Portland’s Fresh Hop Pop-Up Beer Fest runs for 18-days
Portland Beer Week presents the 11th annual Fresh Hop Pop-Up Beer Festival returning for an 18-day season at Prost! Marketplace on N. Mississippi Ave. from September 17 - October 4th open from 8am - 10pm daily. 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, regional highlights of growing regions and beer meccas, and showcases of specific hop farms and farmers. Expect something new on tap every day, and numerous reasons to return for unique experiences.
SPECIAL FRESH HOP POP-UP EVENTS:
THURSDAY 9/17/26
GOSCHIE DAY
Kickoff the Portland Fresh Hop Pop-Up Beer Fest with the inaugural Goschie Day celebrating Oregon hop farmer Gayle Goschie. September 17th marks Oregon Beer Awards Hall of Famer Gayle Goschie’s birthday, we will be featuring all Goschie Farms grown fresh hop beers in honor of the queen.
FRIDAY 9/18/26
BREAKSIDE DIRECTOR’S CUT
Extra special and rare first runnings of Breakside’s fresh hop beers with extreme and intense fresh hoppiness above anything else you will have this or any other year.
MONDAY 9/21/26
YAKIMA FRESH HOP NIGHT
From the Palm Springs of Washington, aka the hop capital of America, aka Yakima, come the freshest beers and coolest hops. Featuring Single Hill Brewing, Bale Breaker Brewing, and Varietal Beer.
WEDNESDAY 9/23/26
BEND FRESH HOP SHOWCASE
Bend, Oregon has some of the best breweries in the world, we asked them to give us all their fresh hops: Boneyard Beer, Sunriver Brewing, Bend Brewing, & Deschutes Brewery.
FRIDAY 9/25/26
BLOCK 15 BREWING FRESH HOP SHOWCASE
Corvallis, Oregon’s Block 15 Brewing is in the house pouring all 3 of this year’s fresh hop release: FH Static Shatter IPA, Animal Cookies FH Hazy IPA, & Fresh Hop Sticky Hands double IPA.
SATURDAY 9/26/26
SEATTLE FRESH HOP SHOWCASE
From the emerald city, fresh hop beers from Reuben’s Brews, Stoup Brewing & more TBA
MONDAY 9/28/26
pFRIEM FAMILY BREWERS & GORGE BREWERIES
pFriem Family Brewers will be at the fresh hop beer garden with all 4 of their fresh hop beers, plus freshies from Ferment Brewing and Double Mountain Brewing.
WEDNESDAY 9/30/26
FRESH FROM ASTORIA WITH FORT GEORGE BREWING
How many fresh hop beers from Fort George Brewing can we fit on our taps? 5,6,…8???
FRIDAY 10/2/26
FRESH METAL-TOBERFEST
Hardcore metal breweries fresh hop beers featuring Brujos Brewing, Wayfinder Beer, Oak Union Brewing, & Alchemy Cider.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY 10/3-10/4/26
FRESHTOBERFEST
Coinciding with Prost! Oktoberfest celebration the fresh hop pop-up will feature all German-style beers with fresh hops such as: FH Pils, Oktoberfest, Kolsch, and Hefeweizen.
LOCATION:
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".
MORE INFO:
The Fresh Hop Pop-Up Beer Festival was first held in the parking lot of Burnside Brewing Co. (RIP) in 2015 to showcase the finest harvest beers of the season in one place, in 2019 it relocated to Prost!. Instead of searching the city and local breweries, bars, and bottle shops the pop-up fest curates a selection of 10 draft beers and continues to change them out to the latest offerings as they come out of the brewery tanks. Perhaps best of all, the event is free, outdoors, all-ages, and runs all-day.
September 17 - October 4th 2026 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.
Follow @freshhopfest on instagram