Oregon Brewers Festival

This weekend (starting today actually) is the Oregon Brewers Festival, which is one of the largest outdoor beer festivals in the country. It takes places down at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland and runs from Thursday July 26th through Sunday July 29th. There are a total of 72 commercial breweries (plus a tab for the Oregon Brew Crew’s joint venture with Widmer called Collaborator). Each brewery gets to bring one beer, so there are a total of 73 beers to try. You can try beers in 4oz tasters for $1 or in full 12oz mugs for $4. Tasters are the way to go, because there’re just too many beers to try. There seems to be a fair amount of Belgian wit beers this year judging from the list on the OBF web site, but we’ll see when we get there. I’ll be down there all four days and will post notes about the standouts that I try. It’s always a good time and it looks like we’re lucky to have all sunny days in the low 80’s, which is optimal outdoor beer drinking weather. So, it’s off to the OBF!