With this winter chill taking over the Pacific Northwest there’s nothing like hunkering down with some big barrel-aged beers. And one brewery that began barrel aging early on is Widmer Brothers Brewing.

Widmer recently released this year’s version of Brrbon in three varieties, Barrel-Aged Brrrbon, Vanilla Barrel-Aged Brrrbon and Ginger Barrel-Aged Brrrbon. The base beer for Brrrbon is an imperial version of Brrr that has been aged in bourbon barrels. All three varieties are currently available in 22oz wax dipped bottles. You can read more about these three varieties in more detail from our previous post on Brewpublic here.

For those of you that have not had a chance to sample all three varieties of the 2013 Brrrbon, they will all be on tap for a short time at the Widmer Brothers Pub beginning on Monday, December 9th.  A flight of Barrel-Aged Brrrbon ’13, Vanilla Brrrbon ’13, and Ginger Brrrbon ’13 – all three on draught, 5oz pour each, will be available for $7 or $5 for individual 10oz pours. Read More…

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Press Release:

Since the opening of our new Tillamook Brewery and Tap Room (and the moving of some large tanks), we’ve rediscovered some brewery floor space in our Pacific City brewpub.  As we pondered what we could do with this space, the answer came fairly easy to us: BREW MORE BEER.   But not just any kind of beers, we will make delicious Barrel-Aged Beers!

Therefore, we are excited to announce our Pelican Barrel Project, where we will create World-Class Beers aged in various types of interesting barrels throughout 2014.

The initial release will launch in early January of 2014: “Tsunami on Wheat Whiskey”.  We have brewed a batch of Tsunami Stout to age in Read More…

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If you’re looking for something a bit outside of the box from your typical craft beer event consider making a trip to Oregon City over the next two weekends to visit Earth & Sky Farm for their inaugural Holiday Bazaar. This farm is operated by the husband and wife duo of Tim Ensign and Jana Daisy-Ensign. You may know Tim from Fort George Brewery and Jana represents the delicious ciders from Finnriver Farm & Cidery. Below is more complete info on their event sent over to us from Jana. Sounds like a fun time….

Local Oregon City family farm, Earth & Sky Farm will be hosting an inaugural Holiday Bazaar this season over the next two weekends. Continuing an earnest effort to grow sustainable traditions, they are offering homegrown choose and cut Christmas trees, farmed without harmful chemicals ($25 any tree, any size). Those searching for a fresh, locally grown tree to spruce up their place can borrow a hand saw on site (or bring your own) and choose from a selection of Grand and Noble Firs.

This season, Earth & Sky Farm is expanding their tree cutting event into a full blown festive community celebration, Read More…

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After more than a decade of serving hand crafted beer at their North Mississippi location Amnesia Brewing will move all operations out of their Portland brewpub to their new brewpub headquartered in downtown Washougal, Washington. But before doing so, Portland’s Amnesia location will go out with a bang by throwing their last Winter Solstice Fest on Saturday, December 21, 2013.

This year’s Amnesia Winter Solstice Brew Fest will feature limited seasonal, cellared, and barrel-aged beers from Amnesia as well as special holiday favorites from some of the region’s best breweries including Double Mountain, Burnside, 10 Barrel, Walking Man, BridgePort, Old Town, Solera, Falling Sky, Alameda, Flat Tail, Fish Tale, Migration, Base Camp, Portland U-Brew, GoodLife, Anchor, and much more.

And since this is the season of giving, Amnesia Winter Solstice Brew Fest is a fundraiser for Brewpublic’s Angelo De Ieso II Read More…

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Now in its third year, Plew’s Brews will once again be host to the St John’s Winter Beer Fest from December 13th to 15th. This year’s festival will feature more than twenty of the finest winter beers available!

Some of the winter beers being featured include:

Logsdon Farmhouse Ales Cerasus- A Flanders-style Red Ale, oak-aged, with 45 pounds of local cherries per barrel.

Ale Industrie’s Fall Down Brown- It is a brown ale that has been brewed with smoked pumpkin. FDB drinks more like a Rauch Beer than a traditional pumpkin beer. Don’t expect to taste pie with this one!

The festival debut of Awesome Ale’s Spike Driver Strong Ale!

Stone Brewing’s Farking Wheaton WOOt Stout- From the most unlikely yet intensely imaginative trio that is Read More…

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Portland’s Laurelwood Brewing is teaming up with Bend’s Worthy Brewing and San Francisco’s 21st Amendment Brewery to bring you their Annual Ugly Sweater Party. Taking place at Blitz Ladd on Friday, December 13th from 7 to 10pm, this event will offer many ways for you to win some sweet prizes and show off your classy holiday sweater.

Blitz will be hosting an Ugly Sweater contest with the grand prize of Portland Trail Blazer tickets. Not too shabby of a prize. Now to just find that bad holiday sweater.

But wait there’s more, Read More…

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The Commons Brewery opened their doors 2 years ago and to celebrate this occasion they will be hosting 2 events next week on Thursday and Friday. This past year has been a big one for guys down at The Commons. During the past year they have won 2 GABF Medals, Urban Farmhouse was named Willamette Week’s Beer of the Year, two 30bbl fermentors were installed, a new bottling line is soon to be up and running. This is in addition to the other great beers that have made it through the pipeline.

Thursday, December 12, 5pm-9pm
Bottle Share & Potluck
Bring a bottle of a special beer and/or a side dish to share with everyone. This is a great way to try lots of beers and meet new friends.

Friday, December 13, 5pm-close
2nd Anniversary Celebration
The Commons Brewery will have a small spread of food and will tap a collection of our favorites as well as some special kegs that they’ve been saving for this event. Read More…

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Portland’s last large beer festival of the year begins one week from today. The 18th annual Holiday Ale Festival will take place from Wednesday, December 4th through Sunday, December 8th in its usual location of Pioneer Courthouse Square. This years festival will feature 47 beers, one cider and one braggot along with the special limited tappings each day.

Anticipating over 17,000 attendees, festivities begin at 11am on Wednesday, December 4th. The festival hours are 11 am to 10 pm Wednesday-Saturday, and closing out from 11 am to 5 pm Sunday. Beware, to avoid lengthy lines, the recommended days for attendance are Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. “If I could only attend one day, I would go on Wednesday,” says event manager Preston Weesner. “It’s like opening a gift that you have been waiting for: why wait any longer if you don’t have to?”

The 18th annual Holiday Ale Festival gathers together more than four dozen of these winter warmers for a joyous five-day celebration. The beers featured are rich, robust and full of complex flavors. From Belgians to barleywines, porters to winter warmers, and spiced ales to stouts, these beers have either been crafted or blended specifically for the event or are hard-to-fine vintages. The lowest alcohol beer is Rock Bottom Brewing’s “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out Kid,” a Helles that comes in at 4.8% ABV. On the opposite end, the highest alcohol beer is Lagunitas Brewing’s High West Whiskey Barrel Aged Cappuccino Stout at 12.5% ABV. Read More…

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Southeeast Portland’s, Imperial Bottle Shop, is teaming up The Commons Brewery and Laurelhurst Market for the shop’s Food + Drink monthly event. This is Imperial’s event series where they pair one brewery with one eatery or food purveyor. This months event will take place this week on Thursday, December 5, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Imperial will be serving 5-courses of seasonal Commons brews paired with delicious charcuterie from Laurelhurst Market. Tickets to this pairing are $25, or $27.37 with Eventbrite fees and may be purchased here.

Tasting of five The Commons Brewery craft brews paired with delicious charcuterie from Laurelhurst Market’s butcher shop. Pairing will cost $25, plus fees, and include five 6 oz pours, five samples of meats with accompaniments for each, and Urban Farmhouse bread from Little T American Baker. The menu is as follows: Read More…

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