30th annual Oregon Brewers Festival starts July 26, features Specialty Tent and introduces Safe Ride Home Program

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PORTLAND, Ore. — An estimated 80,000 people will flock to Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park in less than two weeks for the 30th annual Oregon Brewers Festival. The milestone event will take place July 26 through July 30; hours are Noon to 9pm Wednesday through Saturday, and Noon to 7pm Sunday.

The main festival will feature 91 independent craft breweries, with each brewery serving one beer; this year’s participants come from 13 different states, plus one from The Netherlands. The festival is also bringing back its popular Specialty Tent, featuring more than 90 rare, bold and experimental beers from the participating breweries. These beers are extremely limited in quantity and will pour on a rotating basis; beers will be available by tasters only and each taster will cost double or triple tokens.
The Oregon Brewers Festival presents more than two dozen beer styles ranging from fruit beers to radlers to IPAs to sours. The complete list of participating breweries is currently available on the festival website, and on the event’s Facebook page, under Beer List. The Oregon Brewers Festival is an official Untappd venue, and attendees are encouraged to follow the event on the mobile Untappd app and subscribe to push notifications; this will be the best way to find out when beers change over in the Specialty Tent or tap out in the main festival.

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The event also features live music, food booths, craft vendors and homebrew demonstrations. The Oregon Brewers Festival is not a ticketed event, and it is free to enter the festival grounds. In order to taste beer, the purchase of a 14 oz. souvenir tasting mug from the current year is required, which costs $7. Beer is purchased with wooden tokens, which cost $1 apiece. Patrons pay five 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’s top priority is the safety of its attendees, so it has partnered with Great Western Malting, Portland Bureau of Transportation, Portland Police Bureau, Radio Cab, SmartPark and Vision Zero to encourage its guests to get a Safe Ride Home. The Safe Ride Home program offers up to $18 in discounts for getting home safely. Attendees who park in a SmartPark garage can leave their car overnight and receive a $5 parking voucher, redeemable from 9am to Noon the day after attendance, making the overnight parking free. Attendees can also take a Radio Cab home and get a $13 discount off their fare. Check the website and look for the Safe Ride Home booths at the Festival for full details on the program.

 

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Patrons are also encouraged to take Tri-Met, as the MAX Light Rail has a station one block from the main festival entrance. Those who ride their bikes can park them for free in the Hopworks Urban Brewery secure bike corral; people riding BIKETOWN bikes may also use the Hopworks Bike Corral as a drop off station location. 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, and there is a face painter available Friday through Sunday from 1pm to 5pm.

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 nearly 5,000 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 $30 million. For more information visit OregonBrewFest.com or join @OregonBrewfest on social media.

Summary
Event Name: Oregon Brewers Festival

Venue: Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 300 SW Naito Parkway, Portland, OR 97204
Dates: July 26-30, 2017
Website: OregonBrewFest.com
Social Media: @OregonBrewFest
Facebook Event: Facebook.com/events/1065560490238569/Hashtags: #OBF #OBF17 #OBF30years

Untappd: https://untappd.com/v/oregon-brewers-festival/77274

Oregon Brewfest 2016 Recap

1st beers of  the 2016 OBF - Picture Courtesy of me -Freshpints.com

The 29th Annual Oregon Brewers Festival started yesterday at noon. if you're at OBF today - awesome!, if you haven't been or plan to go, you still have 3 days left to make it down to Tom McCall Waterfront park and enjoy some great beers, music, food, and just plain old good times.

One notable change you will notice is that OBF has once again changed the drinking vessel. Over the years they've had the white plastic mugs, glass tasters, BPA-free plastic glass tasters, and now this new 12 oz. clear styrene plastic mug  free of BPA and phthalates. I gotta say, I really like this new mug, maybe even more than the glass tasters that were present for a couple years. I like the mug style as its easy to carry, so no worries about dropping the mug, and I think the clear styrene plastic worked well for trying to get sight, aroma,  and taste when sampling each beer. So great Job OBF, with the new sampling mugs.

Beers we really enjoyed this year.

• Ex Novo – All of the Things - Berliner Weiss
• New Holland – Dragons Milk Reserve: Mexican Spice Cake - Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout
• Boundary Bay - Escape Velocity - American Pale Ale
• Old Town - Kentucky Refresh-Mint - Mint Julep Beer
• Ninkasi – Grapefruit Sour - American-Style Sour Ale
• Culmination – Deutschland-Down Under - Berliner-Style Weisse
• Stormbreaker - Handfuls of Hops V.OBF - American IPA
• Georgetown Brewing -Gusto Crema Coffee Ale - Coffee Ale  
• Double Mountain Brewing - Randall Knife - American-Style India Pale Ale
• 54°40′  - 70% Ultra Pilsner - German-Style Pilsner
• Sasquatch - Nancy Cherrygan - Specialty Beer

So many great beers and beer styles to sample this year, and don't forget to check out the International Beer Garden and note, those beers rotate, so its worth it to go back every so often to see what has changed.

last beer of the 2016 OBF - Picture Courtesy of me -Freshpints.com

Details on the 29th 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)


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.

New Mug for the 2016 Oregon Brewers Festival

Oregon Brewers Festival has once again changed up its drinking vessel for the brew festival. See details below.

For the first 25 years of the OBF, beers were served in a thick, milky white plastic mug. In 2013, we switched over to a glass to better allow the color of the beer to shine through. That continued in 2014, but last year the Portland Police and Portland Parks decided to ban glass from all parks, so we switched to a high-quality, BPA-free plastic glass. This year, we are returning to a mug, but now it's a 12 oz. clear styrene plastic free of BPA and phthalates.

More on the upcoming 2016 Oregon Brewers Festival.

29th Annual Oregon Brewers Festival - July 27th through July 31st.

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

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.

Good Times At The 28th Annual Oregon Brewers

The 28th annual Oregon Brewers Festival Started yesterday. We would like to thank the OBF festival organizers for the media pass (cup & tokens) so we could sample some of the fine beers that are being poured during the brewfest that continues on through Sunday.
 
A few changes this year that you should be aware of. 

The normal long tables that are usually under the big tents are now outside along the fence line and in place of those, they have standing upright tables. Should work well to keep traffic moving on Friday and Saturday, the busiest days for OBF.

Last year at OBF they had a combo Buzz Tent and International Tent. This year the Buzz portion is gone and now it's just the international tent where you will find breweries from the Netherlands and New Zealand.....and its just one token per sample! A nice change from the multi token years in previous years.

And if you don't know by now, the glass tasting glass is gone and replaced with a new polycarbonate tasting glass. We're happy its back to non-glass, also no aroma issues from the polycarbonate glass, unlike the previous years of plastic mugs, and bonus you don't have to worry about breakage if they get dropped.

We sampled many beers at OBF this year and here are a few of the beers that we really enjoyed at OBF.

• Claim 52 Brewing - Runnermass - Kolsch/lemon-lime soda Blend - Very refreshing and at 3% abv, would be a great hot day drinker.
• Breakside Brewing - Rainbows & Unicorns - Session IPA - Best beer name of the fest...Very refreshing, light, citrus notes and at 4.7% another easy drinker.
• Cascade Brewing -  Frite Gaulois - NW Sour with a blend of Weizen, Saison, and Blonde Ales ages in oak wine Barrels. Excellent
• Burnside Brewing - Smoked Berliner Weiss - An amazing combo with the hint of smoke and the refreshing tartness.
• Melvin Brewing  - Hamber - A hoppy Amber - Nice balance between the malt and hops.

Another great Oregon Brewers Festival is in the books for us here at freshpints.com. Thanks to the OBF organizers for once again putting on a great beer fest. See you next year.

Oregon Brewers Festival continues on through Sunday. Please find details here or for complete details at the OBF website.

Oregon Brewers Festival Beer By Trailer & Meet The Kiwi Brewers At Belmont Station

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The 28th Annual Oregon Brewers Festival starts this Wednesday at noon and runs through Sunday. The OBF folks have provided freshpints.com with the most current list of beers by trailer. Note that the list isn't by Alpha or by style because the OBF folks - are dealing with more than 1,600 kegs of cold beer. These kegs are shipped to various distributors. When the distributor brings down their trailer to the festival, we don’t have the time or manpower to unload and re-sort the beers; that would be the definition of insanity -  

Trailer 1
Coalition Brewing Co. Honey Trap
Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom Homestead
Great Divide Brewing Whitewater
Hale's Ales Brewery & Pub Supergoose IPA
Laht Neppur Brewing Co. Flaming Peach
Maui Brewing Co. Kihei Kölsch
PINTS Urban Brewery Honey Bunches of Oats

StormBreaker Brewing Mississippi Red Dry Hopped Red
Walking Man Brewing Littlefoot ISA

 
Trailer 2
Bear Republic Brewing Co. Double Aught
Breakside Brewery Rainbows & Unicorns
Collaborator Valley Vanilla Pale Ale

Firestone Walker Brewing Co. Pivo
Gigantic Brewing Kölschtastic

Kona Brewing Co. Big Wave

Logsdon Farmhouse Ales Aberrant
Omission Beer Free Radical Lager
Widmer Brothers Brewing Widmeritaville

 
Trailer 3
Buoy Beer Co. India Pale Lager
Burnside Brewing Co. Smoked Berliner Weiss
Ecliptic Brewing Aurora Crimson Saison
Eel River Brewing Co. Emerald Triangle Session IPA
Fort George Brewery+Public House Summer Stout
Hop Valley Brewing Pils to pay the Bills

Lompoc Brewing Saison de l'Evolution
Old Town Brewing 1-Up Mushroom Ale
Upright Brewing Golden Goat

 
Trailer 4
Boundary Bay Brewery Double Dry Hopped Sorachi Ace Pale Ale
Laurelwood Brewing Co. Hipster Sunburn

Mazama Brewing Co. Rasplendent

Port Townsend Brewing Co. The S.H.I.P.
Prodigal Son Brewery & Pub Huckleberry Wheat
Seven Brides Brewing Crooked Finger IPA
Sixpoint Brewery Little Raspy
Uptown Market USA Uptown Session Ale
Wasatch Brewery Ghostrider White IPA

 
Trailer 5
Anderson Valley Brewing Co. The Kimmie, The Yink, & The Holy Gose
Bison Organic Beer Kermit the Hop
Boneyard Beer Bone Light
Caldera Brewing Co. Dry Hop Mosaic IPA
Epic Brewing Hop Syndrome
Fearless Brewing Co. Strawberry Cream Ale
Speakeasy Ales & Lagers Baby Daddy IPA

Terminal Gravity Brewing Wallowa Lake Lager

The Lost Abbey Witches Wit

 
Trailer 6
Alameda Brewing Co. Black Bear Stout
Ambacht Brewing Matzobrau
Base Camp Brewing Co. Hop in the 'Pool Helles
Green Flash Brewing Co. Soul Style IPA
Klamath Basin Brewing Spud Muffin Pale Ale
Melvin Brewing Hamber Hoppy Amber
Payette Brewing Co. Leaning Barb Farmhouse Ale
Sunriver Brewing Co. Oh MANdarin! White IPA
Vertigo Brewing Lemongrass Wheat

 
Trailer 7
Calapooia Brewing Co. Santiamber
Central City Brewers & Distillers Red Betty Imperial IPA
Fire Mountain Brewery Paradise
Fish Brewing Co. Fish In A Barrel
Flat Tail Brewing Co. Big Green
Flying Fish Brewing Co. Cold Pressed Pale Ale
No-Li Brewhouse Mosh Pit
Three Creeks Brewing Co. Hop Damme
Victory Brewing Co. Prima Pils

 
Trailer 8
Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits Grunion Pale Ale

BridgePort Brewing Co. Conviction Pale Ale
Deschutes Brewery Gluten Free & Red Wheat
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Glancing Blow English Pale Ale
Fremont Brewing Co. Summer Ale
Full Sail Brewing Co. Session IPA
Gilgamesh Brewing Radler
Sprecher Brewery Abbey Triple

 
Trailer 9
Cascade Brewing Frite Gaulois
Hopworks Urban Brewing Evie Radshine
Lagunitas Brewing Co. Sucks 366
Mad River Brewing Co. Jamaica Sunrise E.S.B.
McMenamins Edgefield Brewery Quatrophenia ISA
New Belgium Brewing Co. B-Side Peach IPA
Portland Brewing Super S.M.A.S.H.
Rogue Ales Imperial Smoked Lager
Worthy Brewing Co. A Walk on the Wild Side

 
Trailer 10
Bayern Brewing Dump Truck Summer Bock
Bent Paddle Brewing Co. Paddle Break Blonde
Boulder Beer Co. Nothing Too Fancy
Claim 52 Brewing Runnermass
Dunedin Brewery Mango Makrut Paradiso
GoodLife Brewing Co. Jay Bird
Lucky Labrador Brewing 20th Anniversary IPA
Viking Braggot Co. Gypsy Tears

Wild Ride Brewing Quencher

 

Oregon Brewers Festival will also be holding a Meet the Brewers event at Belmont Station this Thursday where you can meet brewers & sample beers from the New Zealand breweries that will be attending OBF this year. The event will be from 6pm to 8pm and the New Zealand Breweries below will be at Belmont Station.

Jos Ruffel with Garage Project

Mike Neilson with Panhead Custom Ales

Matt Warner with Parrot Dog

Carl Vasta with Tuatara Brewing

Stu McKinlay with Yeastie Boys

Plus David Cryer with Cryermalt, Doug Donelan with New Zealand Hops and the Brewers Guild of New Zealand

The 2015 Oregon Brewers Festival Just Ten Days Away.

Courtesy of Oregon Brewers Festival

The grand-daddy of Oregon beer festivals, the Oregon Brewers Festival, is just 10 days away. Oregon Brewers Festival, or OBF for short, starts July 22nd and runs through July 26th.  As always, it will take place at the one of the best Portland locations, downtown along the Willamette River at Tom McCall Waterfront Park.

OBF always has a great beer list (see below) and just like every year we're looking forward to trying out some new brews.  Every year we get to sample some new breweries, special beers that were made by local breweries just for OBF, and meet up with old and new beer friends.

My suggestion for folks going to OBF is to try those new breweries or beers you haven't heard of before.  Also, make sure and hydrate before, during and after.  Especially if it's hot outside, and you're under a tent where it always feels hotter.  Most of all have fun, talk with people and just enjoy the atmosphere.

The Details on the Oregon Brewers Festival are below. I'm posting the beer list first because with so many beers, you've gotta have a plan of what you hope to try. Note that just as last year, OBF will feature some international brewers (in the International Tent) from the Netherlands and new this year from New Zealand - those are in bold print in the list below.

Beer List:

Alameda Brewing Co – Alameda Black Bear Stout – Foreign Export-Style Stout

Ambacht Brewing – Matzobrau – Belgian Dark Wheat

Anderson Valley Brewing Co –The Kimmie, The Yink, & The Holy Gose - Gose

Ballast Point Brewing Co – Grunion Pale Ale – American Pale Ale with Citrus

Base Camp Brewing Co – Hop in the ‘Pool – Late-Hopped Helles Lager

Bayern Brewing – Dump Truck – Summer Bock

Bear Republic Brewing Co – Double Aught – Bohemian Pilsner

Bent Paddle Brewing Co – Paddle Break Blonde – Belgian Style Blonde Ale

Bison Organic Beer – Kermit the Hop – Double IPA

Boneyard Beer – Bone Light – India Session Ale

Boulder Beer Co – Nothing too Fancy – American Pale Ale

Boundary Bay Brewery – Double Dry Hopped Sorachi Ace Pale Ale – Pale Ale

Breakside Brewery – Rainbows & Unicorns – Session Rice IPA

BridgePort Brewing Co - Conviction Pale Ale - American Style Pale Ale

Buoy Beer Co –  India Pale Lager -  American Style Lager

Burnside Brewing Co – Smoked Berlinerweiss

Calapooia Brewing C0 – Big Aft Pale – American Pale Ale

Caldera Brewing Co – Dry Hop Mosaic IPA – IPA

Cascade Brewing – Raspberry Wheat – Fruit Wheat Beer

Central City Brewing – Red Betty – Imperial IPA

Claim 52 Brewing – Runnermass – Fruit Wheat Beer

Coalition Brewing Co – Honey Trap – Honey Wheat Ale

Collaborator – Vanilla Valley Pale Ale – Vanilla Pale Ale

Deschutes Brewery – Red Wheat – Red Wheat

Deschutes Brewery – Gluten Free – Gluten Free Ale

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery – Glancing Blow – English Pale Ale

Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom – Homestead – Northwest Pale Ale

Dunedin Brewery – Mango Makrut Paradiso -  Session IPA

Ecliptic Brewery – Aurora Crimson Saison – French/Belgian – Style Saison

Eel River Brewing Co – Emerald Triangle Session IPA – Session IPA

Epic Brewing Co – Hop Syndrome – Lager

Fearless Brewing Co – Strawberry Cream Ale – Fruit Cream Ale

Fire Mountain Brewery – Paradise – German Blonde Ale

Firestone Walker Brewing Co – Pivo Pils – Hoppy Pilsner

Fish Brewing Co – Fish In A Barrel - Wood and Barrel-Aged Beer

Flat Tail Brewing Co – Big Green – Dry Hopped Strong Saison

Flying Fish Brewing Co – Cold Press Pale – Coffee Pale Ale

Fort George Brewery & Public House –Summer Stout – Classic Irish Style Dry Stout

Fremont Brewing Co – Summer Ale – Pale Ale

Full Sail Brewing Co – Session IPA – Session IPA

Garage Project – Death From Above – Experimental Beer

Gigantic Brewing Co – Kölschtastic – German Style-Kölsch

Gilgamesh Brewing – Radler – Specialty Beer

GoodLife Brewing Co – Jay Bird – Naked Wheat

Great Divide Brewing Co – Whitewater Ale – Hoppy Wheat Ale

Green Flash Brewing Co – Soul Style – Single IPA

Hale’s Ales – Guapo’s Saison – Saison

Hop Valley Brewing Co – Pils to pay the Bills – German-Style Lager

Hopworks Urban Brewery -Evie Radshine – American-Style Fruit Beer 

Kaapase Brouwers – Kaapase Koen – Rye Beer

Klamath Basin Brewing Co – Spud Muffin Pale Ale – Specialty Beer

Kona Brewing Co – Big Wave – Golden Ale

Lagunitas Brewing Co –Sucks 366 - Double IPA

Laht Neppur Brewing Co – Blazing Peaches – Experimental Beer

Laurelwood Brewing Co – Hipster Sunburn – Saison

Logsdon Brewing Co – Aberrant – Belgian Golden Ale

Lompoc Brewing Co – Saison de l'Evolution – French & Belgian - Style Saison

Lucky Labrador Brewing - 20th Anniversary IPA – American Style IPA

Mad River Brewing Co – Jamaica Sunrise ESB – Extra Special Bitter

Maui Brewing Co – Kihei Kölsch – Kölsch

Mazama Brewing Co – Rasplendent - Belgian-Style Fruit Beer

Maximus – Salvator – Specialty Beer

McMenamins – Quatrophenia ISA - Session India Pale Ale

Melvin Brewing – Hamber – Hoppy Amber

New Belgium Brewing Co – B-Side Peach IPA – Specialty Beer

No-Li Brewhouse – Mosh Pit Tart Cherry Ale – Fruit Beer

Oedipus Brewing – Thai Thai Tripel – Belgian Style Tripel

Oersoep - Nijmegen - Brett Beer 

Old Town Brewing Co – 1-Up Mushroom Ale – Experimental Beer

Omission Beer –Free Radical Lager - Gluten Free Ale

Panhead Custom Ales – Johnny Octane – Imperial Red Ale

ParrotDog - Riwaka Secret - Double IPA 

Payette Brewing Co – Learning Barn – Farmhouse Ale

PINTS Brewing Co – Honey’s Bunches of Oats – Breakfast Beer

Port Townsend Brewing Co – The Ship – Single Hopped IPA

Portland Brewing Co – Super S.M.A.S.H. – Imperial IPA

Prodigal Son Brewery – Huckleberry Wheat – Fruit Wheat

Ramses Bier - Antenne Tripel  - Belgian Style Tripel 

Rogue Ales – Imperial Smoked Lager –Smoke Beer

Rooie Dop & RUIG – Smoked Session Oatmeal Stout – Oatmeal Stout

Seven Brides Brewing – Crooked Finger IPA – IPA

Sixpoint Brewery – Little Raspy - Berliner Style Weiss

Speakeasy Ales & Lager – Baby Daddy Session IPA – Session IPA

Sprecher Brewery – Abbey Triple – Belgian Ale

StormBreaker Brewing – Mississippi Dry Hopped Red – Dry Hopped Red

Sunriver Brewing Co – Belgian White IPA

Terminal Gravity Brewing – Wallow Lake Lager – Pre-Prohibition Style Lager

The Lost Abbey – Witches Wit- Belgian-Style Witbier

Three Creeks Brewing Co – Hop Damme - Belgian-Style Pale Strong Ale

Tuatara Brewing – Sauvinova – International-Style Pale Ale

Uitlje Craft Beer – CC:Porter – Coffee Beer

Upright Brewing Co –  Golden Goat – French -Style Biere de Garde

Uptown Brewing – Uptown Session Ale – India Session Ale

Vertigo Brewing – Lemongrass Wheat – Wheat Beer

Victory Brewing Co – Prima Pils – Pilsner

Viking Braggot Co – Gypsy Tears – Hibiscus and Blueberry Braggot

Walking Man Brewing – Littlefoot – India Session Ale

Wasatch Brewery – Ghostrider White IPA – White IPA

Widmer Brothers Brewing –Widmeritaville – Experimental Beer

Wild Ride Brewing – Quencher – Summer Session Ale

Worthy Brewing Co – Walk on the Wild Side – Badlands Indigenous Ale

Yeasty Boys -  Gunamatta – American –Style Strong Pale

OBF Founder Art Larrance and Dutch Brewers. Photo Courtesy of Timothy Horn

28th Annual Oregon Brewers Festival

Venue

Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon Main entrance at SW Oak Street and Naito Parkway; other entrances at SW Pine St, under the Morrison St Bridge and along the sea wall at Pine.

Dates

July 22-26, 2015 — "Always the last full weekend in July"

Times

Weds through Sat, taps are open from Noon to 9 pm
Sun, taps are open from Noon to 7 pm
Token & mug sales close one-half hour prior to the taps shutting off: this is 8:30pm every night except 6:30pm on Sunday.

Admission

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 one-time purchase of a 2015 souvenir 14-ounce polycarbonate tasting glass is required and costs $7. Beer is purchased with wooden tokens, which cost $1 apiece. It costs four tokens for a full glass of beer, or one token for a taste. The purchase of glasses and tokens is made on-site in one location, although there are a handful of local businesses that sell them up to two weeks prior to the event. The OBF glass/token sales booth is CASH ONLY and does not accept credit cards or checks. The festival does offer eight ATM machines on premise.

Description

The Oregon Brewers Festival is one of the nation's longest running and best loved craft beer festivals. Situated on the west bank of the Willamette River, with towering Mt. Hood as a backdrop, it is the ideal venue for anyone who loves craft beer. With a laid back attitude and scores of award-winning beers, the festival reflects the essence of the city of Portland, aka Brewvana.
The Oregon Brewers Festival exists to provide an opportunity to sample and learn about a variety of craft beer styles from across the country. Ninety craft breweries from all parts of the nation offer more than 30 styles of handcrafted brews to 85,000 beer lovers during the five-day event.
The festival's focus is craft beer, but there's more than sampling involved. The event features live music, beer-related vendors, beer memorabilia displays, home brewing demonstrations and an assortment of foods from a variety of regions. The Crater Lake Soda Garden offers complimentary handcrafted root beer for minors and designated drivers. Minors are always welcome at the festival when accompanied by a parent.
The Oregon Brewers Festival strongly encourages responsible drinking, and urges patrons to take advantage of TriMet
MAX Light Rail line, located just one block west of the festival on SW Oak Street. Plan your trip at trimet.org or m.trimet.org. Go by bus, train or taxi, just don't drink and drive. Attendees can also take advantage of the onsite Hopworks Bike Corral
where volunteers from the #BC2Baja Bicycle Tour will watch over bikes for free.

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Note:
Animals not allowed at OBF
Smoking no longer allowed in PDX Parks,
Glass not allowed in PDX Parks

OBF 2014 - Note Glass cups will not be used this year. Photo Courtesy of Timothy Horn

Tickets Still Available For The 9th Annual Oregon Brewers Brunch

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Handful of tickets remain for the 9th annual Oregon Brewers Brunch at Metalcraft

Order before 5pm on Friday, July 3 to take part in the fun

PORTLAND, Ore. – The 9th annual Oregon Brewers Brunch & Parade is just three weeks away and only a handful of tickets remain. The event, which always takes place on the morning of the festival opening, will occur on Wednesday, July 22 from 9 to 11:30am. Tickets may be purchased through this Friday, July 3 at 5pm at www.oregonbrewfest.com/brunch.php.

This year’s brunch is being hosted by Lompoc Brewing; Lompoc has four locations, but none of them are close to the festival grounds, so the longtime Portland brewery has rented out Metalcraft Fabrication, located at 723 N Tillamook St for the party of 500 craft beer enthusiasts.

Tickets cost $45 which includes brunch, two beers, a T shirt, live music, the OBF tasting glass and four tokens for the festival. This year’s brunch menu includes:

• Fresh seasonal fruit platters
• Variety of sweet and savory breads and baked treats
• Vegetarian breakfast potatoes with Walla Walla onions, red peppers, garlic, grilled zucchini, more
• Fresh scrambled eggs
• Carlton Farms thick cut bacon
• Zenners breakfast sausage braised in New Old Lompoc Seasonal Lager
• Baked salmon with Lompoc Saison hollandaise
• **Vegan Morningstar sausage patties (MUST BE REQUESTED IN ADVANCE)
• Coffee, water and tea

Lompoc will be serving SaazAll Pilsner, Pamplemousse IPA, Proletariat Red, a Sour Fruit Beer, Saison de l’Evolution, Jitterbrew Stout and a Bloody Mary Beer. In the recent Portland Monthly Magazine, Saison de L’Evolution was named as a top 25 beer, and Pamplemousse IPA was named the #1 grapefruit IPA!

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Following the brunch, everyone will march from Metalcraft across the Steel Bridge to the festival grounds for the opening ceremonies (1.8 mile route). The parade will be led by Kurt and Rob Widmer, founders of Widmer Brothers Brewing and this year’s honorary Grand Marshals; and accompanied by the Transcendental Brass Band. 

Brunch and parade participants with a wristband will flow through the Pine Street entrance and head for the stage for the opening ceremonies. Everyone at the opening ceremonies with a glass gets a glass of the ceremonial keg (no tokens required).

The Oregon Brewers Brunch is for ages 21 and over. All ages are welcome to walk in the parade. For more information, visit www.oregonbrewfest.com.

28th Annual Oregon Brewers Festival

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Oregon Brewers Festival toasts 28th year, features 90 

North American breweries plus a Kiwi contingent from New Zealand

Press Release:
PORTLAND, Ore. — March 11, 2015 — There’s been turmoil brewing in the craft beer world recently with acquisitions and ad punches, but one thing has stayed constant: the Oregon Brewers Festival will return this summer for its annual five-day celebration of craft beer. The 28th annual Oregon Brewers Festival will take place July 22 through July 26 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Event hours are Noon to 9pm Wed. through Sat., and Noon to 7pm Sunday.

One of the nation's longest-running and best-loved craft beer festivals, the Oregon Brewers Festival annually draws 85,000 beer lovers from around the world. In the two main tents, the Oregon Brewers Festival will serve beers from 90 craft breweries from the U.S. and Canada; each brewery sends one beer to the event. 

From Belgians to braggots, pales to Pilsners, radlers to reds, and saisons to stouts, there’s a style for nearly every palate; two gluten-free products are offered as well (for a complete list of participating breweries and beers, visit www.oregonbrewfest.com). The festival also features five days of live music, food booths, craft vendors, homebrew demonstrations and industry displays.

Continuing its foray into featuring international craft brewers, the Oregon Brewers Festival has also invited five brewers from New Zealand to come to the event along with their beer. The Kiwi contingent includes Tuatara, Yeastie Boys, Garage Project, Panhead and ParrotDog. Select styles from these breweries will be featured in the festival’s International Tent along with daily meet-the-brewer sessions. The International Tent encourages a long-term cultural exchange with brewers around the world as part of a collective celebration of great craft beer.

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 2015 souvenir tasting glass is required and costs $7. Beer is purchased with wooden tokens, which cost $1 apiece. Patrons pay four tokens for a full glass of beer, or one token for a taste. The purchase of glasses and tokens is made on-site, although there are a handful of local businesses that sell them up to two weeks prior to the event.

Although the festival has utilized a glass tasting vessel the past two years, the Portland Police Bureau has required the festival to return to plastic for safety reasons; attendees should be satisfied with this year’s alternative, which is a high-quality, 14-ounce polycarbonate glass made in Finland.

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 Bike Corral, where volunteers from the #BC2Baja Bicycle Tour will watch over bikes for free.

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.

ABOUT THE OREGON BREWERS FESTIVAL
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 currently has 185 brewing companies, operating 226 brewing facilities in 71 cities in Oregon. Portland alone has 58 breweries (84 in the Portland Metropolitan area) — more than any other city in the world. A study conducted at the 2014 Oregon Brewer Festival estimated the economic impact of the festival on the local economy to be $32.5 Million; it also showed that out-of-state and international visitors accounted for 56.8 percent of attendees. For more information about the Oregon Brewers Festival, visit www.oregonbrewfest.com 

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27th Annual Oregon Brewers Festival Generated $32.6 Million For The Local Economy

2014 Oregon Brewers Festival Generates $32.6 Million for Local Economy

Economic impact study shows significant trends in craft brewing and craft beer tourism

Press Release:
PORTLAND, Ore. – Sept. 23, 2014 – A recently completed study estimates the economic impact of the 2014 Oregon Brewers Festival (OBF) at $32.5 Million, a 3.8 percent increase from the 2013 festival.

Jeff Dense, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Oregon University, and a team of students and volunteers administered 759 on-site interviews at this summer's 27th annual festival from July 23 to 27.

The analysis utilized IMPLAN (IMpact Analysis for PLANning) data and software package to estimate the economic impact of the festival on Multnomah County. The 2014 OBF generated an estimated $20.9 Million in direct, $6.1 Million in indirect (additional input purchases made by local businesses) and $5.5 Million in induced (expenditures by employees from wages paid by companies in direct contact with tourists) economic impact.

“The Oregon Brewers Festival, and craft beer tourism, continues to have a significant economic impact on the Portland economy,” Dense said.

One of the most important findings of the study is the increasingly important role women are playing in the craft beer industry; nearly half (44.8%) of this year's OBF attendees were female. According to Dense, "Women are the future of the craft beer industry."

Respondents were queried on demographic factors, along with estimates of OBF related expenditures in tourism-related categories, including transportation,

lodging, meals, gasoline purchases, non-beer related recreation, beer purchased to take home, and expenditures at the OBF.

Findings of the study include:

• A majority (56.8%) of OBF patrons were out-of-town visitors.
• Visitors from Washington, California and Canada comprised 30.6% of total OBF patrons.
• 41.1% of respondents were attending OBF for the first time.
• 25.4% of OBF patrons were 50 years or older.
• The average out-of-town visitor spent $674.
• Lodging ($9.1 Million) accounted for the largest share of OBF expenditures.
• State and local government received $1.87 Million in indirect business taxes.
• 42.3% of OBF patrons utilized mass transit to attend the festival.

This was the fourth year of the study; 2011 estimated the estimated economic impact of the festival at $23.2 Million, 2012 came in at $30 Million, and 2013 showed $31.2 Million.

 

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OBF #27 Brought In 85,000 Attendees

 

Press Release: 

PORTLAND, Ore. – August 14, 2014 – There’s a first time for everything, and in the case of the Oregon Brewers Festival, it was a downpour on opening day. The 27th annual Oregon Brewers Festival took place July 23 through 27 at Waterfront Park in Portland. And while the rain kept some at bay, the mud puddles quickly dried and by the end of the weekend, attendance numbers rivaled those of the year before, coming in at 85,000 attendees.

Beer lovers came from across the nation and around the world to join in the celebration; they included a group of brewers from The Netherlands who were invited to pour beer in the festival’s Specialty Tent. Event founder and director Art Larrance heralded the relationship a natural progression in the evolution of craft brewing worldwide, and announced plans to bring in brewers from New Zealand in 2015.

“Thirty some years ago, U.S. craft brewers were looking outside of the nation for beer inspiration,” explained Larrance. “Today, it’s come full circle; craft beer markets from around the world are looking to us for insight. We’re seeing a beer revolution in places like The Netherlands and New Zealand, and the emergence of a lot of innovative brewing. Our goals is to celebrate and share that with the craft beer lovers who attend our event.”

Amidst the celebration, the festival took time to honor the memory of those who involved in the beer industry who have passed away this year, including Jack Joyce, the founder of Rogue Ales who was to be this year’s Grand Marshal; and Vic Atiyeh, Oregon’s former governor who signed Oregon's Brewpub Bill into law in 1985. The Festival also donated $15,000 to The Dougy Center, a Portland non-profit that benefits grieving children and families, during the event's opening ceremonies.

Beer lovers enjoyed 88 beers in the main tents, and another 100 rotating beers in the Specialty Tent, which featured vintage, barrel aged, blends and one-off beers from the participants. All beer was served in tasting glasses, a change that was implemented last year to allow consumers to fully enjoy the sight, smell and taste of their beer. It has been announced that the Portland Police Bureau is requiring the festival to do away with glass in the future; the festival is currently working with a vendor to procure a high-quality clear plastic mug.

 In addition to beer tasting, there was live music all five days, food from six area restaurants, homebrewers brewing beer on site, and a collection of beer-related vendors ranging from wooden beer steins to glass blown pints to kilts. Minors and designated drivers received complimentary cups of handcrafted root beer in the Crater Lake Root Beer Garden.

Nearly 1,800 beer fans took advantage of the Hopworks Urban Brewery bike corral, where their bikes were monitored for free while they enjoyed the festival; their tips raised $500 for End Polio Now. The festival employed more than 2,200 volunteers to pour beer, sell tokens, and aid with recycling education.

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 succeeded, especially in Oregon, where 173 brewing companies operate 214 brewing facilities in 70 cities in Oregon. Portland has 56 breweries — more than any other city in the world – and the Portland metropolitan area is the largest craft brewing market in the US with the most number of breweries at 76. The total economic impact from the beer industry on Oregon’s economy is $2.83 billion; the total annual economic impact from the Oregon Brewers Festival in 2013 was $31.2 million.

The Oregon Brewers Festival always takes place the last full weekend in July. The 28th annual event will take place July 22 through July 26, 2015. For more information, visit www.oregonbrewfest.com. 

OBF #27 Tomorrow!

The 27th Annual Oregon Brewers Festival starts tomorrow. And as in years past, Emily and I plan to be there waiting in line on opening day.

These are some of the beers that we will be sampling:

• Sixpoint - Barrel Aged 3 Beans (Baltic Porter)
• Oakshire - Citrafonix (American Pale Ale with Citrus)
• Maui Brewing - Lorenzini Blood Orange Double IPA (Double IPA with Fruit)
• Grain Station Brew Works - Epernay Weiss (German Weiss Beer)
• Goodlife Brewing - Nothing As It Seems (Coffee Blond)
• Gigantic Brewing - Who Ate All The Pies? (Strawberry Rhubarb Gose)
• Fitger's Brewhouse - Hoppelujah IPA (North Shore IPA)
• Ex Novo Brewing - Black & Wheat (Black Raspberry Wheat)
• Cigar City - Mangosteen Florida Weisse (Berliner Weisse w/Mangosteen)
• Ashtown Brewing - Blackberry India Pale Ale (Blackberry IPA) 

With the returning Specialty Tent and other beers on the list that we are sure to sample we should easily be able to sample in the range of 30 beers.

Hope to see you tomorrow....rain or shine.
Adam 

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