Here is the news in Oregon beer for this Wednesday, March 6, rounding up items and events from around the state. I’ll be updating this post throughout the day so check back occasionally, and if you have any news to share as well, please let me know.

Little Beast Brewing (Portland) has a double release today at its SE Division beer garden, featuring Wild Island (a Hazy Brett DIPA) and Rhūs Jūs (Sumac Elderflower Sour): “Wild Island is a collaboration with Moksa Brewing from the Sacramento area. The beer is our first canned beer and we’re only making 90 cases! The beer is kettle hopped with Citra and dry hopped with Simcoe and Pacific Gem hops for a juicy guava/pineapple juicy character that the hazy style is well known for. While this style is normally fermented with an ale yeast that produces fruity esters and ferments in less than two weeks, we chose Brettanomyces claussenii and a proprietary Brett strain that dried out the beer during its three-month-long fermentation. Rhūs Jūs is a sour ale with foraged sumac, elderflower, and elderberries from the Hood River and Tualatin River Valleys. After aging for 9 months the beer has notes of honeysuckle, tart apple and lemon. It will be available in limited bottles and draft.” Starting at 5pm.

The Bier Stein (Eugene) is welcoming Breakside Brewery for the release party for The Oligarch tonight from 5 to 8pm: “Breakside is releasing their Barrel-Aged Russian Imperial Stout – “The Oligarch” and we’re hosting a release party on Wednesday, March 6th! We will have this original brew, as well as 7 flavor variants flowing through our draft lines. From March 6th – 10th you can mix and match a 4-pack of Oligarch variants and enter to win a VIP Breakside experience including Timbers tickets, a $50 gift card to Breakside Slabtown, and an overnight stay in Portland! Raffle tickets are also available for purchase. The first 50 people to purchase a 4-pack will also receive a swag pack!”

Belmont Station (Portland) is hosting a Double Mountain tasting and new beer showcase today: “Double Mountain introduces a brand new beer Juicy, Clearly Not Hazy IPA in bottles. The Double Mountain crew will be here to share this tasty new brew and pouring some free samples in the bottle shop. As with most of our events we will be pouring one of our favorites from Double Mountain, Gypsy Stumper IPA in the Biercafe.”

Portland’s Great Notion Brewing is opening up a new location in northwest Portland and this week the brewery has been celebrating the grand opening week of the new spot: “Each afternoon this week we will be tapping some amazing guest taps from great friends and other special GNB brews. Special tappings will include Bourbon Barrel Frenched Toast, Bourbon Barrel Double Stack, Rev Nat’s Breakfast in Hell, Bottle Logic’s Fundamental Observation, Cellarmaker collabo Neopolitan Marshmallow Fight, Trillium collabo Rocky Road, Other Half’s DDH Broccolli and DDH Double Mosaic Dream, Kane Brewing’s Mexican Brunch, plus beers from Monkish, J. Wakefield, Highland Park, and more!”

Bend Brewing announced the release of Ching Ching Sour Ale and Devil’s Cabbage Dank IPA in 16-ounce cans, the first time either of these beers has been canned. From the release: “Releasing simultaneously will be Devil’s Cabbage Dank IPA as the first release in our newly developed High Desert Hop Series. Both beers will be available through our distribution partners, Running Man Distributing and Bigfoot Beverages. To celebrate this double release, Bend Brewing Company will be hosting a number of events around the state throughout the month of March. It all kicks off with a can release party at our original Brooks Street pub in downtown Bend on Friday March 8, 2019 featuring live music from 6-8:30 pm.”

2 Towns Ciderhouse (Corvallis) is releasing its formerly-seasonal Easy Peasy as the year-round Easy Squeezy. From the press release: “Released mid-February, 2 Towns Ciderhouse introduces Easy Squeezy, a pink lemonade inspired cider. Stepping into the limelight as the newest addition to the year-round line-up, Easy Squeezy combines Fresh-Pressed Northwest Apples, Raspberries & Meyer Lemons for a thirst-quenching citrus cider. 2 Towns Ciderhouse initially debuted this cider as Easy Peasy last summer and due to its success, has rebranded to fit into their year round offerings.” It’s available in cans and bottles as well as on draft.

Alesong Brewing & Blending (Eugene) is hosting its next Alesong & Friends events on March 16, with an amazing lineup of guest breweries that will be pouring some amazing beers: “This time around we’re bringing out spirits barrel-aged beers from some of our favorite breweries around the country! We’ll have various offerings from Fremont, Ale Apothecary, Fifty Fifty, Cigar City, The Rare Barrel, Crooked Stave and more. Tickets include 4oz pours of unique and unavailable beers with bus transportation from town to the tasting room and back! The shuttle out to the tasting room will leave from the Hult Center at 3:00PM from 7th St. side of the Hult garage. The event will begin at 4:00PM at the tasting room (for those taking the shuttle as well as anyone working out their own transportation) the event will conclude at 7:00PM when the shuttle will leave, and should arrive back in Eugene by 7:45PM.” Tickets are $60 and you can purchase right from the page.

The Platypus Pub (Bend) has a keg of Russian River Brewing’s coveted Pliny the Younger triple IPA, and plans to open special on this Sunday the 10th to tap it: “This Sunday is #TapTime for #PlinyTheYounger at the #PlatyPub and who better to host our kitchen then the one & only #pierogi prince, big rich. Hot food and cold #Pliny. Tell a friend noon at the pub. #First50.”

Bend’s Spider City Brewing still has Resilience IPA available: “We still have the Resilience IPA on tap! Come down and help us finish off the kegs of Resilience IPA to help support the people of Butte County who lost their homes in the Camp Fire. 100% of the sales go to the victims! We’re open until 8pm tonight. Stop by and grab a pint and some beer to go!”

Xicha Brewing (Salem) has new beer out now: “Permítenos presentarles nuestra nueva cerveza: Hefecito [heh-feh-see-toh]. This traditional German Hefeweizen’s name was inspired by our head chef’s nickname, meaning “little boss”. This unfiltered weißbier has flavors of banana, cloves that start sweet and spicy finished with a tart edge and slight minerality. Sitting at 5.1% ABV with 15 IBUs, it’s perfect for a refreshing spring brew. ¡Disfruten!”

Oregon City Brewing has its new barrel-aged sours dropping on Friday: “This Friday the 8th, we’re proud to release round two of our Coming To Fruition barrel-aged sours. Now in 500 mL bottles, we’ll have four new fruits: Apricot, Blackberry, Plum, and Raspberry. They’re $10 each, and this Friday through Sunday ONLY, if you buy any two different bottles you get a FREE 9 oz OCB glass, and if you buy all four you get TWO free 9 oz OCB glasses. Come and get your pucker on with us!”

Boneyard Beer (Bend) is bottling up goodness today: “The second batch of Funky Bunch, our Wild Ale with Raspberries, was packaged today over at the Mixed Fermentation house. Be on the lookout for this and Gooze Cruze available now in 750ml cork and cage bottles.”

Freebridge Brewing (The Dalles) is hosting the release party for its Kloan Kellerbier tonight starting at 7pm: “Come on down to Freebridge Brewery for the release of our newest, refreshing beverage, Kloan Kellerbier. Mug Club Members, be sure to get your first pour on us! “