Thursday July 19 New Belgium and Cascade

At 3PM we’ll tap an oak pin of New Belgium Oscar, one of the two Foeder-aged sour beers that Lauren and Eric Salazar use as the base blending beers for the Lips of Faith Series and we’ll also have a rare keg of Blackberry Whiskey Sour on tap beginning at noon. The Cascade crew are still deciding what blends they’ll deliver but you know they’ll be great!

In addition to these special Brewers Nights we expect to pour beers from Schooner Exact, Solera, Rock Bottom, Big Al’s, Buckman Botanical, Mikkeller, Bahnhoff, and more. We’ll see how they roll… Check Belmont-station.com for daily tap list and Puckerfest.com for updates.

In order that we can serve everyone as quickly as possible our Biercafe will be Cash Only during Puckerfest.

For more information: Carl Singmaster 503-232-8538

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Wednesday July 18 5 – 8 PM Logsdon Farmhouse Ales &The Commons

Logsdon Owner/Brewmaster Dave Logsdon will tap Cerasus organic kriek beer, a barrel-aged Flanders style red ale with two pounds of fruit added per gallon of beer & Barrel-aged Seizoen Bretta, farmhouse Saison with Brettanomyces.

The Commons Brewers grace us with Eleanor, Wine barrel aged Farmhouse Ale made with magic (is that a legal ingredient?), BeneTibi, a 100% Brett Lambicus fermented beer with sour cherries and cider pressings, and a special one-off TBA.

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Tuesday July 17 5 – 8PM Double Mountain

Charlie Devereux and Matt Swihart have led a parade of Puckerfesters each year with their phenomenal Krieks and fresh cherries. Let’s do it again! Can’t wait. More details soon.

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Monday July 16 5 – 8PM Upright

Brewers Alex Ganum, Gerritt Ill, and Bobby Birk present another stunning display of barrel-aging and blending: Fantasia (barrel fermented with Baird Family Orchard peaches and a mix of souring yeasts and bacteria, lambic-esque), Lactovasilios (barrel fermented Berliner-weisse style sour ale), Blend Love (mix of barrel aged wheat and rye beers with raspberries and cherries), De la Seven (one-off variant of Upright’s strong saison fermented with yeast from the De la Senne brewery of Belgium and aged with brettanomyces in Patton Valley wine barrels), Belmont Station 14th Anniversary – a blend of gin and wine barrel aged wheat beer with apricot puree, Barrel aged Five (hoppy saison matured in former Fantasia barrels with the spent peaches), Late Harvest (farmhouse-style brown ale aged in Ransom wine, whiskey, and gin barrels). Plus we’ll sell a limited number of bottles of Belmont Station 14th Anniversary Beer

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Sunday July 15 2 – 5PM Block 15

Brewer/Owner Nick Arzner serves up another of his famously amazing lineups: Golden Canary, 2011 Demons Farm, & 2011 Strawberry Fields, Belmont Station 15th Anniversary (Scotch Ale matured in rare fifteen year old Bourbon casks from Rip Van Winkle Distillery and then blended with select Bourbon barrel Oud Bruins, matured 9 & 24 months), and a special firkin of Golden Canary with Gooseberries

In order that we can serve everyone as quickly as possible our Biercafe will be Cash Only during Puckerfest.

For more information: Carl Singmaster 503-232-8538

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Saturday July 14 Noon Gueuze Drafts and Cantillon Bottles

It’s pretty rare to have 3 authentic Gueuzes side by side. We’ll tap a keg of Cantillon Gueuze, Tilquin Gueuze, and St. Louis Gueuze. I remember the days when we had Cantillon bottles for sale constantly. That was before everyone caught on. Our last allotment was so small it seemed the best thing to do would be pour flights so a more folks can taste the brilliance of Cantillon. Flights of Cantillon Geueze, Kriek, and Rose poured from our very limited number of bottles.

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Friday July 13 5 – 8PM Oakshire & Flat Tail.

Oakshire Brewmaster Matt van Wyk and Flat Tail Brewmaster Dave Marliave team up to kick off Puckerfest with some special treats. Matt is bringing his Framboise, Skookumchuck Wild Ale, Lost Keg Wild Ale (which Matt says is a “wild amber, lost and then found”), and Gin Barrel Aged Frederic’s Lost Arm (saison aged in Gin barrels with Brett).

Dave is bringing his 1st Anniversary, 2nd Anniversary Flanders Red, Vallee’ Blanche sour wit, and Tamil black session sour fruit/wheat.

In order that we can serve everyone as quickly as possible our Biercafe will be Cash Only during Puckerfest.

For more information: Carl Singmaster 503-232-8538

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If you’re like us, you’re totally geeked out on the sour beer phenomenon that has swept North America over the past half decade or so. One of the first Northwest regional outposts for great craft beer, Belmont Station (4500 SE Stark St., Portland, OR) returns with their week long Puckerfest. Now in its sixth year, Puckerfest promises some of the area’s most tantalizingly tart, savoringly sour, wickedly wild, and flat out funky favorites. This year’s Puckerfest runs from Friday July 13 through Thursday July 20. Belmont Station chief beer officer Carl Singmaster sent out a presser yesterday with the full details, including the beers and breweries that you can expect to find at Puckerfest. Here’s the lowdown: Read More…

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Cascade Brewing releases their much anticipated Blueberry Sour Ale on March 22, 2012. So does this mean it’s finally spring? Well, yes, technically, but it sure doesn’t feel like it in the Rose City with it just snowing the night prior. Cellarman Beck Jensen says “This is one of the few good things that has come from ‘Angry Johnny’ (brewer John Berry).” This first bottling release  since fall of 2011, the Blueberry Ale offers a sharp tart fruity presence behind the beautiful purplish hue of this 7.33% ABV treasure.

Lead brewer Chris Baggenstos tells us Read More…

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Here in Portland, Oregon aka Beervana, we can attribute being at the pinnacle of the craft beer world thanks to a number of variables. The region’s climate goes unmatched for the growing of the choicest hop varietals (somewhere in the ballpark of 30% of all grown on the planet); betwixt the equator and the North Pole and how we are impacted by the Pacific currents, Cascadia’s cool and cloudy months might be a mainspring to our taste for a variety malty styles; the rich history of founding brewers such as Henry Saxer and Henry Weinhard. Whatever it is that instills this affinity for great beer, one thing is undeniable, and that is that the driving force behind our great beer and all its glory is an ever-growing community of dedicated and passionate human beings. Obviously, there’s the brewers making it and the pubs selling it, but we should not forget the people who have dedicated themselves and their lives to advocating of brew, people like Ms. Chris Crabb.

Crabb is the humble force behind Portland and the nation’s greatest and most attended beer festivals. These include the Oregon Brewers Festival of which she has been the head of media relations for the past 16 years, and the Holiday Ale Fest, which has also been reoccurring for the past 16 years. In addition to running these, Crabb has recently assumed the responsibilities of promotion and organization of the popular North American Organic Brewers Festival. On top of helping to orchestrate some of the largest beer events on the West Coast, Crabb is also dedicated to promoting a few breweries around Portland, providing public relations and social media services to the likes of New Old Lompoc Brewing and Cascade Brewing.

Recently we had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Crabb, the woman you can thank for much of these exceptional events. Read More…

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