Category Archives: Events
The first annual Platypus Pub Brewfest is taking place tomorrow (Thursday, January 31), kicking off at 5pm at the Bend, Oregon craft beer pub, in partnership with Columbia Distributing. Here’s the blurb from the Platypus: This event is to showcase some of the many breweries that we have access to in Central Oregon. There will be fifteen beers on tap from fifteen different breweries across the Nation. There will be a representative from each one to talk to you … Continue reading →
Coming up next month, on Saturday, February 16, is Fort George Brewery‘s Festival of Dark Arts: their Stout Beer Fest or “Carnival of Stouts” that is the keystone event for their month-long Stout Month (which, on its own, will see over 40 stouts grace the brewery, “with at least 8 Stout taps pouring this black gold at any given time”). The Festival will be from 2 to 10pm that day; here’s their description: The Festival … Continue reading →
I’ve been terribly remiss in posting this (it’s been a long week or two): Three Creeks Brewing over in Sisters (here in Central Oregon) is holding their Rudolph’s Imperial Red vertical tasting tomorrow, Friday the 14th, at the brewery starting at 6pm. They have four year’s worth of Rudolph’s to offer (though it was first brewed in 2008, it looks like the 2009 isn’t part of the flight), and head brewer Zach Beckwith sent over … Continue reading →
I never participate in the Black Friday shopping craziness (and each year it seems even crazier than last, doesn’t it?) but this year there are a number of Black Friday beer events which would definitely take the sting out of the busiest shopping day of the year. Portland’s The Green Dragon is teaming up with Brewpublic to put on a special “Black Friday & Black IPAs / CDAs” event all day starting at 11. They’ve assembled … Continue reading →
Tomorrow, November 8, is the second annual International Stout Day: a day to celebrate the iconic stout beer style by participating either by attending one of the various events or hoisting a glass and sharing with the online community on Facebook and Twitter (via the hashtag #StoutDay). Untappd also has a new badge for their service; when you check in tomorrow with a stout, you’ll earn the International Stout Day 2012 badge. It’s definitely as much … Continue reading →
