Oregon Garden Brewfest: The beer lineup
The Oregon Garden Brewfest over in Silverton this month is bigger than ever before, hosting 62 breweries (and meaderies and cideries) that will be pouring at least 125 beers (and meads and ciders)—that’s a stunning amount of beers represented, and the number of breweries is approaching Oregon Brewers Festival levels.
They’ve got the list of participating breweries online, though they aren’t listing the beers being poured. But! I’ve got that right here. It’s a good list too:
- 10 Barrel Brewing Co | Apocalypse IPA & Wheat IPA
- 2 Towns Ciderhouse | The Incider & The Bad Apple
- 21st Amendment | Bitter American & Hell or High WaterMelon Wheat
- Alameda Brewing Co | Black Bear XX Stout & Yellow Wolf Imperial IPA
- Base Camp Brewing Co | Ripstop Rye Pils & In-Tents India Pale Lager
- Batch 19 | Batch 19 Pre-Prohibition Style Lager
- Blue Dog Mead | Green Collar Mead & Yellow Collar Mead
- Blue Moon Brewing Co | Belgian Style White Ale & Valencia Grove Amber Ale
- Brew Werks Brewing | Neurotic Blonde & Rabble Rouser Red
- BridgePort Brewing Co | Smooth Ryed & Hop Czar
- Calapooia Brewing Co | Chili Beer & Big Aft Pale Ale
- Cascade Brewing | Razberry Wheat & Oblique Coffee Black & White Stout
- Cascade Lakes Brewing | Blonde Bombshell & Cyclops IPA
- Crispin & Fox Barrel Cidery | Original Apple Cider & Fox Barrel Blackberry Pear Cider
- Crux Fermentation Project | On the Fence Pale & Outcast IPA
- Double Mountain Brewery | Vaporizer Dry Hopped Pale & India Red Ale
- Eel River Brewing Co | Acai Berry Wheat & California Blonde
- Elysian Brewing | Super Fuzz Blood Orange Pale, LOSER Pale Ale & Savant IPA
- Falling Sky Brewing | Dark Heart & Retrograde NW Red
- Firestone Walker | Solace Wheat & Union Jack IPA
- Fish Brewing Co | Spire Mountain Dark & Dry Cider & Reel Ales Swordfish Black IPA
- Flat Tail Brewing | Tailgater Kölsch & Black Hand Maple Nut Porter
- Fort George Brewery and Public House | Divinity Fruit Beer & Tender Loving Empire NW Pale Ale
- Full Sail Brewing Co | Lager Series LTD 5 & Pub Series ESB
- Gigantic Brewing | Dark Meddle Vienna Lager & Gigantic IPA
- Gilgamesh Brewing | Ridgeway IPA & Hopscotch Strong Ale
- Golden Valley Brewery | Red Thistle Ale & Bald Peak IPA
- GoodLife Brewing Co | Sweet As Pacific Ale & Descender IPA
- Goose Island Beer Co | Honker’s Ale & India Pale Ale
- Hop Valley Brewery | Alphadelic IPA & Double ‘D’ Blonde
- Hopworks Urban Brewery | Organic HUB Lager & Organic Hopworks IPA
- Kona Brewing Co | Big Wave Golden & Koko Brown
- Lagunitas Brewing Co | a little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ & Undercover Investigation Shutdown Ale
- Laurelwood Brewing Co | Organic Free Range Red & Workhorse IPA
- Leinenkugal’s Brewing Co | Summer Shandy & Big Eddy Imperial IPA
- Logsdon Farmhouse Ales | Seizoen & Seizoen Bretta
- Lompoc Brewing | Kick Axe Pale Ale & C-Note Imperial Pale Ale
- McMenamins Thompson Brewery & Public House | TBD
- Nectar Creek Honeywine | Wildflower Session Mead & Ginger Session Mead
- New Belgium Brewing | Dig Pale Ale, Rampant IPA, The Lost Abbey & Peach Porch Lounger
- Ninkasi Brewing Co | Total Domination IPA & Believer Double Red
- Oakshire Brewing | Line Dry Rye & Watershed IPA
- Old Town Brewing Co | OTB Pilsner & Boysenberry Black Ale
- Pale Horse Brewing | Hillbilly Blonde & Hopyard Dog
- Pelican Pub & Brewery | Winema Wit & Silverspot IPA
- Ram Restaurant & Brewery | Oregon Blonde Ale & Big Red IPA
- Rat Hole Brewing | Fencepost Porter & Rotation Red
- Redhook Brewery | Audible Pale Ale & Wise Cracker Wit
- Rusty Truck Brewing Co | Moonlight Ride Blackberry Ale & Stupiphany Imperial Red Ale
- Santiam Brewing | Spitfire ESB & Pirate Stout
- Sasquatch Brewery | Oregon Session Ale & Woodboy IPA
- Seven Brides Brewing | Paige’s Purple Haze Blueberry Wheat & Abiqua Black IPA
- Shock Top Brewing Co | Belgian White & Raspberry Wheat
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co | Pale Ale & Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale
- Standing Stone Brewing Co | Noble Stout & I ♥ Oregon Ale
- Stella Artois Brewery | Stella Artois
- Stone Brewing Co | Stone 12.12.12 Vertical Epic Ale & 2012 Double Bastard Ale
- Tieton Ciderworks | Apricot Cider & Dry Hopped Cider
- Vermont Hard Cider | Woodchuck Amber & Woodchuck Granny Smith
- Vertigo Brewing | Razz Wheat & Friar Mikes IPA
- Wandering Aengus Ciderworks | Anthem Cherry & Anthem Hops
- Widmer Brothers Brewing | Alchemy Pale Ale & Hopside Down IPL
What I like about this is, it’s a chance to try some of the lesser-known and newer Oregon breweries, like Calapooia, Falling Sky, Gilgamesh, Old Town, Pale Horse, Rusty Truck, Santiam, and Sasquatch. And—this is a bit of a coup but they have Bend’s newest brewery, Rat Hole, in this list!
It’s going to be tough to decide what to drink! There’s quite a number here I haven’t tried. Definitely looking forward to it.