The Oregon Garden Brewfest had 6ooo people attended this years event.
The winning beer for the Peoples Choice Award was Seven Brides Brewing Chocolate Stout.
This beer is available at the “tap room” located at
Seven Brides Brewing
990 B 1st St.
Silverton oregon.
Chocolate Stout: Ebony in color with a decadently creamy, mocha colored head. A special blend of dark roasted malts and dark chocolate, married with Oregon grown Cascade and Nugget hops-6.4 ABV, 35 IBU’s, 75SRM

Bend–April 28, 2011: Out and about, trying to find a Deschutes beer to quench your thirst? Homebrewing and want to wow your friends by brewing your own version of Black Butte Porter? Want to share a photo of your favorite Deschutes moment via a Flickr stream? The newly launched Deschutes Brewery website at www.deschutesbrewery.com has all these features and more. The user-friendly site design helps visitors find exactly what they are looking for, while also providing an easily accessible mobile version for those on the move.

Asking Deshutes Brewery fans what they want from a website
At the beginning of the website project, Deschutes felt it was important to reach out to website users and ask them how they used the site and what they would like to see. Responses from nearly 2,000 Deschutes Brewery fans showed that the number one request was to find beer, especially seasonal brews. A close second was finding out about Deschutes Brewery events. That’s when the company decided on a Mobile First plan for the new website. “It meant really focusing on incorporating the customer feedback we’d received, coupled with the needs of today’s mobile user,” said Jason Randles, digital marketing manager for Deschutes Brewery. “We’ve integrated information that our fans want and need – including a beer finder for all mobile devices that will help them locate our beer wherever they happen to be in our distribution area.”

Mobile users and the beer finder
The innovative beer finder is “location aware.” This means that the mobile user has only to click once, without typing, and the beer finder returns results from within that immediate area. It also allows users to type in their location and view all of the events going on nearby, as well as pinpointing restaurants, bars, grocery stores, and specialty beer shops in the areas that carry Deschutes Brewery beers. The same beer finding functions work equally well on the desktop/laptop versions of the new website. “We want to make it easy for people to find our beers wherever they may be,” Randles continued.

Unique features of the Deschutes Brewery Mobile Beer Finder
Although there have been other breweries that have implemented the available beer distribution data for their own versions of “beer finders,” the Deschutes Brewery Beer Finder has some unique attributes.
• Auto-detect a mobile user’s location (the user can allow this function or not through control permissions).
• Mobile Beer Finder can search and find a specific beer among all of Deschutes Brewery’s brands by location.
• The tools can add Deschutes Brewery events when searching for beer locations.

Key features of the new website
· Shares clone recipes of all Deschutes beers with homebrewers.
· Allows scrolling through beers by style, brand or series.
· Mobile friendly: smart phone users can easily find beer and view and interact with the site.
· Fully integrated with links to Deschutes Brewery’s social media sites and the ability to “like,” tweet and email pages.
· A Flickr gallery that incorporates specifically tagged photos on each page.
Discover more at www.deschutesbrewery.com.

Hopworks Urban Brewery & Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Ales Win “People’s Choice” Vote at 2011 Portland’s Cheers to Belgian Beers

More than 1,500 beer fans attended the 2011 Portland’s Cheers to Belgian Beers festival at Metalcraft Fabrication on Saturday, April 30 and they selected Hopworks Urban Brewery’s Muscles from Brussels and Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Ales’ Seizoen Bretta as the People’s Choice champions. As the winners of the 2011 competition, Hopworks Urban Brewery and Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Ales earn the right to select the yeast strain for the 2012 event.

“This is the first year we’ve had a tie in the People’s Choice voting,” says Oregon Brewers Guild Executive Director, Brian Butenschoen. “It’s incredible to see how this festival has grown as public appreciation for Belgian styles and flavor profiles increases.”

The 2011 Portland’s Cheers to Belgian Beers festival marked the world debut of Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Ales.
This is the second time Hopworks Urban Brewery has tasted the People’s Choice victory, the brewery also took home the coveted prize at the 2009 festival. The top five spots (including two ties) in the voting went to: Ambacht Brewing Honey Triple, Big Horse Brew Pub Bear’s Choice, Block 15 Brewing Co. St. Macarius, Breakside Brewery Brewers Bramble, Cascade Brewing Co. Chuggeté Pucker, Hopworks Urban Brewery Muscles from Brussels and Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Ales Seizoen Bretta.

The Portland’s Cheers to Belgian Beers festival started in 2007 as a celebration of Belgian style beers, with participating breweries producing beers from the same strain of yeast. This year 40 participating breweries created 43 unique brews, 39 of which were brewed using the Wyeast Laboratories Trappist High Gravity yeast strain.

Alter Ego Double IPA Release
05/10/11
Burnside Brewing
701 E Burnside
Portland
503-946-8151
3pm

Cask-Cadian Cask Release
05/11/11
Green Dragon
928 SE 9th Ave
Portland
5-8pm
Brewed by Oregon Brew Crew Member Todd Beach, a cask-conditioned Cascadian Dark Ale, distinctly malty yet hop-forward,
due to aggressive hopping in the kettle and fermenter. Made with 2-row, Caramunich, German Carafa, and Crystal Malts.
Hopped generously with Chinook, Columbus, Centennial, Summit and Simcoe. 6.5% ABV-25 SRM-80 IBU

Whiskey Ginger Release
05/11/11
Breakside Brewery
810 NE Dekum
Portland
3pm
Based on a cocktail called Six Lengths Ahead, aged in a Whippersnapper barrel with blueberries, fresh ginger, lime peel, and a touch of grenadine.

Double Mountain Dinner
05/12/11
Podnah’s Pit Barbecue
1625 NE Killingsworth
Portland
503-281-3700
6pm+8pm
$40 all in
Appetizers: house charcuterie, cheese, and pickled vegetables
Salad: iceberg wedge with bleu cheese
Main course: Smoked meats with traditional sides
Dessert: “pequin pecan” from Sahagun Chocolates
Double Mountain Brewery will take over all of the bar’s eight taps with a mix of everyday favorites+some rare brews.
Roving servers will make sure your glass stays full. Most of the meal will be served family-style on big platters, so be ready to get to know your neighbor.

Bourbon Barrel Beers
05/12/11
Beermongers
12th and Division
Portland
5-10pm
Look for Block 15 Brewing’s Pappy’s Dark, Oakshire Brewing’s Heart Shaped Box, Full Sail Brewing Co.’s Black Gold Imperial Stout and the Portland debut of Boneyard Brewing’s Bourbon Aged Backbone Stout.