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Division Street Brewpublicrawl (19-March-2011)

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BrewPubliCrawl 2011The second annual SE Division Street Meet the Brewers BrewPubliCrawl takes place Saturday, March 19, 2011.

At each stop different regional brewers will be serving and discussing their Cascadian-brewed beers. Twenty five Oregon breweries are taking part in this year’s event.

The schedule, and the brewers:

Noon: Victory Bar (3652 SE Division). Breweries: Hopworks Urban Brewery, Breakside, Oakshire.

1:30pm: New Old Lompoc Hedge House (3412 SE Division). Brewery: Lompoc.

3:00pm: Bar Avignon (2138 SE Division). Breweries: Full Sail, Fort George (Astoria, OR), and Upright.

4:30pm: The BeerMongers (SE 12th and Division). Breweries: Barley Brown’s, Block 15, Migration.

6pm: Blitz Ladd (2239 SE 11th). Breweries: 10 Barrel, Widmer, Burnside Brewing, Southern Oregon, Ninkasi, Pyramid, Alameda, Coalition, Cascade, Beetje, Laurelwood, and more!

Cost is $12, which includes an all access wristband and ten drink tokens. The wristband get you special deals on special brews, and is available at each location. Also, there will be raffles. More drink tokens will set you back $1 each. Entry and tokens are available an any of the locations above, and remember: cash only!

Visit the Brewpublic events page for more details, including how you can leave the driving to Brewvana Brewery Tours shuttles!

Upright Brewing’s 2nd Anniversary (20-March-2011)

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Upright 2nd AnniversaryUpright Brewing (240 N Broadway Suite 2) celebrates two years as Portland’s only farmhouse inspired craft brewery this Sunday, March 20, 2011 with a party and the bottle release of Four Play.

In addition to the extremely rare Four Play one of only 3 kegs on draft Upright will also be releasing something even more rare in bottle, last years Apricot Anniversary Ale aged in Ransom Spirits Old Tom Gin Barrels of which there are less than 3 cases of 750ml bottles. To top it off look for a special cask of this years edition of the World Beer Cup award winning Gose stuffed Dry Hops and extra Salt.

Four Play is the star of the show; it’s a Belgian-y beer based on Upright’s wheat beer (Four) that is pinot noir barrel-aged for a year with cherries, souring yeasts, and bacteria. The 2011 batch consists of a mere 3 kegs and 67 cases.

Upright recently installed three new tanks, one of which will be dedicated to a new hoppy German-style pilsener call Engelberg Pils. The two other tanks will brew more of the delicious, astounding, and curious one-off beers that Upright Brewing is known for.

The festivities extend from 1pm until 6pm in the tasting room.

And read all about the Four Play label art controversy at the New School beer blog: Four Played Out!

Kick Ass Oregon History: Episode 2

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Kick Ass Oregon History #2Kick Ass Oregon History, the latest series of podcasts from the enthusiastic historians behind ORHistory.com debuted on March 1, 2011 (episode 1 is available here: The Roseburg Blast).

Another episode dropped today, March 15, 2011: Kick Ass Oregon History Vol 1 #2: The Eggs!, about the 1942 poisoning at the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane.

The brains behind this project are the crack hustlers of Oregon History Doug Kenck-Crispin and Andy Lindberg. Doug is a graduate student studying Public History and Pacific Northwest History at PSU, and Andy, though a Portland native, is currently working as an actor in New York City. Doug does most of the research and writing for the podcasts with input from Andy, who voices the broadcasts with a thespian’s flair.

With the Kick Ass Oregon History podcast they plan to cover just the good stuff: Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll and Earth Shattering, Devastating Destruction.

Ultimately, our goal is to take Oregon History out of the hallowed halls of the academy, get folks excited and enthused about this shared history, and get them out into the state, digging it and experiencing it. Get them to embrace it, and get their boots muddy in the process. It’s all OUR History; nobody owns it.

Visit ORHistory.com and stay tuned to @Oregon_History on Twitter for further details on specific episodes and the series.

March 15, 1859: Oregon Learns It’s a State

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SS Brother JonathanThe steamship Brother Jonathan arrived in Portland, Oregon at about 4am on March 15, 1859 with some big news. Five days earlier it had left San Franscisco with an official missive that had arrived by stagecoach from St. Louis, where the news had been wired a month previously from Washington D.C.

The message?

On February 14 President James Buchanan had signed the bill granting Oregon statehood.

Thirteen hours after the ship’s arrival in Portland, officials in Salem received the official word.

Portland Timbers Primer (2011)

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The Portland Timbers start the 2011 season on the road this Saturday, March 19th, when they face the defending Major League Soccer champion, Colorado Rapids. Watch the match on ROOT, Fox Soccer Channel, or listen to the play by play on KXL 750. Better yet, join the Timbers Army (minus the 300 or so members who traveled to Colorado) at the Bagdad Theater (3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd) for a live, free, all-ages screening of this historic match. Doors open at 4:30, kickoff is at 6pm.

TEAM AND LEAGUE

TimbersThe first Portland Timbers team played in the NASL from 1975 through 1982. The team name was selected in a contest held in early 1975 (other entries included Pioneers, RainDrops, Steelheaders, Trappers, and Volcanos).

In the last decade (2001-2010) the Portland Timbers were one of the best supported teams in the United Soccer Leagues (USL).

Timbers 2011In 2011 they enter their first year in Major League Soccer, the top soccer league in the United States and Canada.

The 2011 schedule stretches from Saturday, March 19 all the way to October 22nd, with playoffs (of course!) to follow. The home opener, against the Chicago Fire, takes place on Thursday, April 14 2011 at 8pm.

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THE STADIUM

The Timbers play their home matches at Portland’s venerable (but newly christened) Jeld-Wen Field (SW 18th and Morrison). Nicknames include the House of Pane (or just HOP) and Defenestration Field [okay, I made up that last one]. The stadium has been known previously as PGE Park (aka The Piggie), Civic Stadium, and Multnomah Stadium (and Multnomah Field before that).

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TIMBERS ARMY

Timbers ArmyBy American standards, the Portland Timbers football club has a long and storied history, and sport one of the most boisterous, and best known, supporters groups in the country – The Timbers Army. The Timbers Army is a veritable grass roots organization consisting of fans of all ages, professions, and political persuasions. The group receives no official imprimatur by the team, has no official leadership or structure [the 107ist organization not withstanding – see below], and primarily serves to have a hell of a time in the North End at Timbers matches.

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How do you join the Timbers Army? Come to a match, buy a General Admission ticket, and follow the noise and scarves and green. The entire North End of PGE Park is unassigned seating. At the beginning of the USL years the Army filled only the first few rows of section 107, but since about the mid-oughts the passion has spread throughout the entire North End. Come on down! If you’re shy sit or stand on the periphery of these sections for a game or two learning the chants and songs and observing the ruckus. Unless you’re soulless, you will be drawn in.

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107 INDEPENDENT SUPPORTERS’ TRUST

107istIn 2010 a large contingent of long time Timbers Army veterans established the 107 Independent Supporters’ Trust (107ist). The Timbers Army is still simply a grass roots, organization consisting of fans, but the 107ist organization, made up of Timbers Army members, is involved in planning tifo, organizing bus trips to away matches, and more:

The 107 Independent Supporters’ Trust is the machinery behind the Timbers Army. It supports soccer in and around Portland, Oregon, from the grass roots to the highest professional level. It fuels the Army and supports soccer charities and soccer events in Soccer City USA.

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TIMBERS DISCUSSION

The Soccer City USA Message Board, aka Talk Timbers has traditionally been the information headquarters for the Timbers Army (and really all things soccer in Portland, Oregon). Sign up for an account and contribute to the discussion. Keep up with the latest news, learn about and contribute to the latest chant or tifo efforts, and get to know your fellow Timbers Army members virtually. Many of the folks you’ll meet in the stands are better known amongst the group by their message board moniker than their real names.

The Timbers Army website is becoming a great resource as well. Look to it for events, tifo announcements, merchandise information, chants, and game day preparations.

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