Laurelwood Collaboration Brewer’s Dinner
02/08/12
Laurelwood Public House and Brewery
5115 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland
503-282-0622
$50
The dinner will feature collaboration beers brewed by Vasilios Gletsos of Laurelwood Brewing Co., Alex Ganum of Upright Brewing, Van Havig of Gigantic Brewing Co., and Tom Bleigh of Hopworks Urban Brewery.
These exclusive handcrafted ales will be served with a five-course dinner prepared by Laurelwood’s Executive Chef Aaron Nichols.
Amuse: Chicken coronets with preserved lemon Beer: Cascadian Pilsner brewed by Van Havig and Vasili Gletsos
Appetizer: Mussel and shrimp soup with lemon grass, kafir lime leaf, fish stock, chilies, garlic, shallot, and Thai spices Beer: Thai Wit brewed by Tom Bleigh and Vasili Gletsos
Salad: Blood orange and arugula with red onions, Castelvetrano olives, and parsley Beer: Sour Red blended by Alex Ganum, Tom Bleigh, Van Havig, and Vasili Gletsos
Entrée: Smoked pork belly and pomegranate barbequed brisket with potato-chard gratin, and pomegranate demi glaze jus Beer: Scottish Ale brewed by Alex Ganum and Vasili Gletsos
Dessert: Grapefruit tart with pecan brittle and Chantilly cream Beer: Milk Stout brewed by the Laurelwood Brew Team
The food for this dinner is locally sourced from Draper Valley Farms, Sweet Briar Farms, and Country Natural Beef. Laurelwood will also donate 10% of the collaboration dinner sales to the Oregon Food Bank. Join us for a night of special one of a kind beers and a wonderfully prepared dinner.

Full Sail February Brewmaster Dinner
02/09/12
Full Sail Tasting Room & Pub
506 Columbia St
Hood River, Or 97031
541-386-2247
5pm
$30
http://www.fullsailbrewing.com/event/full-sail-february-brewmaster-dinner.cfm
February Brewmaster Dinner will feature a four course “Retro Classics” menu and each course will be paired with one of our award winning brews. Brewmaster Dinners are held the second Thursday of the month during the fall, winter and spring. Our next dinner will be held Thursday, March 8th and will feature seasonal dishes paired with our award winning brews.
“RETRO CLASSICS” MENU
First Course-Prawn Cocktail with Blood Orange Cocktail Sauce and Chiffonade paired with LTD 04
Second Course-Waldorf Salad with Grilled Ricotta Salata paired with Session
Third Course-Stout Marinated Beef Wellington with Roasted Broccolini and Bearnaise Sauce paired with Extra Special Barney
Fourth Course-Brioche Bread Pudding with Session Caramel Sauce and Nutmeg Whipped Cream paired with Top Sail Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Porter

A Festival of Dark Arts- A Carnival of Stouts
02/18/11
Fort George Brewery
1483 Duane St
Astoria
2-10pm
$8 includes a tasting glass, drink tickets will cost $1
This event will include tattoo artists, belly-dancers, a locally curated Dark Art show, a Blacksmith demonstration, fire-dancers, tarot card reading, a Henna artist, dark poetry readings, The Stout Pounders (Celtic music from Seattle)

Zwickelmania-Oregon Brewers Guild Brewery Ooen House and Tour
02/18/11
11am-4pm
Website

February = Stout Month, and Fort George brewed up 8 Stouts this year.
Fort George Brewery and Public House
1483 Duane St
Astoria

Spank Stout
The Spank Stout is back and better than ever! With plenty of caramel and honey malts fronting this beer plus roast and black barley forming the backbone, this brew is made to balance out the impending heat of four different types of peppers, namely Anaheims, Pasillas, Habaneros, and Jalapenos. We threw 30 lbs of peppers into the rolling boil to impart a well-balanced heat to this great brew. What starts off as a slight heat on the tip of your tongue soon turns into a roasting revelation to the taste buds. We hope you enjoy this very fun and sizzling stout! 5.1 % ABV

Squashed Stout
Vegetable lovers rejoice! Our new veggie stout has two, count ‘em, TWO types of delicious squash in it! Both butternut and acorn squash had their parts creating a truly unique beer. The squash (squish?) imparts a rich, buttery taste to soothe the taste buds into a creamy revelation that will make you realize “I want to be squashed out with this squash stout!” Honey and caramel malts complement the squash by giving it a smooth and sweet body and pleasing mouth feel. Challenger hops balance out the sweetness and impart a floral and spicy bitterness. 6.7% ABV

Polish’s Black Walnut Stout
Our lead production brewer, Michal, aka Polish, put five pounds of walnuts in the secondary ferment to give the beer a light nutty, woodsy taste. He then added one more pound of smoked walnuts in the bright tank for a smoky and roasty aroma. The body of this beer is light with a caramel smoothness that makes the savory walnuts come alive. This is a beer that makes you want to smoke a pipe next to a warm fireplace, wearing a velvet robe, while petting your black panther. 6.8% ABV

Viva La Stout
What does a revolution taste like? Smooth, creamy, and with a kick of cinnamon! Our Mexican Chocolate Stout starts off with a smooth chocolate taste and balanced body. The different chocolate malts give off not only a creamy dark roasted chocolate flavor, but also a bit of bitterness to help prepare you for the wonderful spices that come at the end. With cinnamon, vanilla, and almond spices blended in the chocolate that we put in the kettle and the bright tank, this potent brew is great to enjoy before or after the revolution. Enjoy this sweet yet spicy new stout from the Fort George and celebrate the revolution that is Stout Month. 7.6% ABV

Cavatica Stout
An immense, bold, black as night, American stout beauty; Cavatica is no dry Irish anything. One sip and you’ll surely take notice of what you’re drinking. The name honors this brewer’s affinity with arachnia. Be forewarned, this beer will stain your clothes. This is Fort George’s house stout that has gained a reputation for being mighty and contagious among the locals. 8.8% ABV

Coffee Girl Stout
This year’s Coffee Girl is dry hopped with 5.5 lbs. of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee roasted by the Columbia River Coffee Roasters. the beans impart a bit of a fruity taste along with hints of hazelnut, cream, and smooth caramel. This is a perfect blend for our Coffee Girl beer that has a strong roasted chocolate taste. This beer honors Zetty McKay, who hand-picks the coffee for our stout every year, making sure that the coffee is in the perfect condition to blend with our smooth, chocolatey stout. The beans sat and aged with the beer for a week, and in that time, the beans and brew evolved into something spectacular. A must try for coffee lovers. 9% ABV

Bourbon BBL Cavatica Stout
What could make our Cavatica Stout even better? Bourbon! We let our house stout sit in Maker’s Mark barrels for several months. There in the dark, bourbon-enriched barrel, our stout soaked up as much bourbon quality that it could before we sent it off to the bright tanks. With an up-front bourbon taste backed by our dark, malty stout, the Bourbon Barrel Cavatica is a deliciously potent brew that demands a taste. 9.1% ABV

Kentucky Tart Stout
We took our Coffee Girl Stout and put it into Makers Mark barrels with unique tart notes and let it sit. What came out of the barrels was…unnaturally delicious. Thick in body and strong in dark, roasted malts, this beer was perfect to try to harness the light tartness from the barrels. The sharp, tart taste is light and blends its complex fruit flavors incredibly well with the rich stout it saturated. That, combined with the upfront oak taste from the bourbon barrels and the unique coffee blend provided from the Astoria Coffee Company, makes this amazing beer nothing short of paradise. 9.3% ABV

Laurelwood Collaboration Brewer’s Dinner
02/08/12
Laurelwood Public House and Brewery
5115 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland
503-282-0622
$50
The dinner will feature collaboration beers brewed by Vasilios Gletsos of Laurelwood Brewing Co., Alex Ganum of Upright Brewing, Van Havig of Gigantic Brewing Co., and Tom Bleigh of Hopworks Urban Brewery. These exclusive handcrafted ales will be served with a five-course dinner prepared by Laurelwood’s Executive Chef Aaron Nichols.
Amuse: Chicken coronets with preserved lemon Beer: Cascadian Pilsner brewed by Van Havig and Vasili Gletsos
Appetizer: Mussel and shrimp soup with lemon grass, kafir lime leaf, fish stock, chilies, garlic, shallot, and Thai spices Beer: Thai Wit brewed by Tom Bleigh and Vasili Gletsos
Salad: Blood orange and arugula with red onions, Castelvetrano olives, and parsley Beer: Sour Red blended by Alex Ganum, Tom Bleigh, Van Havig, and Vasili Gletsos
Entrée: Smoked pork belly and pomegranate barbequed brisket with potato-chard gratin, and pomegranate demi glaze jus Beer: Scottish Ale brewed by Alex Ganum and Vasili Gletsos
Dessert: Grapefruit tart with pecan brittle and Chantilly cream Beer: Milk Stout brewed by the Laurelwood Brew Team
The food for this dinner is locally sourced from Draper Valley Farms, Sweet Briar Farms, and Country Natural Beef. Laurelwood will also donate 10% of the collaboration dinner sales to the Oregon Food Bank. Join us for a night of special one of a kind beers and a wonderfully prepared dinner.

Full Sail February Brewmaster Dinner
02/09/12
Full Sail Tasting Room & Pub
506 Columbia St
Hood River, Or 97031
541-386-2247
5pm
$30
Menu
February Brewmaster Dinner will feature a four course “Retro Classics” menu and each course will be paired with one of our award winning brews. Brewmaster Dinners are held the second Thursday of the month during the fall, winter and spring. Our next dinner will be held Thursday, March 8th and will feature seasonal dishes paired with our award winning brews.
“RETRO CLASSICS” MENU
First Course-Prawn Cocktail with Blood Orange Cocktail Sauce and Chiffonade paired with LTD 04
Second Course-Waldorf Salad with Grilled Ricotta Salata paired with Session
Third Course-Stout Marinated Beef Wellington with Roasted Broccolini and Bearnaise Sauce paired with Extra Special Barney
Fourth Course-Brioche Bread Pudding with Session Caramel Sauce and Nutmeg Whipped Cream paired with Top Sail Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Porter

Chocolate Beer Dinner
02/11/12
Deschutes Brewery Mountain Room
901 SW Simpson Av
Bend
6pm
$65–all inclusive
5 courses of beer and chocolate influenced or chocolate based cuisine

Pappy’s Dark Portland Release
02/11/12
The Hop & Vine
1914 N Killingsworth St
Portland, Oregon 97217
503-954-3322
3-6pm
Block 15 will be releasing Pappy’s Dark and they will be selling bottles of both Pappy’s Dark & Super Nebula in the Bottleshop starting at 3PM-1 per person. Block 15’s brewing team will be in the bar where all 8 taps will feature Block 15 beer including: Pappy’s Dark 2011, Pappy’s Dark 2012, Super Nebula, Imagine, La ferme de Démons, Figgy Pudding and two lighter beers

Caldera Brewing at Oysters and Ales
02/16/12
Bella Union
170 West California St
Jacksonville, Oregon 97530
541-899-1770
Featured beer on tap at a special price, oysters available any way you like them; cooked, over cooked, barely cooked or raw!

Meet the Natian Brewers
02/16/12
The Guild Public House
1101 E Burnside
Portland, OR 97214
6-8pm
Meet Nat and Ian from Natian Brewery with a partial tap takeover of a few of Natian’s beers with raffle prizes from some of Portland’s favorite beer spots-after 8pm help Ian celebrate his 3?th birthday!!

A Festival of Dark Arts- A Carnival of Stouts
02/18/12
Fort George Brewery
1483 Duane St
Astoria
2-10pm
$8 includes a tasting glass, drink tickets will cost $1
This event will include tattoo artists, belly-dancers, a locally curated Dark Art show, a Blacksmith demonstration, fire-dancers, tarot card reading, a Henna artist, dark poetry readings, The Stout Pounders (Celtic music from Seattle)

Zwickelmania-Oregon Brewers Guild Brewery Ooen House and Tour
02/18/12
11am-4pm
http://oregonbeer.org/zwickelmania/

Pouring at the Coast
3/16+3/17, 2012
Seaside
503.738.6391
Fri/McKeown’s 5:30
Sat/Seaside Convention Center 4-9pm
Seaside Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Oregon Brewers Guild will present “Pouring At The Coast,” a craft beer tasting and food pairing festival at the Seaside Convention Center on March 17, 2012. Friday is a Brewer’s Dinner at McKeown’s in Seaside, limited to 50 people, on Friday featuring a five course dinner paired with appropriate craft beers. Dinner begins at 5:30 pm. Reservations are requested.
First course: White Bean and Bratwurst Chili Paired with :
Second Course:Grilled Chicken, Apples and Gorgonzola with Winter Greens. Drizzled with Creamy gorgonzola dressing and Stout BBQ
Third Course: Steamers and Mussels in garlic beer butter Paired with
Fourth Course: Kobe Beef Steak with Mushroom Demi glace and Roasted Fingerling potatoes with caramelized fennel and onions
Fifth Course: TBD
Paired with:

Saturday Tasting and Food Pairing will be held at the Convention Center from 4 pm to 9 pm Guests will have the opportunity taste a variety of Oregon craft brews, sample some local chefs’

My Bloody Valentine Release
02/02/12
Alameda Brewhouse
4765 NE Fremont
Portland
5-9pm
Blood Orange Saison Release and $2 pints all day.

Laurelwood Brewing at Oysters and Ales
02/02/12
Bella Union
170 West California St
Jacksonville, Oregon 97530
541-899-1770
Featured beer on tap at a special price, oysters available any way you like them; cooked, over cooked, barely cooked or raw!

Meet the Brewer and Specialty Beer Night with Oakshire Brewing
02/01/12
The Bier Stein Bottleshop & Pub
345 East 11th Ave
Eugene
541-485-2437
6pm
Meet Oakshire Brewmaster Matt Van Wyk, On tap a collaboration w/ Ben Love and Van Havig’s not yet opened Gigantic Brewing called Cabo Wabo Red, Collaborative Evil 2010 Imperial Porter, Skookumchuck Barrel-aged Wild Ale, Hellshire II and more! Matt will be pouring samples of their bottled line-up and discussing all things Oakshire. They will also have a small amount of Skookumchuck bottles for sale.

Lompoc Black Out Party
02/01/12
SideBar
3901 N Williams
Portland
4-10pm
All dark beers on tap: 2010 Bourbon Barrel Aged 8 Malty Nights, 2010 Pre Dawn Stout, Black Dawn III, Black Dawn El Salvador, Black Dawn Peru & 2009 Dark Side Porter.
-09 Dark Side Porter, brewed in July 2009 and cellared for 2.5 years. It has a malty body with strong roast and chocolate flavors (7.5% ABV);
-100 Bourbon Barrel Aged 8 Malty Nights, brewed for Hannukah 2009+aged in Bourbon barrels for nine months with roasted chocolate flavors+hints of Bourbon and oak (6.5% ABV);
2010 Pre Dawn Stout, the base beer for Black Dawn Coffee Stout, brewed with eight malts+flaked barley to create a full bodied stout with flavors of chocolate, tobacco and molasses (7.5% ABV);
Black Dawn III, coffee stout which features strong roast and dark chocolate notes with three pounds of Ristretto Roasters Beaumont Blend coffee per barrel. (7.2% ABV);
Black Dawn Peru, base beer is Black Dawn III, blended with Ristretto Roasters Peruvian proprietary roast (7.2% ABV);
Black Dawn El Salvador, base beer is Black Dawn III, blended with Ristretto Roasters El Salvadorian proprietary roast (7.2% ABV).