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The portlandbeer.org team has come out of the other side of opening day of the 2011 Holiday Ale Festival in tact. Mostly. Perfect day: 50° and sunny for a 2pm kickoff. I was eager to work my way through the beers I mentioned in the “ ...
#haf2011 Kickoff is just hours away! We will be sending out info during the opening hours of the fest, so keep your eyes here: #haf2011 for news from everyone tweeting from the festival, on our Twitter account for news from us, and on o ...
The idea for this exercise was to pick out some must try beers for this year’s Holiday Ale Festival. On the first try, I almost recreated the whole list. On the second try, I narrowed it down to 19. Still a bit much for the purpose ...
For obvious reasons*, this is a photo from the Holiday Ale Festival. This is one of my top three favorite Portland beer events of the year. First of all, it’s cold and rainy: my favorite kind of weather. Second, these beers are big an ...
Of the 42 beers listed below, this year’s Holiday Ale Festival is made up of some big beers weighing in at an average of 7.9% ABV! Over the upcoming days, we’ll be talking about some of the beers that we’re looking forward ...
Well, here we are again. It’s time for another great Holiday Ale Festival here in Portland. It’s also time for us to wimp out and not tell you exactly what to expect. But that is part of the draw of the festival: expect ...
OK, here’s the somewhat finalized list of regular beers and special tappings happening at this year’s Holiday Ale Festival. While it’s not set in stone, this should be a very accurate list of what to expect later this we ...
According to the Holiday Ale Website: “Shifts are filling up fast! If you want to be part of the 2010 HAF and get cool free swag and beer tickets, you better sign up before it’s too late!” Sure, you can support the festi ...
Well, it is the end of 2009 and, as is customary at the end of any year, the media has thrown at us 2009 year in review after 2009 year in review. Recaps of the past year’s events fill almost every television station, every website an ...
In years past I have taken the Holiday Ale Festival for granted. Sure, it has always had a phenomenal selection of beers and I always enjoy myself, but for some reason in my mind it was always overshadowed by the plethora of summer festiv ...
