Summer Beers (Make Me Feel Fine) Tasting
06/18/11
Whole Foods
4301 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland
503-284-2644
1-4pm
FREE
Scott Kulick, the Hollywood Whole Foods Beer Food Master will be pouring his seasonal favorites.

Deschutes Brewery Barrel Aged Tasting
06/18/11
Bend and in the Bend Pub and Portland Pub

Medford Beer Week
Sunday June 12th
-Beer Week Kick-off BBQ and Party with Widmer Brewing Company @ Shenanigan’s Patio: 1pm – 10pm
-Summer Seasonal Tasting @ Beerworks: 5pm – 7pm
-“Locals” Beer Dinner with Slow Foods @ Southern Oregon Brewery
-Meet the Brewer with Hair of the Dog @ 4 Daughters

Monday June 13th
-Meet the Brewer with Walkabout Brewing @ Howiee’s on Front: 4:30pm – 7pm
-PNW Pale Ales Tasting @ Beerworks: 5pm – 7pm
-Deschutes Brewery Beer and Brats @ Shenanigan’s: 4:30pm – 7:30pm
-Southern Oregon Brewery and BBQ Ribs @ Shenanigan’s Patio: 6pm – 8pm

Tuesday June 14th
-Meet the Brewer with Caldera @ Porters
-Beer and Cheese Tasting with Southern Oregon Brewing @ 38 Central
-Love Your Locals @ Kaleidoscope: 4pm – Close
-Cigars & Brews @ Shenanigan’s Patio: 7:30pm – 12am

Wednesday June 15th
-Meet the Brewer with Southern Oregon Brewing @ 4 Daughters
-Fort George Brewery Tasting @ Beerworks: 5pm – 7pm
-Widmer Sampling @ Habañeros: 6pm – 9pm

Thursday June 16th
-Ninkasi Night @ Jackson Creek Pizza
-Thirsty Thursday Rare Keg Night @ 4 Daughters: 7pm – 9pm
-Widmer Sampling and Keep the Glass @ The Zone: 3:30pm – 7pm
-Chocolate and Stouts @ Shenanigan’s Martini Bar: 6pm – 8pm
-Locals & Locals – Bands and Brews with Caldera, SOB, and Walkabout @ Shenanigan’s Patio: 8pm – 12am
-Caldera Brewing Night @ Redrock Italian Eatery & Barra: 5pm – 8pm
-Oakshire Brewing Night @ The Gypsy: 7pm – 9pm

Friday June 17th
-Deschutes Brewing Night @ The Gypsy: 8pm – 10pm
-“Grab a Can” @ 4 Daughters
-Festival Preview Tasting @ Beerworks: 5pm – 7pm
-HUB night @ Rosso’s: 5pm – 7pm
-Meet the Brewer with Ninkasi @ Shenanigan’s: 6pm – 10pm
-Walkabout Night @ Mr. Smith’s: 4pm – 7pm

Saturday June 18th
-3rd Annual Southern Oregon Craft Brew Festival in OldTown: 12pm – 8pm
Medford Brew Fest, 8th and Grape

The Portland Fruit Beer Festival set to kick off this June 11th and 12th at 7th and E. Burnside has announced the primary 15 beers and breweries that will occupy the main outdoor beer garden with another rare beer list to be announced later.

The first annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival is All-Ages and Free to enter and will also have a selection of natural Juices and Beer-infused Ice Creams for sale in addition to food from Tastebud and Burnside Brewing’s outdoor BBQ.

Make sure to follow us on Twitter at @FruitBeerFest and on Facebook as we will be announcing updates including when we tap some of the rare and one-off beers that are one of a kind in our indoor beer garden. We also now have a Webpage with all the information about this years festival.

Portland Fruit Beer Fest
6/11-6/12
Burnside Brewing
701 E Burnside
Portland
503-946-8151
Sat 11-9
Sun 11-6
$6/Tasting Glass-required to taste
$1 per drink ticket-4 tickets for a full glass
Buzz Tent beers 2-3 Tickets for 4oz pours
Special Package: 1 Tasting Glass and 10 Tickets for $15

Pelican Brewery Tasting
06/11/11
Whole Foods
4301 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland
503-284-2644
2-5pm
Try Pelican’s new beers for summer and they are on sale to boot.

Open Kitchen Feast
06/12/11
Kitchencru
337 NW Broadway
Portland
$45
Five-course meal and beer pairings. Gratuity not included.
Tickets: Go to http://ticketsoregon.com/event_group.php?gid=36
For more info, go to www.facebook.com/theopenkitchen

Wildwood Backyard BBQ Bash
06/11/11
Wildwood Restaurant
1221 NW 21st Ave
Portland
12-4pm
$25
Beers from Breakside Brewery, House-Made Chorizo Skewers with New Potatoes, Spring Onions and Calabrian Mayo, GingerCilantro Pork Sliders with Spring Herb Puree and Slaw, Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs with Bacon and Espellette, Grated Radish Crostini with Sea Salt Mascarpone and Fine Herbs and Curried Yogurt Marinated Draper Valley Chicken with Cilantro Salsa Verde.

SLOW Food Beer Dinner
06/12/11
Southern Oregon Brewing Co.
1922 United Way
Medford
7-10pm
$40
Six courses
Charlene Rollins of New Sammy’s Cowboy Bistro/appetizers paired with Wild River Brewing’s Harbor Lights Kolsch.
Robin Mansfield from Tease Restaurant and Bar / signature salad w/SOB’s Pilsner.
Susan Powell of In Cahoots Catering / local seafood with Klamath Basin Brewing’s Drop Dead Red.
Dawn Strickmeyer from the Black Sheep Willow-Witt Ranch meats / Pale Ale from Walkabout Brewing.
Caldera’s IPA will be the foil for a selection of cheeses from the Rogue Creamery chosen by Tom Van Voorhees.
Course 6 cupcake using and accompanied by Standing Stone Brewery’s Noble Chocolate Stout.
Brewers and chefs will join us to talk about how they view food, drink, and local-ism.
Proceeds will go to the Slow Food School Lunch Program, which helps work to get good, clean and fair food into our local schools. Space is limited, so please call 541-840-2667 if you would like to make reservations.

Upright Kopstootje Night
06/10/11
The Hop & Vine
1914 N Killingsworth
Portland
503-954-3322
5-8pm
The last keg of Upright Brewing’s Kopstootje Biere de Garde paired with Bol’s Genever.

Portland Fruit Beer Fest
6/11-6/12
Burnside Brewing
701 E Burnside
Portland
503-946-8151
Sat 11-9
Sun 11-6
$6/Tasting Glass-required to taste
$1 per drink ticket-4 tickets for a full glass
Buzz Tent beers 2-3 Tickets for 4oz pours
Special Package: 1 Tasting Glass and 10 Tickets for $15

Beer List
Alameda Brewhouse Huckberry Hound
Beetje Brewing Zure Krenten
Block 15 Brewing Psidium
Breakside Brewery Mango IPA
Burnside Brewing Gooseberry Berliner-Weisse
Fort George Brewery Cherry Stout
Hopworks Urban Brewery Red Delicious Belgian Apple Biere
Laurelwood Brewing Co. TBD
Lompoc Brewing Cherry Wheat
Ninkasi Brewing Co. Pinot Barrel-Aged Oatis with Cherries
Oakshire Brewing Blind Date
Upright Brewing Barrel Aged Pure Wit with Orange
Widmer Brothers Brewing Himbeere Gose mit dem Eibisch

Food vendors include Tastebud wood fired pizzas and sandwiches on site, Burnside Brewing’s BBQ, fresh 100% natural non-alcoholic juices and ice cream from Fifty Licks Ice Cream, flavors include Tahitian Vanilla, Maple with Bacon, Caramelized Apple, Stumptown Coffee, Slabtown Whiskey, Coconut-Lemon-Saffron Sorbet

Brewvana Portland Brewery Tours
We are excited to be partnering with our friends at Brewvana who will be offering discounted trips on their bus to and from the Portland Fruit Beer Festival making a few stops along the way. For only $30 you get a ride to and from the festival plus a glass and ticket package that includes 1 gold flaked festival glass and 10 beer tickets. Contact Ashley at Brewvana to find out their schedule and book a trip: Brewvana at gmail

Rare Fruit Taplist:
Oakshire: Gin Barrel Aged Blackberry imperial Stout
Our Imperial Overcast Espresso Stout was aged with for two months in an Old Tom Gin Barrel from Oregon’s Ransom Spirits. Oregon grown blackberries were added giving the finished beer hints of Gin botanicals and a mild blackberry fruitiness which balances the sweet chocolate and roast flavors from the beer. 9.5%

Upright: Gin Barrel-Aged Four with Strawberries
Upright’s flagship wheat beer aged with Oregon strawberry puree in a Ransom Distillery Old Tom Gin barrel. The otherwise straightforward brew picks up a mix of the fruit character and the unique botanical notes that only come from the one of a kind local gin casks. 5%

Hopworks: Chili infused Survival Seven Grain Stout
Hopworks Head Brewer Ben Love added a unique blend of chili peppers to 3 small kegs of their Survival Seven Grain Stout. Each keg picked up its own flavors off the different peppers isolated.

Lompoc: Cherry Fechter:
Our Fools Golden fermented in a Maryhill Vineyard Cabernet Franc barrel with 35 pounds of sour cherries. It is clean crisp with a bright pink color and a slight sourness in the finish.

Widmer: 2009 Cherry Oak Doppelbock
Cherry Oak Doppelbock is a rich ale, cold-fermented with dark sweet and red tart cherries, then conditioned on new, heavily toasted American oak. The result is a dark lustrous brew with up-front malty sweetness and cherry fruit notes completed by caramel, dark chocolate, and toasted oak undertones. The complex flavor profile balances the impressive 9% ABV and 40 IBUs.

Coalition: Wheat from the Tree
An American style wheat aged 2 months in a St. Josef’s chardonnay barrel, this beer has light notes of bartlett pears and wine grape, with a sweet and tangy finish of fresh mandarin and tangelo. Starting at 4.4% abv, this beer spontaneously fermented to ~5.2% with the addition of 60 lbs of fresh fruit.

Block 15: 2010 La Ferme’ de Demons (the Demon’s Farm)
Black farmhouse ale brewed with Belgian Pilsner, French Wheat, Candi Sugar, roast malt and farmhouse yeast. Aged for over 8 months in three barrel types; Pinot Noir, Oregon Oak, and Bourbon with Brettanomyces. After barrel aging and blending, this dark ruby black ale is further matured with a touch of Oregon Tart Cherry. 8.75%alc/vol 31 IBU’s.

LOLA/Lucky Lab: Cherry Kolsch
This brew is a first for the Ladies of Lagers and Ales (LOLA) crew with no less than a dozen women breaking a sweat on a sunny day in April at the Lucky Labrador Beer Hall on NW Quimby. Under the watchful eye of Lab Brewdog Ben Flerchinger, this beer was originally brewed with Golden Promise and flavored with Munich, Wheat & Honey malt. Then CTZ hops were added for bitterness and Fuggles for aromatics. A Kölsch yeast was used to give it a bready, lemony, and mildly dank character.

Cherry LOLA is the side project of the LOLA Kolsch. Five gallons of LOLA Kolsch were kegged off and conditioned with black cherry juice for a delightfully sweet and mildly tart flavor.

Cascade: Apricot
Our Apricot has the intense aroma of Goldrich and Rival apricots, slow-ripened before being introduced to the beer. Based on a Belgian Tripel, this beer went through 16 months lactic fermentation and aging in French oak wine barrels, then rested on the fruit for four months before finishing. 8.5% ABV

Cascade: Kriek
Our Kriek spends over six months in lactic fermentation and aging in oak barrels. This NW style sour red ale is fermented for eight months with fresh whole Bing and sour pie cherries. 7.3% ABV

Double Mountain: Devil’s Kriek
It is with great pleasure that we brew Devil’s Kriek once a year at cherry harvest, and let it develop its intensity for a full twelve months, until it’s time to do it again. This year’s batch is intensely dark and fruity, thanks to over 70 lbs. per barrel of Bings (twice what we used last year) from Matt’s orchard in Odell. The light sourness comes not from sour cherries, but from Brettanomyces “wild yeast”, which slowly add the tang and a host of other funky flavors. A brown ale base provides a tasty counterpart to the fruit. 8.3% ABV

Breakside: Brewer’s Bramble
Inspired by the classic bramble cocktail, this beer was aged in an Old Tom Gin barrel with blackberries, lemon peel, and juniper berry.

Breakside: Whiskey Ginger
This beer finds its origins in a cocktail called Six Lengths Ahead, which was on the original drink menu at Portland’s cocktail hotspot Beaker and Flask. This beer also aged in a Whippersnapper barrel and has blueberries, fresh ginger, lime peel, and a touch of grenadine.

Live DJ’s Saturday & Sunday!
Saturday and Sunday the Portland Fruit Beer Festival will be host to two of the best DJ’s in the pacific northwest spinning tunes all day.

Saturday June 11th
Forrest Avery

Sunday June 12th
Dj Atom13