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Beer List for the Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival

This weekend, April 5-7th is the 7th annual Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival with a lineup featuring some of America's best farmhouse brewers and beers. While the list of breweries featuring highlights like Fonta Flora and Sante Adairius has been known, the final taplist for each day has been revealed. While the fest is 3-days, each session is different, with separate breweries and taplists that give plenty of reason to keep coming back. 

FRIDAY

The Ale Apothecary: 2018 Ale Club Mixed CaseAlesong Brewing & Blending: Touch of Brett MandarinaThis dry French-style saison was primary fermented with a blend of Brettanomyces yeasts, lending tropical fruit and spicy aromas. After aging, it was dry-hopped liberally with Mandarina Bavaria hops to complement the ripe pineapple, mango, grapefruit, and rose-like flavors that evolved during the aging time. ABV:8.5%Alesong Brewing & Blending: VisionsA nod to Bob Dylan’s classic ode to the impossible and fleeting pursuit of perfection, Visions is a blended mixed culture ale that was matured in French Oak barrels for nearly a year and then bottle conditioned with Muscat Grape juice. Bright golden in color with pleasant fruity aromas of Asian pear, citrus blossoms, and ripe melon, this beer ends with mild zip of tartness balancing all of the elements. ABV:6.5%Crooked Stave Artisan Beer: Colorado Reserva Elberta PeachGolden Sour ale aged in barrels with Palisade peaches. 6.1% ABV.Crooked Stave Artisan Beer: Surette Reserva Juniper & Gin BarrelProvision sour ale aged in Old Tom Gin barrels with juniper and ginger. 9% ABV.De Garde Brewing: Kriek PremièreA Spontaneous Wild Ale aged in Oak Barrels with Montmorency Cherries ALC 8.4% BY VOLDe Garde Brewing: IvyA Spontaneous Wild Ale aged in Oak Barrels for 2 years ALC 6% BY VOLDwinell Country Ales: Fool’s Gold | Wild LagerA Pilsner-style lager aged in freshly dumped Viognier barrels with a blend of wild yeast and refermented on freshly-pressed Viognier must. A smooth, biscuity pale lager with a subtle fruit character, a delicate acidity, and a touch of funk. Brewed in collaboration with Backwoods Brewing Company (Stevenson, WA). 8% ABVDwinell Country Ales: Levelheaded | Wild AleA mixed-culture, barrel-aged golden ale hopped with El Dorado, Azacca, and Citra. Soft malts and tropical hops, and an interplay of delicate oak are balanced by a lively acidity. 5% ABVEngine House No. 9: Tayberry FarmhouseBrewed and flavored with tayberries from our friends at Sterino farms. Fermented in oak barrels with our house brett strain. 6.4% ABV.Engine House No. 9: Rhubarb Wild AleA multi barrel blend that was infused with amazing locally grown rhubarb from our friends at Sterino farms. 6% ABV.Fort George Brewery: The Gallows - Barrel Fermented Mixed-Culture HefeweizenBrettanomyces does amazing things to the esters produced by other yeasts. Hefeweizen is known for producing isoamyl acetate, the compound responsible for the banana flavor in hefeweizens. Brettanomyces takes that ester compound and converts it into entirelydifferent flavors, often tropical fruit and rustic funky aromas. The unique combination of these yeasts, plus some saison yeast thrown in for good measure, was too exciting to not explore. The end result is a dry, fruity, easy drinking beer with layers of complexity. 6.8% ABV.Freehand Brewery: Mods – Barrel-aged, golden, sour aleMods is a blended blonde semi-sour ale fermented in a variety of mixed-culture barrels that are ever evolving, yet somehow always similar. From batch to batch, you will see changes as we blend to maximize the character of each unique barrel.  Batch 1 is a 100% barrel aged mixed culture sour blonde. Meant to be rich, bright, and striking a balance between tartness and depth, we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed blending it. Prost! 8.1% abvGarden Path Fermentation Project: The Fruitful Barrel BoysenberriesA blend of mature barrel-aged beer refermented with fresh, whole Skagit Valley boysenberries in an oak puncheon, and naturally conditioned with blackberry honey from The Valley’s Buzz. 8.5% ABV.Great Notion Brewing: Funky PantsFunky pants is a Belgian inspired beer beer, with a mild acidity and a funky Brett character. We fermented and aged this beer in stainless with a unique blend of yeast and bacteria. Great Notion Brewing: Sorcerer's Apprentice (Cherry)Sorcerer's Apprentice: Cherry was started with a blend of 3 and 12-month old barrel aged saison re-fermented with our house mixed culture. Then, we stuffed oak barrels to the brim with whole fresh Hood River cherries and aged this beer on fruit for an additional 6 months. This Sorcerer's Apprentice is an assertively sour beer with loads of over the top cherry flavor and a clean citrus lactic finish. By aging on whole cherries, pits and all, the beer has a layered and complex depth to the fruit character.Holy Mountain Brewing: Sacred GeometrySacred Geometry is a blend of various oak aged, mixed fermentation beers. After blending, it was racked on top of a large amount of fresh Raspberries from Spooner Farms in Puyallup, WA. It then went through a secondary fermentation on the fruit in freshly emptied red wine barrels. 6% ABV.Holy Mountain Brewing: New JerusalemNew Jerusalem started as a blend of oak aged, mixed fermentation beers, and was then racked on top of an enormous amount of Robada Apricots grown by our friends at Gilbert Orchards in Yakima, WA. It then went through a secondary fermentation on the Apricots in a variety of Washington wine barrels. Conditioned with Brett. 6% ABV.Jester King Brewery: Spon Three Year Blendour blend of one, two and three year old 100% spontaneously fermented beer. Our goal is to honor tradition while making a beer unique to the Texas Hill Country, our winter microflora, and the people of Jester King. We brew with water from our well, grain from our local maltster (Blacklands Malt), old hops from the attic of our barn, and ferment with ambient yeast collected overnight as the wort cools in our coolship. We spontaneously ferment in oak barrels, blend across three years, and 100% naturally condition for almost a year in kegs and bottles resting on their sides. 5.5% ABV.Little Beast Brewing: DutchyPinot Barrel aged Bruin with Montmorency cherries and cacao nibs - 8.5% Little Beast Brewing: Dream StateFoeder aged strawberry ale - 7.0% abvLogsdon Farmhouse Ales: Spontane BlancSpontane Wilde aged on Riesling juice and whole Gewurztraminer grapes.  Matchless Brewing: Bright & BruxBright with Brux is a barrel-aged version of our hoppy Belgian Blond collaboration with Well 80 Brewhouse. Our original intent with this beer was for a table blond with a real "new world" hop aroma and flavor. For this round we wanted to see what time, Brett and oak would do with our intent. the Beer is naturally conditioned, dry, light, hoppy, and funky while still tropical and fruity. Its a refreshing reminder of lighter things any time of year! 5.75% ABV.Perennial Artisan Ales: La CosechaMixed-fermentation saison aged in wine barrels with peaches. pFriem Family Brewers: Brouwer's 14th Anniversary7.1% | 10 IBU | Ripe berries, white flowers, lemon zestpFriem Brouwer’s 14th Anniversary is a collaboration between two old friends that began with one idea: huckleberries. Sweet aromas of jasmine, honeysuckle, and strawberry rise gently, and notes of candied melon, acai, and pomegranate delight. This Cascadian partnership celebrates Brouwer's 14 years of craft beer leadership in the North West.pFriem Family Brewers: Rhubarb Farmhouse Ale6.2% | 29 IBUpFriem Family Brewers: Bretta II6.1% | 9 IBU | Pineapple, Melon, Mineral, FunkSeeking the wild and wonderful? pFriem Bretta II is a dynamic beer, pouring radiant straw gold. Featuring aromas of pineapple, honeydew, and kiwi alongside notes of yuzu, wet wildflowers, and peaches, it’s funky, fruity, and nothing short of wild. Seek and you shall find!pFriem Family Brewers: Gin Barrel Aged Saison8.7% | 29 IBU | Pineapple, Melon, BotanicalWith Gin Barrel Aged Saison, we’ve begun with a robust Saison of malted and unmalted wheat, Spelt and Barley, but rather than aging in the traditional neutral oak vats of old, we’ve used freshly dumped Old Tom Gin Barrels. As tradition dictates, we’ve brewed this beer in the coldest month of the year and waited as long as we could bear before release. The Summer season has arrived, and just in time for this tropical, botanical, fruity, dry, beauty.  Propolis Brewing: PiCab/Cab franc Barrel-Aged saison brettanomyces with strawberries and Rhubarb 7.0%Propolis Brewing: SalmonberrySyrah barrel-aged saison brettanomyces with wild salmonberries - 7.5%Ruse Brewing/The Ale Apothecary: DreamscapeThe official beer of the 2018 Farmhouse Festival.Sante Adairius Rustic Ales: Family WhistleA barrel aged saison with passion fruit 7.5% ABV.Von Ebert Brewing: Diegetic SoundA foeder fermented Grisette, dry hopped w/ East Kent Goldings (served from bottles)Von Ebert Brewing: The Lime and the SeaA collaboration between Von Ebert Glendoveer and The Commons Brewery. A farmhouse ale w/ hand foraged Oregon sea salt, limes in the sparge water and dry hopped with Wakatu hops.Wander Brewing: Wild WarehouseBarrel-aged farmhouse ale. 6.8% ABV.Wander Brewing: Plum Bob9 months aging in an American oak foeder on 500 lbs. of whole Washington grown plums.Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery: Helderdry-hopped biere de coupageWolves & People Farmhouse Brewery: Goldberryframboise-style saison with golden raspberryYachats Brewing: Flanders Style Red AleBrewed in early 2017, and aged quietly on the Oregon coast  in neutral wine barrels. This beer pours with a light tan head, and begins with flavors of cherry, toasted barrel, and brettanomyces. As it warms flavors of dried fruit and honey arise. 6.4%Yachats Brewing: Buddha’s Hand6% Saison with Buddha’s Hand Fruit 

SATURDAY

Alesong Brewing & Blending: KriekRobed in bright vermillion and with an aroma reminiscent of fresh cherry pie, our Kriek is a humble nod to Belgian Lambic brewers who craft these tart, fruity and complex beers. Ours was matured with a blend of two different Oregon-grown cherries that burst from the glass to provide a luscious, sweet and sour experience. 7.8% ABV.Alesong Brewing & Blending: Friend in CommonsOur first of two collaborations with The Commons Brewery resulted in this tart, mixed-culture farmhouse ale matured for nearly two years and then dry hopped with Citra. Friend in Commons is a ‘beetje’ tribute to the wonderful folks at The Commons. If you know, you know. 6.1%Crooked Stave Artisan Beer: Sour RoséWild ale fermented in oak with raspberries and blueberries. 4.5% ABV.Crooked Stave Artisan Beer: L'Brett d'OrSurreal golden sour ale aged in oak barrels. 5% ABV.Freehand Brewery: Verse - Robust farmhouse aleVerse is an Abbey-inspired farmhouse ale featuring our favorite Belgian yeast.  Darker, yet just as eminently drinkable as its sunnier Saison cousins, you may want to call Verse a Saison Brune, or maybe a wayward Dubbel. You may want to drink it in a taller glass. Maybe you’ll have it with a riper cheese than usual. Regardless of the glassware and accompaniments you may choose, cheers. 7.2% abvFreehand Brewery: Prims - Barrel-aged, Flemish-inspired sour red aleWe are creatures of habit, most of them good ones—including our dedication to the sour red ales of Belgium. Prims is a Northwest re-interpretation of the classic Flemish red ale. Rich, tannic, and tart from a pinch of microbiological “magic,” each vintage will be different as our sweet (and sour) barrels age. We hope you enjoy them all. 7.6% abvJester King Brewery: 2018 Spon Shiraz & Cabernet Sauvignon BlendWe blended 75% beer from 2017 that was about 20 months old with 25% beer from 2015 that was about three-and-a-half years old. The blend was then refermented with Shiraz grapes from Brenham, Texas and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from Sulphur Bluff, Texas. 7.6% ABV.Jester King Brewery: Provenance Lemon LimeProvenance takes the vibrant flavors and aromas of lemons and limes and presents them in the unique way that only wild fermentation with native yeast and bacteria can. Unfiltered, unpasteurized, and 100% bottle-conditioned. 6.2% ABV.Little Beast Brewing: Country WizardBrett Super Saison 8.5% abvLittle Beast Brewing: Wolf CampHoppy Saison 6.2% abvLogsdon Farmhouse Ales: The Continental.The Continental is our Spontane Wilde aged in hogshead Cognac barrels for 24 months, then naturally refermented in the keg/bottle with pear juice as the priming sugar.  Logsdon Farmhouse Ales: Deep River BluesDRB is a barrel aged mixed culture farmhouse ale aged on organic Hood River, Ivanhoe blueberries.  Logsdon Farmhouse Ales: 2018 Spontane Wilde Logsdon Farmhouse Ales: Rupert's RyeMixed Culture rye saison blended with foudre aged Flander's Red.  pFriem Family Brewers: 2018 Druif7.3% | 6 IBU | Light berry, white flowers, green apple, ChampagneRiesling grapes from Brooks Estate Vineyard mixed with our Lambic-inspired base imbue pFriem’s Druif with inviting aromas of fresh bread and berries. Its notes of delicate rose petals, pear and green apple, and its dry, sparkly finish may think its fine wine, but it’s beer— we promise.pFriem Family Brewers: Bretta II6.1% | 9 IBU | Pineapple, Melon, Mineral, FunkSeeking the wild and wonderful? pFriem Bretta II is a dynamic beer, pouring radiant straw gold. Featuring aromas of pineapple, honeydew, and kiwi alongside notes of yuzu, wet wildflowers, and peaches, it’s funky, fruity, and nothing short of wild. Seek and you shall find!pFriem Family Brewers: Gin Barrel Aged Saison8.7% | 29 IBU | Pineapple, Melon, BotanicalWith Gin Barrel Aged Saison, we’ve begun with a robust Saison of malted and unmalted wheat, Spelt and Barley, but rather than aging in the traditional neutral oak vats of old, we’ve used freshly dumped Old Tom Gin Barrels. As tradition dictates, we’ve brewed this beer in the coldest month of the year and waited as long as we could bear before release. The Summer season has arrived, and just in time for this tropical, botanical, fruity, dry, beauty.        Propolis Brewing: BeltaneGABF Gold Medal winning elderflower saison with brettanomyces. 7.5% ABV.Propolis Brewing: Cuvee ReserveCognac Foeder aged saison brettanomyces 6.5%Ruse Brewing/The Ale Apothecary: DreamscapeThe official beer of the 2018 Farmhouse Festival.Ruse Brewing: Sleeping Comet SaisonSante Adairius Rustic Ales: MatricesSide Project’s Cory King and the brewers here at SARA chose several strains from East Coast Yeast, in addition to both breweries respective house cultures, and elected to ferment individual barrels with each, with the ultimate goal of blending the entirety into a final, mature, bottle conditioned Saison. The result is wonderfully complex and the perfect illustration of the shared philosophy between both us and Side ProjectSante Adairius Rustic Ales: Like MindsA barrel-aged Buckwheat saison 7% ABV.Solera Brewery:’18 Solera Kriek, 6.5% ABVSpontaneously fermented on fresh, local Montmorency cherries in the same barrels that have born the last 4 vintages of our kriek. Intensely sharp, bright sour cherry flavor and aroma.Solera Brewery: Beer/Wine Hybrid, 8.0% ABVThe result of feeding some of our multigenerational solera barrels with freshly pressed Pinot Noir juice from our friends at Syncline winery. Von Ebert Brewing: Diegetic SoundA foeder fermented Grisette, dry hopped w/ East Kent Goldings (served from bottles)Von Ebert Brewing: The Lime and the SeaA collaboration between Von Ebert Glendoveer and The Commons Brewery. A farmhouse ale w/ hand foraged Oregon sea salt, limes in the sparge water and dry hopped with Wakatu hops.Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery: Helderdry-hopped biere de coupageWolves & People Farmhouse Brewery: Goldberryframboise-style saison with golden raspberryWunderkammer: Vol. 10 A Winter’s LandscapeAle brewed with lemon, pine and honey. Fermented in oak barrel with mixed culture.Yachats Brewing: Buddha’s HandA unique and bright citrus aroma accompany a slight bitterness with classic Belgian flavors. This saison was fermented with a blend of Brettanomyces yeast, then blended with a traditionally fermented saison, and “dry hopped” with Buddha’s Hand fruit. 6% ABV.Yachats Brewing: Watermelon SourThis beers pours a light gold/pink hue with bright white head. This wonderful sour beer blend was aged in barrels with fresh local watermelons, and has a crisp sour bite with a smooth refreshing watermelon flavor. 7.8% ABV. 

SUNDAY

The Ale Apothecary: Cognac Cherry El CuatroThe Ale Apothecary: Double Peach La TacheThe Ale Apothecary: 2017 Faerie Tears Ruse Brewing/The Ale Apothecary: DreamscapeThe official beer of the 2018 Farmhouse Festival.Allegory Brewing: Near/FarA beer that represents the things we love both near and far from us, exotic hops, being in wine country, farmhouse yeast strains and most of all, playful experimentation. Near/Far is a bright farmhouse ale featuring local Twelve Oaks Estate Viognier grapes, a yeast strain captured in Belgium and brought back, and multiple additions of New Zealand Nelson Sauvin hops. Crisp and clean with dry white wine notes. 8.1% ABV.Allegory Brewing: Kiwi Berry FunkMixed fermentation beer conditioned on 400 pounds of local kiwi berries from Hurst Berry Farm and fermented with Brett C and blended with our house lacto culture. Sour, funky, fruity all in one. 6.4% ABV.Allegory Brewing: Muts VeranderingMixed culture blend of fruited Brett beers (oak & stainless) - 6.4%Burial Beer Co.:Ascent of the BlessedGolden Sour Ale with Pinot Gris and Viognier grapes 8.76 % ABV Burial Beer Co.:The Separation of Light and Darkness- Mixed Culture Saison Ale with Peaches.The conception of our wildest dreams and most simple desires, this Mixed Culture Ale is made with NC barley and wheat from Riverbend Matl. It was aged in our Brunello Foudre and the rested upon 2 pounds per gallon of fresh Carolina peaches. 6.5 % ABVBurial Beer Co.:The Perished Vision Remains - Sour Ale with Botanicals           Our plunder into the bounty of botanical essence is a never-ending ascent into a heavenly sensory extravagance. This mixed culture ale began in steel where primary fermentation was met with a blend of bittering botanicals and warming Crystal hops, that add to the herbal tea-like aromas found in this beer. Extended aging with brettanomyces and lactobacillus has rendered a bright acidity, reminiscent of lemon pulp and Picpoel-esque white wine. 7% ABV.De Garde Brewing: The BoysenberryA Spontaneous Wild Ale aged in Oak Barrels with Boysenberries ALC 6.4% BY VOLDe Garde Brewing: The RoséA Spontaneous Wild Ale aged in Oak Barrels with Mourvedre Grapes ALC 8% BY VOLEngine House No. 9: Du Vieux MondeOld world saison ale. Blend of fresh and oak-aged saison. Bottle conditioned with our house brettanomyces strain. 6.8% ABV.Engine House No. 9: Ferme AgrumeBrett Saison brewed with cara cara oranges and azacca hops. 6.1% ABV.Engine House No. 9: Tayberry FarmhouseBrewed and flavored with tayberries from our friends at Sterino farms. Fermented in oak barrels with our house brett strain. 6.4% ABV.Engine House No. 9: Rhubarb Wild AleA multi barrel blend that was infused with amazing locally grown rhubarb from our friends at Sterino farms. 6% ABV.Fonta Flora Brewery: BrineMixed Culture Oyster SaisonFonta Flora Brewery: BlubadeAppalachian Wild Ale with pink lemonade blueberriesGarden Path Fermentation Project: The Subtle Blend Montmorency BarrelsA blend of barrel-aged beer refermented  with fresh, local, whole Montmorency cherries, blended with additional mature, barrel-aged beer, and naturally conditioned with blackberry honey from The Valley’s Buzz 7.6% ABV.Garden Path Fermentation Project: The Garden Paths Led to FloweredHoppy blonde ale fermented with native Skagit Valley yeast in an open foudre, blended with oak-matured beer, dry-hopped, and naturally conditioned with Skagit blackberry honey from The Valley’s Buzz 7% ABV.Holy Mountain Brewing: Crystal ShipFoudre aged saison. 5.5% ABV.Holy Mountain Brewing: DemontellerA 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. 5.1% ABV.Holy Mountain Brewing: The Gray TowerThe Gray Tower is the fourth blend in an ongoing series of barrel blended Saisons. This blend was taken from a variety of mixed culture Saison barrels that had been aging anywhere between 6-12 months in oak sourced from various wineries across Washington. 6.2% ABV.Perennial Artisan Ales: Distant LandSaison packaged conditioned with Brett C.Perennial Artisan Ales: Funky Wit Charentais MelonFoeder-aged Witbier with Charentais MelonPerennial Artisan Ales: Carondelet Wilderness RefugeWine Barrel-aged Belgian Strong Ale  Upright Brewing: Vintage Ives Blendis a draft-only cut of our best casks, dating back to 2016 and 2017. This select blend shows complex brettanomyces development in the nose and layers of well integrated and balanced acidity, finishing with long lasting minerality and appetizing dryness. 6.2%Upright Brewing: Barrel Aged Witwas brewed last summer with 100% Skagit Valley Malt of northern WA. Traditional spicing of coriander and bitter orange was supplemented with calendula flowers, a favorite here at Upright. The wit then spent several months in old pinot barrels with Baird Family Orchard apricots before being blended just in time for the brewery’s tenth anniversary. 4.5%Von Ebert Brewing: Diegetic SoundA foeder fermented Grisette, dry hopped w/ East Kent Goldings (served from bottles)Von Ebert Brewing: The Lime and the SeaA collaboration between Von Ebert Glendoveer and The Commons Brewery. A farmhouse ale w/ hand foraged Oregon sea salt, limes in the sparge water and dry hopped with Wakatu hops.WHAT: Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale FestivalWHERE: Glendoveer Golf Course / Von Ebert Brewing Glendoveer, 14015 NE Glisan Street Portland, OR 97230WHEN: April 5-7th, 2019COST: $25, Tickets at https://www.merctickets.com/events/93154332/portland-farmhouse-and-wild-ale-festivalWEB: http://portlandfarmhousefest.com/FB: https://www.facebook.com/PortlandFarmhouseAndWildAleFestival/