In its 25th year, the Bite of Oregon finally has an Oregon Craft Beer Garden, put together by Preston Weesner, one of the masterminds of FredFest, and it should make this major Oregon culinary festival even better. It was no…
…but you already guessed that. Anyway, here’s what Chris Crabb sent yesterday: eugene wong 2007 Press release to come later today, but final attendance figure is 70,000. That’s 9,500 more than last year’s record setting figure, which is pretty significant!…
Festival folks said they bought more local beer this Saturday to keep the taps flowing than they ever have before. Let’s assume that none of the OBF beer was Olde English 800……
The Rogue beermonks numbered nearly 20 this year… …and they were armed with flails for the mortification of those who persisted in drinking industrial lagers… Meanwhile, the Widmer guys had their own getups: Full Nelson t-shirts, capes and Mexican wrestling…
This was passed along by a colleague, who said that she got a call indicating the Bill and Carolyn are planning to get married on the OBF main stage tonight (Friday.) So keep yer eyes open and send me a…
The 21st annual Oregon Brewers Festival, kicked off today with a brunch at PGE Park and a beer parade led by his honor Tom Potter through downtown to the festival at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. The festival runs today through…
It was another great evening: perfect weather, lots of interesting people, good food (more on that later) and brilliant beers from Oregon’s finest. Fred Eckhardt always has fans around him, such as this gent, who got the master to sign…
9am Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Hopworks Urban Brewery, 2944 S.E. Powell Blvd’; 503 / 232-4677 What’s better after a long week at the Oregon Brewers Festival than an excellent Sunday brunch, and who know’s more about hangovers than brewers? That’s…
We know Karl Ockert as the longtime head brewer at BridgePort, but he’s also an avid amateur guitaris and ukulelist. You can hear that side of Ockert onstage (along with Raccoon Lodge brewer Ron Gansberg )at the Oregon Brewers Festival…
I’m reasonably sure that in few places other than Portland would a full moon inspire a volley of beer-related haiku, such as this one on the Oregon Brew Crew listserv this ayem…of course it begins with Fred Eckhardt, as so…