beers:
Amnesia Brewing Co. Fresh Hoppalata
Astoria Brewing Co. Hoptimus 2.0
Big Horse Brewpub Vernon the Rabbit Slayer
Big Horse Brewpub The Strange
BridgePort Brewing Co. Hop Harvest
Cascade Lakes Brewing Co. Harvest Ale
Deschutes Brewery Portland Pub Fresh Hop Mirror Pond
Deschutes Brewery Hop Trip
Double Mountain Brewery Killer Green
Double Mountain Brewery Fresh Vienna
Fort George Brewery Cohoperative
Full Sail Brewing Co. Lupulin-Crystal
Full Sail Brewing Co. Lupulin-Cascade
Hopworks Urban Brewery Sodbuster Pale Ale
Laurelwood Brewing Co. Hop Bale Pale
Laurelwood Brewing Co. Organic Goodness
Lucky Lab Brewing Co. The Mutt Ale
Lucky Lab Brewing Co. Das Moot Lager
MacTarnahan’s Brewing Co. Fresh Hops MacTarnahan’s Amber
Lompoc Brewing Co. Harvest Man Red
Lompoc Brewing Co. Crystal Wheat
Ninkasi Brewing Co. Nugg E. Fresh
Oakshire Brewing Co. Harvest Ale
Pelican Pub & Brewery Elemental Ale
Rock Bottom Brewery Hoodwinked
Rock Bottom Brewery Octoberfist
Rogue Ales Wet Hop Ale
Three Creeks Santiam Hop Harvest
Upright Brewing Co. Fresh Hop of Bel Air
Widmer Brothers Brewing Co. Hopturnal Emission
Other Beers:
Amnesia Brewing Copacetic IPA
Astoria Brewing Co. Bitter Bitch Double IPA
BridgePort Brewing Hop Czar Imperial IPA
Cascade Lakes Brewing Co. Kolsch
Elliott Glacier Public House Gnarl Ridge Double Dry-hopped IPA
Elliott Glacier Public House Belgian Espresso Stout
Fort George Brewery Divinity
Full Sail Brewing Co. Nate’s Ubergehopft Fest Bier
Hopworks Urban Brewery 7 Grain Survival Stout
MacTarnahan’s Brewing Co. Humbug’r Winter Ale
Oakshire Brewing Co. Overcast Espresso Stout
Pelican Pub & Brewery Doryman’s Dark Ale
Three Creeks Brewing Co. Desperado Imperial IPA
Upright Brewing Co. 4
Widmer Brothers Brewing Co. Black IPA

Live Music Schedule:
Noon – 2pm: traditional German “Oompah” band!
2:30 – 4pm: blues legend Norman “The Boogie Cat” Sylvester
4:30 – 6:30pm: Geno Michaels and Soul City
7pm – Close: local rockers Speedqueen Underground

Hood River Hops Fest is a benefit for the Downtown Business Council of the Hood River County Chamber of Commerce.
Sponsors include Double Mountain Brewery; Full Sail Brewing; Hood River Bagels; Hood River Hotel; Oregon Bounty; Oregon Brewers Guild

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