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

In 2011 we celebrate the sixth Oregon Craft Beer Month (OCBM) which gets off to a beery start on Friday, July 1, 2011 with an official kick-off party at JELD-WEN Field, 1844 SW Morrison St in Portland.
5pm-9pm with a kick off toast to Oregon Craft Beer Month at 6pm
$50 / $40 for SNOB’s

You get twelve tasting tickets, a stemmed tasting glass, program, and BBQ buffet from Center Plate Catering.
Expect two dozen fresh, local, seasonal and one off beers for this 21+ event.
Tickets must be purchased in advance by using the shopping cart here.

Sponsored by:

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Beer List
Breakside Brewery TBD
Coalition Brewing Wheat the People
Deschutes Brewery Chainbreaker IPA
Full Sail Brewing Co. Jimvar Bohemian Pilsner
Hopworks Urban Brewery TBD
Lompoc Brewing Co. TBD
Lucky Labrador Brewing Co. TBD
MacTarnahans Brewing Co. Whiskey Barrel Aged Humbug’r
McMenamins Build a Bonfire Red
Oakshire Brewing Co. Perfect Storm IPA
Rogue Ales Single Malt Ale 2011

Blind IPA Tasting
6/5-6/7, 2011
Horse Brass Pub
4534 SE Belmont
Portland
Starts Sunday till they run out.
8 self distributed Oregon IPA’s will be featured. Order a sample tray and vote for your top 3 favorites. Winners to be announced after the votes are tallied. We are running this blind tasting for 3 days, or until we run out

8 Oregon Breweries Participate in Brewers Association D.C. Food/Beer Experience

WHAT:
Now in its fourth year, SAVOR: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience returns to Washington, D.C. and expands from one to two nights. Presented by the Brewers Association (organizers of the Great American Beer Festival®), SAVOR, the benchmark of beer and food events, is a must-attend happening for beer lovers and foodies alike.
Attendees will sample craft beers from 72 small and independent craft brewers who team up with a duo of expert chefs to pair each craft beer with delicious savory and sweet dishes. Educational salons and private tasting salons will provide additional opportunities for attendees to interact with some of America’s most talented craft brewers and chefs.

WHEN:
Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4, 2011, 7:30 – 11:00 PM

WHERE:
National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Washington D.C. 20001

WHY:
SAVOR’s rapid growth is strong evidence of the public’s appetite for craft beer along with food that complements and accentuates this artfully brewed beverage. In 2010, the event sold out in less than one day, which is why SAVOR has expanded to two nights for 2011. This year promises to be another memorable event for attendees looking to taste the best that America’s small and independent craft brewers have to offer.

TICKETS:
Tickets have SOLD OUT.

Oregon Breweries are:
Caldera Brewing – Ashland
Standing Stone Brewing – Ashland
Fort George Brewery – Astoria
Deschutes Brewery – Bend
Oakshire Brewing – Eugene
Full Sail Brewing Co. – Hood River
Rogue Ales – Newport
Laurelwood Brewing Co. – Portland

Meet the Fort George Brewer
06/03/11
Roscoe’s
8105 SE Stark St
Portland
5-9pm
Fort George’s own Spencer Gotter will be there pouring 1811 Lager, Coffee Girl Imperial Stout, Bourbon Barrel Cavatica Stout, & Vortex IPA. Look for a Fort George gear raffle.

Zoo Brew
06/03/11
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Rd
Portland
5-10pm
$30/$35 ATD
Includes commemorative tasting glass, 10 tokens and admission to the zoo after 4 p.m.
Extra tokens available for $1 each. 21 and over only; valid ID is required.
Food will be available to purchase in the zoo’s restaurants. 25 Oregon breweries-Buy tix here.

Amnesia Single Hop Fest
06/04/11
Amnesia Brewing
832 N Beech St
Portland
12-8pm
$2/ticket-2 tickets=Full glass
21+ only
Single hop beers are made with one variety of hop throughout the brewing process from bittering to finishing.

Collaboration Fest
06/04/11
Breakside Brewery
820 NE Dekum
Portland
Noon
$10
Breakside invited members of the brewing community to join them to make a series of collaboration beers, $10 entry gets you a commemorative glass plus 6 oz pours of the four beers. Additional tickets are $2; Beers included are Oregon Common by the Beer Here’s John Foyston, Meyer Lemon Kolsch by It’s Beer O’Clock’s Lisa Morrison, Strong Saison by the staff of Saraveza and Margaret’s Beet Beer by Brewpublic’s Margaret Lut.

Fort George Pint Night
06/01/11
Mickey Finn’s Brewpub
4336 SE Woodstock
Portland
6-10PM
They will be pouring 1811 Lager, Vortex IPA and raffling off Fort George gear.

Cascade Lakes Tasting
06/01/11
Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark
Portland
503-232-8538
5-8pm
Taste the complete lineup including IPA, Centennial IPA, Pils, Monkeyface Porter, Blonde Bombshell, Pine Marten Pale Ale, & Rooster Tail Golden Ale. Cyclops IPA, Centennial IPA, and Pils on draft.