With the big one, Holiday Ale Festival under our belts, and a few other awesome holiday craft beer gatherings such as Roscoe’s Holiday Beer Summit, under our outstretched belts, we’ve come to a stark reality. It’s not even winter yet and there is still plenty more seasonal beers for us to drink. So, let’s get down to business and gear up for the second annual St. John’s Winter Beer Festival at Plew’s Brews.

Organizer Trevor Thurston Beers points us to specialty pours at this year’s Winter Fest like Nostradamus Strong Brown, Stone Russian Imperial Stout, Uinta Baltic Porter (with brandy soaked oak chips in the secondary), Great Divide Oak-Aged Yeti, St. Bernardus Christmas Ale, Schooner Exacts’ Hoppy the Woodsman (a winter warmer aged in bourbon barrels), and a handful of specialty Oakshire brews. But that’s not it, friends, not even close… Read More…

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Twas the week before Christmas and Plew’s was in action,
The creatures were stirring, winter beer is the passion.
December 14th, 15th, and 16th we’ll play,
From noon until midnight for all of three days
Belgians and Stouts, Winter Ales, Barleywine
We hope you will come and have a good time!

 Plew’s Brews, Oakshire Brewing, and Thurston Beervents present the second-annual St Johns Winter Beer Fest to be held December 14th, 15th, and 16th! Commemorative glasses are $5 and Tickets are $1. We’ll have food from the kitchen and Tim the Sausage Guy outside. Cheers!

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Twas the week before Christmas and Plew’s was in action,
The creatures were stirring, winter beer is the passion.
December 14th, 15th, and 16th we’ll play,
From noon until midnight for all of three days
Belgians and Stouts, Winter Ales, Barleywine
We hope you will come and have a good time!

 Plew’s Brews, Oakshire Brewing, and Thurston Beervents present the second-annual St Johns Winter Beer Fest to be held December 14th, 15th, and 16th! Commemorative glasses are $5 and Tickets are $1. We’ll have food from the kitchen and Tim the Sausage Guy outside. Cheers!

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Twas the week before Christmas and Plew’s was in action,
The creatures were stirring, winter beer is the passion.
December 14th, 15th, and 16th we’ll play,
From noon until midnight for all of three days
Belgians and Stouts, Winter Ales, Barleywine
We hope you will come and have a good time!

 Plew’s Brews, Oakshire Brewing, and Thurston Beervents present the second-annual St Johns Winter Beer Fest to be held December 14th, 15th, and 16th! Commemorative glasses are $5 and Tickets are $1. We’ll have food from the kitchen and Tim the Sausage Guy outside. Cheers!

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Plew’s Brews, in conjunction with Laurelwood Brewing and Thurston Beervents, present the Autumn Ale Festival October 19th through 21st. Three days of harvest beers from stouts to fresh hops, there is something for everyone! Some of the highlights include Bayreuther Landbier Dunkel, Hale‘s Ales Harvest, Ninkasi’s Meridian Fresh-Hopped “ Tastes Like Purple”, and Laurelwood‘s Brewer‘s Cut Imperial IPA! We will have commemorative glasses for $5 and Tickets are $1 for a four-ounce taste. It will be double tickets for the more rare and unusual beers. Come out and enjoy some of the best change-of-season beers around!
 

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Plew’s Brews, in conjunction with Laurelwood Brewing and Thurston Beervents, present the Autumn Ale Festival October 19th through 21st. Three days of harvest beers from stouts to fresh hops, there is something for everyone! Some of the highlights include Bayreuther Landbier Dunkel, Hale‘s Ales Harvest, Ninkasi’s Meridian Fresh-Hopped “ Tastes Like Purple”, and Laurelwood‘s Brewer‘s Cut Imperial IPA! We will have commemorative glasses for $5 and Tickets are $1 for a four-ounce taste. It will be double tickets for the more rare and unusual beers. Come out and enjoy some of the best change-of-season beers around!
 

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Plew’s Brews, in conjunction with Laurelwood Brewing and Thurston Beervents, present the Autumn Ale Festival October 19th through 21st. Three days of harvest beers from stouts to fresh hops, there is something for everyone! Some of the highlights include Bayreuther Landbier Dunkel, Hale‘s Ales Harvest, Ninkasi’s Meridian Fresh-Hopped “ Tastes Like Purple”, and Laurelwood‘s Brewer‘s Cut Imperial IPA! We will have commemorative glasses for $5 and Tickets are $1 for a four-ounce taste. It will be double tickets for the more rare and unusual beers. Come out and enjoy some of the best change-of-season beers around!
 

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By C. Baker

On Saturday we headed over to Plew’s Brews for an exclusive IPA weekend event titled Humulus Maximus Festivus. The crew at Plew’s were serving up more than 22 single, double, and imperial drafts of the famed style of beer that many of us particularly enjoy. When we arrived at noon, Trevor Thurston, the event’s organizer was busy loading in ice and coordinating volunteers who kindly donated their time to help make this event possible. I asked Trevor how the festivities went on Friday as we were unable to attend. He said it was pretty epic and proceeded to tell me that John Foyston from The Oregonian’s ‘The Beer Here’ painted a portrait of Randy Plew and presented it to him in person. I was told Randy was pretty emotional and felt extremely honored. Trevor stated that John had only painted two other portraits in his life. They were of the late, great publican Don Younger, who owned the legendary Horse Brass Pub. Read More…

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Plew’s Brews Winter Beer Festival kicks off Friday December 16, 2011 at 5PM and lasts throughout the weekend. Impassioned Plew’s craft beertender and NoPo Brew Crew  Trevor Thurston who wrangled up many kegs with the help of many regional distributors says he wanted to feature the St John’s pub that many Portlanders are still unfamiliar with.  “People don’t realize how cool Plew’s really is. I am not sure many people know how much good beer we carry.” says Thurston, adding, “Events are a little slim until the Lucky Lab’s barleywine fest in March. This is one last hoorah for us until then. By a country mile this is our biggest event so far. If it goes well, we are also thinking about having a summer festival. That will probably happen outdoors.”

So what can folks expect to find at Plew’s winter bash? Lots of hearty seasonals and many 2011 standouts. “I am excited about (Sierra Nevada” Ovila Belgian-style Quad.” admits Thurston. “I am also looking forward to trying new beers from Humble Brewing“, North Portland nanobrewery from nearby who will be debuting their first beer, a Cascadian Dark Ale, at the fest. Thurston says “I am most excited about people who haven’t been to Plew’s to check it out. It’s unique, it’s community oriented and not a money making machine. It’s more of a community resource for great beer.”

In addition to the ongoing array of brews, Plew’s will feature Chris Baker from Eye Luv Beer will be selling his Oregon lovin’ t-shirts, decals, beer totes, and other merch as well.

For Plew’s Brews Winter Beer Fest, patrons can purchase commemorative 10 ounce glasses and  10 tickets for $15. One $1 ticket is good for a 4-ounce pour of most beers. Some stronger and more exclusive beers require two tickets.

The brew fest hours are as follows Friday 5PM-midnight, Saturday noon-midnight, and Sunday noon-6PM.

The glass sales portion for the proceeds goes toward NoPo Brews for more outreach, brewing demons and supplies.

Here’s a list of beers slated to pour at this inaugural winter event: Read More…

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The North Portland Fermentation Association and Plew’s Brews proudly present the first annual Winter Beer Festival! From Friday December 16 through Sunday December 18, 2011 expect to dig deep into the bounty of Oregon’s finest breweries!
Co-organizer Trevor Thurston says “We are very pleased to include a brand-new brewery, Humble Brewing, which will have a CDA brewed especially for the  Winter Ale Festival, this medium bodied CDA is built on a Pils and Maris Otter base combined with White and Midnight Wheat malts. The malty backbone is balanced with loads of Zeus, Cascade and Amarillo hops. As well, a special beer was brewed just for us from Occidental, our neighborhood brewery.”

Some of the newer beers also include: Stone’s Double Bastard, Lagunitas’ Sucks Holiday Ale, Ovila Abbey Quad, Gilgamesh Winter, Rusty Truck’s Bellsnickle, and Off the Rail’s Sin after Sin, a Belgian Triple.  We’ll also have some old favorites to quaff, such as Jubelale, Wreck the Halls, Celebration, Winterfish, Abominable, and Old Foghorn.

Hours are Friday 5 PM-Midnight, Saturday Noon-Midnight, and Sunday Noon-6PM. Glasses (real glass) are $6 and tickets for the beers are $1.

Plew’s will have have two areas to buy food and vendors from the neighborhood. Come out to St John’s for some tasty beers and a good time! Plew’s is located at 8409 N. Lombard in St. Johns, Portland, Oregon.

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