I got down to the Oregon Brewers Festival early afternoon on Thursday. The crowd was manageable. I new later in the day and on the weekend the place would be packed. Some say this is the largest beer festival in North America and by seven it will be wall to wall people and out of some beers. This is truly the festival of blonds. There were no porters, stouts or doppelbocks. They did have a CDA and several reds so it was enough for me to make it interesting. It was also fortunate that most of those were pretty good.
Main entrance. You get checked for ID and get your wrist band.
Once you get your in this is the first stop. The tent to get your Sampling glass and tasteing tokens
Seven Dollars for a sampling glass and they have plenty.
$20 gets you a glass and thirteen tasting tokens. All samples were 1 token and 4 for a full glass.”
Next it is off to get a sample. Refrigerated trailers hold the kegs and work as a signboard.
Beer serving is broken into two long rows of tables where they pour the beer.
This is the other of row of table with about 40 beers to samples.
Refilling the serving pitchers from cooler taps.
Sampling glass and tokens. This year they went to real glass and to 3 oz. samples
Next to the serving area are large tents with seating. This is Tent One.
This is Tent Two
Getting busy
By the time I left the crowd was growing and in another couple of hours it would solid with folks.”
Looking along the water front side of tent two.
They had several seating places outside of the tents.
Outside seating
Outside Seating
Outside Seating.
Open Space.
Open Space.
Open Space.
Several Food Vendors were there with prices running $8 to $14 for a meal.
There were also merchandise and info vendors.
This is the main Stage where the music acts performed
Away from the main Stage there were other live music acts.
For the hot day they had several place to cool down.
There were plenty of outhouses at each end of the fenced event area.
