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July 25, 2018
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
The fun comes with crowns made of hops for a group enjoying the Oregon Brewers Festival. The
31st annual event opens Thursday and fills the weekend calendar at Tom McCall Waterfront Park.
Craft Brewers Throw a Party Phantom
Beer lovers from here at home and around the
world will pack Tom McCall Waterfront Park for the
31st annual Oregon Brewers Festival which opens
Thursday, July 26 and fills the weekend calendar
though Sunday, July 29.
One of the nation’s longest-running and best-
loved craft beer events, over 80 beers from small,
traditional and independent breweries in10 different
states as well as The Netherlands and Baja, Calif.
will be available for tastings. Taps will be open from
noon to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and noon
to 7 p.m. Sunday.
The festival will also feature live music all four
days with no cover charge, six food booths, a num-
ber of beer related vendors, souvenir sales, and
homebrew demonstrations.
Admission is free. In order to consume alcohol,
the purchase of a souvenir tasting mug is required,
which costs $7. Alcohol is purchased with wood-
en tokens, which cost $1 apiece. Patrons pay four
tokens for a full mug of beer or cider, or one token
for a taste.
The Oregon Brewers Festival was founded in
1988 as an opportunity to expose the public to mi-
crobrews at a time when the craft brewing industry
was just getting off the ground. Today, that indus-
try has flourished, with an annual impact on the
Oregon economy of more than $23 million.
Returns to Stage
Quentin Oliver Lee portrays the man behind the
mask and Eva Tavares the innocent young soprano
he falls madly in love with in the spectacular new
production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘The Phantom
of the Opera,’ which opens Wednesday, July 25
and runs through Aug. 5 at Keller Auditorium. For
tickets visit BroadwayInPortland.com or call the
Portland’5 Box Office at 800-273-1530.