10/2/2010
Hood River Hops
Downtown
Noon-9pm
Admission is free
$5 for a tasting glass-Required to taste.
Individual Tastes are $1

It’s your once-a-year chance to taste what Oregon’s finest brewmasters can do with just-picked hops. Sample more than 20-40 fresh hop beers from Oregon’s top craft brewers, large and small.

Oktoberfest Bier Competition
10/03/10
Prost!
4237 N Mississippi
Portland
503-954-2674
$10
10 Oktoberfest beers
Patrons will be able to purchase three-ounce tasters of each of the brews for $10. Peoples choice will account for 50% balloting and a panel of celebrity judges will count for the other 50%. Winner gets their beer on tap at Prost. All proceeds go to a charity.

Mutt Fresh Hop Release
09/27/10
Lucky Lab Brew Pub
915 SE Hawthorne
Portland
5pm
2010 Mutt packs a hoppier punch than hops from years past+Miser Monday

Belgian Chocolate Stout Release
09/29/10
Breakside Brewery
820 NE Dekum
Portland
503-719-6475
5pm
A rich, dark stout fermented with a Belgian yeast strain and unsweetened cocoa powder. This is the first of a weekly Wednesday release of new, small batch beers.

Monster Mash Bash
10/01/10
Lompoc Sidebar
3901 N Williams
Portland
503-288-3996
4-10pm
Monster Mash features strong chocolate and roast flavors with a touch of red fruit 8% ABV+50 IBUs. It will be available on draft and in 22 oz. bottles at all Lompoc locations and in select stores.
The Monster Mash Bash will also highlight ’09 Bourbon Barrel Aged Monster Mash. Brewed on August 21 2009, this batch was aged in Bourbon barrels for 11 months and cellared for an additional two.
Barrel Aged Monster Mash has a slight Bourbon aroma with chocolate and licorice flavors finishing with vanilla notes 8% ABV.
We’re also serving up 2008 Oak Aged SaazAll Pilsner, 2009 Das Goat Mai Bock, Double Dry Hopped C-Note, Fool’s Golden Ale+free appetizers.

Oktoberfest
9/26/10
Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark
inPDX
503-232-8538
3-11pm
Look for Heater Allen+ Oakshire, Double Mountain and Fanno Creek on draft.

Independence Hop& Heritage Festival
09/26/10
Downtown
Sun 11-6pm
The Rogue Shuttle will depart from the Festival Beer Garden in downtown Independence, Oregon every hour on the hour, and take festival attendees to the Micro Hopyard just six miles away.
Chatoe Rogue will host the following events:
* Free tasting of Chatoe Rogue Wet Hop Ale
* Tours of the Hop Bed, Chatoe Rogue Tasting Room, and 55,000′ hop processing facility
* Ribbon cutting and ground breaking of Chatoe Rogue Farmstead Brewery at 3PM on Saturday
* Homebrewing demonstrations on Saturday
* Helicopter tours for fly-overs of Rogue Micro Hopyard
* Picnic in Rogue’s private beach on the banks of the Willamette River across from Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge

German Beer Summit
09/26/10
Roscoe’s
8105 SE Stark
inPDX
503-255-0049
5pm
$6 will get you 4-5oz samples-Beer from 5 Oregon Breweries including Oakshire, Laurelwood, Fort George, Double Mountain and Upright.

Laurelfest
09/25/10
Laurelwood Public House & Brewery
5115 NE Sandy
Portland
503-282-0622
3pm
Release of Laurelfest Lager

Sisters Fresh Hop Festival
09/25/10
Sisters
Village Green Park
12-9pm
$5/glass
$1/taster
10+Brewers with Fresh Hop Beers