Wow, hard to believe that in just three weeks the Oregon Brewers Festival celebrates its 29th year. We love the Oregon Brewers Festival and we're looking forward to attending this year.
See details below for the 29th Annual Oregon Brewers Festival
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| Courtesy of the Oregon Brewers Festival |
PORTLAND, Ore. — One of the nation's longest-running and best-loved craft beer festivals, the Oregon Brewers Festival is
a craft beer destination, and 80,000 annually make the pilgrimage
to Beervana to drink up what the festival has to offer. The
29th annual event will take place July 27 through July 31 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Gates open at 11:30am daily, and taps are open from Noon to 9pm Wed. through Sat., and Noon to 7pm Sunday.
The main festival will serve 88 beers from craft breweries across the
nation, including two gluten-free products. The International Beer
Garden will feature another 25 products, with six breweries from Japan –
Baird, Iwate Kura Beer, North Island, Shiga Kogen, Shonan and Y Market;
seven breweries from The Netherlands – De Molen, Frontaal, Maximus,
Oedipus, Oersoep, Oproer and Van Moll; one brewery from China, Jing-A;
plus two breweries from Germany – Brauerei Nothhaft and Lang Bräu. The
brewers from each country will be available daily to talk about their
beer. The International Beer Garden was incorporated three years ago as
part of a cultural exchange of ideas, knowledge and the celebration of
craft beer.
The Oregon Brewers Festival offers a wide variety of beer styles
ranging from Belgians to braggots, cream ales to coffee beers, goses to
gluten free, pales to Pilsners, radlers to reds, and saisons to stouts.
The event also features five days of live music, food booths, craft
vendors and homebrew demonstrations.
The Oregon Brewers Festival is not a ticketed event, and there is
no admission charge to enter the festival grounds. In order to consume
beer, the purchase of a 2016 12 oz. souvenir tasting mug is required and
costs $7. Beer is purchased with wooden tokens, which cost $1 apiece.
Patrons pay four tokens for a full mug of beer, or one token for a
taste. The purchase of mugs and tokens is made on-site. The event is
cash-only, with eight ATMs located on-premise.
The Oregon Brewers Festival encourages responsible drinking and urges
patrons to take the Tri-Met MAX Light Rail, which has a station
just one block away from the main entrance. Attendees can also take
advantage of the Hopworks Urban Brewery secure bike corral. The Crater
Lake Soda Garden provides complimentary handcrafted root beer and soda
to minors and designated drivers; minors are allowed into the event all
hours when accompanied by a parent.
The Oregon Brewers Festival was founded in 1988 as an opportunity
to expose the public to microbrews at a time when the craft
brewing industry was just getting off the ground. Today, that industry
has flourished, especially in Oregon, which as of July 1, 2016 had 206
brewing companies, operating 246 brewing facilities in 74 cities across
the state. The Portland Metropolitan area alone has 96 breweries. The
economic impact of the festival on the local economy is annually more
than $30 million.
For more information visit
www.oregonbrewfest.com or follow Facebook.com/OregonBrewersFestival and
@OregonBrewfest on Twitter and Instagram, hashtag #OBF16. For a complete list of participating breweries, visit
www.oregonbrewfest.com/index2.php?p=beers.
Event Name
29
h annual Oregon Brewers Festival
Venue
Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon
Main entrance at S.W. Oak Street and Naito Parkway
Dates
July 27 through 31, 2016 — “Always the last full weekend in July”
Times
Wed through Sat, gates open at 11:30am, taps are open from Noon to 9pm
Sun, gates open at 11:30am, taps are open from Noon to 7pm
Token & mug sales close one-half hour prior to the taps shutting off (8:30pm daily, except 6:30pm Sunday)
Admission
The OBF is not a ticketed event; admission into the festival venue is
free. In order to consume beer, a one-time purchase of a 2016 tasting
mug is required and costs $7. Beer is purchased with wooden tokens,
which cost $1 apiece. Patrons pay four tokens for a full mug of beer, or
one token for a taste. Cups and tokens are sold on-site; they are also
available up to two weeks prior to the festival at select local
locations, including Raccoon Lodge & Brew Pub, Cascade Brewing
Barrel House, Belmont Station, Deschutes in the Pearl, Rogue Ales Public
House and the Green Dragon. The festival is cash only, and there are
eight ATMs on-site.
STATISTICS
- 29th year of the festival.
- 88 independent craft beers are poured in the main festival, from 87
different breweries (Deschutes has two entries, one Gluten-Free).
- 24 independent craft beers are poured in the International Beer Garden.
- There are 103 participating breweries: 87 from the United States
(with 88 beers); one from China (with four beers); six from Japan (with
11 beers); two from Germany (with two beers); and seven Dutch (with
seven beers) in the International Beer Garden.
- Five countries are represented: China (1), Germany (2), Japan (6), Netherlands (7), and United States (87).
- 15 states are represented: California (8), Colorado (3), Delaware
(1), Florida (1), Idaho (2), Michigan (1), Minnesota (2), Montana (1),
New Jersey (1), Ohio (1), Oregon (55), Utah (1), Washington (9),
Wisconsin (1) and Wyoming (1).
- In the states, Lakeland Brewing from Lakeland, Florida, traveled the
furthest with a distance of 2,522 miles. Internationally, Jing-A
Brewing from Beijing, China, traveled the furthest, at 5,492 miles.
- There are 27 breweries making their first appearance at the festival
this year, including 54° 40′ Brewing Co, Aslan Brewing Co, Baird Beer,
Brouwerij Frontaal, Coin Toss Brewing Co, Culmination Brewing Co,
Doomsday Brewing Co, Everybody’s Brewing, Feckin Brewery, Iwate Kura
Beer, Jing-A Brewing Co, Lakeland Brewing Co, Lang Bräu, North Island
Beer, Ordnance Brewing, Riverbend Brewing, Rusty Truck Brewing Co,
Schooner Exact Brewing Co, Seaside Brewing Co, Shiga Kogen Beer, Shonan
Beer, Slanted Rock Brewing Co, Three Mugs Brewing Co, Thunder Island
Brewing Co, Van Moll, Y Market Brewing & Zoiglhaus Brewing
- There are 36 beer styles represented.
- 53 of the beers are unique to the festival.
- The lowest alcohol beer is a three-way tie at 3.5% ABV: pFriem
Family Brewers’ Mango Sour, Oersoep Brewery’s Schnappi and Buoy Beer’s
Dragon Weisse.
- The highest alcohol beer is a two-way tie at 11% ABV between New
Holland Brewing Dragon’s Milk Reserve Mexican Spice Cake and The Lost
Abbey Serpent Stout, both bourbon barrel fermented stouts.
- Number of volunteers at the festival: 2,000.
- Number of anticipated attendees: 80,000 from all over the world.
- Number of breweries that have participated in the Oregon Brewers Festival since its inception: 429
- The following breweries have never missed a festival: Bayern,
BridgePort, Deschutes, Full Sail & Widmer. Both McMenamins and Rogue
have each missed only one.
For more information visit
www.oregonbrewfest.com or follow Facebook.com/OregonBrewersFestival and
@OregonBrewfest on Twitter and Instagram, hashtag #OBF16. For a complete list of participating breweries, visit
www.oregonbrewfest.com/index2.php?p=beers.
