Oregon Beer News, 07/16/2018

Oregon Beer, Von Ebert BrewingHappy Monday! I hope you were able to beat the heat this weekend, and are geared up for another hot week ahead. Here’s the Oregon beer news for this Monday, July 16, to help kick off the week; as usual I’ll be periodically updating this post throughout the day with the latest news as I find it, so check back often.

Von Ebert Brewing (Portland) is holding the grand opening of its east side brewpub today, kicking off at 5pm. Von Ebert is relatively new, having replaced Fat Head’s in Portland’s Pearl District and according to Brewpublic, this second location is “Located at the former site of RingSide Grill at Glendoveer Golf Course, this area of town in the Hazelwood neighborhood is ready for a full service brewpub.” The New School also has a good first look writeup on the new location, including details on pricing and menu. Tonight’s grand opening will feature cake and apparently “free kisses” from llamas. How could you resist?

Oregon Craft Beer Month continues, and McMenamins is celebrating at all of its Oregon locations with weekly beer specials featuring $4.75 pints all day for the special category of the week (excluding high gravity selections and brewers reserve series). This week, from July 15-21, the featured beer style is IPA, which is sure to be popular. That means any of the (non-high gravity) IPAs such as Sunflower IPA are a great deal this week.

This Saturday, July 21, Three Creeks Brewing in Sisters is celebrating its tenth anniversary! The party takes place at the brewery’s production facility from 2 to 8pm, and features a family-friendly set up with dunk tanks, bounce houses, games, and more, and of course plenty of beer. The 10th Anniversary Imperial IPA will be a featured pour and you should expect a few original throwbacks as well. It’ll be a fun time so head over to Central Oregon to celebrate.

Belmont Station (Portland): The bottleshop and beer bar’s 12th annual Puckerfest kicks off this week! This annual celebration of sour starts on Thursday, July 19, and runs through Tuesday the 24th. You’ll want to be there for it! “In addition to our long-time contributors such as Ale Apothecary, Block 15, Double Mountain, Upright, de Garde and so many others, we are bringing in a lot of great breweries that we usually don’t see around these parts for the event this year, including Stoup, Hill Farmstead, Wunderkammer Bier, The Rare Barrel and more! Instead of having “themes” each day, we are just going to put all the great beers on tap and rotate them through as quickly as you can enjoy them. So it will be key to keep an eye on the live draft list on our website to make sure you don’t miss anything! That being said, we do have a couple of special events happening during Puckerfest: Thursday July 19: We kick things off with some tasty krieks and other delights from Double Mountain, and, as is tradition, they will be bringing fresh cherries for us to munch on. There will be a whole bunch of other great sours on tap as well!”

Ochoco Brewing (Prineville) now has crowlers! “Welcome to Monday Everyone! We now have a 32oz Crowlers available here at the pub! That’s right, you can get anyone of our 14 locally crafted brews in 32oz can here at the pub! Good to go on the river or your next camp out. Stop by and check’m out.”

Portland’s Wayfinder Beer has a somewhat unique beer on tap: “Espresso Pils is back on tap. Our Czech Pils imbued with Italian medium roasted espresso. Kevin says its the perfect lunch beer. We think its also the perfect breakfast and dinner beer.” I’m fairly certain I’ve never had a coffee pilsner.

Alesong Brewing (Eugene) has a new beer coming out: “Coming soon! Inspired by the classic margarita, Gose Añejo is brewed with lime, orange and sea salt and aged in freshly emptied extra añejo tequila barrels from Suerte tequila! It’s okay to sit back and imagine yourself on a beach with crashing ocean waves while you enjoy a glass of this refreshing gose-style ale (we encourage it!)”

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