Help Widmer Brothers + Firefox create an open-sourced brew

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Widmer Brothers and Firefox are teaming up to create an open source beer and need your help to make it happen.

For the first phase of the process they're soliciting input from the public through this survey from now until this Friday at 4pm. 

This version 1 of the beer will be unveiled at Widmer’s Pints for Portland event the week of 5/21.

Portland Brewing Company's Official Brand Release in NE Portland

 

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PORTLAND, Ore.

What: New Way IPA Launch and New Look  

• Join Portland Brewing for the official brand release in NE Portland at Donnie Vegas.
  • Featuring new beer release of New Way IPA
  • Also showcasing new looks for MacTarnahan’s Amber Ale and Ink & Roses IPA (formerly called Portland IPA)
• Meet the brewers from Portland Brewing and designers from Studio Mega responsible for bringing the new beers and new look to life.

Where:Donnie Vegas, 1203 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR 97211 

When: Friday, April 27

Time: 6-8pm

Price: Free entry to event

Who: Everyone welcome

About Portland Brewing Company We are no strangers to carving our own path. Founded by a group of high school friends, banded together to pursue a passion; industry pioneers who had no rules or playbook, but nevertheless helped shape the Portland craft beer scene to what we love today. Located in the heart of industrial Northwest Portland, we continue to be a passionate group focused on crafting new amazing beer and sharing the fruits of our labor with neighbors, friends and strangers alike.

Hopworks Urban Brewery Releases The Newest In Their Rotating Hazy IPA Series And An American Sour Ale Inspired by Brew Dr. Kombucha

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On May 01, 2018, Hopworks Urban brewery will release two new limited beers in their pubs.

Sunset Fuel is the newest beer in HUB's rotating Hazy IPA Series. Organic malted barley and generous amounts of rolled oats and organic wheat give this beer all the haze and fluff combined with supreme drinkability. El Dorado, Eukanot, and organic Citra hops give this beer a beautiful passionfruit bouquet. The beer will be tapped at their three pubs, and each pub will be stocked with limited 16oz four-packs. There will be ten cases at their Vancouver brewpub, three at BikeBar, and forty-seven at the flagship brewpub in SE Portland. The four-packs won't last long though, so make sure to get them quickly.

Put The Kettle On is an American Kettle Sour Ale brewed with the help of Brew Dr. Kombucha! HUB and Brew Dr. Kombucha are both members of 1% For The Planet, giving back one percent of their sales to environmental organizations, so the partnership makes sense. This light and crisp, sour beer was brewed with organic rose, organic chamomile, organic lavender and organic Jasmine green tea, the same ingredients Brew Dr. uses in their Love brand kombucha. It was then dry hopped with Amarillo and Lemon Drop hops for sweet citrus and lemony characteristics. HUB will have limited draft at their three pubs and with limited distribution in Oregon.

New Spring beer festival blooms in Portland: Sip of Spring is a Fest on a Farm

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PORTLAND, Ore. – April 17, 2018 – A new Spring beer festival has bloomed in Portland: Sip of Spring will take place April 27 and April 28 at Rossi Farms, 3839 NE 122nd Ave., in Portland. Event hours are 1pm to 9pm on Friday, and 11am to 9pm on Saturday.

“Spring beers are in bloom all over the city,” explained Preston Weesner, event general manager. “This festival provides a venue to celebrate by gathering with friends and enjoying a beer outside, on a farm, with a view––because you can!”

The festival is featuring 14 small Oregon craft breweries, each pouring two beers apiece; plus one additional collaboration beer from the Holiday Ale Festival. The same team that produces the Holiday Ale Festival is managing this event as well. Look for spring sippers from Breakside, Crux, Culmination, Fort George, Level, Little Beast, Logsdon, Migration, Montavilla, pFriem, StormBreaker, Upright and Zoiglhaus. A complete beer list is available at SipofSpring.com.

 

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Tickets are limited and for advance purchase only. Tickets cost $25 for a tasting cup and 14 beer tickets. Beers cost one ticket for a four-ounce taste, or two tickets for an eight-ounce pour. Ticketholders receive free re-entry both days with the tasting cup and a wristband. Purchase tickets at SipofSpring.com.

The festival will also offer food for sale from Urban German and N.E. Creperie. The event is for ages 21 and over. For more information, visit SipofSpring.com and follow the event on social media @SipofSpring, #SipofSpring.
About Sip of SpringSip of Spring is a "Fest on a Farm," held at Rossi Farms in N.E. Portland, a picturesque farmhouse with a storied reputation, located just a short distance from downtown Portland. The festival focuses on spring beers made by small, independent Oregon craft breweries.

Oregon Brewers Festival Toasts 31 Years of Celebrating Independent Craft Beer

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Beloved festival announces details for 2018 event, adds cider and wine to the mix

PORTLAND, Ore. (March 8, 2018) — More than 70,000 beer lovers are expected to travel from around the world to attend the 31st annual Oregon Brewers Festival (OBF) this summer. Considered one of the nation's longest-running and best-loved craft beer events, the outdoor festival will take place July 26 through July 29 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on the west bank of the Willamette River. Gates open at 11:30am daily, and taps are open from Noon to 9pm Thursday through Saturday, and Noon to 7pm Sunday.

The OBF will serve 80 craft beers from small, traditional, and independent craft breweries located in 10 different states, as well as The Netherlands, and Baja, California. The northwestern Mexican state of Baja has defined itself as the country’s largest contingent for “cerveza artesanal,” and the festival is excited to present five breweries from that region.

The complete list of participating breweries includes 54-40, Agua Mala, Anderson Valley, Backwoods, Baerlic, Bayern, Belching Beaver, Boneyard, Boulder, Boundary Bay, Breakside, Buoy, Caldera, Cascade, Coin Toss, Crooked Stave, Depoe Bay, Deschutes, Double Mountain, Ecliptic, Everybody's, Fauna, Fort George, Fortside, Freebridge, Fremont, Gigantic, Golden Valley, GoodLife, Great Divide, Great Northern, Great Notion, Heathen, Heretic, Hopworks, Insurgente, Iron Horse, Kells, Laurelwood, Lompoc, MadTree, Maui, McMenamins, Melvin, Migration, Monkless, Natian, New Holland, Ninkasi, Old Town, Oproer, Oregon City, Pelican, Perennial, pFriem, Portland, RiverBend, Rogue, Royale, Rusty Truck, Sasquatch, Scout, Silver Falls, Silver Moon, StormBreaker, Sunriver, Terminal Gravity, Three Creeks, Three Mugs, Thunder Island, Transpeninsular, Upright, Uptown Market, Vertigo, Von Ebert, Wendlandt, Widmer, Wild Ride, Wolf Tree, and Zoiglhaus.

The festival will present more than two dozen different beer styles ranging from Berliner Weisse to Belgians, IPAs to IPLs, pales to Pilsners, and sours to stouts. For the first time ever, the OBF will also offer two ciders – one from Cider Riot! and the other from Reverend Nat’s – as well as one red and one white wine.

The vibrant festival will also feature live music all four days with no cover charge, six food booths, a number of beer related vendors, souvenir sales, and homebrew demonstrations.

The OBF is not a ticketed event; it is free to enter the festival grounds. In order to taste beer, the purchase of a souvenir tasting mug from the current year is required, which 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 festival encourages responsible drinking and urges patrons to take Tri-Met; the MAX Light Rail has a station one block from the main festival entrance. Alternately, attendees who ride their bikes can park them for free in the Hopworks Urban Brewery secure bike corral. For those who bring a designated driver, the Crater Lake Soda Garden provides complimentary handcrafted soda (no mug purchase required). Minors, who are allowed into the event all hours when accompanied by a parent, also receive free Crater Lake Soda.

In celebration of their impact on Oregon brewing history, the McMenamins family has been chosen as this year’s ceremonial Grand Marshals to lead the parade and tap the official opening ceremony first keg. Soon after McMenamins opened Portland’s Barley Mill Pub on S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. 35 years ago, Brian and Mike McMenamin, along with other craft brewing pioneers, successfully lobbied their elected representatives to pass an Oregon bill allowing people to make and sell their beer onsite. The “brewpub” concept was born and McMenamins opened Oregon’s first post-Prohibition brewpub, the Hillsdale Brewery & Public House in S.W. Portland. Today, McMenamins remains a family run company and offers hundreds of varieties of handcrafted beers.

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, with more than 5,300 craft breweries in America, according to the Brewer’s Association. The economic impact of the Oregon Brewers Festival on the local economy is annually more than $20 million. For more information visit OregonBrewFest.com or follow @OregonBrewfest on social media, using hashtag #OBF18.

Spring into the New Season with Pyramid Brewing’s Lemondrop Citrus Pale Ale

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The limited-time springtime ale is available February 1 throughout the Pacific Northwest

SEATTLE  – Pyramid Brewing Co. announced today the release of its spring seasonal, Lemondrop Citrus Pale Ale. Released just in time to welcome the warming weather, Lemondrop is the perfect partner for all springtime adventures.

Lemondrop’s citrusy nose provides zesty flavor to invigorate the senses from taste to smell. Partnered with real lemon peel, wheat and oats along with Nugget and Cascade hops, this creates a smooth malt body. This recipe comes from last year’s spring favorite with the same Lemondrop™ hops to give the ale the exact flavor, the only twist is a name.

“Lemondrop Citrus Pale Ale replicates the much-loved Triangulate Citrus,” said Head Brewer Ryan Pappe. “With the success of last year’s spring seasonal, Lemondrop enjoys the identical fruit-forward taste created by this crisp, juicy recipe. Pacific Northwest beer drinkers will love this beer due to its refreshing flavor profile.”

Adventures, no matter the scale, are planned and celebrated over great tasting beers. Whether hiking through the great outdoors or savoring family time on a Sunday afternoon, Pyramid’s mission is to inspire life’s everyday adventures with craft beer. We encourage you to find and enjoy your passions with Lemondrop this spring and savor those moments with this fantastic beer.

Lemondrop Citrus Pale Ale is available in 6 and 12-packs and 22 oz. bottles at your neighborhood grocer. Please share and enjoy Pyramid beers responsibly. For more news and events, follow Pyramid Brewing Co. on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at @pyramidbrew and share your adventures with #findyourpyramid. 

About Pyramid Brewing Co.

Born in the Pacific Northwest, Pyramid Brewing Co. crafts some of the PNW’s favorite brews from its year-round ales and lagers to the seasonal and Brewer’s Reserve series. In 1984, Pyramid discovered a new way of crafting beer, bringing together adventure, friends and bold new flavors and innovation. Today, Pyramid shares this spirit through its craft beers, and at its breweries and alehouses in Seattle and Portland. To find your Pyramid, visit:www.pyramidbrew.com.

Art & Beer Returns To The Portland Art Museum In Celebration Of Its 125th Anniversary

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Art & Beer: Pitchering Oregon Features 18 Specially Crafted Beers and Ciders Inspired by Regional Artwork from the Portland Art Museum's Permanent Collection

 

Portland, Oregon, October 2, 2017 – The Portland Art Museum and artist Eric Steen are pleased to announce Art & Beer: Pitchering Oregon, a statewide exploration of landscape, art, place, and history, through the lens of Oregon craft beer and cider making. Art & Beer: Pitchering Oregon will take place at the Museum on November 4; it will bring together a diverse lineup of 18 Oregon craft brewers paired with 18 artworks from the Museum’s permanent collection. The selected artworks represent or evoke a range of Oregon landscapes including Greater Portland, the Coast, Willamette Valley, the Columbia River Gorge/Mount Hood, Central, Eastern, and Southern parts of the state. Brewers from each of these regions are creating one-of-a-kind beers inspired by the artists and the surrounding landscapes represented in their selected artworks. When experienced together, the beers will collectively create a drinkable portrait of one of the most geographically diverse and beautiful states in the U.S. More event information and how to purchase tickets is below.

The event’s title is a play on words, and is presented in conjunction with the similarly titled exhibition Picturing Oregon, a rotating display of over 50 paintings and photographs showcasing the diversity of Oregon landscapes and places from the past 125 years. This exhibition is currently on view in the Northwest galleries.

“With Art & Beer: Pitchering Oregon, we are once again experimenting with the dIfferent ways works of art can be interpreted and experienced at the Museum,” said Stephanie Parrish, Portland Art Museum Associate Director of Education and Public Programs. “Since our first Art & Beer event with artist Eric Steen in 2009, we’ve seen how bringing the creativity of brewers into conversation with works of art is an incredible springboard for experimentation in both the beer and art museum worlds.”  

Of the 18 featured works of art, 12 will be coming out of Museum storage and shown exclusively at this event. The Museum’s entire catalog of art depicting Oregon landscapes and places is available for viewing in the Museum’s Online Collections (Picturing Oregon).

What will some of these Oregon art-inspired beers and ciders look, smell, and taste like? A few examples include:

• Trevor and Lindsey Rogers, De Garde Brewing co-founders have conjured the beer “Ferme et Forêt,” inspired by an iconic painting by Michael Brophy of a vast timber clear cut. Their recipe features dessicated hops, fresh hops, and spruce tips in a highly composed blended beer.
• Heater Allen Brewing head brewer Lisa Allen has developed the aptly named, “Block House Beer” with oak-smoked wheat malt, rye malts, and a heritage form of barley inspired by Constance Fowler’s woodblock print of the Yamhill Block House, which is in Dayton, Oregon.
• Inspired by a vintage 1930s print of Temple Beth Israel by photographer Henry Berger, Jr.,  Sonia Marie of Leikam Brewing presents “The Kuppel,” a kosher beer brewed in collaboration with a Rabbi from Temple Beth Israel.
• “Slough Mountain,” a foraged beer from Hopworks Urban Brewery inspired by Lily White’s image of a pre-industrial Columbia River Slough includes lichens, wild fennel canes, toasted Black Cottonwood bark and Big Leaf Maple leaves.

“Art & Beer: Pitchering Oregon will be an extraordinarily unique beer event,” said Oregon-based artist and founder of Beers Made By Walking, Eric Steen. “It brings together breweries from the coast to the valley and to the easternmost reaches of Oregon for the purpose of reinterpreting artwork of our beautiful state. I love that the Portland Art Museum continues to actively pursue building connections between their collection and the craft that has made this state the best beer region in the country!”

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Event Details

What: General Admission to Art & Beer: Pitchering Oregon includes museum admission, a commemorative glass, an art/beer program booklet, and 10 tasting tokens (each token = one 3 ounce pour). Attendees will choose from 16 beers and two ciders crafted just for the event and inspired by artwork from the Picturing Oregon collection.

In addition to the grand tasting, the event includes a variety of interactive elements including: informal brewer and curator chats alongside the featured artworks, museum docent tours of beverage-themed works of art, a sensory/smell experience highlighting local/regional ingredients that went into making some of the beers, and even Super 8 film processing demonstrations using different types of beer led by the NW Film Center.  

The special VIP Brewers Brunch includes the Art & Beer event elements outlined above along with a hearty buffet brunch, early access to the beer, cider and artwork, and lively presentations from participating craft brewers and curators in a more intimate setting.

 

Who:  18 brewers from seven regions around the state will present their original beers and ciders and give short talks at designated times.

When & Where:  November 4, 2017 - see event times below

Portland Art Museum (1219 SW Park Avenue).  Kridel Grand Ballroom, Mark Building, 3rd floor

Ticket Details:

• VIP Brewers Brunch from 10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.; $40 General/$35 Museum Members; NOTE: Brewers Brunch tickets includes access to the full event and must be purchased in advance, by November 1st.
• General Admission from 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. $25 General/$20 Museum Members
• Additional beer/cider tasting tokens can be purchased for $2 each.  
• Advance tickets can be purchased at this link.

NOTE: The beer tasting portion of the event is only open to those 21 and older. The Museum galleries are open to all ages ($19.99 general admission or free for Museum Members).

Brewery & Artwork Pairings (By Region)

GREATER PORTLAND

• Breakside Brewery - PHOTO: Bobby Abrahamson, Bob and the Puddle Cutters, from the series North Portland Polaroids, 2011 (negative); 2012 (print).
• Ecliptic Brewing - PAINTING: Amanda Snyder, The Forest in Autumn, ca. 1970.
• Great Notion Brewing - PAINTING: Charles McKim, Sauvie Island, ca. 1920.
• Hopworks Urban Brewery - PHOTO: Lily White, Columbia Slough, 1902/1904.
• Leikam Brewing - PHOTO: Henry Berger Jr., Congregation Beth Israel, Portland, ca. 1928.
• Little Beast (Beaverton) - PHOTO: Shawn Records, Near Five Oaks, from the series Beaverton, 2005.
• Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider - PAINTING: Childe Hassam, Oregon Still Life, 1904.
• Widmer Brothers Brewing - PHOTO: Minor White, Untitled (Grain Elevators), ca. 1939

WILLAMETTE VALLEY

• Heater Allen Brewing - PRINT: Constance E. Fowler: Yamhill Block-House, from the series The Old Days: In and Near Salem, 1969.
• McMenamins (Salem) - PRINT: Constance E. Fowler, Lincoln Wade's Store, from the series The Old Days: In and Near Salem, 1969.
• Wildcraft Ciderworks - PAINTING: Norma Driscoll Gilmore, Untitled (Skinner's Butte with Industrial Area Below), 1950.

CENTRAL OREGON

• Deschutes Brewery (Bend) - PAINTING: Charles Heaney, Black Butte, 1917.

OREGON COAST

• De Garde Brewing - PAINTING: Michael Brophy, Harvest, 1995.
• Fort George Brewery - PAINTING: Mark Andres, Nocturne (Astoria), 2015.

SOUTHERN OREGON

• Standing Stone Brewing - PAINTING: Frank Vincent DuMond, Sketch of Table Rock Near Medford, 1911.

EASTERN OREGON

• Steens Mountain Brewing - PHOTO: Drex Brooks, Rick, Barb, Jackie, and Michelle at Hot Springs - Juntura, Oregon, from the series Ranch Pictures 1981-1986, 1981/1986.
• Terminal Gravity Brewing - PHOTO: Minor White, Wallowa Mountains at Enterprise, Oregon, ca. 1940.

MT. HOOD/GORGE

• pFriem Family Brewers - PHOTO: Lily White, Evening on the Columbia, 1903/1905.

Press images courtesy of the Portland Art Museum and available at portlandartmuseum.org/press.  

Art & Beer: Pitchering Oregon is sponsored by the Oregon Beverage and Recycling Cooperative (OBRC), whose BottleDrop Redemption centers collect high volumes of recyclables throughout the state. OBRC’s new BottleDrop Refill program collects bottles for refill by Oregon brewers, offering an innovative, cost-effective solution to expand the beverage industry’s stewardship efforts and help sustain the environment Oregonians treasure. Wells Fargo is the presenting sponsor of the Portland Art Museum’s 125th anniversary year.

About the Portland Art Museum

The seventh oldest museum in the United States, the Portland Art Museum is internationally recognized for its permanent collection and ambitious special exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s holdings and the world’s finest public and private collections. The Museum’s collection of more than 45,000 objects, displayed in 112,000 square feet of galleries, reflects the history of art from ancient times to today. The collection is distinguished for its holdings of arts of the native peoples of North America, English silver, and the graphic arts. An active collecting institution dedicated to preserving great art for the enrichment of future generations, the Museum devotes 90 percent of its galleries to its permanent collection. The Portland Art Museum recognized both Native American art and Photography as fine art years earlier than peer institutions, with a commitment to collection in these areas and the dedication of permanent galleries for displaying the work. This ongoing commitment is demonstrated in the arc of Native American exhibitions in 2016 and 2017 and a new space for showcasing Contemporary Native Art.

The Museum’s campus of landmark buildings, a cornerstone of Portland’s cultural district, includes the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, the Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, the Schnitzer Center for Northwest Art, the Northwest Film Center, and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Center for Native American Art. With a membership of more than 22,000 households and serving more than 350,000 visitors annually, the Museum is a premier venue for education in the visual arts. For information on exhibitions and programs, call 503-226-2811 or visit portlandartmuseum.org.

The Portland Art Museum welcomes all visitors and affirms its commitment to making its programs and collections accessible to everyone. The Museum offers a variety of programs and services to ensure a quality experience and a safe, inclusive environment for every member of our diverse community. Learn more at portlandartmuseum.org/access.The press kit for Art & Beer: Pitchering Oregon is available online at this link.

About Eric Steen

Eric Steen is an artist, award-winning teacher, and Marketing Manager at Hopworks Urban Brewery. He is the founder of Beers Made By Walking, a program that invites brewers around the country to make beer inspired by plants found on regional hikes. He has created art for Performa, Food Book Fair (NY), Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (UK), Denver Beer Week during the Great American Beer Festival (CO), and more. His work has been featured on NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Outside Magazine, and in 2015, Imbibe Magazine named him one of “75 people and places that will change the way you drink in 2016.”