TGIF, and happy Mother’s Day weekend! Are you planning a beer for mom this Sunday? If not, you should be!

Here is the news in Oregon beer for this Friday and the rest of the weekend, and as usual I will periodically update this post throughout the day with current news as I find it. If you have any to share, please let me know!

Friday, 5/11

Belmont Station (Portland) is hosting a tasting with Colorado’s Great Divide Brewing from 5 to 8pm: “Our Colorado friends at Great Divide have soooo many great beers coming out right now that we thought it would be best to let everyone sample some to see what they like best! Taste among Heyday Modern IPA (a new year-round IPA), Roadie Grapefruit Radler (spring/summer seasonal), Wood Werks #2 (Flemish Sour Brown with Strawberries) and more!”

Cascade Lakes Brewing (Redmond): The brewery posted on Instagram that the Bend Lodge celebrates 14 years this Friday! “Today Cascade Lakes Lodge is celebrating 14 years!!! We love all of our Cascade Lakes family! A shout out to those who made it to the double digits! Cheers to many more amaznig years!” It would be a good time to stop by for a pint of Pineapple Kush IPA or one of the seasonals.

The Bier Stein (Eugene) is hosting Nectar Creek Mead for a Geography Bee event from 5 to 8pm: “Nectar Creek (OR) and Springdale (MA) have teamed up to brew a cross-continental, cross-pollinated, honey saison collaboration! Each brew is the exact same recipe, brewed in wine barrels on wild yeast, with one alternate factor – the honey. Springdale used cranberry blossom honey, while Nectar Creek used carrot blossom honey. How much of a difference can one ingredient make you ask? Come discover the answer for yourself on May 11th. We will also be serving a crostini flight with plain chevre and a drizzle of each honey so you can taste the difference in the raw honey, as well as in the beer! Swag and samples will be available from 5-8pm. Cheers!”

Baerlic Brewing (Portland) has a can release on Friday, featuring New Noise IPA: “Our year-round IPA is built for all weather drinking and exists as a modern take on a classic NW IPA. Tropical, stonefruit and citrus notes give us the motion to move the new beat. Brewed with Cascade, El Dorado, Amarillo and Chinook”

Kells Brewery (Portland) also has a Friday beer release, for Post Alley Pale Ale: “Another beer Release this Friday! Our brewers are churning out tons of fresh styles for the spring and summer, and next up is Post Alley Pale Ale a Citra forward west coast pale ale.”

Saturday, 5/12

Widmer Brother Brewing: Saturday is Hefe Day at the Widmer Pub in Portland! “Join us on Saturday, May 12th for the 3rd Annual Hefe Day Party! To help celebrate the occasion, Widmer Brothers will be throwing a Hefe Day party in our North Portland Pub and Beer Garden and we want you to join us! We’ll be pouring $0.86 pints of Hefe all day to help kick off a week full of Hefe celebrations in and around Portland!
– $0.86 pints of Hefe all day
– Live music in the pub from 5-8:30p with Tony Smiley (aka The Loop Ninja)
– DJ in the beer garden from 1-4pm with DJ Ceez Morales
– $2 cans of Hefe in the pub/beer garden beginning 5/12 through 5/18
– Grand re-opening of the Widmer Brothers Beer Garden!
– Debut of our new 12 tap beer trailer, and Widmer Brothers food truck!
– $6 6-packs and $24 cases of Hefe in our retail shop 5/12 through 5/19”

Oakshire Brewing (Eugene): Saturday is Hellshire Day! “Our annual Hellshire Day & Barrel Aged Beer Fest will take place from 12pm to 8pm on Saturday {5/12}, where we’ll showcase 40+ barrel-aged beers from our brewer friends around the country. The fest will feature the release of Hellshire VIII {our eighth barrel-aged beer released under the Hellshire label}, a rare opportunity to purchase reserve bottles from Oakshire’s cellar, live bands, local food and more. Ticket price includes entry, commemorative Hellshire VIII tasting glass, and five tasting tokens.” Tickets are $30 in advance, and $35 at the door.

Bend Brewing Company is hosting is first-ever Sour Fest this Saturday: “Bend Brewing is hosting the 1st annual Bend Sour Fest, inviting some of the best of the best breweries down to BBC to participate with us. It’s no secret that we love sour beer here at BBC, so we thought why not invite some of our best friends and make a day out of it! The event runs from 12:00-7:00PM with live music the entire time. Kids & Dogs always welcome.”

Sunday, 5/13 – Mother’s Day

The Bier Stein is hosting its Pints for a Cause fundraiser on Sunday, raising funds for the Eugene Timbers Futbol Club all day long: “On Sunday May 13, 2018 we invite you to come out to a fun event at the Bier Stein and enjoy an Oakshire Amber beer & a Stadium Bratwurst to help support the ETFC scholarship program. You can stop by and watch the Portland Timbers vs Sounders game on the big screen from 1-3pm or come by at any time to support the club. We appreciate the support of the Bier Stein and the local Oakshire Brewery along with our member Paul Adkins who all made this event possible.”