Amnesia's Festival to Remember
Eighteen beers, including six special releases from Amnesia, made the inaugural Amnesia Winter Ale Festival an unforgettable jubilee. The event was a benefit for the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation to provide Siebels scholarships in the name of the late, much beloved Falconer. Falconer’s brother Quenton heads the foundation and traveled from the Bay Area to attend the event.
A 2007 and 2008 Amnesia Sleigh Jerker were among crowd favorites, as were two Walking Man brews (My Old Kentucky Homo and the Walktopus), a Caldera Old Growth Imperial Stout, and a 2007 New Old Lompoc Holiday Cheer Vanilla Porter.
The event was divided into two areas – a heated outdoor tent featuring jockey boxes filled with some scrumptiously brawny brews, and the inside pub area, cleared of tables to make room for early crowds. In all, the event was surprisingly roomy with sightly holiday decor and lots of familiar faces from the Portland beer community. Amnesia owner and head brewer Kevin King was pleased with the event and says he looks forward making it a yearly happening. “It was a great event in our first year” said King. “And for a great cause. Glen was a great guy.”
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Angelo
Angelo grew up in Maine and is proud to call New England his original home. Cascadia is now his home. He fell in love with great beer in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California. He has been a correspondent for the Portland Tribune's Guest on Tap column, LivePDX.com, and has been featured in publications such as Beer Northwest and PDX Magazine. Angelo also has a great interest in independent music, and has been a booker and organizer for shows around the Portland under the name Pop Tomorrow! Angelo garnered much knowledge regarding beer from his experiences homebrewing, working at Belmont Station, Pyramid Brewing, Upright Brewing, By the Bottle, Beer Revolution, Olde Depot Public House, Falling Sky Brewing, Cascade Brewing, and from many many knowledgeable, passionate, and loving people along the way. It is Angelo's mission to bring "infotainment" and "edumation" to the readers of this website. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to contribute, please contact me at angelo@brewpublic.com
I wish I could have made it and I am glad to see they will be holding this event next year.
mmmmmmmm… That Caldera Imperial Stout on the list sounds really yummy. I had previous arrangements for the night, wish I could of been there.
It was a great night that I wasn’t planning on going to, but am very happy I did.