About:
A new kind of beer festival kicks off this June outside of one of Portland's newest breweries, Burnside Brewing. Fruit beers are the red-headed stepchild of craft beer, often overlooked by beer lovers because of preconceptions that they are sweet, boring, or artificially flavored. The first annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival aims to change all that and open minds to the strange and exotic possibilities that fruit beers can offer.
Venue:
Burnside Brewing - Parking Lot
7th and East Burnside (503) 946-8151
Portland, OR
97214
Times:
Saturday June 11th 11-9pm
Sunday June 12th 11-6pm
Admission:
Free Entry
All-Ages
$6 for Tasting Glass (required to drink beers)
$1 per ticket, most beers except for rare one-off entries are 1 ticket for 4oz pours 4 tickets for a full glass
Buzz Tent beers 2-3 Tickets for 4oz pours
Special Package: 1 Tasting Glass and 10Tickets for $15
Event Description:
The Portland Fruit Beer Festival is a celebration of the wonderful variety that fruits offer and the incredible and unique beers brewers can make from them. Featuring over 15 breweries from the Northwest and beyond with over 20 different beers, the majority of them brewed specifically for this festival. It's a 2 day event for the whole family with Free entrance that is open to all-ages. The Portland Fruit Beer Fest will also have fruit juices for the underage or those not drinking and tasty wood-fired food from Tastebud and entertainment from live music/dj's.
Volunteers Needed:
PFBF is looking for volunteers to pour beer! For your time you will receive a Tasting Glass, 8 tokens and a fest T-Shirt.
Homebrewing Competition:
The PFBF loves homebrewers! So in conjunction with the Oregon Brew Crew we are hosting a fruit beer homebrew competition with 3 categories: Best Light Colored (12 SRM and lower), Best Dark Colored (greater than 12 SRM), and Best Sour. The Best of Show will then be determined from the winners of those categories. Prizes for each first place in the three categories are a $20 gift certificate to Burnside Brewing. The Best of Show grand prize will win an additional $50 gift certificate! The winners will be announced on Saturday during the festival. Entries will be accepted at Burnside Brewing from Tuesday, May 31st to Friday, June 3rd at end of business with judging to commence the following day. Each entry costs $6.
For more info contact Jeremie Landers at competition@oregonbrewcrew.org.
Burnside Brewing is now accepting entries to the PFBF homebrew competition. Drop off your entries with a form at the brewpub between now and June 3rd to be considered. Winners and prizes awarded during the festival. For all the details head to the Oregon Brew Crew page.
Fifty Licks
What can be better than delicious handcrafted fruit beers? How about delicious handcrafted ice creams made with fruit? This is where fine purveyors of that most glorious combination of sugar, ice and cream come in, Fifty Licks Well, ice cream is handmade too, only, they use only the finest local and direct trade ingredients and ditched the frozen can method. Every small batch of their unique ice cream is smooth and creamy, and available in a variety of delicious, creative flavors. We hope you'll agree that once you taste Fifty Licks, life will never be the same again.
Flavors:
Tahitian Vanilla:
We swirl fruity, tropical Tahitian vanilla with a hint of swarthy, smoky Mexican vanilla to create this epic ice cream. This will change the way you think about vanilla.
Maple with Bacon:
Imagine crispy bacon piled high over stacks of maple-drizzled pancakes. Yummy maple ice cream studded with humanely raised, nitrate & hormone free bacon.
Caramelized Apple:
Inside is a pint of award-winning Washington apple cider boiled down into a buttery, bittersweet caramel. The flavor of fresh, tart apples shines brightly.
Stumptown Coffee:
Starring Stumptown's perfectly-balanced organic Latin American and East African coffee. They buy the beans directly from the farmers so everyone gets their fair share.
Slabtown Whiskey:
Just down the street from our kitchen is House Spirits Distillery, Portland's finest purveyors of small-batch libations. Whiskey's fire is quenched by cream & sugar.
Coconut-Lemon-Saffron Sorbet:
An alluring blend of creamy coconut milk and lemon, infused with saffron, cardamom, and star anise. This sorbet is an intoxicating journey down the silk road. A dairy-free delight. (Vegan)
Brewvana Portland Brewery Tours
We are excited to be partnering with our friends at Brewvana who will be offering discounted trips on their bus to and from the Portland Fruit Beer Festival making a few stops along the way. For only $30 you get a ride to and from the festival plus a glass and ticket package that includes 1 gold flaked festival glass and 10 beer tickets. Contact Ashley at Brewvana to find out their schedule and book a trip: Brewvana@gmail.com
Brewvana: The Ultimate Brewery Tour Experience.
With this city overflowing with amazing, handcrafted beers, BREWVANA embraces its “beer Mecca” culture and promotes local breweries by creating a one-of-a-kind tour experience that leaves you elated and buzzing with a sense of brewvana in the beer capitol of the world.
Our tours are ALL INCLUSIVE and provide transportation to and from Portland's award winning breweries as well as smaller, upcoming breweries, a sit down lunch pairing beer with food, a tour of the brewing facility, beer 101, tasting 101, trivia, fun and more! We take care of you every step of the way, making sure you have the best experience possible.
Live DJ's Saturday & Sunday!
Saturday and Sunday the Portland Fruit Beer Festival will be host to two of the best DJ's in the pacific northwest spinning tunes all day.
Saturday June 11th
Forrest Avery
Representing as a DJ in the North West music dance scene since the mid 90s, Forrest Avery has over 15 years of experience rocking the party with almost any kind of music there is. As a performer he has proven his ability to please the crowd time and time again, and currently regularly headlines events in the Northwest, as well as all around the country. More recently, he has become a successful music producer, and over the past 2 years has had tracks released on some of the biggest labels in the dance music scene. His production work has primarily been within the electronic music genre, and this has sent him travelling far and wide to perform at clubs, and events all across the country, but Forrest built his reputation in our local area by doing eclectic mash ups of classic music styles with new school beats for crowds all around Portland. Due to his busy schedule it has been years since anyone has witnessed this kind of performance from him, but he’s making an exception for his beer geek peers. Get ready for a not to be missed throwback set from one of the staples of the Northwest Dj scene!
Free Mix Download! http://www.serialsickness.com/Fo/forrestavery_thisismybrainonbeats.mp3
Sunday June 12th
Dj Atom13
Atom 13 is a homegrown digger of sounds from way out to the underground. Working to make a foreign sound that is familiar while keeping it fun and "off the record"...
DJ Atom 13 spins records for the Rose City Rollers, Beulahland, Red Flag, Swift
Lounge, Muu-Muu's and more and has been for 11 years playing out in the Portland area.
Portland Fruit Beer Festival would also like to remind everyone that the festival this year is FREE to enter as well as being ALL-AGES friendly!
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