Here’s an older post that we figured we’d bring back. Have a fun night!

Hoppy Halloween! Sudsy Samhain! Festive Fall! Merry Malting!

Losing leaves are the nakeding trees. Seasonal yeastwork. Plants’ vascular adapting and converting like sugars during fermentation. Fractal trees and complex flavors. Beer and rain begin to simultaneously increase on the gravities in which they pour. Boos and brews and cloud formations sometimes replaced by just one giant cloud. Dark mornings, darker nights increase. It can be harder to get warmed. But it is welcoming to be near a heat source. Perhaps soon looking forth to the next solstice bringing light back. Spicy seasonals, Oktoberfests, gourd brews, other fruit beers, doppels, dunkels, hearty browns, ambers, and even barleywines. Beware of ghouls and stale piwo. The light will return just as the longer warmer days, but now is the entrance to darker, bolder, and more assertive times. Enjoy the long spells of grey, contracted daylight hours, and even snowfall could conjur the need for items something spicy and robust. Enjoy the life of colorfully distinct seasons in Beervana. The changes we certainly welcomed and find necessary and most importantly, an undeniable excuse to brew, drink, and demand different kinds of beer.

I hope my beer is not a headless one. That would gravely scare me. Unless of course, it is brewed to style. Pumking verticals and eerily anticipating the sun falling beneath the horizon. Some are mused by horror films. The wicks of candles burn and bodies turn. Sweat shirts, sweaters, and cuddling pets. Sometimes it feels this season is the best. Skeleton crops blow in the wind. Spiders. frogs, rats, and others work hard to prepare for the winter. Cold beer now and cold morning soon enough. Trick or treat, smell my feet, give us something good to drink.

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Hopworks Urban Brewery‘s 2011 BIKETOBEERFEST on Saturday September 17, 2011 was a fun and festive day filled with lots of tasty beer (many fresh hops), live music, and art (the breakdancers were incredible!). One highlight of the day was the presentation of a gigantic beer dubbed “Lovenbrau” to Ben Love. After four years with Hopworks, it was announced that Love will be leaving the brewery to open his own brewery called Gigantic Brewing with former Rock Bottom brewmaster Van Havig.

To view photos from HUB’s 2011 BIKETOBEERFEST click here.

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Celebrate the fall harvest in Independence, Oregon for this special three day party. Close to Rogue‘s Chatoe hopyards, this family friendly fest features events such as a tractor pull, hot air balloon launch, ghost walk, square dancing, hop farm tours, and a firework display…Oh, yeah, and there will be a beer garden with tasty Rogue brews on tap like their pumpkin beer and brews made with freshly harvest hops. For complete details click here.

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Celebrate the fall harvest in Independence, Oregon for this special three day party. Close to Rogue‘s Chatoe hopyards, this family friendly fest features events such as a tractor pull, hot air balloon launch, ghost walk, square dancing, hop farm tours, and a firework display…Oh, yeah, and there will be a beer garden with tasty Rogue brews on tap like their pumpkin beer and brews made with freshly harvest hops. For complete details click here.

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The true origins of the bottom-fermenting yeast used to make lagers have long remained a mystery. Lager beer origins are typically credited to Germany around 600 years ago, and lager yeast origins are often credited to Europe as well. Scientists previously discovered that lager yeast, Saccharomyces pastorianus, was a hybrid of two yeast species: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (used to make ales, wine and bread) and some other, unidentified species. According to recent University of Madison-Wisconsin research reported in the LA Times and other sources, the elusive origins of the bottom-fermenting lager yeast may be from tree fungi in Patagonia, Argentina. Read More…

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Celebrate the fall harvest in Independence, Oregon for this special three day party. Close to Rogue‘s Chatoe hopyards, this family friendly fest features events such as a tractor pull, hot air balloon launch, ghost walk, square dancing, hop farm tours, and a firework display…Oh, yeah, and there will be a beer garden with tasty Rogue brews on tap like their pumpkin beer and brews made with freshly harvest hops. For complete details click here.

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Occidental Brewing Company, a new brewery and taproom in St. Johns, Portland, Oregon, will celebrate the release of its Oktoberfest beer in the courtyard of Cathedral Park Place on Saturday, October 1, 2011 from noon to 10PM. This celebration of German-inspired brewing will be  complete with German cuisine from the neighboring Cathedral Park Kitchen and live music from Chervona and other guests. Admission is free. In addition to the Festbier, Occidental’s other brews will be available for purchase.

Further, many small businesses and artists’ studios in historical Cathedral Park Place will hold an open house in the afternoon from 1 to 5PM.
Cathedral Park Place is located next to Cathedral Park in the shadow of the St. Johns Bridge at 6635 N. Baltimore Ave, down the hill from downtown St. Johns. Once you’re in the neighborhood, just follow the signs for the boat ramp until you see the big orange building.

For more information on Occidental, its lineup of German-style beers, and uncle-and-nephew brewers Dan and Ben Engler, please visit occidentalbrewing.com or call 503 719 7102.

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Occidental Brewing Company, a new brewery and taproom in St. Johns, Portland, Oregon, will celebrate the release of its Oktoberfest beer in the courtyard of Cathedral Park Place on Saturday, October 1, 2011 from noon to 10PM. This celebration of German-inspired brewing will be  complete with German cuisine from the neighboring Cathedral Park Kitchen and live music from Chervona and other guests. Admission is free. In addition to the Festbier, Occidental’s other brews will be available for purchase.

Further, many small businesses and artists’ studios in historical Cathedral Park Place will hold an open house in the afternoon from 1 to 5PM.
Cathedral Park Place is located next to Cathedral Park in the shadow of the St. Johns Bridge at 6635 N. Baltimore Ave, down the hill from downtown St. Johns. Once you’re in the neighborhood, just follow the signs for the boat ramp until you see the big orange building.

For more information on Occidental, its lineup of German-style beers, and uncle-and-nephew brewers Dan and Ben Engler, please visit occidentalbrewing.com or call 503 719 7102.

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Starting Saturday, October 1, Prost! will throw its two-day-long Oktoberfest celebration, in honor of the legendary German tradition that inspired the pub itself; the party will occur throughout the entire Mississippi Marketplace, inclusive of the multiple food carts, Prost!’s own separate bier cart, and the outdoor bar recently built into Prost!’s sun-deck.

The pub’s doors will open at 11 a.m. Saturday morning, at which time a limited supply of 1L glass boots and 1L glass mugs will go on sale for purchase. At noon, the ceremonial tapping of the  first Oktoberfest keg of the celebration will commence on top of the bar, officially beginning the festival. Throughout the day, BBQ chicken will be coming off the grills, live music will be playing from 1-9 p.m., and traditional German dancing shall be performed for the crowd, starting at 2 p.m.

At 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday, Prost!’s first Masskrugstemmen competition will take place. Masskrugstemmen, which, loosely translated, means the lifting a liter mug full of bier, is a well-known, highly competitive Bavarian sport. A competitor holds the Masskrug, a 1L stein full of bier, in his hand as his outstretched arm is positioned parallel to the floor. Whoever can hold the Masskrug the longest is declared the winner! There will be both men’s and women’s competitions, and winners will receive prizes ranging from Prost! gift cards, swag, glassware, and more.

On Sunday, October 2, the bar will open again at 11 a.m., and the party will continue with food, live music, traditional German dancing performances at 1:30 p.m., and more rounds of the Masskrugstemmen men’s and women’s competitions at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Prost!, located at 4237 N Mississippi Avenue, will be open from 11-2:30 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday.

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