Amnesia Brewery‘s fun filled holiday party returns for another year to the brewpub on December 10, 2011. According to brewer Sean Thommen, “We have our Frosty’s Revenge and SleighJerker as usual along with aged versions including a Frosty’s aged on Cognac infused French oak. We are also releasing a new strong milk stout made with flaked oats and lactose sugar called The Milk of Amnesia and we’ll be tapping a firkin cask version, with vanilla bean added, special for the fest. Along with all this Amnesia Love we will have eight of our brewery friend’s Winter warmers in house as well.” Look for seasonal pours from the following regional breweries: Read More…

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BLACK FRI. NOV 25th, 8pm: How’d Amensia Brewing’s holiday classic get it’s name?  This malt snowball comes in smack dab at “8”%….just like the body Frosty himself.

This year marks Frosty’s eighth plight into North Portland.  If you’re up for the snowman’s notorious annual comeback on this BLACK evening, check out his two favorite North Pole watering holes; Amnesia and Saraveza!

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Amnesia’s winter beer festival returns for another year and promises one hell of a party. Featuring beers from around Oregon like Caldera, Everybody’s, Double Mountain, Alameda, Laurelwood, Walking Man and more. Don’t miss it!

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Beer and Bicycling are often combined through themed events, special rides, brands, marketing and in merchandise ranging from bike jerseys to 22oz bike bottle holders and six pack bike rack containers. Portland company Micro Beer Jerseys has been releasing craft beer branded jerseys since forming in 2009. Their 2011 line includes 11 attractively designed craft beer branded jerseys featuring breweries from Portland and around the country. The 2011 line includes jerseys branded with: Anchor Steam Brewing (flagship label, Liberty Ale), Pike Brewing (XXXXX Stout, Tandem Double Ale), Lucky Labrador Brewing, Shmaltz Brewing (HE’BREW Beer, Coney Island Lager, Mermaid Pilsner), Bridgeport Brewing (Blue Heron, Haymaker), Maui Brewing (Big Swell IPA, Coconut Porter), Amnesia Brewing, Schlafly Brewing (Pale Ale, Hopped Up APA), and North Coast Brewing (Acme). Read More…

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On August 26, 2011, Migration, Amnesia and Brewpublic are celebrating the tailend of summer with an evening of early fall beer releases.  Migration will be releasing their Alt style Red Bier sitting at 5.7% ABV with 46 IBU’s, It’s made with a base German Pilsner malt, Northwest Munich malts and a a dash of crystal and black malt to lending a dark copper reddish hue, bittered with Nuggets and lightly finished with Mt. Hood hops.

The brewpub on NE Glisan and 28th Ave in Portland will also be host to Amnesia who will be releasing earlier that week their Impale Imperial Pale Ale sitting at 7.2% ABV and 45 IBU’s. Brewer Sean Thommen informs us that this special brew is made with 100% Maris Otter Malt, Crystal and Cascade hops for finish as well as Cascades for dry hopping.  Thommen says “This beer has elegantly nuanced simple complexity betrothed with a bouquet of balanced floral beauty and gilded in an enlightened state of herbal, earthly harmony.”

We will accompany these amazing new beers with live music @ Migration starting at 7PM.

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Migration, Amnesia and Brewpublic have been gearing up for an evening of early fall beer releases at Migration Brewing (2828 NE Glisan Street, Portland, OR).  Migration will be releasing their new Alt style Red Bier sitting at 5.7% ABV with 46 IBU’s, It’s made with a base German Pilsner malt, Northwest Munich malts and a a dash of crystal and black malt to lending a dark copper reddish hue, bittered with nuggets and lightly finished with Mt. Hood hops.

Migration will also be host to Amnesia Brewing who will be releasing their Impale Imperial Pale Ale sitting at 7.2% ABV and 45 IBU, and made with 100% Maris Otter Malt, Crystal and Cascade hops for finish and Cascades for dry hopping.  This beer has an “elegantly nuanced simple complexity betrothed with a bouquet of balanced floral beauty and gilded in an enlightened state of herbal , earthly harmony.”

“We will accompany these amazing new beers with live music at Migration starting at 7PM,” says Migraton’s Colin Rath. See you there.

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While we are getting geared up for next weekend’s Ladies of Lagers and Ales tastival, next weekend at Saraveza, we look back over the past weekend and remember an amazing flavorsome celebration of another group of females – hops.

You see, hops are the female flower clusters, or strobiles, of the hop species, Humulus lupulus. At this time of year, the herbaceous perennials are reaching to high heaven, and just recently, if you’ve observed your bines, you may have noticed the flowering finger-like fruits beginning to form spicy cones.

Saraveza’s 2nd Annual IIPA Fest took place on Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17, and was a celebration of the most regal, magisterial, and potent of all hoppy beers. Ah, the Imperial India Pale Ale (IIPA) – bigger and bolder, and often more bitter than its already amplified parent. Read More…

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Migration brewer Mike Branes (left) with Lucky Lab brewer Ben Flerchinger

On July 16^th Migration will be hosting a Pig Pickin’ Party as part of craft Oregon Craft Beer Month. Migration co-founder Colin Rath says “We will be host to Lompoc’s Sour wheat beer a 5-beer blend, Uprights latest Monk and Mingus and a special keg of Coffee IPA from Migration.  These amazing beers will be set to pair with a pork centric plate of food supplied by local BBQ cart Robb’s Really Good Food.  Four local bluegrass, guitar pickin’, banjo strummin’ bands will accompany all this great beer and food.”

July 23^rd marks the date for Migration and Amnesia’s first edition of Brewer’s Feud at Migration Brewing. Participants will include: Read More…

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It was a weekend filled with brews, birthdays, and beer bashes.

To keep the alliteration rolling, Friday was a Bend beer ball at The BeerMongers. Brewers and representatives from around the Bend and Central Oregon region made the trek to Portland to share some of their finer offerings. Highlights included having Tonya Cornett of Bend Brewing, Jimmy Seifrit of 10 Barrel, Tyler Reichert of Silver Moon, Ryan Schmiege of Deschutes, and Tony Lawrence of Boneyard Beer in the house.

The taps were loaded with some Bend’s best, ranging from sessionable to extreme. On the light side, Three Creeks of Sisters brought their Golden Ale, Deschutes supplied their Portland brewed Armory XPA (an American Extra Pale Ale), and Silver Moon tapped their GABF medal-winning Read More…

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Join The BeerMongers guys, Saturday July 9, 2011 from 5-10PM, for a special birthday celebration for our friend John Foyston. John is the man behind the Oregonian’s The Beer Here blog and has been writing about craft beer here in Oregon for more than 15 years.

John says “I know there’ll be a keg of Anchor Steam and maybe Amnesia Alt unless we’ve drunk it all…”

In addition to the brew and merriment, Foyston will have Read More…

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