Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival announces beer list and bottle share reception
A celebration of American Farmhouse beers made in rustic traditions, sometimes with wild yeast and bacteria, aged in oak, and with various levels of acidity. This is a funk lovers fest of nuanced and complex beers meant to be sipped and savored.
The Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival is back for it’s 7th year after last being held in 2019. The previously annual event was founded at Saraveza before it expanded to the paved and covered pavilion at Glendoveer Golf next to Von Ebert Brewing Glendoveer in 2019. The 2-day festival is returning May 26th from 4-9pm and May 27th from 12-9pm, and today announced the beer list and an opening brewers bottle share reception on Thurs. May 25th.
This invitational-style beer festival highlights the best in American farmhouse brewers and beers with a world-class lineup from around the country. This 2-day festival features rustic, dry, tart, mixed-culture farmhouse ales and clean saisons, grisettes, table beers, fruit beers, and everything inbetween. Along with fresh beer, organizers are dusting off 5+ year old vintage beers from the cellar for bottle pours on both days of the festival.
The festival setting is a grassy and tree lined pavilion just a stones throw from Von Ebert's Glendoveer brewery, next to Glendoveer Golf & Tennis club house near the center of the park.Food options by Graze Craze, providing three different options for cheese, charcuterie, fruit, snack plates in single or shareable sizes. A full kitchen is available next door inside Von Ebert Glendoveer pub.Attendees are encouraged to attend both days as a different lineup of breweries and beers will be presented each day.
Brewers Bottleshare Reception
Thurs. May 25th 5-7pm $50
In addition to the main festival, a Thursday May 25th reception bottle share will be held from 5-7pm with brewers from Alesong Brewing & Blending, pFriem Family Brewers, de Garde, Von Ebert Brewing, and Little Beast Brewing. Only 50 tickets for this private event at Von Ebert Glendoveer are available to the public, and include a complementary cheese, charcuterie, snack spread. Get Tix Here.
FRIDAY MAY 26th BEERS:
Logsdon Farmhouse Ales
2018 Spontane Blanc - This sparkling wine inspired is the spontaneous traditional recipe agedwith Gewurtztraminer grapes and Riesling juice from White Salmon Vineyards in Underwood, WA. 1 and 2 year old French Oak casks were carefully selected for fruiting, and blended with some young beer for refermentation in the bottle. 7.7% ABV
2018 Spontane Wilde - Inspired by the spontaneously fermented Lambic and Gueuze of Belgium,The wort is boiled at length, then cooled overnight in our farmhouse's attic koelschip, before aging in French Oak barrels for up to 3 years. 7.4% ABV.
Beachwood Brewing & Blending
Careful with that Cherry & Rye, Eugene - Lambic-inspired Ale with Rye and Cherries.
Into The Great Unknown - Dry Hopped Belgian Style Sour Ale
Propolis Brewing
2017 Kriek - Grenache vat aged dark Flemish-style dark ale with black cherries. 7.5% abv
Burial Beer
The Celebration of Light and Darkness - Golden Sour Ale with Peaches and Nectarine.
The River To Hell Runs Red - Oud Bruin ale (Flanders Brown Ale) that spent 6 months in Brunello foeders, only to be re-fermented in Sanctuary Vineyards Tempranillo barrels for 9 months. Hold on, not done. 75% of this sour ale was aged on raspberries, while the remaining 25% on blueberries.
de Garde Brewing
Tableau Lily - A Spontaneous Red Ale with Tempranillo Grapes Aged in Oak Barrels for Four Years. 7.8% ABV.
Apricot Ivy - A Spontaneous Wild Ale with Apricots Aged in Oak Barrels for Two Years. 6.5% ABV.
The Kriek (2019) - A spontaneous Wild Ale aged in oak barrels for two years with Montmorency & Morello cherries.
The Purple (2018) - Lambic-style aged in Oak Wine Barrels with black & red raspberries.
Broken Truck No. 3 - A special wild aged in oak barrels blended from 4 years for our friends at Tin Bucket.
Hill Farmstead
Anna Farmstead Ale w/Honey - Anna (1902-1993) was our grandfather’s sister; Hill Farmstead Brewery rest upon the land that was once home to her and her 13 siblings. In her honor, this honey Farmstead® ale is crafted from American malted barley, European and American hops, Vermont wildflower honey, our distinctive farmhouse yeast and water from our well. Unfiltered and naturally carbonated, this is the ale that I dream to have shared with Anna.
Florence Farmstead Wheat Ale - Florence (1915-1967) was our grandfather’s sister, and Hill Farmstead Brewery rests upon the land that was once home to her and her 13 siblings. In her honor, this Belgian inspired wheat Farmstead® ale is crafted from American malted barley, organic Vermont wheat, European and American hops, our distinctive farmhouse yeast and water from our well. It is unfiltered and naturally carbonated. Soft, cloudy, and fresh, this is the ale that I dream to have shared with Florence.
Casey Brewing & Blending
Fruit Stand (Pear) - Pears’ nectarous, floral qualities are what led the Colorado Saison stars at Casey to craft this tangy tipple with 2 lbs per gallon of local Bartlett pears.
Holy Mountain Brewing
Demonteller - A mixed culture saison hopped with galaxy and mosaic. Demonteller was fermented and aged in one of our foudres, creating a delicate oak character that balances out a subtle acidity. 5% ABV.
Alesong Brewing & Blending
Stoney Point Saison - A rustic, unfiltered farmhouse ale brewed almost entirely with Oregon-grown ingredients. Fermented with Brettanomyces, dry-hopped with Willamette Hops grown at Crosby Hop Farm. Conditioned on Queen's Bounty honey. 6.3% ABV.
Valley Preserves - a refreshing and jammy sour ale intended to capture the essence of fruit preserves. Beginning it’s life as two different blonde beers, part of the blend was aged on biodynamically grown blueberries from our neighbors at King Estate before being blended with beer that had been conditioned on whole Oregon cherries from Hood River and aged for over two years in our cellar.
pFriem Family Brewers
Druif Rouge - Lambic-inspired sour w/ pinot noir grapes
Barrel Aged Saison VI - a classic saison w/ brett
Von Ebert Brewing
Alma - Foeder-aged farmhouse ale with brettanomyces & organic peaches. 6% ABV.
Rain Shadows - Oak-aged mixed culture beer fermented with whole-cluster Syrah (dark ripe berry, black pepper, elegant). 8% ABV.
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales
Strawberry Rhubarb Bambic - A blend of several lambic-style ales from 2017, 2018 and 2019 aged in oak barrels where they developed incredible unique and complex flavors. These ales were then blended with fresh Bam Biere and the combination was further aged on rhubarb and strawberry puree to add tart, funky and fruity flavors.
SATURDAY MAY 27th BEERS:
Hill Farmstead
Charlie Farmstead Ale - a lively, cheerful, low-alcohol Farmstead® ale with a touch of playfulness.
Arthur Farmstead Ale - Arthur (1922-2005) was our grandfather’s youngest brother; Hill Farmstead Brewery rests upon the land that was once home to him and his 13 siblings. In his honor, this Farmstead® ale is crafted from American malted barley, American and European hops, our distinctive farmhouse yeast and water from our well. Unfiltered and naturally carbonated, this is the ale that I dream to have shared with Arthur.
Plum Harvest 2020 - Each harvest season, we choose various barrels of our Farmstead® ales that exhibit sympathetic characteristics for pairing with local fruit varieties. Regardless of the base beer, the ideal outcome remains the same: a thoughtful representation of the fruit in season. For this selection, a blend of Farmstead® ales that had aged in wine barrels for over a year was conditioned further atop organic plums from nearby Elmore Roots Nursery in Elmore, Vt. 6% ABV.
Modern Times Beer
Goblin Ski Patrol (vintage bottles) - a blend of red wine barrel-aged funky saisons and clay amphora aged saison with notes of citrus, red berry, tropical fruit, and herbal funk with a subtle minerality and dynamic acidity.
Thermometer Island Citrus Sour (vintage bottles) - Red wine barrel-aged saison with Cara Cara and Satsuma Mandarins.
Dwinell Country Ales
Summer Blush, Nectarine Spon - A blended, oak-fermented spontaneous spelt ale refermented on tree-ripened Summer Blush nectarines. 4.7%
Fauxtasm, Brett IPA - A thiolized juicy India Pale Ale whirlpooled with crushed Muscat grapes, dry-hopped with Galaxy, and finished with our house mixed-culture. 5.6%
de Garde Brewing
Tableau Lily - A Spontaneous Red Ale with Tempranillo Grapes Aged in Oak Barrels for Four Years. 7.8% ABV.
Apricot Ivy - A Spontaneous Wild Ale with Apricots Aged in Oak Barrels for Two Years. 6.5% ABV.
Block 15 Brewing
Willa 2019 - Blended each year in celebration of our founding brewers' daughters' birth. A solera-style blending of red wine barrel matured farmhouse ales; each year contains a portion of prior vintages dating back to 2017. Lively, bright, and complex, this beer is almost as unique as Willa herself. ABV: 8%
Cassidy 2019 - Inspired by our founding brewers' oldest daughter, this wild farmhouse ale was matured in Sauternes wine barrels with brettanomyces and then conditioned on spring flowers just before packaging. Cassidy is brewed each spring, bottled the following spring with honey from her Grandpa’s bee hive, and released around her birthday. Each bottle contains a portion of all previous years' blends. This bottle-conditioned ale is delightfully fresh, and it will evolve beautifully as it ages alongside Cassidy. ABV: 8.7%
The Ale Apothecary
Slayzon Saison - Saison copuaged with aged Apothecary stock. 6.5% ABV.
Pingpong Table Beer - Wild fermented and oak-aged take on a table bier. 4.2% ABV.
Little Beast Brewing
Plum Crazy - oak aged ale with Plums!
Near to the Wild - A single barrel selection saison - french oak, nice tannins and decent tartness
Wolves & People
Sour Jawn - a tart, effervescent dry-hopped sour ale. Dry-hopped with Citra, Lemondrop, and Taikeke, this crispy wonder is a thirst-quenching, dreamy beauty brewed with Wallonian farmhouse and Philly Sour yeasts. Notes of luscious peach, passionfruit, and guava juiciness dazzle. 5.2% ABV --- Shilpi's first recipe in our brewhouse!
Wild Queen - Brewed with FORAGER, our own unique wild yeast gathered from our meadow’s busy hives, this innovative saison-style sipper is brewed into a large oak foeder with the finest floor-malted & local Oregon malt and fragrant noble hops. Blooming with floral, spicy, abundant aromas, this light yet satisfying table beer, ideally shared over a meal, offers a flower-filled field of possibility in every pour.
Sante Adairius
Saison Bernice - beautifully tart with a soft and inviting mouthfeel. Long, slow aging in stainless tanks coaxes out flavors and aromatics of ripe citrus and just-picked stonefruit. Simple but graceful, Bernice is the beer we’d pour you ourselves if given the chance. 6.5% ABV.
Beauty Sleep - Oak-aged Saison with Raspberries. Wonderfully bright, tart, and gorgeous in color. 8% ABV.
Fair Isle Brewing
Lora - piquette style saison with Blackberries, Cherries, and Raspberries
Montgomery - oak-aged farmhouse ale aged in Copperworks Gin casks with foraged larch tips
Von Ebert Brewing
Alma - Foeder-aged farmhouse ale with brettanomyces & organic peaches. 6% ABV.
Rain Shadows - Oak-aged mixed culture beer fermented with whole-cluster Syrah (dark ripe berry, black pepper, elegant). 8% ABV.
Oxbow Brewing
Am/Fm Dry-Hopped Farmhouse Ale - a blend of hop-forward mixed-fermentation saisons dry-hopped with whole leaf Centennial. 5.5% ABV
Anchorage Brewing
Stop the Car - Saison fermented in Missouri oak foeders with Brettanomyces. Naturally carbonated. 7% ABV.
FESTIVAL INFO:
Location: Glendoveer Golf & Tennis pavilion (behind Von Ebert Brewing) 14015 NE Glisan St, Portland, OR 97230
Free parking is available on-site at Glendoveer Golf Course and Von Ebert Brewing, and the location is conveniently nearby local bus lines. The festival is all-ages friendly, with a full restaurant next door at Von Ebert Brewing Glendoveer.
General Admission Friday or Saturday $35
VIP Admission Saturday (early entry & extra drink tix) $50
Additional drink tickets: $3 each, or 10 drink ticket packs for $25 ($5 discount)