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Tap into the best of fresh hops brewing, plus a lineup of longtime favorite craft beers during the Hood River Hops Fest on Saturday, Oct. 4. Celebrating its fifth year as the premier fresh hops beer-tasting event in the Pacific…
September 19th, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, beer tastings, beer touring, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Fifth Annual Hood River Hops Festival Sat., Oct. 4th
Lucky Lab’s hop harvest Wednesday was the biggest yet in terms of attendees and hops picked: about two dozen folks stopped by and picked 125 pounds of hops from vines grown in back of the pubs and at friends’ houses….
September 18th, 2008 | Posted in fresh-hop beers, General Beer Chat, Life in Beervana | Comments Off on Record breaking hop harvest at Lucky Lab: 125 pounds.
…this must be Beervana… and choose you must: do you go to the Ayinger Oktoberfest tasting at Belmont Station and get a free glass? 5 P.M. Wed, Sept. 17th Until… Buy an Ayinger Oktoberfest Draught and keep the glass. Enjoy…
September 17th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, New Beers, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on If it’s Wednesday and you have three beer events to choose among…
Thursday, Sept. 25th. Moon & Sixpence British Pub, 2014 N.E. 42nd Ave., 503-288-7802. Sierra Nevada Brewmaster Steve Dresler: Why is this man smiling? wouldn’t have anything to do with working around huge tanks of S/N Pale Ale every day,…
September 16th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Sierra Nevada tasting at the Moon & Sixpence Sept. 25th
“Over the last year, we have been working on 21, a special beer to celebrate the brewery’s 21st birthday,” said Jamie Emmerson, Full Sail’s Executive Brewmaster. A beautiful label, and every one applied by hand, says Full Sail’s Sandra Evans……
September 11th, 2008 | Posted in beer history, beer tastings, beer touring, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, New Beers, The Beer Bizz, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Full Sail’s 21st birthday: Special beer and events
Verdict: greatest label ever… all events at Belmont Station, 4500 S.E. Stark St. DESCHUTES DISSIDENT goes on sale Tuesday night at 5:30. Due to limited supply (and so everyone in our neighborhood gets a chance) we will limit sales to…
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Belmont Station: Allagash Tasting, The Dissident on sale Sept. 9th
The BridgePort Reunion Band plays a mix of bluegrass and acoustic folk music: Left to right: Jeff Gansberg, Ron Gansberg, Karl Ockert, Jeff Kuechle. BridgePort Brewery is releasing this season’s Hop Harvest, the 22-ounce beer that kicked off the…
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on BridgePort Reunion Band at Hop Harvest release party, Sept. 12th
Bless their pointy little heads… The Fresh Hop Beer “Tastivals,” produced by the Oregon Brewers Guild, will highlight the seasonal beers created with fresh hops from the September harvest instead of traditional dried hops. This year’s Tastivals will feature…
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, beer tastings, beer touring, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Oregon Bounty/ Brewers Guild announce fresh hop Tastivals in Octover
…not October, as I wrote in a pre-Mule-Days-departure frenzy…Wed, Sept. 17th is the correct date/day… Hop picking is hard work, and thirsty. Rest assured that beer IS involved… You can be part of Oregon’s hop harvest by helping the folks…
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana, Meet the Brewer, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Lucky Lab’s Hop Harvesy is Sept 17th
The Brookston Beer Bulletin has a post about Forbes Traveller picking the the top US beer festivals, and the Oregon Brewers Festival was second after Denver’s Great American Beer Festival: We have more people, but Denver has WAY more…
September 4th, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, Beer on the Web, beercasting, Life in Beervana, The Beer Bizz | Comments Off on Forbes picks OBF as #2 beer fest in the U.S.