Spine Tingler Golden Belgian-Style Tripel Release
03/10/10
MacTarnahan’s Taproom
2730 NW 31st
Portland
5-8pm
Samples, Pint Specials, Games, Raffle Prizes and Meet the Brewer

Oakshire O’Dark:30 Cascadian Dark Ale Release
03/10/10
The BierStein
Eugene
6-8pm
Brewmaster Matt Van Wyk will be on hand doing a meet the Brewer

Meet the Heater|Allen Brewer
03/10/10
Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark
Portland
503-232-8535
6-8pm
Release of Smokey Bob

Oakshire O’Dark:30 Cascadian Dark Ale Release
03/12/10
Eastburn
Portland
5pm
Brewmaster Matt Van Wyk will be on hand doing a meet the Brewer

Double Mountain 3rd Anniversary
03/13/10
Double Mountain Brewery + Taproom
8 Fourth St
Hood River
541-387-0042
Noon-11pm
Free
http://www.doublemountainbrewery.com/blog/

Hopworks Beermaker Dinner
03/13/10
Restaurant Beck
Whale Cove Inn
Depoe Bay
541-765-3220
6pm
$65
5 course prix-fixe dinner paired with Hopworks beers.

O’Dark:30 Cascadian Dark Ale Release
03/15/10
Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark
Portland
5pm
Brewmaster Matt Van Wyk will be on hand doing a meet the Brewer

2nd Annual Beer & Irish Whiskey Tasting with Small Plates
03/17/10
McCormick&Schmicks Harborside Restaurant+Pilsner Room Bar
Full Sail Brewing at Riverplace
5:30pm
$25.00
Reservations needed
503-222-5343

Full Sail Session Black Lager
Greenore Single Grain
Jumbo Thyme Seared Scallop, Exotic Bean Ragu
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Full Sail Sláinte Stout
Red Breast Irish Whiskey
Alaskan King Salmon Confit, Grilled Asparagus
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Intermezzo
Hop Pursuit Extra Pale
Humboldt Fog, Garlic Crostinis
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Top Sail Bourbon Aged
Imperial Porter
Connemara Peated Irish Whiskey
Hickory Smoked Lamb Chop,
Slow Roasted Tomato Confit

Heater|Allen Beermaker Dinner
03/18/10
La Rambla
McMinnville
503-435-2126
Join Lisa and Rick for McMinnville release of Smokey Bob

SOB Beermaker Dinner
03/20/10
Historic Prospect Hotel
391 Mill Creek Dr.
Prospect
800-944-6490

Division Street BREWPUBLICRAWL
03/20/10
* Noon: Victory Bar with Hopworks Urban Brewery (PDX) and Double Mountain (Hood River, OR)
* 1:30PM: New Old Lompoc Hedge House with Lompoc (PDX)
* 3:00PM: Bar Avignon with Full Sail (Hood River, OR/PDX)and Fort George (Astoria, OR)
* 4:30PM: The BeerMongers with Walking Man (Stevenson, WA), Barley Browns (Baker City, OR), and Beer Valley (Ontario, OR)
Visit Brewpublic.com for more details

3rd Annual Chocolate Beer Dinner
03/27/10
Deschutes Brewery Mountain Room
901 SW Simpson
Bend
6PM
541-312-6946
$65 per person

Spring Beer+Wine Fest
04/02-04/03, 2010
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE MLK Blvd
PDX
12-11pm

Oregon Garden Brewfest
04/23-04/24,2010
The Oregon Garden
879 W. Main St.
Silverton
Friday:4-11pm
Saturday:12-11pm

Portland’s Cheers to Belgian Beers
05/01/2009
Hopworks Urban Brewery
2944 SE Powell Blvd
Portland
503-232-4677
Noon-9pm

Sasquatch Brew Fest Beer Dinner
05/14/10
Hilton Hotel
66 E 6th Ave
Eugene
$TBD

Sasquatch Brew Fest
05/15/10
Hilton Hotel
66 E 6th Ave
Eugene
$10
12-10:30pm

Brewer’s Memorial Ale Fest
05/21-05/23, 2010
Rogue Brewer’s on the Bay
2320 OSU Drive
Newport
541-867-3664
$10
Friday 4-10pm
Saturday 12-10pm
Sun 12-4pm Newport

Deschutes Brewery Barrel Aged Tasting
06/11/10
Deschutes Brewery
901 SW Simpson
Bend
541-385-8606
7pm

Oregon Brews and BBQs
06/18-06/19, 2010
Granary District-right by Golden Valley
McMinnville
Friday 3-10pm
Saturday 12-10pm
$5
www.oregonbrewsandbbqs.com

North American Organic Brewers Festival
06/25-06/27, 2010
Overlook Park
Portland
Fri 12-9pm
Sat 12-9pm
Sun 12-7pm

13th Annual Barley Cup
06/26/10
McMenamins Thompson Brewery & Public House
3575 Liberty Rd S
Salem
503-363-7286
11-cl

Deschutes Brewery 22nd Anniversary Party
06/27/10
Deschutes Brewery & Public House
1044 Bond St
Bend
541-382-9242
12-cl

Deschutes Brewery 22nd Anniversary Party
06/27/10
Deschutes Brewery-Portland Pub
210 NW 11th Ave
Portland
503-296-4906
12-cl

Oregon Craft Beer Month Kick Off
07/01/10
Place TBD

Deschutes Brewery Sagebrush Classic
07/16-07/17, 2010
Bend

9th Annual Roadhouse Brewfest
07/17/2010
McMenamins Cornelius Pass Roadhouse
4045 NW Cornelius Pass Rd
Hillsboro
503-640-6174
4-cl

Oregon Brewers Guild Brewers Dinner
07/21/10
Waterfront Park
Portland
6-8:30pm
$50
Tickets go on sale 07/01/10.

Oregon Brewers Brunch and Parade
07/22/10
Deschutes Brewery-Portland Pub
210 NW 11th Ave
Portland
503-296-4906

Oregon Brewers Festival
07/22-07/25, 2010
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Portland
503-778-5917
Thur 12-9pm
Fri 12-9pm
Sat 12-9pm
Sun 12-7pm
$10+

Sasquatch Brew Am Golf Tournament
07/23/2010
McMenamins Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St
Troutdale

Bailey’s Taproom 3rd Anniversary
07/31/10
Bailey’s Taproom
213 SW Broadway
Portland
503-295-1004
Noon-cl

Bones and Brew
07/31-08/01, 2010
Rogue Distillery+Public House
1339 NW Flanders
Portland

2nd Annual Oakridge Keg & Cask Festival
08/28/10
Oakridge Downtown
Oakridge
2-8pm

2nd Mini Beer Fest
08/28-08/29, 2010
Green Dragon
928 SE 9th Ave
Portland
503-517-0606
The event will feature 30+ independent Oregon-based breweries that brew no-more-than 1,000 barrels per year, providing festival goers with exciting, hard-to-find beers. Each brewer will bring 2 different styles of beer with them to pour during the Mini Beer Fest. Attendees will be able to take their favorite beers home with them in bottles, growlers and kegs to go. If the beer is not enough to keep cool, tours of the Green Dragon’s 1,040 square foot, glow-in-the-dark cooler will be held hourly. Other activities include a Dog Wash, Washers Tournament, Free Pinball and Free Shuffleboard. Mini Beer Fest is 100% dog-friendly and owners are encouraged to bring their companions with them.

Oregon Bounty Fresh Hop Tastivals
10/02/10
Hood River
Downtown
Noon-9pm
$5/glass
$1/taster

Oregon Bounty Fresh Hop Tastivals
Preview Party
10/08/10
Oaks Amusement Park
7805 SE Oaks Park Way
Portland
971-270-0965
5:30-8:30
Cost TBD
http://oregonbeer.org/fhbt2010/

Oregon Bounty Fresh Hop Tastivals
10/09/10
Oaks Amusement Park
7805 SE Oaks Park Way
Portland
971-270-0965
12-9pm
$5/glass
$1/taster
Cost TBD
http://oregonbeer.org/fhbt2010/

Sasquatch Brew Fest
05/15/10
Hilton Hotel
66 E 6th Ave
Eugene
$10
12-10:30pm

What is ZwickelmaniA?
This President’s Day weekend, dozens of Oregon breweries and brewpubs will open their doors to visitors for the state’s 2nd annual Zwickelmania. Zwickelmania, hosted by the Oregon Brewers Guild (OBG), is a free statewide event that offers visitors a chance to tour Oregon breweries, meet the brewers and sample their favorite beers.
When: Saturday, February 13th, 2010 from 11-4 pm
What: Oregon Brewers Guild Brewery Open House.
We are up to 32 breweries with a shuttle bus going to select stops in Eugene and Portland.

More info here http://oregonbeer.org/zwickelmania/

To download a map of participating Portland breweries click here

Chad Kennedy from Laurelwood Brewing Co. answers the question -
What is a zwickel?

2010 Brewha Map
Guide to Oregon’s Brewpubs and Breweries
02/10/10
Available at brewpubs around the state

Snow-Brawl ‘09
Concordia Ale House
$10
8 beers – 2 from Oregon/Washington/California+Colorado tasted blindly. U pick the best one.
Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom wins 2009 Snow Brawl with Fa La La La La

Beers listed in order on taster tray:
#1. Firestone Walker Velvet Merkin 2nd place
#2. Double Mountain Fa La La La La La 1st Place
#3. Boulder Brewing Never Summer
#4. Terminal Gravity Festive Ale 2008 4th place
#5. Dick’s Double Diamond Winter Ale
#6. Great Divide Hibernation
#7. Anderson Valley’s Winter Solstice 3rd place
#8. Hales Wee Heavy

Please note the following Craft Beer Production course to be offered winter term 2010.
This course focuses on beer production practices and quality control management. Covers equipment operation, maintenance, sanitation and safety. Demonstrates wort and beer analysis, additions, fermentation management, and laboratory testing. Presents beer packaging options.

Matthew Sage and Van Havig, instructors.
9 a.m.–4 p.m., Saturdays
o January 9 and 23: Bridgeport Brewing, 1313 NW Marshall Street, Portland;
o February 6: Rock Bottom Brewery, 206 SW Morrison Street, Portland;
o February 20: Chemeketa Woodburn Center, Room 203, 120 East Lincoln Street, Woodburn; and
o March 6: Bridgeport Brewing.
$289
Students must be 21 years of age.

Space is limited, pre-registration is required. To register, please contact our office at 503-399-5139 or 503-589-7946 or reply to this email. For more information, please visit our department Web site at www.naturalresources.chemeketa.edu

What’s Brewing
We’re coming to the end of our Fresh Hop, Ipanox, Mouton Rouge and Defroster, but we’ve got lots of new exciting offerings on tap now and scheduled for the near future. Looking for a crisp, refreshing beer? Try our Spiced Belgian Blonde, featuring coriander and sweet orange peel. We also have some lovely O-Rye-on left, our orange-red Rye beer that heralded the return of the constellation Orion. At 7%, this beer is good and hoppy, but there isn’t much left. When the Mouton Rogue disappears, we’ll bring on Nightfall Blackberry. This Soured Blonde Wheat aged for 12 months in oak barrels, then laid on blackberries for another six. It features intense fruitiness with a killer purple color and a foamy pink head.

We’re really excited for the debut of Frost Killer, a malty beer beer full of big roasted malts and ample Northwest hops. This will replace Defroster – look for it on tap in our pub this week.

Coming up, our Holiday Gose is in fermentation – this rich, red beer features 200 lbs of cranberries fresh from the bog, along with hibiscus, cinnamon and sweet orange peel. We’ll start pouring this quintessential holiday beer the first of December. And our Dark Day IPA is aging and will be available the week of Winter Solstice. Right now, we have 40 bbls of this year’s Apricot aging in the tank, and we will be pulling it off the fruit this week. We also have three 20 bbl tanks of Kriek aging nicely.

Holiday Ale LogoOur Sang Noir was blended off last week – this big, full-bodied Double Flanders Style Red Ale with distinct barrel notes comes from a blend of several barrel aged beers, with portions of the beer aging in Heaven Hills and Maker’s Mark Whiskey barrels and Pinot Noir barrels. The beer aged on 100 pounds of Bing cherries; some Bourbonic Plague and Blond Quad aged in Minnesota oak was added to bring some sweet high notes and a straight sour pie blend was added to taste to bring the sourness to the front. You can be among the first to taste it at the Holiday Ale Festival Dec. 2 – 6 at Pioneer Courthouse Square. The Holiday Ale Festival features more than 60 beers, most of which have been specifically brewed for the Holiday Ale Festival or are rare or vintage kegs. It’s the only venue in the country to taste the collection of beers. Every year, Cascade Brewing does a special blend with festival director Preston Weesner; what’s leftover from the festival will go to the new Cascade Barrel House for further aging. For more info, visit www.holidayale.com.

Last week, Oregonian beer writer & blogger John Foyston was invited to help Blendingblend the next bottling of our Sang Rouge Sour Red: you can read more about his experience here: The Beer Here by John Foyston.

Many of you have been asking when we will bottle Vlad the Imp Aler and Bourbonic Plague, our GABF award-winning beers. As of right now, it’s looking like it will be the first of the year. Brewer Ron is adamant that he will not bottle a beer until he is confident it is the best that it can be – that’s why we love his beer so much! The Bourbonic Plague is a Belgian Spiced Double Porter aged for more than six months in bourbon barrels filled with dates. The hearty sour beer weighs in at 11.5% abv. Vlad the Imp Aler is a wild-yeast blended Belgian Strong Pale Ale derived from a blend of oak barrel-aged 23- and 25-degree Plato sour blonde quadruppel, sour bourbon barrel tripel and sour strong spiced blonde. The beer contains 9.5% abv.
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Xmas StockingLove our beer? Why not give some bottles for Christmas gifts? We’re still selling our Cuvee for $17.95, and our ‘07 and ‘08 Kriek, ‘08 The Vine and our ‘08 Apricot for $15.95. These are the ideal stocking stuffers for the beer lover in your life! We also have hats and gift certificates available. And be sure to reserve a keg for your holiday parties. Call the Raccoon Lodge at 503-206-0110 for pricing and reservation.

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We’re excited to report that as a result of our presence at the Great American Beer Festival, we’re expanding our distribution. You can already find Cascade beers in Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Oregon. We now have commitments from Philadelphia, Brookly, New York City, Long Island, North & South Carolina and Tampa, Florida. The distributors have verbally purchased all of our available inventory for next year. And these commitments came before we won the Gold & Silver medals! We were one of the handful of buzz breweries at the competition, and the only one doing all sour beers. It’s been an exciting year for us!

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Cascade Barrel House is Aging Nicely

Demolition is nearing completion at the new Cascade Barrel House, our new blending and barrel space located at 935 SE Belmont St. in Portland. Everything has been sandblasted, walls have been painted, and we’ve received our final permit to begin the buildout. We’ve got lots of beer in the conditioning room already. Cascade Brewery now owns close to 200 whiskey and wine barrels; 46 barrels are currently aging in the barrel house, with another 100 barrels waiting to be filled. We just picked up Cabernet and Port barrels for our future Port Beer.

We are not sure yet of our opening date, but we can tell you that the 7,000-square-feet of space will be open in the first part of 2010. The majority of the space will be used for barrel aging, blending and bottling. We will also have an on-site pub serving great food to complement our beers on tap.

European Beer Star Winners 2009
Oregon wins 7 medals.
Including 3 for Caldera Brewing Co., 3 for Deschutes Brewery and one for Rogue Ales.

The sixth European Beer Star, in which 836 beers from more than 30 countries participated,
was marked by some surprising results. The 78 jurors awarded gold, silver, and bronze medals in 41 categories. The organizers of the competition were happy about the record attendance, which was 22% higher than the previous year.

Red and Amber
Silver Deschutes Brewery Bend – Green Lakes Organic
Bronze Caldera Brewing Company Ashland – Ashland Amber

Imperial Stout
Gold Deschutes Brewery Bend – Abyss

India Pale Ale
Gold Caldera Brewing Company Ashland – Caldera IPA
Silver Firestone Walker Brewery Paso Robles, Cali Union Jack IPA

English Style Bitter
Gold Deschutes Brewery Bend, Oregon Bachelor ESB

Dry Stout
Silver Rogue Ales Newport, Oregon Shakespeare Stout

English Style Ale
Bronze Caldera Brewing Company Ashland, Oregon Caldera Pale Ale

New Seasonal Brewed as a Farewell to Pelican’s Assistant Head Brewer
Pelican has released its newest seasonal, C-YA! which was a recipe of Head Brewer, Jason Schoneman who has been with the Pelican for four years. He will be departing this month for the Midwest with his wife, Hannah and daughter, Indigo to be closer to family. The idea for C-YA! was in the works at the Pelican for about a year until the staff decided Jason should take the lead on making this farewell brew a reality.
C-YA! is Pelican’s take on an American Pale Ale, big on hop aroma and flavor with a balanced malt flavor and bitterness in the finish. It’s made with 100 percent Centennial hops and is unfiltered but not cloudy. It is currently available at the Pelican on draft.

2009 Bad Santa
The Pelican is brewing its mysterious dark elixir, Bad Santa and it’s coming soon. This popular brew is filled with complex malt flavors alongside toasted malt, cocoa-like and roast aromas. The fragrance blends seamlessly with the alluring herbal and floral aromas that come from copious amounts of Fuggle hops. Look for the ornery elf to be available on draft at the Pelican by November 13 and at Portland’s Holiday Ale Festival on December 2-6 as well as the Cascadian Dark Ale Symposium taking place on January 23, 2010 at Belmont Station.

Winter Brewers Dinner Scheduled for January 23
The Pelican Pub & Brewery’s Fall Brewers Dinner was another great success and sold out once again. If you missed it, you can now get tickets for the Winter Brewers Dinner, taking place Saturday, January 23. The theme hasn’t been decided yet, but tickets are available for purchase. To reserve your ticket please contact Ken Henson at 503-965-7007 or email at ken@pelicanbrewery.com.

New Vintage of The Perfect Storm and Wee Heavy Released October 30
Pelican released The Perfect Storm and MacPelican’s Wee-Heavy Ale together on October 30. The Perfect Storm was first released last year and caused quite a stir. MacPelican’s Wee Heavy is a Pelican favorite and just came away with a bronze medal in the Scotch Ale category from the Great American Beer Festival. The Pelican has already sold half its cases of The Perfect Storm, so be sure to get this brew while it lasts. To purchase, you can head to the Pelican in Pacific City or have a case shipped to you. For information regarding orders, please contact Ken Henson at 503-965-7007 or at ken@pelicanbrewery.com.

Deschutes Jubelale releases with a traveling retrospective of the labels and a commemorative poster.
11/02/09 5-7 p.m. EastBurn,  1800 E Burnside St.
11/03/09 6-8 p.m. Moon and Six Pence, 2014 NE 42nd Ave.
11/07/09 7p.m. on  Disjecta Gallery, 8371 N Interstate Ave.
11/10/09 6-8 p.m. Belmont Station,  4500 SE Stark
11/14/09 2-8 p.m. Saraveza, 1004 N Killingsworth St.
John Foyston of the Oregonian has a good article on Jubel history http://bit.ly/2ffb2h