This photo non-essay (as in pretty much no words except for captions) covers all three days I attended the 27th Oregon Brewers Festival at Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Portland, Oregon.
[Note: minor edit to fix misidentified Rogue character. Thanks, Jon! (see comment below)]
Day 1: Wed., 23 July
Oregon Brewers Festival sign as I approach the entrance to the fest. 2:40 pm.
Saying Hi to festival friends – Ginger Johnson of Women Enjoying Beer
Roaming musicians weren’t going to let gray skies and rain dampen anyone’s spirits.
Large amounts of rain? Who cares? The crowd fits fine under the big tents so is non-plussed. North tent. 3:49 pm
Day 2: Thu., 24 July
Trailer 4 waiting on opening for Paradise Creek Huckleberry Pucker. 11:53 am
(Some of) the Dutch brewers chatting with Art Larrance. Yes, they really were constantly smiling the whole time. I’m not the only one who noticed either. 12:29 pm
People on the grounds of 27th annual Oregon Brewers Festival and the Specialty Tent. 12:52 pm
Tap locator sign in center of 27th annual OBF grounds. 12:58 pm
People under the North tent, I believe. 1:52 pm Have had tons of questions re crowds so here’s some idea. Not bad at all.
Festival glass and both sides of the tokens.
Library Instruction West conference Portland Spirit voyagers group photo. This is simply to prove I was in Portland for (er, with) the librarians. Hi, lovely wife.
Day 3: Fri., 25 July
Some of the books I was ogling and/or fondling at Powell’s. Bickerdyke’s The Curiosities of Ale and Beer.
Loftus’ Sustainable Homebrewing
Fix’s Principles of Brewing Science
Fisher & Fisher’s The Homebrewer’s Garden
Keeping Portland weird. The Rogue food vending stall: Cut-out of Rogue head brewer John Maier’s head and a cow with a bondage hood on a surfboard. Why not? 12:54 pm [edited to fix misattribution]
Crowd under tent and at beer lines, which are at worst 3-4 people deep, on Day 3 at 2:33 pm
I honestly never waited more than 2 minutes for a beer and the average was probably closer to 45 seconds, except for at the Specialty Tent. Even there I usually only had 4-6 people to stand behind. Sometimes none. Once I was about 12th in line and we waited for about 10 minutes but that was because it was just 2 pm and the daily specialty beers were a bit slow coming out. Nonetheless, several people were complaining. I had an extremely hard time refraining from kicking them in their shins.
OBF Beer Garden 2:56 pm Day 3
Here ends my assorted babblings about the 27th Oregon Brewers Festival. It was my 1st OBF and I had a grand, and apparently tasty, time.
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