Thursday, March 12, 2015

3rd Annual Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival


Saraveza, Willamette Week and Maletis Beverage present the 3rd annual
Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival
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Portland, OR - You know it’s Spring when the Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival comes around for it’s 3rd and freshest year yet with more than 70 different beers, artisan cheese, charcuterie and pickles. Taking place Saturday March 28th and Sunday March 29th at Saraveza Bottleshop & Pasty Tavern, outside along N. Michigan street and in the Bad Habit Room, this years festival has the grandest selection yet of saisons, barrel-aged, fruit, herb, spice and wild yeast inflected beers. Expect more than 30 beers on tap at one time at multiple stations with more than 70 beers total rotating in as kegs run out.


Crooked Stave, Almanac and Holy Mountain Brewing debuts
Oregon is a hotbed of Farmhouse inspired beers that will be well represented but the festival is extremely excited to introduce nationally known brewers Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project from Denver, Colorado and Almanac Beer Co. of San Francisco who will both have their own booths outside on both days of the festival. Also debuting is Holy Mountain Brewing, a white-hot new brewery from Seattle who will be introducing their beers to Oregon for the first time with a special tapping and meet-the-brewers at 11am on Saturday.


Exclusive Beer and Bottle Release from Upright Brewing
Upright Brewing, Portland’s first farmhouse brewery has kindly done an exclusive single cask wild ale with just 55 bottles and a few small kegs for the festival this year. Upright Farmhouse Festival Reserve is a single barrel-aged wheat-based saison transformed by adding several extra layers - oak spice, light minerality and metallic notes, mellow acidity, and a pinch of dark cherries. Still, with all those components to the profile, it still drinks crisp and easy while showing the hallmark of farmhouse style beers - individuality. 4.75% abv

Bottles of Upright Farmhouse Festival Reserve will be available for purchase on Sunday 3/29  for FESTIVAL ATTENDEES ONLY.  Tickets for bottles will be available at the door when we open at 11:AM.  Tickets are a limit of one per person and are $15 CASH ONLY.  You may then redeem your bottle starting at 2:PM and we'll be tapping a keg of the beer at 1:PM, so you can try the beer right away!


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Artisan Cheese, Charcuterie and Pickles
This years festival features an expanded outdoor area with booths for Cascadia Creamery, Olympia Provisions and Saraveza’s kitchen pickle plates. Festival attendees can snack and pair their beer with locally made and crafted foods as well as purchase a Cheese, Charcuterie or Pickle Plate or hot dogs. Cascade Creamery and Olympia Provisions will also offer their fine products available to-go.


Brewery Booths
The Ale Apothecary will have their own booth both days of the festival with bottle pours and the debut of a brand new hoppier beer line called “Carpe Diem MaƱana” as well as their Sahalie and other even rarer bottles.

De Garde Brewing will have a booth at the festival Saturday 3/28 only and be offering pours of “Imperial Raspberry Bue”, “Saison Deuxieme” and “Saison Troisieme”

Block 15 Brewing and Agrarian Ales will share a booth on both Saturday and Sunday pouring up to 3 different rare beers each.

Almanac Brewing will be featured at their own booth both days of the festival featuring the debut of their new “Farmers Reserve Strawberry” along with four other saisons and sours.

Crooked Stave Artisan Beer will debut new distribution in Oregon with a booth operated both days of the festival and rotating between six different beers including their “Nightmare on Brett Port Barrel aged” as well as Cassis, Wild Sage and Noir beers.

Propolis Brewing who recently won a Gold Medal at the Great American Beer Festival will operate a booth with 3 of their beers (including the medal winner - Beltane) pouring on Sunday 3/29 with rare bottle treats


FHF Brewers Brunch
To kick-off each day of the festival, Bad Habit Room is hosting a Brewer's Brunch on Saturday, March 28th and Sunday, March 29th.

For $25 you receive a full belly (your choice - order off the menu), a sneak peak of some of the Farmhouse Festival beers from Holy Mountain Brewing on Saturday and Propolis Brewing on Sunday, tip for your server and early entry into the fest. (FHF entries sold separately.)

A brewery or two will be highlighted at each breakfast with a brewer there to discuss their beer and chat with customers.

Breakfast starts at 9:30am. This breakfast is Advanced ticket-only and has limited seating.


Rare Beer Debuts and Highlights:

  • pFriem Family Brewers will debut their first barrel-aged and sour beers, a Flanders Red and Flanders Blonde. Follow Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival on Facebook for tapping updates.

  • Ecliptic Brewing will share their first wild/brett beer “Syrah barrel aged Aries Brett Pale”

  • Crux Fermentation Project will debut an extremely rare “Brett’ed Saison aged on Pears”

  • Pelican Brewing has sent us two rare barrel-aged kegs “Nector Sectorr” a Chardonnay Barrel Aged Saison with Nectarines and “Queen of Hearts” a Gin Barrel-Aged Saison.

  • Oakshire Brewing has busted out rare wild ales “Hermanne 1882” a barrel-aged brett saison with wine grapes, “Admiral Raspberry” a sour Framboise-style beer and “Oude Bes” a Flanders Red with Strawberries and Balsamic.


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Parking and Public Transportation Options
First come, first serve off-street parking is available in PCC Cascade Parking Lots C & D, on either side of the Telephone Exchange Building, located at 1011 N. Killingsworth Street, directly across from Saraveza during festival hours.

#72 & #4 bus lines run right to the Festival/Saraveza and the MAX Yellow line N. Killingsworth stop is just a few blocks away.  

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WHAT: 3rd annual Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival presented by Saraveza, Willamette Week and Maletis Beverage.
WHEN: Saturday March 28th 11am - 9pm and Sunday March 29th 11am - 7pm
WHERE: Saraveza - 1004 N Killingsworth St. Portland, OR 97217
TICKETS: $25 Entry includes 10 beer tickets and a commemorative tasting glass. Choose from 70+ Rotating Farmhouse and Wild Ales. Tickets available at the door or advanced presale at http://www.beerboutique.com/product/portland-farmhouse-and-wild-ale-festival-entry




2015 Farmhouse Festival Beer List (Subject To Change) 
Brewery Beer
Crux Brett’ed Saison aged on Pears
Crux Freakcake
Sierra Nevada Ovila Saison
Deschutes Winter Harvest
Crooked Stave Progenitor Noir
Crooked Stave Vieille
Crooked Stave Surette
Crooked Stave CO WildSage
Crooked Stave Nightmare on Brett Port Barrel aged
Crooked Stave Surette Reserva Cassis
Elysian Saison Gris
Almanac Saison Dolores
Almanac Farmers Reserve Strawberry
Almanac Valley of the Heart’s Delight
Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Citrus
Almanac Dogpatch Sour
Logsdon Cerasus
Logsdon Far West Vlaming
Logsdon Oak Aged Seizoen Bretta
Ommegang Glimmerglass
Ommegang Hop House
Ommegang Hennepin
North Coast La Merle
North Coast Puck petite saison
Firestone Walker Opal
Firestone Walker Lil’ Opal
Boulevard Tank 7
Boulevard Saison Brett
Pelican Nector Sectorr
Pelican Queen of Hearts
Ecliptic Syrah barrel aged Aries Brett Pale
Oakshire Hermanne 2013 Vintage
Oakshire Oude Bes
Oakshire Admiral Raspberry
Breakside New World Bruin
Breakside Brett Belgo Pale
Breakside Framboise
Breakside 2014 The Man Who Made Dessert
Breakside 2015 Wunder Brett
The Commons Myrtle
The Commons Buckwheat Grisette
The Commons Plum Bretta
Stillwater Rio de Sauvin
Double Mountain Experimental X
Propolis Zephyros
Propolis Granum
Propolis Beltane (GABF Gold Medal Winner)
Propolis Cedar
Hill Farmstead/Brasserie Blaugie La Vermontoise La Vermontoise
Saint Somewhere Saison Athene
Grimm Brewing Color Field Wild Ale
Saint Somewhere Cynthiana Saison
Propolis Huckleberry
Propolis Grewit
Upright Farmhouse Fest Single Cask Exclusive
pFriem Flanders Red
pFriem Flanders Blonde
pFriem Little Saison
Agrarian Oak aged Biere de Garde
Agrarian Nine Black Ryeders Saison
Agrarian Akane Saison wild oak aged Apple Ale
Block 15 ????? TBA ??????
Holy Mountain The Goat
Holy Mountain Ceremony
Holy Mountain Table Beer
Holy Mountain The Third Nail
Holy Mountain River of Ash
Solera French Tickler
Ale Apothecary Sahalie
Ale Apothecary CDM
Ale Apothecary Specialty Cases
de Garde Imperial Raspberry Bu
de Garde Saison Deuxieme
de Garde Saison Troisieme

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