Archives for July 2011

Concordia Cup (July 20-24, 2011)

July 18, 2011 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Concordia Cup 2011, featuring Imperial IPAs, runs from Wednesday, July 20 through Sunday, July 34 at the Concordia Ale house (3276 NE Killingsworth).

We have searched the STATE of OREGON for 12 great brews!

We save you time, gas, and money plus you get to VOTE for your favorite.

Most beer contests “appoint judges” at Concordia Ale House YOU are the JUDGE!

Help select Oregon’s BEER BRAWL V CAPTAIN!

Hope to see you there!

Twelve Oregon brewed Imperial IPAs battle for your votes to captain the Oregon team for Beer Brawl V, which pits beers from Oregon, Washington, and California. Tasting trays are $13.

Puckerfest 5 (July 18-24, 2011)

July 18, 2011 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Belmont Station’s Puckerfest, a Celebration of Sour Beers runs all week long, July 18 through 24, 2011.

Now in it’s fifth year, Puckerfest has grown to become one of the most popular little festivals in July. Appropriately sandwiched between the Portland International Beer Festival and the Oregon Brewer’s Fest, Puckerfest 5 is shaping up to be the best yet. Beer lovers can look forward to a rotating cast of 12-14 funky beers on tap daily, along with numerous “Meet the Brewer” nights where we bring brewers from around the region to the Biercafé to share their stories and some extra special beers.

Things kick off Monday with a Meet the Brewer with Dave Marliave from Flat Tail Brewing in Corvallis. He will be presenting three special beers: Corvaller Weisse – a blend of 2 Berliner weisse barrels, one fermented with a traditional Lactobicillus/Kolsch yeast blend, the other with 100% Brettanomyces. Aged on oak for over 4 months. K.S.A. (Kitchen Sink Ale) – a no boil, barrel fermented, brown rye with cacao nibs, gotu kola, and cherry juice, blended 6-1 with Saison de la Tail. And Flat Tail 1st Anniversary Ale – a mash hopped blonde, fermented in the barrel, blended, and re-oaked with French oak spirals.

Details can be found at Puckerfest.com, Belmont-Station.com, and on Twitter (follow @Puckerfest) throughout the week. Belmont Station’s Biercafé (4500 SE Stark) is open noon until 11pm each day during the festival (food menu is available 3pm-10pm).

Portland Anarchist Bookfair (July 23-24, 2011)

July 18, 2011 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

The 2011 Portland Anarchist Bookfair takes place this Saturday and Sunday, July 23 and 24, in the Smith Memorial Student Union at Portland State University.

In addition to dozens of vendors including Laughing Horse Books, Bitch Magazine, Black Rose Infoshop, Red and Black Cafe, PDX Books to Prisoners, a series of lectures and seminars are scheduled.

This event, hosted by Students for Unity, is free for radicals and free thinkers of all kinds. Visit the Bookfair website for more details, including a complete list of vendors and the lecture and seminar schedule.

Oregon Berry Festival (July 22-23, 2011)

July 18, 2011 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Celebrate berry season at the 2011 Oregon Berry Festival this Friday and Saturday, July 22 and 23 at Ecotrust (721 NW 9th Avenue).

[T]aste and buy some of the season’s best berries and also sample amazing products made with Oregon’s berry bounty.
There will be ice creams, pies, cobblers, jams, strawberry shortcake plus the unexpected taste treat like Marionberry BBQ sauce, red raspberry beer, cranberry chocolates, natural blueberry soda and much more.

Enjoy your berry treats while taking in live entertainment. Local chefs will be competing in a berry cook off, and don’t forget to enter to win a new bike!

Admission is free. The fest runs from noon until 6pm Friday and 11am until 6pm on Saturday. You can also sign up for an agri-tour or the Gala Berry Dinner – visit the festival website for details.

July 18, 1841: USS Peacock Wrecks at Mouth of Columbia

July 18, 2011 by Dave Knows 2 Comments

Sent to explore the Pacific Northwest coast as part of the United States Exploring Expedition, the USS Peacock wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia River on July 18, 1841.

The Peacock, having sailed from the Hawaii, approached the Columbia River on the morning of July 17, 1841. A dense fog lasted until early morning on the eighteenth, when the crew spotted Cape Disappointment on the northern side of the river’s mouth. Soon after noon, the ship’s captain, Lieutenant Hudson, called all hands to work ship into the river (Untold Story of the Peacock Wrecked in 1841, by Norman A. Howerton in the Oregon Historical Quarterly Vol. 43, No. 2 (Jun., 1942), pp. 129-134). Following directions through the channel he’d been given in Hawaii, Lieutenant Hudson brought the ship to bear northeast one-quarter east by compass, and was toward the cap to bring Chinook Point to bear east, northeast.

In a few minutes Lieutenant Hudson discovered the sea breaking ahead, and, believing the Peacock too far to the southward, he wore ship and ran a short distance until clear of the breakers, and to where the passage appeared smooth and clear of break, both from below and aloft.

Again the Peacock stood in. Then she struck.

By the morning of the 19th, it became clear the ship could not be saved and the captain ordered the crew evacuate. American missionaries at Point Adams and Hudson’s Bay Company officials at Fort George (now Astoria) provided aid. Not one member of the crew perished.

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