Archive for the 'Buzz Beers' Category

Roots Pumpkin Ale release and Halloween party

8 p.m. Friday, Oct 31st Roots Organic Brewing Co., 1520 S.E. Seventh Ave.; Halloween party/costume contest/ beer release. You can get beer from a pumpkin as Roots brewer Jason McAdam demonstrates. They’ll be pouring the new Pumpkin Ale from giant…

The return of Double Black Stout

From the Redhook folks: After hearing numerous requests from craft beer drinkers across the country, Redhook Ale Brewery will reintroduce the cult classic craft brew Double Black Stout for a limited time.Originally created by the brewery in 1995, Redhook stopped…

Celebrate with seven years of Celebration Nov. 1st

At the 2007 OBF Brewers Parade, Bob Brewer took a Swiss army knife to his beer mug handle so he could hang it from his pocket. Then, being Bob Brewer, he took a photo of it and probably uploaded…

Deschutes Pub’s on-tap list for the week of Oct. 20th

Brewer Cam O’Connor with his first Portland-brewed beer, Armory XPA, a fine, big, balanced-yet-hoppy pale ale…Thanks to brewer Cam O’Connor and Northwest zone manager Chris Hudson,I can post this week’s tap list at the Deschutes Pub…thanks, gents! 1. Mirror Pond…

Whisky Barrel imperial stouts from Scotland

From Fraserburgh, Scotland, with attitude… This’ll have you wishing for a witbier: a very special tasting of imperial stouts from Scottish microbrewery Brew Dog. Each of the stouts was aged for several months in a different Scotch whisky barrel…

Raven Mad release party, Thurs. Oct. 23rd

BridgePort Brewery is releasing its next 22-ounce Big Brew, Raven Mad; an Imperial Bourbon barrel aged porter. BridgePort will be hosting a release party Thursday with free samples of the beer while supplies last. Guests are encouraged to come dressed…

Portland’s Fresh Hop Tastival was huge…

We’ll let some pictures tell the story about Saturday’s Oregon Bounty/ Oregon Brewers Guild Fresh Hop Tastival at Hopworks Urban Brewery… This would’ve been the festival to get to early in the day. By midafternoon, lots of beers had run…

Beervana serendipity…

It happens all the time — Portland has so many good beer events happening in so many places that you can, as I did yesterday afternoon, head down to the Pilsner Room because you knew they had Phil’s Existential Alt…

Fresh Hop Tastival beer list

Rain did not deter determined beer sampling at the recent Hood River Hops festival; In Beervana, the Saturday forecast is partly sunny and very hoppy… Hopworks hosts the Oregon Brewers Guild Fresh Hop Tastival featuring more than 25 fresh hop…

All three Lupulin Ales now on tap at the Pilsner Room

Full Sail’s John Harris made a bunch of Lupulin Ale this year — three batches, in fact, each made with the same malt bill and bittering hops but each with a with a different fresh hop: Rainiers in Lupulin…