Sisters Fresh Hop Festival
09/24/11
Village Green Park
Sisters
541-549-0251
12-9pm
$5-$1 for each 4 oz. taste
Food vendors and live music all day. Children are welcome. Sponsored by Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce.

Beermongers Brewfest
9/10-9/11, 2011
The BeerMongers
1125 SE Division St
Portland
503-234-6012
Saturday, September 10, 12-9PM
Sunday, September 11, 12-8PM
$15 Admission = Souvenir Festival Glass + 7 tasting tickets
Additional Tickets $1 each
21+OVER
CASH ONLY
Astoria Brewing co.– Solar Dog IPA IPA – 6.2% ABV
Barley Browns Brewpub – Turmoil CDA – 7.75% ABV
Beetje Brewing – Een Vat Wild ale – 6.5% ABV
Bend Brewing Co., – Scarlet Imperial Red Strong Ale – 8.5% ABV
Boneyard Brewing – Hop Venom Imperial IPA – 10% ABV
Breakside Brewery – Oude Noire Dark Spiced Saison
Breakside Brewery – Bourbon Barrel Aztec Strong Ale with Peppers
Burnside Brewing – Bourbon Bacon Stout
Deschutes Brewery Portland Pub – Trojan Horse IPA – 6.8% ABV
Flat Tail Brewing – Locals Only Wit with White Plums – 5.5% ABV
Flat Tail Brewing – Raspberry Beret Sour Porter
Good Life Brewing – Sweet As Hoppy Wheat – 6.1% ABV
Hair of the Dog Brewing – Little Dog Dark Mild
Lucky Labrador Brewing – 2010 Old Yeller Barleywine – 10% ABV
Oakshire Brewing – 2010 Very Ill Tempered Gnome Imperial Brown Ale – 9.7% ABV
Oakshire Brewing – Oak Aged Watershed IPA – 7.1%
Upright Brewing Co. – Stout of Monte Fisto Imperial Stout – 8.25% ABV
Upright Brewing Co. – Gunslinging Smoked Helles Rauchbier – 4.9% ABV
Widmer Brothers Brewing – Rose City Hipster Golden Ale with Rosehips – 5% ABV

16th Annual Lighthouse Brewfest
08/20/11
McMenamins
Lighthouse Brewpub
4157 N Highway 101
Lincoln City
541-994-7238
11am’til late-Free admission-All Ages-19 McMenamins beers made especially for this beer festival.

Crystal Brewery (Portland, Ore.)
Brewers: Jeff Cooley, Alex McGaw
Beer: A Midsummer Night’s Chamomile Wheat
Style: Wheat beer
This beer is a slightly hazy, golden-colored ale with a thick creamy head and floral aroma, with a hint of citrus. Brewed with organic 2-row and wheat malts, and spiced with Perle hops, Egyptian chamomile, it is known affectionately as the ice tea of beers. It has a pleasant floral wheat ale with a crisp finish and subtle citrus overtones. This light ale is a welcome addition to your summer drinking quiver and welcome respite for the sweltering summer months to come.
Words to live by: “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” — William Shakespeare

John Barleycorn Brewery (Tigard, Ore.)
Brewer: Tim Proctor
Beer: Union Jack English Pale
Style: English pale ale
Union Jack is a medium-bodied pale ale with a copper-amber color. English malts were used to create a bready sweetness that is balanced by traditional Golding hops. This is an easy-drinking pale, perfect to share with friends while soaking in some rays at the beach.
Words to live by: “Everybody should believe in something, I believe I’ll have another beer.” – W.C. Fields

Old St Francis School Brewery (Bend, Ore.)
Brewers: Mike “Curley” White, Andy Young
Beer: Slingshot Organic Pale
Style: American pale ale
The Slingshot Organic Pale Ale is a well-balanced beer with both bready malt and floral hop flavors! A quick rounded mix of citrus and a touch of bitterness will hit your taste buds like a shot! A great outdoor sipping beer that will remind you of those summer nights being a mischievous kid! Cheers and enjoy!
Words to live by:
“Curly” Mike White: “I don’t know why! I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again!” — Bart Simpson
Andy Young: “Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, and you’d step over your own mother just to get one!” — Homer J Simpson

Highland Brewery (Gresham, Ore.)
Brewer: Dan Black
Beer: Toutes les Routes
Style: Belgium saison
Toutes les Routes (means all roads in French) is a Belgian saison, a summer seasonal ale originally brewed by farmers in the French-speaking part of Belgium. This beer was designed to be a thirst quenching and refreshing beer to enjoy during the hot summer months and still packed with flavor. Toutes les Routes was brewed with pilsner, Vienna and wheat malts, with a blend of Chinook, Citra and Golding hops for bitterness, flavor and aroma. Grains of paradise were added to the boil for an added spicy, peppery note that will lend itself to the complexity of the French Saison ale yeast (Wyeast 3711). Enjoy this summer seasonal.
Words to live by: “Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.” – George Herbert

Hillsdale Brewery (Portland, Ore.)
Brewer: Matthew Giglio
Beer: Good Lovin’ Brown Ale
Style: Brown ale
Ahh…. Some of that old good fashion lovin’! This old-world-style brown ale should bring you back to a much simpler time in life … when just the basics were brought together and formed into a working man’s beverage! Break out the crushed velvet suit and prepare for some Good Lovin’! Little to no hop character should leave you malting for more!
Words to live by: “True fine lovin’, a whole lotta huggin’, nothing but trouble baby, I need your good lovin.’” — James Brown

Lighthouse Brewery (Lincoln City, Ore.)
Brewer: Doug Ashley
Beer: Deck Hands Dark
Style: American dark ale
A hard-working deck hand knows what he wants after a long day of saying, “Yes, sir” to the captain. He wants to say, “Yes, I’ll have a Deck Hands Dark Ale.” He looks forward to the great American dark ale with subtle roasted malt and delicate hop flavors.
Words to live by: “Respect the deck hand who powers the part of the ship the engine can’t.” — Jean Ashley

Edgefield Brewery (Troutdale, Ore.)
Brewers: Bruce Loux, Robert Mason, Christina Canto, Stephen Harper, Nathan Whitney, Dustin Andries
Beer: Moonflower Cascadian Dark Ale
Style: Cascadian dark ale
This beer was brewed for the 100th birthday celebration of McMenamins Edgefield historic property. The brewers at Edgefield tried to marry two different beer recipes as closely as possible to create deliciously smooth and nicely hopped dark ale. We hope you enjoy this special offering. Cheers from the Edgefield brewers.
Words to live by: Why bother doing anything if you are not going to do it right? Cheers!

Oak Hills Brewpub (Portland, Ore.)
Brewer: Tony Balzola
Beer: Über Den Rand
Style: Dunkelweiss
This is a dark wheat beer that is laoded with malt character. Banana, clove, chocolate and breadiness are accentuated by a floral and spicy hoppiness. Rose hips were added in the finish to add a subtle pepper quality. This beer was then aged in a Hogshead Whiskey barrel for over 3 months, adding oak and whiskey character.
Words to live by: “The edge – there is no honest way to explain it because on the people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” – Hunter S. Thompson

Concordia Brewery (Portland, Ore.)
Brewers: Kevin Lee, Matt Carter
Beer: Dark Karl
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Need not be concerned who Dark Karl is. What should concern you is this tall, dark drink in front of you. As dark as the winter was long, Dark Karl is not a beer for the faint of heart. Just past 8.5 % ABV, I suggest you put on your sunglasses and seek some shade. With over 500 lbs. of the finest ingredients available, you should find this beer to be robust, full-bodied and, most important, full-flavored. For those of you who don’t know, Dark Karl put the barley in the “Barley Cup.” Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Words to live by: “If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?” – George Carlin

McMenamins on the Columbia (Vancouver, Wa.)
Brewer: Mike Napier
Beer: Pacific Gold
Style: Golden ale
This crisp and hoppy golden ale is perfect for a beautiful Pacific sunset, or sunrise, shared with family and friends. This ale is nicely balanced with a Northwest hop presence and slight tastiness from the Belgian malts. Nice and easy, just like our mellow summer days, cheers.
Words to live by: “The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” – Humphrey Bogart

Monroe Brewery (Corvallis, Ore.)
Brewer: Gary Nance
Beer: Beach Party Kölsch
This refreshing beer was made with German malts and German alt yeast. These ingredients lend a crisp flavor to enable the lime and peppers to also play in the band. The hop sack is a combination of dried serrano pepper with lime zest. Fresh lime juice adds a refreshing tartness to the beer. I thought that at this beach party we would give the lemons a break. I hope that my Beach Party Kölsch proves the best beach beer doesn’t come in a clear bottle.
Words to live by: “No matter what you choose, choose love.” — Ringo (a.k.a. R. Starkey)

Fulton Brewery (Portland, Ore.)
Brewer: Ryan Mott
Beer: Brick Top ESB
Style: English ESB
Brick Top ESB is a balanced offering in the deep orange to copper color range. The first flavors that wash over the palate are of mellow burnt sugar followed by a citrusy hop bitterness. The bitterness fades into a biscuit-flavored body. Neither flavor threatens to overwhelm the other as they glide together towards a pleasant, lingering, flowery hop finish. This beer is designed to offer plenty of flavor without seizing one’s palate. It makes a great session beer to be enjoyed by itself or as a companion with most foods. It pairs especially well with fish and chips.
Words to live by: “Do you know what nemesis means?” — Brick Top

High Street Brewery (Eugene, Ore.)
Brewer: Charlton Fulton
Beer: Lotus Hammer IPA
Lotus Hammer IPA is a medium-bodied IPA with a big pine and citrus hop aroma. The malt complexity provides a solid balance with the hop character that keeps this high IBU beer very drinkable. The addition of Oat malt lends a silky mouth feel to compensate for the lack of Crystal malt. The Munich and Vienna malts add to the malt complexity and give the beer a light golden color.
Words to live by: Let your happiness be contagious!

Thompson House Brewery (Salem, Ore.)
Brewer: Jen Kent
Beer: Boardwalk Amber
Style: American amber
Great classic Pacific Northwest amber full of soft caramel notes then topped off with a hop profile to keep us hop lovers satisfied. Great beer to stroll along with your time.
Words to live by: “It’s just bubbles at the bus station.” – Jaren

Roseburg Brewery (Roseburg, Ore.)
Brewer: Tom Johnson
Beer: The Marble Rye
Style: Rye beer
The Marble Rye is a tasty rye India pale ale with Crystal Rye malt and Roast Rye malt swirled into the mash for extra added flavor and color. The Crystal and Roast Rye malts add a toasty caramel complexity with a zing of rye. Citra hops counter the malt with tropical citrus flavor and aroma. The Marble Rye is a natural with a Reuben sandwich and makes a great gift.
Words to live by: “Just because your life is destroyed, don’t destroy someone else’s.” – Jerry Seinfeld

West Linn Brewery (West Linn, Ore.)
Brewer: Jeremy Wulf
Beer: Chocolate Monkey Porter
Style: Porter
This chocolate porter is rich, smooth, dark and very refreshing. Just the right balance of hops and various malts were used to create this tasty porter. It is intended to bring out the animal in all of us.
Words to live by: “Scared is when you are about to do something amazing.”

Cornelius Pass Roadhouse Brewery (Hillsboro, Ore.)
Brewers: Chris Oslin, Brady Romtvedt
Beer: Dog Days Vanilla Cream Lager
Style: Nitro cream ale
We started with a big, balanced, hellesbock lager for a clean, sturdy base. In the keg, we added milk sugars for creaminess and raw vanilla beans for pure vanilla goodness. The result is a summer cooler that wouldn’t be out of place pouring from a 1950s soda fountain (excepting the alcohol, of course). Smooth, refreshing, and wonderfully unique, enjoy a pint of Dog Days Vanilla Cream Lager today.

Bend Brewfest
8/20,2011
Les Schwab Ampitheater
Bend
12-11pm Sun
$1 per tasting token
10 Barrel Apocalypse IPA India Session Ale
Alameda Brew House El Torero IPA Klickitat Pale Ale
Bend Brewing Hophead Ludwig Pilsner
Bend Brewing X-TAP Ching Ching
Boneyard Beer Girl Beer RPM IPA
Boneyard Beer X-TAP Bourbon Barrel Backbone
Bridgeport Kingpin Summer Squeeze
Caldera Dry Hop Orange Vienna Lager
Caldera X-TAP Vas Deferens
Cascade Lakes 20″ Brown Paulina Lake Pilsner
Cascade Lakes X-TAP Cyclops IPA
Central Oregon Homebrewers Oregon Export Lager Collaberative (with Silver Moon)
Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale Twilight Ale
Deschutes X-TAP Chainbreaker
Double Mountain Kolsch Hop Lava IPA
Fire Mountain Bogart IPA Oregon Pale Ale
Fire Mountain X-TAP Steam Fired Stout
Full Sail LTD 03 Elevation Imperial IPA
Gilgamesh Mamba Ridgeway IPA
Gilgamesh X-TAP Mint Kolsch
Good Life Summer Seasonal Mountain Rescue
Hopworks Urban Organic Lager Rise Up Red
Laurelwood Organic Free Range Red Organic Pale Ale
Lompoc Lompoc Strong Draft Proletariat Red
Lompoc X-TAP Sour Cherry Wheat
McMenamin’s (OSF) Copper Moon Father D’s Kolsch
McMenamin’s (OSF) X-TAP Wildflower Wheat
Ninkasi Maiden the Shade Radiant Ale Seasonal
Oakshire Line Dry Rye Watershed IPA
Pelican Pub Ankle-Buster Ale Surfer’s Summer Ale
Pelican Pub X-TAP Winema Wit
Seven Brides Frankenlou’s IPA Lil’s Pils
Seven Brides X-TAP Port Barrel Aged Weezin-ator
Silver Moon Hop Fury IPA Tail Gator Cream Ale
Steelhead Raging Rhino Red Twisted Meniscus IPA
Three Creeks Hoodoo Voodoo IPA Knotty Blonde
Walkabout Jabberwocky Strong Ale Worker’s Pale Ale
Widmer Brothers Citra Blonde Rotator IPA

Medford Beer Week
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

3rd Annual Southern Oregon Craft Brew Festival
06/18/11
Bartlett and Main St.
Medford
12-8pm
$10-21+ only

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

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.

10th Annual Sasquatch Brew Fest
05/12/12
Eugene Hilton
66 E 6th Ave
Eugene
Noon
$10
Live music will feature The Scott Law Band, The Ty Curtis Band, The Lionel Young Band, The Scott Pemberton Trio, and the Craig Sorseth Trio. Entrance includes a commemorative glass and two taste tickets. Additional taste tickets will be available for purchase throughout the festival grounds.

Portland’s Cheers to Belgian Beers
Saturday April 30th
Metalcraft Fabrication
723 N Tillamook St.
Portland
Noon-9pm
$15 gets you a footed stemware glass and 5 drink tickets. Glass purchase is required to taste.
Sample over 40 different Belgian-style ales all made with the same yeast. Free Admission
www.oregonbeer.org/pctbb
Located 2 blocks south of the first yellow line Max stop north of the Rose Garden.
Parking available on the street north towards Russell St. and SE towards Broadway or take the Max.
Metalcraft makes brewing systems and tanks for Oregon’s craft brewers.

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