OVER 50 IIPAs in 2 days!

SAT. July 21: 1-10pm
SUN. July 22: 1-9pm

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Ticket packages can be purchased in advance with a credit card through our Beer Boutique or at the Fest with cash only. (There is an ATM right down the street.)

$20: 8 tickets & glass
$35: 16 tickets & 2 glasses

FEST LIST

• Dogfish Head, 120 Minute
• Sierra Nevada, Hoptimum
• Green Flash, Palate Wrecker
• H.U.B., Galactic
• H.U.B., Ace of Spades
• Lagunitas, Hop Stoopid
• Ninkasi, Babylon
• Bear Republic, Hop Rod Rye
• Firestone Walker, Wookey Jack
• Firestone Walker, Double Jack
• Everybody’s, Big Brother
• Midnight Sun, Meltdown
• Victory, Hop Wallop
• Mad River, Steelhead
• Lazy Boy, Double Trouble
• Moylan’s, Moylander
• Epic,, Imperial IPA
• Urthel, Hop-It
• Oskar Blues, Gubna
• Oskar Blues, Deviant Dale’s
• Uinta, Detour
• Uinta, Dubhe
• Stone, Ruination 10th Anniversary
• Hop Valley, Infinite Hoppiness
• Laurelwood, Green Mammoth
• Laurelwood, Deranger
• Rock Bottom, Thunderdome
• Burnside, Double Dry-Hopped Alter Ego
• Good Life, Comatose
• Beer Valley, Leafer Madness
• Boneyard, Hop Venom
• Boneyard, Armored Fist
• Van Viven, Viven
• Southern Oregon Brewing, Big Rack
• Oakshire, Perfect Storm
• Old Town, RRR
• Natian, Old Grogham
• Alameda, Green Wolf
• Walking Man, Homo Erectus
• Pizza Port, Poorman’s
• Pizza Port, Killer Dana
• He’Brew, Lenny’s R.I.P.A.
• Boulevard, Double Wide
• Southern Tier, Unearthly
• Amnesia, Dopeacetic
• Deschutes, JedIPA
• Block 15, Block Head
• Fort George, Bad Juju
• Vertigo, Friar Gone Wild
• Russian River, Pliny the Elder
• Mt. Tabor, Finsky
• Gigantic, IIPA

and more……..

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OVER 50 IIPAs in 2 days!

SAT. July 21: 1-10pm
SUN. July 22: 1-9pm

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Ticket packages can be purchased in advance with a credit card through our Beer Boutique or at the Fest with cash only. (There is an ATM right down the street.)

$20: 8 tickets & glass
$35: 16 tickets & 2 glasses

FEST LIST

• Dogfish Head, 120 Minute
• Sierra Nevada, Hoptimum
• Green Flash, Palate Wrecker
• H.U.B., Galactic
• H.U.B., Ace of Spades
• Lagunitas, Hop Stoopid
• Ninkasi, Babylon
• Bear Republic, Hop Rod Rye
• Firestone Walker, Wookey Jack
• Firestone Walker, Double Jack
• Everybody’s, Big Brother
• Midnight Sun, Meltdown
• Victory, Hop Wallop
• Mad River, Steelhead
• Lazy Boy, Double Trouble
• Moylan’s, Moylander
• Epic,, Imperial IPA
• Urthel, Hop-It
• Oskar Blues, Gubna
• Oskar Blues, Deviant Dale’s
• Uinta, Detour
• Uinta, Dubhe
• Stone, Ruination 10th Anniversary
• Hop Valley, Infinite Hoppiness
• Laurelwood, Green Mammoth
• Laurelwood, Deranger
• Rock Bottom, Thunderdome
• Burnside, Double Dry-Hopped Alter Ego
• Good Life, Comatose
• Beer Valley, Leafer Madness
• Boneyard, Hop Venom
• Boneyard, Armored Fist
• Van Viven, Viven
• Southern Oregon Brewing, Big Rack
• Oakshire, Perfect Storm
• Old Town, RRR
• Natian, Old Grogham
• Alameda, Green Wolf
• Walking Man, Homo Erectus
• Pizza Port, Poorman’s
• Pizza Port, Killer Dana
• He’Brew, Lenny’s R.I.P.A.
• Boulevard, Double Wide
• Southern Tier, Unearthly
• Amnesia, Dopeacetic
• Deschutes, JedIPA
• Block 15, Block Head
• Fort George, Bad Juju
• Vertigo, Friar Gone Wild
• Russian River, Pliny the Elder
• Mt. Tabor, Finsky
• Gigantic, IIPA

and more……..

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As summer approaches more beer labels pass approval for the craft beer drinking seasons to come. As usual, Craft Brew Alliance has a number of exciting new beers on the horizon such as their next Rotator IPA Series release known as IPL (India Pale Lager), a hoppy lager. We notice some new label designs from Speakeasy, Ninkasi, and Henry Weinhard’s. Also it looks as though Pyramid is gearing up for some more interesting new releases like their Smooth & Sweet Oatmeal Stout and Chai Wheat both coming out in bottles.

Here’s a look at more than 65 new craft beer labels that you might find around the Pacific Northwest in the not so distant future: Read More…

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Jeff in from Sierra Nevada in from 4 to 6, and will have their Ruthless Rye on tap, as well as several other of their flavors in the bottle for you to enjoy.

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Celebrate the Holidays and *Chrismakuh with Sierra Nevada and The Hop & Vine this December 15th with a unique opportunity to taste a vast array of unique beers to benefit a good cause. The Hop & Vine and Sierra Nevada representatives will have 8 special limited beers on draft and a free Ovila chalice when you bring a new toy for the Portland Metro Toy Drive.

The entrance fee is one non-perishable food item or $1 to get in going towards the Oregon Food Bank in this time of need. The incredible lineup of brews on tap include many seasonals and rarities including offerings from SN’s Base Camp line of beers and the complete Trappist collaboration Ovila series of 4 beers available in a flight for only $7.

Beer List:

Life & Limb
The brainchild of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. Life & Limb is a 10% ABV strong, dark beer that defies style characteristics- brewed with pure maple syrup from the Calagione family farm in Massachusetts and estate barley grown on the Grossman “farm” at the brewery in Chico, CA. The beer is alive with yeast-a blend of both breweries’ house strains-bottle conditioned for added complexity and shelf life, and naturally carbonated with birch syrup fresh from Alaska.

Foam Pilsner
Foam is a German-style Pilsner, light bodied and easy drinking, yet loaded With flavor. Brewed With a miX of European and American malts, balanced by a spicy, and herbal hop kick. Brewed in honor of Phish, Foam is a crisp and refreshing traditional pale gold lager beer. In the Words of Phish-‘Tfn looking through, And it all would be, So crystal clear, If it Wasn’t for the foam.” Great music, great beer, and good times.

Celebration
The long, cold nights of winter are a little brighter with Celebration^® Ale. Wonderfully robust and rich, Celebration^® Ale is dry-hopped for a lively, intense aroma. Brewed especially for the holidays, it is perfect for a festive gathering or for a quiet evening at home.

Black Hop Rising
This unusual beer ís an anomaly-a rowdy blend of beer styles old and new It has the clean medium-bodied smoothness of a classic German black lager (Schwarz bier) and the aggressive resíny-bold hop flavors of an American black IPA. Black Hop Rising features a
silky body With hints of black coffee maltiness, contrasted by intense grapefruit, pine, and tropical fruit Ílavors from the heavy-handed dose of Simcoe, Citra, and Crystal hops.

Ovila: Quad
As winter approaches, anticipation begins for Christmas.  This full and sultry ale is sure to warm the soul and welcome the season.  This silky ale is rich, mahogany brown in color with a velvety malt aroma, spiked with hints of dried cherry, fig, raisin, and plum notes.  A full and creamy body offers layers of flavor including a perfume-like maltiness.  Rich and warming, this complex ale should be shared among friends in the true spirit of the season.

Please joins us this *Chrismakuh to cheers to the holidays while enjoying a fine ale and helping families in need at the same time.

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Calling all Phish phans! Sierra Nevada made a beer just for you – FOAM Pilsner. We are the only bar to find this special brew in the area. Prizes and discounts for oldest Phish ticket stub and oldest tour shirt. Special Phish playlist all night, kegs tapped and festivities start @ 7pm.

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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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We will be celebrating this Wednesday the Draft release of one of our favorite breweries Sierra Nevada’s Kellerweis! This is an American Hefe which comes closest to a Bavarian style Hefeweizen. To celebrate we will have a flight of yummy SN brews for $5 and a game to figure which beer is which for a chance to win some great prizes from the brewery.
Also, we will be pouring some samples in the bottleshop from 6 to 8 pm!!

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When our friends at Oakshire Brewing in Eugene invited us to join them for the this year’s Boonville Beer Fest, we couldn’t help but to say yes. Despite feeling a little beat down by the previous week at Eugene’s inaugural beer week, Boonville’s legendary fest was one we’d been eying for sometime, and since 2011′s marked the 15th annual occurrence of this event, it seemed logical that this would be the year we checked it off our beer bucket list.

Tucked in amidst looming Read More…

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