Portland Fresh Hop Pop-Up Beer Fest returns for 17-days
The Portland Fresh Hop Pop-Up Beer Fest is back for another 17-day run at Prost! Marketplace on N. Mississippi Ave. featuring daily fresh hop tappings available from 8am - 10pm with no admission. What makes this fresh hop fest different, is that it is more of an open-air beer garden dedicated to fresh hop beers with covers, heaters, and food trucks, plus a regular rotating schedule of showcases highlighting regions, favorite breweries, and even new hop varieties on various days.
This unique concept for an extended “pop-up” is not the typical beer festival model, because there are zero admission fees, no drink tickets, no wristbands, and no special cups required. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy 10 daily rotating fresh hop beers from the outdoor Bloodbuzz bar, under a covered and heated beer garden deck, surrounded by 10 food trucks.
Fresh Hop beers are only made once a year when the annual late summer and fall hop harvest takes place in the northern hemisphere. Instead of using the normal kiln dried and processed hop pellets that are produced for year-round beers, this is a special opportunity for breweries to use whole cone fresh picked hops straight off the bine in a matter of hours. Because most of the country is nowhere near hop farms like the ones in Oregon and Washington, fresh hop beers are almost exclusively available in the pacific northwest and come and go faster than our summer weather.
In addition to the daily rotating fresh hop beers on draft, the pop-up will host special tap takeovers from premiere fresh hop breweries, and themed nights celebrating regions, hop varieties, and different beer styles. For 2 of the 17 days (September 20-21) the pop-up will host a “Fresh Hop Lager Festival,” before the 3-day Prost! Oktoberfest celebration (9/22-24) where the fresh hops will turn to a German-style fresh hop tap takeover. On another day a showcase for hop innovation lab Indie Hops (9/16), the breweries of the world’s largest hop growing region Yakima (9/28), the fresh hop beers of Seattle (9/30), and days highlighting some of the northwests favorite breweries fresh hop offerings (Breakside on 9/18, Ruse + Block 15 on 9/25, Grains of Wrath on 9/27, Fort George on 10/1.)
Prost! Marketplace is the cart pod that surrounds Prost! on the corner of N. Mississippi & Skidmore. Considered one of the best places in Portland to eat and drink outdoors, Prost! Marketplace was recently featured on Netflix’s “Somebody Feed Phil” and The Oregonian dubbed it the “city’s best food cart pod,” and Willamette Week called it "the superteam of Portland food cart pods".
9/15/ - 10/1 Special Events Schedule:
FRIDAY 9/15/23
KICKOFF PARTY
Kickoff the first of the 17 day fresh hop pop-up beer fest.
SATURDAY 9/16/23
Meet the new Indie Hops
Portland based hop innovators Indie Hops will showcase beers using their new proprietary hop varieties Luminosa and Lórien, probably a few Strata hopped as well. Maybe an appearance by the latest and greatest variety - Audacia!
MONDAY 9/18/23
Breakside Fresh Hop Night
7 Fresh Hop beers from Breakside Brewing on draft
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY 9/20-9/21/23
Fresh Hop LAGER Fest
A 2-day total tap takeover of fresh hopped lagers from the likes of Wayfinder, Von Ebert, Block 15, Gigantic, Migration, Buoy, Level Beer, Occidental, Breakside, Threshold Brewing, Ancestry, and more!
FRI-SUN 9/22-9/24/23
FRESHTOBERFEST
Celebrate Prost! Oktoberfest in combination with the fresh hop pop-up featuring fresh hop fest biers, fresh hop kolsch, fresh hop lagers, and more.
MONDAY 9/25/23
Ruse Brewing + Block 15 Fresh Hop Night
Portland’s Ruse Brewing and Corvallis’s Block 15 Brewing are taking over the taps with their fresh hop beers for one day only!
WEDNESDAY 9/27/23
Grains of Wrath Fresh Hop Night
Camas, Washington’s Grains of Wrath Brewing closed their nearby Portland location earlier this year but are coming back to the Mississippi/Williams neighborhood for a fresh hop showcase!
THURSDAY 9/28/23
YAKIMA FRESH HOP NIGHT
Yakima, Washington is the hop capital of the world and their breweries make some of the best fresh hop beers in the world. Join us to try fresh hop beers from some of the best: Single Hill Brewing, Bale Breaker Brewing, and Varietal Beer.
SATURDAY 9/30/23
SEATTLE FRESH HOP NIGHT
Featuring the best of Seattle fresh hop beers from Fremont Brewing, Reuben’s Brews, Stoup Brewing, and more….
SUNDAY 10/1/23
FORT GEORGE FRESH HOP NIGHT
Astoria, Oregon’s Fort George Brewery will be at the pop-up with all 6 of their fresh hop beers this year:
Fresh IPA w/ Centennial
Columbus Architect IPA w/ Ghost Town w/ Columbus
Illuminaut IPA w/ Moonraker & Varietal w/ Luminosa & HBC 586
Rock, Paper, Cascade - pale ale w/ Cascade
Co-Hoperative Ale - golden ale w/ a variety of community hops
FRESH HOP POP-UP BEER FEST
September 15 - October 1st 2023 at Prost! Marketplace on the corner of N. Mississippi Ave. and Skidmore: 4233 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97217. The pop-up bar Bloodbuzz will be open and pouring beers from 8am - 10pm every day.
More info at Fresh-Hops.com