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New School presents the New Brewery & Cidery Showcase 2022

New School Beer is proud to present our 2022 New Brewery & Cidery Showcase taking place on Thursday, June 23rd as part of the Portland Beer Week presents calendar. For going on a decade we have curated a tap takeover style lineup of the best and brightest new Oregon brands from across the state, big and small, to come to Portland and meet the community and each other. Having moved from Bailey’s Taproom (RIP) to Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom on SE Division, this years event is an indoor/outdoor street party open to the public with no tickets, wristbands, or special glassware required.

The 2022 New Brewery & Cidery Showcase has lined up 8 breweries and 1 new cidery mostly from out of the city who will be visiting in person and some pouring their beers in Portland for the first time. Beers and ciders will be available by the glass, pint, or in taster trays. The event will run from 4-10pm with the brewery owners/brewers in attendance from 5-8pm, it will be 21+, BYO food, and with any luck we will have nice weather to boot.

Funky Fauna Brewing

Sisters, OR

The first new brewery in Sisters, Oregon specializes in the funky wild yeast and mixed culture beers that their name implies and has yet to be available outside of their taproom until this event. Founded by husband/wife Michael Frith and Danielle Burns, Funky Fauna Brewing only opened at the tail end of 2021 and has slowly moved from clean ales and lagers into the time consuming oak-aged farmhouse and sour beer projects that beer nerds dream of. Learn more about Funky Fauna in our full-length article.

Brujos Brewing

Portland, OR

Conjured into reality from the dreams of brewer Sam Zermeno, the Brujos Brewing brand was but a whisper between dark and strong beer aficionados from southern California to the deserts of Vegas before the rumors traveled to Portland. Previously only available to members of the occult, gothic, underground beer club from vanishing instagram stories, the Brujos legend is materializing to the public in the first official beer release crafted in partnership with Great Notion Brewing. While you may be one of a few lucky souls able to grab a can from Brujos, the new brewery showcase will be one of the only opportunities to try their first beer on draft and meet the sorcerer in person.

Crooked Creek Brewery

Warren, OR

Professional photographer and homebrewer Dave Lauridsen gave up his day job to construct a brewery on an undeveloped area in rural Warren, Oregon earlier this year. Crooked Creek Brewery has its roots in rustic Belgian and French traditional ales crafted on a nano scale, but Lauridsen hesitates to call them farmhouse or wild ales. His small batch beers embrace premium estate malts, local pacific northwest grown ingredients, and American hop varieties, all of the things that the original farmhouse brewers would have done only in a very different time and place. Crooked Creek recently opened their own taproom which is pretty much the only place to try their beers unless you make it to the new brewery and cidery showcase on June 23rd.

Kristof Farms Cider

Yamhill, OR

From a family of Pulitzer prize winning journalists and a recent Oregon gubernatorial candidate, Kristof Farm Cider made an auspicious debut earlier this year that recently landed them a prestigious best in show GLINT CAP award for their Orchard Cider. Shepherded by Caroline Kristof daughter of former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof and acclaimed author Sheryl WuDunn, this small batch cider brand comes from the 72 year-old family farm in Yamhill and is produced under the guidance of acclaimed Oregon cidermaker Christine Walker of Bauman’s Cider. Kristof Cider’s second ever cider will make it’s debut just in time for the new brewery and cidery showcase with a rare opportunity to try it on draft with its creators. Catch up on the Kristof Farms Cider story here.


Via Beer

Clackamas, OR

From the mind of one of Oregon’s most successful brewery entrepreneures of the past 15 years, Via Beer is the new IPA and lager-centric brand by Wayfinder Beer and Double Mountain Brewery founder Charlie Devereux and accomplished brewmaster Kyle Larsen of Kings & Daughters Brewing fame. With a slick psychedelic vision of hop focused but drinkable beers from an accomplished brain trust, Via Beer has rolled out cans and draft over the Portland area building buzz for a potential future brewpub. For now the only place to find Via Beer is at small local taprooms and bottle shops, and of course the new brewery and cidery showcase where you can meet the creators in-person. Get the full story on Via Beer right here.

Van Henion Brewing

Bend, OR

One of the biggest launches of 2022 comes from the former lead brewers of Bend, Oregon’s Boneyard Beer and operates out of their former facility. Husband/wife duo Mark and Dana Henion, and brewer John Van Duzer, the three brewery visionaries combine over 30 years of experience from Oakshire Brewing and The Bier Stein, to Deschutes Brewery, Cascade Lakes, and of course Boneyard Beer. With Van Henion Brewing they strive to create the sort of clean and clear crushers that they fell in love with from German-style traditional lagers to the more crisp West Coast-style of IPA’s. Read more about Van Henion Brewing here.

Vice Beer

Vancouver, WA

It may be considered a conflict of interest to have the New School Beer’s own occasional contributor Michael Perozzo’s new brewery in the mix as the sole exception to our usual rule of including only Oregon made brands. But that’s just because Perozzo is a rule breaker himself, with fingers in the behind-the-scenes creative of some of southwest Washington’s most successful breweries such as Trap Door Brewing, and Oregon’s Von Ebert Brewing. He has even dipped a few toes in as well with new beer bar/taphouse The Juice Box in Centralia, WA, and founding popular facebook beer group Beer Nerds. Recently, Perozzo and a team of investors lead by brewer Cameron Johnson purchased Vancouver’s Barlow’s Brewery and are currently remaking it into the ambitious Vice Beer. Set to debut this June at the Washington Brewers Festival, Vice Beer plans to brew and master a wide group of styles from fruited kettle sours to IPA’s, lagers, and yes even a smoothie sour or two. The new brewery showcase will be their Oregon debut.

Fracture Brewing

Portland, OR

Straight out of Saigon, the new Fracture Brewing has pulled together the broken pieces of the former Burnside Brewing Co. production facility in Portland to assemble a modern brand from one of Vietnam’s most award-winning brewers. Under the creative direction of Vietnam native Ny Lee and her California born brewer-husband Darren Provenzano, Fracture Brewing is a partnership with the Chefstable Group behind such projects as Loyal Legion, Lardo, and Fills Donuts, among many others. Fracture beers are already on the Portland market in cans, but a tasting room is planned to open later this summer. Meet the brewers and dreamers behind Fracture in-person from 5-8pm on June 23rd at Imperial. Read all about Fracture Brewing here.

Yovu Beer

Portland, OR

First previewed in our ‘Most Anticipated New Oregon Breweries of 2022’ article from earlier this year, the Yovu Brewing brand makes their first quiet lager-centric appearance on draft at this event. The one man project comes from Nate Yovu, the former Burnside Brewing Co. chef and former brewer/co-owner of BTU Brasserie brewery, who know is a yeast specialist at Imperial Yeast. Not much yet is known about Yovu Brewing except that they will focus on making light American lagers cool again from a very small production footprint to specialty accounts only.

New School Beer presents

NEW BREWERY & CIDERY SHOWCASE

Thursday, June 23rd 4-10pm, meet-the-brewers 5-8pm
Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom
3090 SE Division St, Portland, OR 97202