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Night of the Living Ales
10/29/11
Burnside Brewing Co.
701 E. Burnside
Portland, OR 97214
8pm-1am
$8
Advanced tickets http://www.nightofthelivingales.com

Back for it’s second year Night of the Living Ales is the ultimate Halloween party for the craft beer minded drinker featuring eight unique and special beers from seven Oregon breweries. This years festivities take place inside the elaborately decorated actual brewhouse warehouse space of Burnside Brewing Co. and with an adjacent covered outdoor beer garden. To entertain you while you sip fine brews we have lined up live music by The Ascetic Junkies and Boy Eats Drum Machine, fabulous sexy Halloween themed Burlesque from Meghan Mayhem and Hai Fleisch of Rose City Shimmy and amazing fire performers and games. Throughout the evening expect on-stage costume contests and amateur burlesque with prizes like gift cards and swag to Burnside Brewing. Costumes strongly encouraged though not required.

Brought to you by Burnside Brewing, Maletis Beverage, Yelp and Ninkasi Brewing this year’s celebration brings together seven of Oregon’s best breweries with some unique holiday themed beers. However this years party is not limited to just beer, we will have a full bar with liquor and drink specials too!

Beer List:
Burnside Brewing: Permafrost – is Burnside Brewing Co.’s first winter elixir. It’s a big strong ale brewed with 7 different malts and copious amounts of Columbia and Amarillo hops pillowed in the middle to give this warming brew a chewy complex malt body and a unique fruity juicy hoppiness throughout. You wont want to sip this dangerously strong and tasty beer like you should but pound it . 8.3% abv 77.4 IBU

Burnside Brewing: Peanut Butter Chocolate Alt – A one-off keg of Burnside Brewing’s take on the traditional German-style Alt bier malty and carmelly with reese’s peanut butter cups infused into the beer to complement the creamy body and nutty dry finish. It’s all the favorite flavors of Halloween candy you loved as a kid infused into your favorite adult beverage!

Fort George Brewery: North V – This year we took another Holiday Icon, The Fruitcake, and designed our Winter Seasonal in its’ honor. A mash of barley, oats, wheat, rye, rich caramel and honey malts are mildly spiced with Cascade and Saaz hops, fermented with Fort George House Yeast then allowed to condition on hand-splintered, rum inspired oak. A Glase Fruit concoction that includes cherries, pineapple, orange and lemon peel is dissolved into the finished beer to add the final touches.
While designed and bottled to age, we are sure this version of the Fruitcake will not be passed down for generations, but opened and imbibed at many a cheerful gathering. 7.5% abv. IBU’s Hard To Tell

Oakshire Brewing: Big Black Jack (Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter) – Oven roasted pumpkins, cocoa nibs, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and ginger round out this burly Imperial Porter. Trick…. or Treat?

Lompoc: 2010 Bourbon Barrel Aged Monster Mash – this batch was aged in Bourbon barrels for 11 months and cellared for an additional two. This Imperial Porter has a slight Bourbon aroma with chocolate and licorice flavors finishing with vanilla notes (8% ABV).

Ninkasi Brewing: TBA

Widmer Brothers Brewing: TBA

10 Barrel Brewing: TBA


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Mac’s & Pyramid Tasting
10/27/11
Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark
Portland
4-7PM
Taste Pyramid Thunderhead IPA, Snowcap Winter Ale, and Apricot, Buffalo Bills Alimony Ale and Pumpkin Ale, Mactarnahan’s Ink Blot Baltic Porter and Humbug’r Winter Ale. Bourbon Barrel aged Snowcap on tap in our Biercafe.


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Full Sail Beer Tasting
10/20/11
Birra Deli
18749 SW Martinazzi Ave
Tualatin
6:30-9:30pm
$5 get’s you beer samples, sandwiches, appetizers, and raffle tickets to win door prizes.


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KillerPumpkinFest
10/17/11
Green Dragon
928 SE 9th Ave
Portland
6-11pm
The Green Dragon Pub and Bistro will have more than a dozen pumpkin brews on tap and lots of other pumpkin food items.
18 Pumpkin Beers including Laurelwood Brewing Co. Stingy Jack, Beer Valley Brewing Jackalope Imperial Pumpkin Porter, Rogue Ales – Track Town Ales Pumpkin, Rogue Ales – Chatoe Rogue Pumpkin, Fort George Brewery Drunkin Pumpkin, Natian Brewery Pu-Pu-Pumpkin, Hopworks Urban Brewery Pumpkin, Buckman Botanical Brewery Sweet Potato and Breakside Brewery Pumpkin in two Pumpkin Casks.


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Widmer Brothers Brewing Tasting
10/20/11
Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark
Portland
5-8pm
Try the 924 Series brews and all the classics, Brrr.. bon on draft in the Biercafe


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Killer Beers of Central Oregon
10/19/11
The BeerMongers
1125 SE Division St
Portland
5pm
Look for beers from Bend Brewing, Cascade Lakes Brewing, Deschutes Brewery, Boneyard Beer, GoodLife Brewing 10 Barrel Brewing and Three Creeks Brewing.


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Fire and Brimstone
09/25, 2011
The Hop & Vine
1914 N Killingsworth
Portland
503-954-3322
$15-Tulip style Belgian glass+8 tickets
Pours will be individually priced to reflect the huge range of prices and rarity of the beers.
Breakside Brewery/Upright Brewing/Hop&Vine Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell Bill Hicks Smoked Porter
Breakside Brewery Aztec American Strong Ale brewed with cocoa+serrano and habanero chiles,
Burnside Brewing Gratzer – Batch 1 Hand Smoked Wheat Beer,
Burnside Brewing Lord of the Sting- Sweet Heat Apricot Wheat Beer Dry Hopped with Scotch Bonnet Peppers
Coalition Brewing Zozobra Cream Ale with fire roasted New Mexico Hatch Green Chilis
Deschutes Brewery Black Butte XXIII
Heater Allen Smokey Bob Rauchbier
Laurelwood Brewing Co. Gold Smoke Smoked Golden Ale
Oakshire Brewing Co. Lil’ Smokey Smoked Session Porter
Upright Brewing Co. Gunslinging Smoked Helles Lager


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Breakside’s Breakfast Beers Night
08/25/11
Breakside Brewery
820 NE Dekum
Portland
1 night only, the brewery will tap a Breakfast Stout with coffee and a Whiskey for Breakfast Porter


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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.


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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

Portland Fruit 250

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


Upcoming Events

06.01.12

Zoo Brew

Oregon Zoo
Portland

06.02.12

Firkin Fest

Green Dragon
928 SE 9th Ave
Portland

6.15-6.16/2012

Sisters Wine&Brew

The Village Green
Sisters

06.16.12

Barrel Aged Tasting

Deschutes Brewery
Bend & Portland

06.23.12

Barley Cup

Thompson Brewery
Salem

06.27.12

24th Anniversary

Deschutes Brewery
Bend

6.29-7.1/2012

North American Organic Brewers Festival

Overlook Park
Portland

7.1-7.31/2012

Oregon Craft Beer Month

350+ Events Across Oregon

7.13-7.19/2012

Puckerfest

Belmont Station
Portland

07.21.12

Roadhouse Brewfest

McMenamins CPR
Hillsboro

07.22.12

Fringe Fest

Belmont Station
Portland

07.26.12

Oregon Brewers Festival Brunch & Parade

7/26/2012
Oregon Brewers Festival Brunch & Parade
Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland

07.26.12-07.29.12

Oregon Brewers Festival

7/26/2012-7/29/2012
Oregon Brewers Festival
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Portland

08.04.12

5th Anniversary Barrel Aged Beer Fest

8/4/2012
5th Anniversary Barrel Aged Beer Fest
Baileys Taproom
Portland

08.04.12-08.05.12

Bones and Brew Festival

8/4/2012-8/5/2012
Bones and Brew Festival
Rogue Public House
Portland

08.10.12-08.12.12

Bite of Oregon

8/10/2012-8/12/2012
Bite of Oregon
Waterfront Park
Portland

Brother’s Day

8/11/2012
Brother’s Day
widmerbrothers.com
TBA
Portland

08.16.12-08-18.12

Bend Brewfest

8/16/2012-8/18/2012
Bend Brewfest
Les Schwab Ampitheater
Bend

08.16.12

Deschutes Street Fair

8/16/2012
Deschutes Street Fair
Deschutes Brewery and Pub
Portland

08.18.12

17th Annual Lighthouse Brewfest

8/18/2012
17th Annual Lighthouse Brewfest
McMenamins Lighthouse
Lincoln City

08.25.12-08.26.12

Great American Nano Fest

8/25/2012-8/26/2012
Great American Nano Fest
Green Dragon
Portland

08.25.12

Biketobeerfest

8/25/2012
Biketobeerfest
Hopworks Urban Brewery
Portland

08.31.12-09.01.12

The Little Woody Barrel-Aged Brew Festival

8/31/2012-9/1/2012
The Little Woody Barrel-Aged Brew Festival
Deschutes County Historical Society
Portland

09.08.12

Widmer Brothers Oktoberfest

9/8/2012
Widmer Brothers Oktoberfest
Widmer Brothers Brewery
Portland

09.15.12

15th Annual Mid-Valley Brewfest

9/15/2012
15th Annual Mid-Valley Brewfest
McMenamins High Street
Eugene

09.28.12-09.30.12

11th Annual Pacific Northwest Brewcup Beer Festival

9/28/2012-9/30/2012
11th Annual Pacific Northwest Brewcup Beer Festival
Fort George Brewery
Astoria

09.29.12

Sisters Fresh Hop Festival

9/29/2012
Sisters Fresh Hop Festival
The Village Green
Sisters, OR

10.06.12

Fresh Hop Beer Fest

10/6/2012
Fresh Hop Beer Fest
Oaks Amusement Park
Portland

10.08.12

Deschutes Brewery Fresh Hop Tasting

10/8/2012
Deschutes Brewery Fresh Hop Tasting
Deschutes Brewery
Portland

10.11-10.13, 2012

G.A.B.F.

CO Convention Center
Denver, CO

10.13.12

Bloktoberfest

10/13/2012
Bloktoberfest
Block 15 Brewery
Corvallis

11.10.12

BelgianFest

11/10/2012
BelgianFest
Baileys Taproom
Portland

11.28.12-12.02.12

Holiday Ale Festival

11/28/2012-12/2/2012
Holiday Ale Festival
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Portland

12.10.12

Deschutes Brewery Chefs Challenge Beer Dinner

12/10/2012
Deschutes Brewery Chefs Challenge Beer Dinner
Deschutes Brewery and Pub
Portland

03.16.12

Pouring at the Coast

Seaside Convention Ctr
Seaside, OR

03.01.13

Barleywine&Big Beer Tastival

Lucky Lab
Beer Hall
Portland

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