Pucker Up for Sour Beers
05/26/11
KitchenCru
337 NW Broadway
Portland
Cost for PCA members: $30
Cost for non-members: $40
Van Havig (former head brewer of Rock Bottom Brewery, a past president of the Oregon Brewers Guild has selected an array of sour beers and will guide folks through a tasting of this unique style. Small plates of food are also included in the cost of this event.

Microhopic 3
04/23/11
Migration Brewing
2828 NE Glisan
Portland
503-206-5221
6-11pm
Brewpublic and Migration are teaming up to host A Microhopic Spring Release Party.
eers from: Amnesia Brewing’s Dry-Hopped Red Handed Ale, Beetje Brewery’s Touch of Essen,
Breakside Brewery’s Rye Kolsch, Burnside Brewing’s Stock Ale and Migration Brewing’s PDX.
Read more about it here

Night of the Dry Hops
04/13/11
Breakside Brewery
820 NE Dekum
Portland
3pm
Breakside has brewed five test batches of its summer pale ale, each dry hopped with a different, less common American hop varietal. The featured hops are Newport, Vanguard, Ahtanum, Santiam, and Galena. The beers will be served side by side in a sampler tray, and customers will have the chance to vote on a People’s Choice Hop. The winning hop will then be featured in the larger batch of the brewery’s summer pale ale.
Read more about it here

Tap It Tuesday
04/05/11
Cascade Brewing Barrel House
939 SE Belmont
Portland
6pm
Elderberry is a live barrel of NW style sour red ale, initially aged for six months in French oak wine barrels, then additionally aged on elderberries. Sharp wine, dark raisins, red grapes and cereal notes on the nose, tart dark fruit and grapes on the palate, ending with a crisp dry finish with hints of fresh elderberries and grape skins.

Fort George Can Release Party
04/01/11-No Foolin
Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark Ave
Portland
503-232-8538
5-8pm
1811 Lager + Vortex IPA-Free Can tastings, specialty drafts on tap at the Biercafe and schwag raffle.

2nd Annual IPA Summit
03/25/11
Roscoe’s
8105 SE Stark
Portland
4pm-5 oz tasters available
Look out for Hopworks Urban Brewery’s Ace of Spades, Laurelwood Brewing’s Imperial Workhorse, Fort George Brewery’s Sixteenth Chapel, Prodigal Son Brewing’s Splendor in the Glass, Cascade Brewing’s Spring Solstice IPA, Lompoc Brewing’s Nitro C-Note and many more.

Upright Turns 2
03/20/11
Upright Brewing
240 N Broadway-Suite 2
Portland
1-6pm
Release of sour cherry barrel aged version of the Four-Four Play, a cask of Gose with extra salt and dry hops will also be poured+the most limited bottling ever will be available <3 cases of the
1st anniversary apricot ale aged in gin barrels.
Read more here

Meet the Vertigo Brewer
03/03/11
Green Dragon
928 SE 9th Ave
Portland
5pm
The “Mikes” from Vertigo Brewing will be onsite pouring 3 Vertigo beers, Barrel-Aged Dark Ale, aged in bourbon for a month, Bob Barley Cascadian Dark Ale and Friar Mike’s IPA.

Stout Summit
02/25/11
Roscoe’s
8105 SE Stark St
Portland
503-255-0049
12 amazing stouts on tap including, Fort George Brewery Badda Boom, Caldera Brewing Old Growth Imperial Stout, Oakshire Brewing Heart Shaped Box, Deschutes Brewery Mash Tun Madness, Double Mountain Nitro: Dry Irish Stout, Upright Coffee Stout and Boneyard Sug Knite Russian Imperial Stout!
5 ounce taster trays available.

Block 15 Night+Pappy’s Dark Ale Bottle Release
02/12/11
The Hop&Vine
1914 N Killingsworth
Portland
503-954-3322
3-6pm
Block 15 Brewer/Owner Nick Arzner will release, Pappy’s Dark Ale, a Bourbon Barrel Aged Brown Ale
6 cases for sale with a 2 bottle max. On draft: Super Nebula Bourbon Barrel-Aged Oatmeal Imperial Stout, 6 Hop Wonder Imperial IPA and the one malt/one hop beer for KLCC Brewfest that weekend in Eugene.