Start practicing your “WHOOOOHOOOO”s and beer chants, the 27th Annual Oregon Brewers Festival is from July 23 - 27 at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Event hours are Noon to 9 PM Wednesday through Saturday and Noon to 7 PM on Sunday.

Admission into the event is free but to get some sips, festival goers must purchase the $7 souvenir glass. Beer is purchased with wooden tokens, with prices for full glasses of beer varying and 3-oz. tastes available for $1.

 

The Specialty Tent (aka the Buzz Tent) will return with uber-geek beers, cellared specialties, one-offs, and other rare brews.

 

We won’t even try to list all of the beers but we can tell you that 88 handcraft beers are poured in the main festival; another 100+ in the Specialty Tent.

 

17 new breweries have been added to the festival this year including: Ashtown, Central City, Cigar City, Coronado, Crux, Ecliptic, Ex Novo, Fitger’s, Grain Station, Kells, Mazama, No-Li, North Rim, Payette, Sixpoint, Viking Braggot and Wild Ride.

 

Whoop, whoop! Just kidding! ... sort of.