Portland Fruit Beer Festival Announces Beer & Cider List

Courtesy of Portland Fruit Beer Festival

Tuesday, May 24, 2016 Portland, OR - 

The 6th annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival announces their largest beer & cider list yet, with more participating breweries and cideries than ever before. The festival also makes a new home at a larger and greener location in the North Park Blocks. Twenty-Nine Breweries and Seven Cideries combine for Thirty-Six regularly pouring taps, plus a selection of rare and rotating tap lines that will shift through even rarer small kegs throughout the festival. All together over 60 different beers will be poured.

This year's beer/cider list is also the most diverse and regional yet, with more breweries from across the country but still a majority from Oregon. The brewery list highlights Portland favorites like Burnside Brewing, Hopworks and Breakside Brewery. From south of Portland comes Deschutes, Ninkasi and Sunriver. From Washington and California, Fremont Brewing, Lagunitas and Ballast Point Brewing enter the festival for the first time. There are also brand new buzz-worthy breweries like Culmination Brewing and 54-40 Brewing.

FOOD

A world class selection of local food vendors will be on-hand to soak up the beer and cider and provide sustenance. Covering four of our favorite beer drinking food groups: HOT LIPS Pizza, Sausages & Pretzels from Urban German Grill, BUNK Sandwiches and Fifty Licks Ice Cream. Hot Lips will also have their all natural fruit sodas for non-alcoholic refreshments for adults and kids. 

OPTIONS

The three day, all-ages festival is open to the public and underage or non-drinkers at no extra cost. Tunes will be provided by all-star DJ's each day and an alternative Burnside Brewing Co. can garden will offer affordable and crushable non-fruit beers to the masses. 

VOLUNTEER

The Portland Fruit Beer Festival is now seeking OLCC certified volunteer pourers with special double ticket bonuses for some shifts. Fill out the form to volunteer here http://www.fruitbeerfest.com/?page_id=811

MAIN FESTIVAL BEER/CIDER LIST:

Alameda Brewing: Saison and Black

Saison with black currants

Inspired by amber saisons of France and the English tradition of combining black currants with beer, we brewed this tangy, garnet colored ale for your summertime enjoyment. Starting with a Belgian pilsner malt base, we add specialty Belgian malts for a nutty, fruity flavor, wheat malt for body and black currants for a bright, earthy berry sharpness. The French saision yeast finishes dry, keeping you coming back for another and another. 7.9% ABV

Ballast Point: Mango Even Keel

our ideal beer for easy drinking. This hoppy, session ale gets a flavor boost from mango, which perfectly plays off the citrusy hop bouquet. With fruit, hops, and a low ABV, this beer truly is on another level. 3.8% ABV – 40 IBUs

Block 15 Brewing: Guelah Papaya (IPA with Papaya puree)

IPA brewed with Citra, Azacca, & Galaxy Hops, conditioned on yellow papaya and then dry hopped with Citra, Azacca, and Halleratau Blanc Hops.  A tropical fruit jam session. 7.3% ABV

Breakside: Lightning Punch

Sour ale fermented with a mixed culture of Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus and lemons. Dry hopped with an experimental hop from Roy Farms that smells like fresh Oregon strawberries. I'm lovin' it. 5% Abv and 5 IBUs.

Burnside Brewing: Guanabana Gose

a house lacto-cultured Gose carefully soured in the kettle and brewed with a delicate balance of noble hops and Jacobsen sea salt. A cold side infusion of fresh lime zest and soursop purée gives this beer a refreshing twist.  Abv 4.5%, ibu 10

The Commons:  Butterflies Hovering

Saison with pineapple and kaffir lime leaves ABV: 5.9%

Culmination Brewing: Sun Rey

Sun Rey is a tea radler brewed with Jasmine Pearl tea lime and raspberries and kettle soured with lacto for a tart and refreshing summer sipper. 4% ABV and 5 IBUs.

Deschutes Passion Fruit IPA

Passion fruit concentrate was used in this brew contributing tropical, tart fruit character. Juicy citrus aroma and flavor is highlighted by fruity hop aromatics and delightful caramel malt notes in the background. 6.4% ABV and 62 IBUs.

Dogfish Head: Romantic Chemistry IPA

What you have here is a serious India Pale Ale shacking up and hunkering down with mango and apricots. At the same time! Romantic Chemistry is brewed with an intermingling of mangos, apricots and ginger, and then dry-hopped with three varieties of hops to deliver a tropical fruit aroma and a hop-forward finish. It’s fruity, it’s hoppy, it’s tasty! 7.2% Abv and 40 IBUs.

Ecliptic Brewing: Blood Moon India Session Ale

Blood Moon India Session Ale is named after the color of the Moon at the peak of a Lunar Eclipse. Blood Moon has a bright orange color from the Blood Orange used to brew it.  Lime zest and 100% Citra hops are also added to make this beer pop with zesty citrus flavors and  aromas. ABV 4.5  IBU 65

Ex Novo Brewing: Cactus Wins the Lottery

Berliner Weisse with Prickly Pear. Pink and sour with a sweeter fruity finish.  4.2% Abv.

54-40 Brewing: Cucumber-Honeydew Bright Ale

Crafted with nearly 400 lbs of honeydew melon and well over 100 cucumbers! The resulting fruit beer is crisp and refreshing with a wonderful bright melon nose and fresh cucumber taste. 5% ABV 12 IBU

Fat Head’s: Apricot IBUsive IPA

Our IBUsive IPA aged on apricots for a month. 7.2% Abv and 75 IBU’s.

Fort George: Chasing the Dragon

Light bodied blonde Kettle sour, with Dragonfruit, and black currant added post-fermentation. Slight sweetness with a tart finish. Enjoy chasing the dragon to the bottom of your glass! ABV: 5.4%

Fremont Brewing: Cantaloupe Summer Ale

Summer Ale tastes like tangerine flower in a glass—endless days distilled into the sweet nectar of barley and hops. Four hundred and twenty reasons to enjoy this beer. Summer Ale is our answer to bigger is better. One grain, one hop. Simplicity…yet so much more. “Beer has food value, but food has no beer value.”—VWP. 5.2% ABV

Gigantic Brewing: Gigantic & Juice

Beermosa

Gigantic IPA with Pineapple, Tangerine and Grapefruit juices. 6.7% Abv and 70 IBUs.

Hop Valley: The Fruit Man 2016

This beer is a first in a series of fruit beers, and is brewed to blend the boundaries of both “fruit beer” drinkers, and “Hop Forward” beer drinkers. It is an American wheat ale hop bursted and dry hopped with copius amounts of simcoe and mosaic hops, and peach and apricot pureed and added to the fermenter to accentuate the qualities of these two varieties. Fruit and hops in harmony, two fruits two hops, one beer, one love! 6.25 % Abv and 25 IBUs.

Hopworks: POG IPA

The unofficial drink of Hawaii. Blend of Passionfruit, Orange, and Guava mashed together with a NW style IPA. 6.3 % Abv.

Lagunitas: Calamansi Equinox

We dosed our creamy Equinox Oat Ale with Calamansi for a lil' kumquaty, mandarin-orangey blast. This one's packed full of real beer flavor and all the things you yearn for! 8.0 ABV %

Laurelwood: Kiwi Wit (Name TBD)

A small portion of this beer was soured which will give it a nice tartness. The grist is pilsner malt, lots of various types of wheat, and a bit of rolled oats. It uses Mosiac and Galaxy hops to help accentuate the kiwi. This is about all we know right now, other than it should be ready, or close to it, by the media event. Hope this information is helpful. 5.1% ABV, 20 IBU's

Lompoc Brewing: Raisin Hell

This Oatmeal Raisin Rye is reddish in color with a malty body and a chewy, raisin flavor. Malted rye and rolled oats were added to the mash with 60 pounds of raisins added to the fermentor. 6% ABV

Ninkasi Brewing: Ginger & Juice

Ginger and Apricot Farmhouse Ale

Crisp and complex, this Saison is crafted in the traditional farmhouse- style with subtle hints of real ginger and apricot. Distinctively fruity and slightly peppery with an energetic effervescence, Ginger & Juice finishes dry and satisfying, perfect after a long day’s work. 5.5% Abv 25 IBUs

Ruse Brewing: Patchwork (Strawberry Basil Tart)

This tart ale is kettle soured then conditioned with a touch of basil and a copious amount of local strawberries. 4.8% Abv

Sixpoint: Raspy Sauce (Raspberry Berliner-Weisse w/ Raspberry-Jalapeño syrup)

The true Sixpoint Sauce. We made a special variation of our Lil' Raspy for this year's Fruit Beer Fest using our Raspberry-Jalapeño syrup. The OG Lil' Raspy rocks a low ABV with a soft, white, fluffy cap and the raspberry puree he’s brewed with gives him a pinkish hue. He might be little, but he’s jammed with 300lbs of raspberries per batch and just for this festival he's been dosed with our special sauce. Additionally a sour lactic fermentation makes Raspy Sauce a sweet, tart, and slightly spicy sensation. 4.3% ABV

Stormbreaker Brewing:  When I Fruit, I Fruit for the Timbers

Log slices? Cantaloupe slices? This beer is what we hoist over our heads after each goal. We aged this crisp, light, easy drinking blonde ale on 180 lbs. of cantaloupe, which extenuates the flavors of stone fruit and citrus.  And even though they ‘Can’t Elope’, it’s the perfect marriage of beer and fruit. ABV: 5.2%

Sunriver Brewing: Blueberry Pancake Pale Ale

This beer combines the doughy, bready and biscuit character of three outstanding British pale malts along with a healthy dose of NW blueberries.  The resulting brew is reminiscent of a stack of blueberry pancake.  Beer for breakfast anyone? 5.8% Abv.

10 Barrel Brewing: Plum Spectacular

From Tonya comes a small batch kettle sour made especially for the Portland Fruit Beer Festival. It has a crisp, clean, assertive sourness with loads of plums. Exactly what Portlanders love in a sour! 6.4% Abv and 10 IBUs.

Upright Brewing: Jasmine Pearl Pils

is a delicately layered beer based on the classic German lager style but with the addition of Townshend's Dragon Pearl Jasmine tea and both whole dried lemons and lemon peels. The beer is light, floral and fruity with a satisfying finish.

5.2%

Widmer Brothers Brewing: Le Ferme de Pêches

Belgian Style Spelt Farmhouse with Peaches

6.2 % ABV 24 IBU

CIDERS:

Cider Riot: Chaos de Tejas Blood Orange Amarillo Hopped Cider

Oregon-grown Amarillo hops from Crosby Hop Farms lend their zesty citrus notes to a cider made with Blood Orange Puree from Oregon Fruit Products. A perfect summer quencher. 6.9% abv

Finnriver Farm & Cidery: Black Stave

A special edition of Finnriver's well loved Black Currant Cider, farmcrafted with organic Washington apples, fermented dry, stave aged for depth and then married with an oaked, funkey currant ferment. A limited release of the award winning, contemporary dark fruit cider made with wood. 6.5% Abv.

Hi-Wheel: Tamarind Ginger Fizzy Wind

Crisp and tart citrus based and spiced with tamarind juice and ginger. 6.8% Abv.

Portland Cider Co.: Boysenberry Hop

By blending Oregon boysenberry with an off-dry cider infused with citrus spice New Zealand hops, we have created a crisp and colorful cider for your pleasure. This is the first in Portland Cider Co.'s summer hop series limited release ciders.

Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider: Spicy Mango Tepache (Pineapple Cider)

The crowd-pleaser returns with a mango twist!  Spicy hot ¡Tepache! with Ghost Peppers and fresh mango juice.  3.2%  ABV

2 Towns Ciderhouse: Throne of Thorns

A limited release fruited cider brewed with fresh-pressed NW apple juice and Oregon-grown blackberries and raspberries. Fermented with a special Vinho (sic) Verde Portuguese yeast strain to bring out all the exceptional characters of the fruit. Dry, high in acid, but rich in ripe cane-fruit character, the Throne of thorns was created with spring in mind. 6% Abv.

Wildcraft Cider Works: Oregon Kiwi Berry

We bring you our inaugural batch of Oak Aged Kiwi Cider.  This cider began at the start of winter when we received 900 lbs of fresh kiwi berries straight from the vineyard.  Whole kiwi berries fermented wild on the skins for two weeks before pressing the juice and allowing a natural referment in neutral American Oak barrels.  After 4 months of barrel aging, we blended the Kiwi wine with our wild Ida Red, Melrose and Gravenstein cider lending a balance of fruit-forward Kiwi aromatics and flavor, rounded oak tannins, and spicy Gravenstein flavors that blend harmoniously into one of the most exciting and unique ciders we’ve ever tried.

Enjoy the Wild. 6.8% Abv.

RARE/ROTATING BEERS & CIDERS LIST:

(Subject to change, these small kegs will rotate throughout the 3 day festival.)

Almanac:Tropical Platypus
Almanac: Apricot de Brettavill
Almanac: Farmer's Reserve Blackberry
Ballast Point: Watermelon Double IPA
Bend Brewing:  Plum Provisional Sour
Bend Brewing: Lovely Cherry Baltic Porter
Wander Brewing: Sour Cherry Millie
Wander Brewing: Cranberry Fruit Puncheon
Fat Head's: Gin Barrel Aged Prickly Pear Saison
Hopworks: Smoke Cherrywood and Cherry Doppelbock
Breakside: Bourbon Barrel Aged Sour Rye Beer w Coconut
Hop Valley: Pinot barrel aged Blueberry Saison
Cider Riot: Blueberry Cider
10 Barrel: Peche
pFriem: Frambozen
pFriem: Oude Kriek
pFriem: Blabier
pFriem: Peche
Cascade:Shrieking Violet
Cascade: Orange Crusher
Cascade: Grapefruit Wheat
Burnside: Lime and a Coconut
Golden Valley: Cerisely Funky
Golden Valley: Bramble in the Barrel
Wildcraft: Cherry Quince

WHAT: Portland Fruit Beer Festival

WHEN: Friday June 10th 11:30am - 9pm, Saturday June 11th 11am - 9pm, Sunday June 12th 11am - 6pm

WHERE: North Park Blocks (downtown Portland) entrance at NW Davis Street between 8th & Park ave.

PRICE: $25 (includes a branded cup & 12 drink tickets). Advanced ticket purchasers get 3 Extra Drink Tix at http://portlandfruitbeerfest.merctickets.com

LINKS: FruitBeerFest.com, Portland Fruit Beer Festival on Facebook, @FruitBeerFest on Twitter, @FruitBeerFest on instagram.