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For the everyday Joe or craft beer tourist, summertime in Portland is all about big festivals, sporting anywhere from 80 to 150 beers from all over the country or even around the globe. The rest of the year, the craft community ’round these parts have nonstop mini-fests devoted to the unique creations constantly flowing from 73 metro area brewers, each one featuring a different style: sours, smoked beers, barleywines, organics, Cascadian Dark Ales, or even fruit beers.
It seems like there’s another off-the-wall specialty to check out each weekend, easily making someone at the ready to beat back the beast that is alcoholism. This weekend? It’s all about the Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival Saturday and Sunday at Saravzea Bottle Shop and Pasty Tavern.
With more than 50 beers rotating throughout the two-day extravaganza, the festival list not only gives ample reason to show up, but also to come back for more. Running from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, then 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, revelers can purchase their tickets in advance for $25 online or at the door (cash only) and receive 10 drink tickets plus a commemorate glass. Just check out this list and put on yer drinkin’ hat…
Festival Draft List (some beers may be subject to change):
‘Curiosity’– Biere de Mars, traditional spring farmhouse, 6% ABV
‘Field Beer’– A session Saison brewed for busy farmhands, 4% ABV
‘Coalescense’ – Spring Saison with organic raw oats and rye from a neighbor, 5% ABV
2012 Vintage ‘Apricity’ – A rich, full-bodied, and higher gravity Saison brewed for winter, 8% ABV
‘Spontaneity’– New Release! A spontaneously fermented wild oak barrel-aged lambic inoculated with
apples and Asian pears from a neighboring orchard.
‘The Tide & It’s Takers’ – Belgian-style Tripel w/brettanomyces, 9% ABV
‘Caves Anniversary Saison’ – A Tart Saison blend with Brettanomyces, 6% ABV
‘Brett Saison’ – Rustic farmhouse brewed with 3 different yeast strains, 6.3% ABV
‘French Fennel Farmhouse’ – A wheaton farmhouse ale brewed with fennel seed, bulb, & pollen, 7.1%
‘Suburban Farmhouse’ – A copper-hued Saison made with Topaz hops, 7.5% ABV
‘Glimmerglass’ – A delightful spring Saison, 5.4% ABV
‘Hennepin’ – Farmhouse Saison brewed with grains of paradise, coriander, ginger, and sweet orange peel, 7.7% ABV
‘Flanders Red Ale’ – Crux’s interpretation of a traditional Belgian red ale, 8.1% ABV
‘Saison Desay’ Wild Blend 1, 2, & 3 – A historic farmhouse ale, each is a blend of multiple batches from multiple barrels, hand selected, seeking to highlight unique characteristics derived from the local ‘terroir.’
‘Bramble On’ – A Comet-hopped blackberry Saison, 5.6% ABV
Epic Brewing Company/Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project
‘Elder Brett’ – Wine barrel-aged Saison w/brettanomyces, 9.1% ABV
‘Colette’ – Belgian-inspired Saison using four different yeast strains, 7.3% ABV
‘Comet Rye’d’ – Saison brewed w/rye and Comet hops, 6% ABV
‘Fuego del Otono’ – An oak-aged amber farmhouse brewed with chestnuts and spices, 6.1% ABV
‘Biere de Mars’ – French-style stock ale aged in oak barrels, 7% ABV
Laurelwood Public House and Brewery
‘Black & Bucolic’ – A dark & fruity, yet refreshing Saison brewed especially for this festival, 5.4% ABV
‘Lentepunt’ – ‘Lentepunt’ means ‘Spring Equinox’ in Dutch, this is an amber farmhouse with brettanomyces, 6.6% ABV. Part of the batch was blended with the ‘Half Naked’ from Solera brewing – be sure to try all 3 beers!
‘Forbidden Fruit’ – A black currant Saison brewed with Bazi Brasserie for their 2nd Anniversary, 5.9% ABV
‘Biere de Mars’ – Belgian-inspired ‘Beer of March’ Ale with brettanomyces, 6.2% ABV
‘Love’s Leopold’ – Amercian-style wild ale aged in Leopold blackberry-flavored whiskey barrels, 9.5% ABV
‘Le Merle’ – A rustic, Belgian-inspired Saison, 7.9% ABV
‘Funk d’ Farmhouse’ – A tart Saison aged in pinot noir barrels, 6.6% ABV
‘Biere de Mars’ – ‘Beer of March’ – Saison fermented with brettanomyces, 6.4% ABV
‘Tiny Saison’ – A refreshing and light spring Saison, 3.2% ABV
‘Granum’ – Herbal Farmhouse, brewed with spelt, rye, oats, wheat, and barley, 7.5% ABV
‘Ostara’ – Spring amber Saison brewed with woody herbs and chamomile, 7.5% ABV
‘Spruce Saison’ – Golden Saison brewed with spruce tips, 7.5% ABV
‘Half Naked’ – A sour farmhouse ale, 6.5% ABV; this ale was also blended with Logsdon’s ‘Lentepunt’ to make ‘Half Naakte Paasvankantie,’ which is Dutch for ‘Half Naked Spring Break’!
‘Cellar Door’ – A saison with Sterling and Citra hops and finished with white sage, 6.6% ABV
‘Stateside Saison’ – A classic farmhouse ale, 6.8% ABV
‘Matt’s Burning Rosids’ – Imperial cherry wood-smoked Saison, 10.5% ABV
‘The Perfect Crime’ – Smoked Black Saison aged in red wine barrels (collab w/Evil Twin & Stillwater), 6.8% ABV
‘The Tiger Cub’ – Saison aged in white wine barrels, 7.7% ABV
A special version of ‘La Tache’ – A wild ale aged in dark rum barrels with white peaches, 8.4% ABV
‘Saison de Lente’ – A spring Saison with brettanomyces, 6.5% ABV
‘Sour in the Rye’ – An oak barrel-aged sour rye, 8.7% ABV
‘Biere de Garde’ – A ‘beer for keeping’ inspired by the farmhouse beers brewed in Northern France and
Steve Jones, Proprietor and Cheesemonger at Cheese Bar in Portland, Oregon, 5.3% ABV
‘Populus’ – A golden farmhouse ale with Oregon-grown Cascade hops and California-grown coriander, 6% ABV
‘Urban Farmhouse’ – A light refreshing and highly sessionable farmhouse ale, 5.3% ABV
‘Blow up your TV’ – A table Saison/Grisette blend, 3.8% ABV
‘Saison Man’ – A chardonnay barrel-aged session Saison, 4.8% ABV
‘3 Flowers’ – An ‘orange-hued’ Saison aged on 3 secret varieties of flowers, 7.0% ABV
‘Fatali Four’ – Barrel-aged ‘Four’, Belgian-style wheat beer, with fatali chiles added, 4.5% ABV
