Upcoming Beer Events

1: Welcome to Portland!

2: I tend to be biased towards small, low key events, so my answer will be swayed in that direction. There are two good options for this weekend. Saraveza is doing a barrel aged beer thing all weekend. Roscoe's does themed "summits" on the last weekend of each month that are always worth checking out (this month is new breweries of Oregon). As always, there's plenty more going on, but these are the ones that caught my eye.

As for the big ones, Oregon Brewers Fest is the elephant in the room, though many of us avoid that one due to the huge crowds of rowdy frat boys. Portland International Beerfest is usually pretty good. Holiday Ale Fest is my personal favourite, though it's a ways off at this point.

For keeping up with fests and events, follow breweries and bars on twitter/facebook. Keep an eye out for fests at Bailey's (unfortunately, you just missed cellarfest) and Beermongers, as these two bars put on the best events in town imo. Also check out brewpublic.com and Beer Here on oregonlive.com.

 

I don't have much to add to @eatabagofbooger (which i just realized has the best name Ive seen in a long time)

However, I would also check out newschoolbeer.com

Also coming up is Zwicklemania, where the majority of breweries in town (and Hood Rriver, but shhhhhh) - open up their breweries and give free beer out of their tanks and tours of their facilities. I've never done it in Portland but I've heard its a bit of a shit show.

Welcome to Portland.

 

New School Beer is another site that points me toward events/releases I might've missed.

Edit: Aaaaannnd TheeWalrusHunter gets there 2 minutes ahead of me.

 

I always check out Oregon Craft Beer for upcoming events.

 

Zwickelmania is statewide event. We don't do much of brewery tours, but still great way to get tipsy and meet people from out of town!
http://oregoncraftbeer.org/events/zwickelmania/

 

Once you've sampled everything Portland has (I kid, I kid) don't forget to explore Oregon's other beer destinations. Someone else can give you info on the I-5 corridor, but some events in Bend you might want to put on your calendar:

Central Oregon Beer Week kicks off Memorial Day Weekend with a SMaSH (single malt and single hop) beer festival and other fun events
Bend Brewfest August 13-15
Little Woody September 4-5

 

create a twitter account

follow every brewery / beer bar in portland, as well as Brewpublic and PortlandBeer

you will now have an unlimited amount of decisions to make on what and where to drink

 

In addition to the sites already mentioned, I also check out John Foyston's page on the Oregonian website. He does a good job of plugging the bigger upcoming beer events. He has a habit of referring to things being held "today", or "tomorrow". If you don't look at the date of his post, it's easy to get confused, especially with the mid-week events.

 

I wholeheartedly second NewSchoolBeer and using Twitter.

Also, Lompoc/Fifth Quadrant/Sidebar up on Williams has their Blackout on February 20th. It was one of my favorites of last year. http://www.lompocbrewing.com/events/2059/

 

The only thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is brewnotice.com - go there, sign up, and select all the bars you frequent. Every afternoon you'll get an email listing who tapped what, which is awesome for those rare times when you want a beer and there's no events going on.

 

Yes this! so much this!

 

I registered there the last time you mentioned it and received the confirmation, but have yet to receive any emails for tappings in Seattle or Portland. I thought it was no longer active.

 

Hey, SeaAle, I'm one of the creators of Brew Notice. We're definitely still active! Could you send an email to ap[at]brewnotice.com with the email address you registered with? From there I'll be able to figure out what's going on.

 

Thanks. Just sent you an email.

 

Oh hey there, whats that? Notorious and Oak-aged Bretta on at Growler Guys PDX. Thanks Brew Notice!

 

Did I just go check to see if Growler Guys PDX is actually doing growlers of Notorious?

Of course I did. And of course they aren't.

 

It's gone now.... so bummed. Still they got a killer ipa list.

 

Sorry, Eric. That was an edict issued from the distributor..