Thanks to a handful of small craft breweries, cask beer is having a small resurgence. One of the breweries leading the charge is southeast Portland’s Away Days Brewing, which will hold their 2nd annual Cask Festival this Saturday, October 16th. The min-fest will feature beers from Machine House, Upright Brewing, Level Beer, Steeplejack Brewing and Gigantic.

Cask-conditioned beer, is of course, the English beer tradition most famously misrepresented as being warm and flat. What it is in actuality is unpasteurized and unfiltered beer that matures and conditions in the serving vessel, offering a live and fresh product that is a purer expressio of the fermenting beer. Yes it is typically lower carbonation and a little warmer, that is from the gravity pour or hand pump that gently introduces oxygen into the beer as the yeast eats up the last bits of sugar and a natural carbonation. This presentation creates a soft, full-flavored, living expression of a beer that will be unique from cask to cask and even pint to pint.

Experience some of the best cask-conditioned beer that the Pacific Northwest has to offer at the 2021 Cask Days.

$20 tickets come with a 20oz Away Days branded mug and two pours. Additional drinks will be available to purchase on the day.

Away Days will also be serving up some of the best of British snacks from their sister pub next door Toffee Club.

TAPLIST:

Upright Brewing
Beer Name: Green Hop Pub Ale
Style: Fresh Hop Best Bitter
ABV: 4.9%
Additional details: Coleman AG Cascade added during fermentation

Level Beer
Beer Name: Brown for Whatever
Style: English-Style Brown Ale
ABV: 4.9%
Additional details: Tastes like a brown beer! Bready, notes of chocolate/coffee, mild fruity esters, etc.

Gigantic Brewing
Beer Name: LP Stout
Style: Export Stout
ABV: 5.6%
Additional details: Willamette dry hop

Machine House Brewing
Beer Name: Dark Mild
Style: English Mild
ABV: 3.7%

Machine House Brewing
Beer Name: Cambridge Bitter
Style: Ordinary Bitter
ABV: 3.8%

Machine House Brewing
Beer Name: Fresh Hop Cascade Guzzler
Style: Session Pale
ABV: 3.8%

Machine House Brewing
Beer Name: Fresh Hop Mosaic IPA
Style: IPA
ABV: 

Steeplejack Brewing
Beer Name: TBD
Style: ESB
ABV: 5.2%
Additional details: Brewed with 100% Skagit malt, featuring Triticale and Molasses malt, this ESB on cask is smooth and nutty with balanced earthy hop character from Willamette hops. A cozy real ale served on cask, this beer is just right for fall.

Away Days Brewing
Beer Name: Bus Stop Bitter
Style: Best Bitter
ABV: 4.2%

Away Days Brewing
Beer Name: Milner’s Mild
Style: English Mild
ABV: 3.7%

Away Days Brewing
Beer Name: Sheedy’s Left Peg
Style: Irish Stout
ABV: 4.2%

Away Days Brewing
Beer Name: ESB
Style: ESB
ABV: 5.0%

CASK DAYS 2021

Saturday, October 16th General Admission 2-8pm

Away Days Brewing Co
1516 Southeast 10th Avenue
Portland, OR 97214