This Saturday, August 25, Hopworks Urban Brewery in Portland hosts the first-ever Salmon-Safe IPA Festival at its original brewpub location at SE Powell. HUB has led the way on sustainability and environmentally-friendly practices since day one, and this festival—the first of its kind—is no different.

Highlighting the Salmon-Safe program is a great idea for a niche beer festival and embracing the hops with craft beer’s most popular style is a winner. If this event is a success hopefully we’ll see other similar types of brewfests embracing similar themes.

Here are details from the original press release that went out:

On August 25th, Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) the first- ever brewery to certify it’s brewery site as "Salmon-Safe," presents the inaugural Salmon-Safe IPA Festival at its SE Powell location. The Salmon-Safe IPA Festival is the first festival of it’s kind, bringing together 21 craft breweries from around the country – large and small – to make hop-forward beers that are all brewed with Salmon-Safe certified ingredients.

Salmon-Safe is an ecolabel certification that works with farmers and developers to reduce watershed impacts through third-party accountability. Beers in the Salmon-Safe IPA Festival are brewed with ingredients sourced from farms committed to protecting clean water and biodiversity in Northwest agricultural watersheds, which are essential for native fish populations.

The Salmon-Safe IPA Festival will be divided into two sessions. Session #1 is an all-ages session that runs from 12-4 pm, and Session #2 is 21+ and runs from 5-9 pm. Each ticket package costs $25 and comes with 10 drink tickets, an order of HUB's world-famous pretzels, a HUB 10th anniversary chalice and a raffle ticket for prizes from various Salmon-Safe certified businesses. Each session has only 400 tickets available and the event is expected to sell out. All proceeds from this event benefit the environmental nonprofit Salmon-Safe.

In between sessions, HUB has lined up engaging panel discussions with Salmon-Safe certified partners to discuss why Salmon-Safe certification matters and how breweries and farmers are working together to keep our waterways and our planet healthy.

“We are excited that more than 20 of our industry friends are joining us in brewing original IPAs using ingredients that help protect our beautiful planet,” said Christian Ettinger, HUB’s Brewmaster and Founder. “The relationship between clean and abundant water and great beer is something to protect and celebrate.”

Dan Kent, the executive director of Salmon-Safe added, “The Salmon-Safe IPA Festival is a powerful way to encourage more breweries to source certified hops and malt while educating consumers on the simple choices that we can make for clean rivers and healthy watersheds. With more than 70 crops grown using practices that protect rivers and local salmon and more than 300 supermarkets featuring Salmon-Safe labeled products, the chance to make a positive impact can happen in many places — including the brewhouse, at the farm level, and at the store.”

Here are the breweries participating, along with the beers they will be pouring:

• Aslan Brewing Company (Bellingham, WA) — Organic Fish Have Feelings IPA
• Baerlic Brewing (Portland, OR) — Grass is Greener IPA
• Bale Breaker Brewing Company (Yakima, WA) — Chumdog Millionaire IPA
• Breakside Brewing (Portland, OR) — Cascade Lox
• Crux Fermentation Project (Bend, OR) — Three Streams IPA
• Culmination Brewing (Portland, OR) — The Final Cut
• Deschutes Brewery (Bend, OR) — Moonlight Run IPA
• Ex Novo Brewing Co. (Portland, OR) — Salmon Ella
• Fort George Brewery (Astoria, OR) — Rite of Passage
• Fremont Brewing (Seattle, WA) — Certified
• Gigantic Brewing (Portland, OR) — HopLips
• Hopworks Urban Brewery (Portland, OR) — Fresh Hop Goschie Estate Pilsner and Willamette Meridian IPA
• Loowit Brewing (Vancouver, WA) — Slammin’ Salmon IPA
• Matchless Brewing (Tumwater, WA) — Area 13
• New Belgium Brewing Company (Fort Collins, CO) — NBB Salmon-Safe IPA
• Quirk Brewing (Walla Walla, WA) — Bigger on the Inside IPA
• Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Chico, CA) — Lemon Drop IPA
• Stoup Brewing (Seattle, WA) — Nch’i-Wana IPA
• Trap Door Brewing (Vancouver, WA) — Funk The Jewels
• Widmer Brothers Brewery (Portland, OR) — Hooks and Spillways IPA
• Worthy Brewing (Bend, OR) — Call of the Wild
• Yachats Brewing (Yachats, OR) — Huntress

Here’s the posted schedule as well:

• 12pm – Doors open for all ages entry. Music, food, and games begin
• 3pm – Raffle in warehouse
• 3:30pm – Last call for all ages entry time
• 4pm – All-ages entry time closes, all attendees must exit
• 4-5pm- Panel discussion in warehouse
• 5pm – Doors open for 21+ entry. Music, food, and games begin
• 8pm – Raffle in warehouse
• 8:30pm – Last call for 21+ entry time
• 9pm – End of event.

Tickets are available online here, so if you’re planning on attending don’t wait too long to purchase them.