NOVEMBER 23, 2017 // 3
Get 2018 Festival of Dark Arts tickets starting Nov. 29
ASTORIA — There is no
darker place than Fort
George Brewery (1483
Duane St.) during February
Stout Month.
Limited tickets to the
2018 Festival of Darks Arts
— the largest single-day
stout and art celebration in
the world — go on sale start-
ing Wednesday, Nov. 29, and
this year they are more limit-
ed and coveted than ever.
Bearers will be granted
entrance Saturday, Feb. 17,
into a magical menagerie of
dark art and macabre enter-
tainment while surrounded
by the most awe-inspiring
collection of stouts ever as-
sembled in one place. You’ll
be entranced by the iron,
glass, ice and chainsaw craft.
Live music, dark art galleries
and roaming practitioners of
the fanciful arts will delight
you. More than 60
rare and unique
stouts will
be tapped,
tempting
your darkest
senses.
Stretch
out into ex-
panded festival
areas on 14th
Street and onto the
new upper deck of the
Fort George Building, where
surprises await you. Arrive
at your leisure starting at
noon and come and go as you
please. You can look forward
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Yuletide in
Seaside celebrates
44th year
12
to rare stouts tapping through-
out the day and night, with
all-new live entertainment
until the festival’s end at 10
p.m.
And save
room for the
boldest Fort
George
barrel-aged
bottle release
ever, starting
noon Sunday,
Feb. 18. Five
unique varia-
tions of Matryosh-
ka will be available in
wax-dipped bottles, plus very
limited quantities of cel-
lared 2017 Matryoshka and
variations to construct your
vertical tasting.
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For more information and
a link to tickets, visit festi-
valofdarkarts.com. Entertain-
ment and stouts will be added
as they are confirmed. Tickets
are $55 each. Every ticket
holder will receive a Festival
of Dark Arts Grimoire, a 2018
festival glass and twelve drink
tokens with additional tokens
for sale at the festival. You
must be 21 or older and have
a ticket to attend.
Be forewarned: Stout will
stain your clothes. Dress ap-
propriately. Tickets are trans-
ferable but not refundable.
The Festival of Dark Arts
was voted by the Willamette
Week Oregon Beer Awards
in 2016 and 2017 as the best
beer festival in Oregon.
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The Festival of Dark Arts takes place Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018.