Blog Tag: Portland Fruit Beer Festival

The Portland Fruit Beer Festival is interesting in the fact that it is not like any other festival in Portland. This festival is a chance for brewers to create some of the oddest one-off beers many people will ever try without the risk of losing money on a batch that doesn't sell. Because of this, brewers are able to stretch and bend their imaginations and push the limits of what a beer really can be.... Read More »

If you haven't heard yet, the 2nd Annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival happened a little over a week ago, and it was bigger and better than it's first year. Expanding it's limits from the Burnside Brewing parking lot onto 7th street, the festival added more beer, more food and live music. On Sunday June 10th, I made my way to the festival to bring you a few details and to remind you that if you... Read More »

2012 Portland Fruit Beer Festival Saturday June 9th, 11am-9pm Sunday June 10th, 11am-6pm All ages welcome The Portland Fruit Beer Festival was my personal favorite last year. You can imagine my excitement at being able to go behind the scenes a week before the fest to chat with the people and brewers of the PFBF and try some of the beers you'll be waiting in line to drink this weekend. The brain behind this immensely... Read More »

The rare and rotating taplist for the 2012 Portland Fruit Beer Festival has just been announced: 29 more beers! From the official press release: "These beers range in size from 5 gallon kegs to 15.5 gallon 1/2 barrels but there is only one keg of each and they will be tapped 4 at a time on our dedicated rotating draft lines off of a small draft trailer located on NE 7th street by Couch. Kegs... Read More »

PDX Beer Week June 7th-17th, 2012 This year, PDX Beer Week brings us: special beer releases and beer release events, mini-festivals, special speakers and panels, seminars, meet the brewer events, blending symposiums, brewers dinners, and on and on! Seriously: on and on. There's actually so much going on for the second annual Portland Beer Week that it's busting at the seams and spilling out into the surrounding weeks. Check out the full list at their... Read More »

2012 Portland Fruit Beer Festival Website | Twitter | Facebook June 9th and 10th NE Burnside & 7th The 2012 Portland Fruit Beer Festival beer list is out and man, there are some interesting beers! They run the gamut from extremely light Goldens to heavy hitting Porters. All beers include fruit in some manner. While a few will showcase a subtle hint of fruit, others could be a punch in the mouth. Whatever the case,... Read More »

Portland Fruit Beer Festival Saturday June 11th 11am-9pm Sunday June 12th 11am-6pm Burnside Brewing 7th and East Burnside Portland, OR 97214 The inaugural Portland Fruit Beer Festival kicks off tomorrow.  We've mentioned it a few times already on the blog (official press release, main beer list, rare beer list, more event details, beer sampling preview), tweeted about the festival, and discussed it in person with you.  The hype machine is churning and spinning ever faster,... Read More »

What a sweet weekend it's been! 80 degree weather, Portland Rose Festival and the chance to sample some of the fruit beers that will make an appearance at the Portland Fruit Beer Festival, next Saturday and Sunday. Burnside Brewery and Ezra Johnson-Greenough hosted a media preview Friday afternoon, that included 8 samples of some of the most interesting beer I've ever tasted. My experience with fruit beer is pretty limited. I once ordered a bottle... Read More »

The first annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival is less than two weeks away and the beer list is looking pretty darn delicious. They’re now up to 31 fruit beers being presented next weekend, which will include recently announced Burnside’s Marionberry Berliner-Weisse, to the rare rotating tap list. This is a slightly tart wheat beer with a mild fruitiness and fermented with a lactic bacteria in addition to the German ale yeast resulting in the slightly... Read More »

Saturday June 11th 11am-9pm Sunday June 12th 11am-6pm Portland Fruit Beer Festival Burnside Brewing 7th and East Burnside Portland, OR 97214 Fifteen more beers were announced today for the First Annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival!  These rare beers are an addition to the inaugural list announce a couple of weeks ago.  This festival is shaping up to be a great event.  More news to come: we'll talk about other partnerships and activities at the festival... Read More »

Just in: Below is the list of breweries and beers for the first annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival.  There is quite a wide variety of styles represented, from Gose and Farmhouse ales to Browns and Stouts.  Three are even a few blends and barrel-aged beers in the mix.  As we get closer to the festival, more beers will be announced for their indoor taplist of rare, on-of-a-kind beers.  The official press release: The Portland Fruit Beer Festival set... Read More »

A new festival has been added to Portland's list of annual beer celebrations. This year kicks off the first annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival. The press release is below, more thoughts and details as we get closer to mid-june. Portland, OR -  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... Read More »