Elysian’s Pumpkin Road Show Rolls Into Saraveza For Its Only Area Stop!

Friday, October 21, 2011

Sat, Oct. 22nd, 5pm – Midnight: Eylsian Brewing’s raucously delectable hoedown pulls into Portland for a night of over 8 Pumpkin Beers (with some real rarities) flowing between Saraveza & our Bad Habit Room, with ‘Sugar Pimp’ Pumpkin Cupcakes, live music, costumes (don’t forget yours!) & a VERY special tapping of the Great Pumpkin itself! It’ll be filled with delicious pumpkin beer for all in attendance to sample FREE! If that’s not enough, we’ll also be having our first Jack-O’-Lantern Contest with Prizes! (Submit your Jack-O’-Lantern to Saraveza before 2PM the day of the event…We’ll keep ‘em fresh.)

Live music:
6pm: Jamie Stillway
7pm: Ivon Rose Family Jamboree

8pm: Great Pumpking tapping

Admission is $20 in advance (purchase here), and includes an awesome Elysian glass with 8 tasting tickets. $22 at the door.  See you there!

Jack-O-Latern Contest: Calling Pumpkin Carving Artists!

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Carve a pumpkin & drop it off at Saraveza between now and Saturday at 2pm. Entries will be judged on “Most Creative” and “Most Beer-Centric” with 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes awarded. There is no entry fee. All ages welcome.

The Prize Ceremony is at 8 O’Clock in Saraveza’s Bad Habit room (behind Saraveza).

Join in the Elysian Pumpkin Roadshow Festivities too! (No ticket necessary to be eligible to win.)

Saraveza’s Annual Consecration Toast & Birthday Cake for all!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

BIRTHDAY WEEKEND: This Saturday & Sunday
Holy cow!  We’re 3 years old! 

Sat. Oct. 15th: Every year, on the third Saturday in October, we celebrate the growth of the craft beer industry and Saraveza’s birthday in our annual toast honoring those who make it their mission to turn the masses into craft beer drinkers!  Join Saraveza Manager, Jonathan Carmean, as he raises his glass and leads us all into another year of craft beer splendor.  To top it off, Sugar Pimp is making a Schlitz Finger cake to share (yes, you heard me right)!!  All this at 10pm.

Throughout the day enjoy a vertical of Russian River’s “Consecration” and the rest of our birthday tap list:
- Amnesia “Mother Plucker” Fresh Hop Ale
- Double Mountain “Killer Red” Fresh Hop Red
- Barley Brown’s “Awesome” CDA
- Logsdon “Seizoen” Fresh Hop Saison
- Brouwerij Van Steenberge “Piraat” Strong Belgian Pale
- Haandbryggeriet “Odin’s Tipple” Imperial Dark Norse Ale
- 2010 Bruery “Autumn Maple” Vintage Strong Ale w/ Yams, Maple, Vanilla & Spice
- 2009 Russian River “Consecration” Vintage Barrel Aged Black Currant Sour
- 2010 Russian River “Consecration”
- 2011 Russian River “Consecration”

Sun. Oct. 16th: Packer fans enjoy our annual “Cheesehead Cheesecake Birthday Cake” with a birthday toast at halftime.  As a gift from us to you, we’ve got fancy Saraveza Packer Schedule magnets for everyone!

Bears & Bamburg Onions at Saraveza this Sunday!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Sun. Sept. 25, 12 noon: Saraveza’s kitchen is bringing back the Bamburg Onions this Sunday for a delicious lunch!  Enjoy this classic smoked onion stuffed to the brim with bacon, pork, breadcrumbs, onions, pork, herbs and bacon! Served with a side of roasted potatoes and rauchbier gravy. 

All this while Aaron Rogers takes on da’ Bears!

Saraveza Welcomes EPIC Brewing to Portland!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Thur. Sept. 22nd, 6-9pm: We’re happy to introduce you to Salt Lake City’s Epic Brewing. Join our crew and sample Epic’s Imperial Red (from their Exponential series) and Hopulent IPA (from their Elevated series).  Welcome EPIC!

Quizaveza at Saraveza’s Side Space

Friday, September 16, 2011

Quizaveza Starts Tues Sept 20th.
Join Quizzical Empress Molly Newman of Quizissippi fame, as she hosts Quizaveza monthly at our side space.

Every third Tuesday Molly serves up the trivia, music and media while we serve up pasties, treats and an exclusive Russian River offering on tap just for Quizaveza.
Oh and there are Cash Prizes!

So if your a trivia nerd, a beer geek or you just like to drink beer with people who are smarter than you then mark your calendar.

Third Tuesdays
$2/person. 6 people max/team.
Doors, Food & Beer at 6pm.
Sign up at 6:30,
Quiz at 7pm.

3 Day “Back to School” Cider Tasting

Monday, September 5, 2011

Sept. 15th-17th (Thur-Sat), 6-8pm: Ready to get schooled in Cider!?! For those of you who love your sours…come on down Thurs. night and check out sour beer’s cousin - SIDRA!  On Friday enjoy classics from Aspall, a Cyder House owned and operated by the same family for eight generations.  Saturday it gets local with McMinnville’s favorite cider maker, Carlton Cyderworks. 

AND..to top it off, Sugar Pimp is making apple turnovers and a different cider ice cream each night! 

Here’s the cider tasting low-down:

THURS: SPAIN
-“Isastegi” Sagardo Naturala 2010
-Trabanco Sidra de Asturias “Poma Áurea” 2007
-Trabanco Sidra “Consecha Propia” 2009
-“Isategi” Ice Cream & Apple Turnovers

FRI: UK
-Aspall “Dry”
-Aspall “Organic”
-Aspall “Demi”
-Aspall “Blush”
-Aspall “Organic” Ice Cream & Apple Turnovers

SAT: OREGON
-Carlton Cyderworks “Carry Nation”
-Carlton Cyderworks “Citizen”
-Carlton Cyderworks “Scrumptown”
-Carlton Cyderworks “Citizen” Ice Cream & Apple Turnovers

Saraveza is ready for the Green Bay Packers!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

We’ll be open for all games including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.  Open at 9:30am for all early games with free coffee! Join your favorite Paker Backers beertenders, Leigh and Kate, for Mondo Mimosas, Hamm’s Martinis, Red beers and brats! Our annual halftime “Cheese Wedge” Birthday Cake & toast is October 16th!

Quizzacle Empire Schools you on Beer and The Great Midwest!

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Tuesday, August 23! Mark your calendar, dig out your $5 (benefit for Harper’s Playground) and get ready for an amazing beer-vanic good time. Quizzical Empire will be at Saraveza’s side space on Tuesday night with a dual theme of BEER and THE GREAT MIDWEST.

For those in the know, Quizzacal Empire is an off-shoot of Molly Newman’s Quizzassippi (trivia for nerds, drunks and everyone else. 9pm Mon, 7pm Wed at Mississippi Pizza).

Sign up at 6:30, quiz at 7pm. $5/person. 6 people max / team. Raffle for Portland Timbers vs. Chivas, $5.

“The Love of Beer” Premiere at the Bagdad

Thursday, August 11, 2011

SAT, AUG. 20th: Alison Grayson’s “The Love of Beer” documentary celebrates women in the Pacific Northwest’s beer industry and highlights Saraveza proprietor, Sarah Pederson. 

Tickets for this ONE NIGHT VIEWING are currently available ($5) and can be purchased HERE.  Purchase now before the Bagdad sells out!

THIS TUESDAY: Taco Bar & Special Tappings

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

TUES. AUG 9th, 5pm: Saraveza Bottle Shop & Pasty Tavern is excited to open its doors on Tuesdays!  To commemorate our favorite bar-friendly Tuesday happening, we’re settin’ up the taco bar and letting you make your own taco pasty!  AND let’s wash it down in style with your choice of a Port Jetty IPA, Russian River Pliny or Scaldis Peche Mel.  Heck yeah!

COMING SOON: Saraveza Bottle Shop & Pasty Tavern Open on Tuesdays!

Sunday, July 31, 2011

STARTING TUES, AUG. 9th: Saraveza will be open seven days a week.  No more closed on Tuesdays!!!  Our new hours will be: Mon. - Sun. 11am-12midnight. 

Firestone Walker’s Quercus Alba Gift Packs for the first time (signed by Matt Brynildson)!

Saturday, July 23, 2011

FRI, July 29th, 5-7:30PM: Looking for the beeriest gift ever or to bolster your aged beer collection at a good price?  Firestone Walker’s award winning brewer, Matt Brynildson will be on sight at Saraveza drinking Parabola, chatting it up and autographing bottles and never-sold-before Firestone Walker Gift Packs.

MATT’S PACK: Get all of the hard-to-find barrel releases from Firestone’s 2011 Quercus Alba program packaged together with some added bonuses. Come between 5 & 7:30pm to get your box ‘o three enscribed by Firestone Walker’s award winning brewer!  Choose your poison:
      $30 Matt’s Pack: Parabola, Abacus, Firestone glass and decal in 3-pack box autographed by Matt.
      $40 Matt’s Pack: Parabola, Abacus, Double Jack, Firestone mesh hat and decal in 3-pack box autographed by Matt.
      $50 Matt’s Pack: Parabola, Abacus, 14th Anniversary, Firestone snifter (while they last), Firestone mesh hat and decal in 3-pack box autographed by Matt.

LOLA: A Celebration of Women in Beer

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Sat. July 23rd: An entire day of beers on tap at Saraveza brewed by women brewers in Oregon.
LOLA (Ladies of Lagers and Ales) handpicked the beers on tap from Bend Brewing, Deschutes, Full Sail, Heater Allen, Hopworks, Lucky Lab, Natian and Oakshire.

7PM: Join Tonya from Bend Brewing, Amelia from HUB, Dana from Oakshire and Natalia from Nation and the LOLA crew as we enjoy female crafted beer.  Plus! A special tapping of the LOLA Hibiscus IPA and Urthel Saison and a chance win some fresh beer gear.

ALL FEMALE BREWED DRAFT LIST:
- L.O.L.A./ Lucky Lab Cherry Kolsch
- Oakshire “Red Hot” Rye Chili
- Bend “Ching Ching” Pommegranite & Hibiscus Berlinerweisse
- Natian"Meooow” Blonde
- Breakside/Margaret’s Beet Beer
- Lucky Lab Helles
- Full Sail “Elevation” Imp. IPA
- Heater Allen “Coastal” Common
- Deschutes “NW Supercritical” Steam

and at 7PM:
- L.O.L.A./Coalition Hibiscus IPA
- Urthel Saison

Saraveza’s 2nd Annual IIPA Fest this SATURDAY & SUNDAY!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

SAT & SUN, July 16-17th, 1-10pm: With over 20 rotating IIPAs on draft including fest special brews and a tapping of our staff’s first beer, team Saraveza and Brewpublic present to you our 2nd Annual IIPA Festival! Join us July 16th & 17th for lots of hops, housemade B.B.L.T.s (yes, that’s Bacon Bacon) and live music. Look for your “free jar” tickets available now at Saraveza and Beer Mongers!

SPECIAL TAPPING:
SUN @ 3pm:
Saraveza’s Staff’s first beer tapped: Saison de Roxana

MUSIC LINE-UP:
SAT: 6-9pm
- Trevor Greeley with Chris Cook & Zach Whitton
- Highway
- 1776

SUN: 4pm
- Jamie Stillway

Admission is $15 for 8 tickets + a festival mug
or duo pricing of $25 for 16 tickets + 2 festival mugs

IIPA LINE UP:
  Amnesia “Dopeacetic”*
  Upright “Alphaphylactic Hop”*
  Fort George “the Resistance”*
  Ninkasi “Double Dry-hopped AmarilloTricerahops”*
  Coalition “Double Dog Dare”*
  Breakside “Saison De Roxana” Belgo-IIPA (Saraveza Staff Collaboration!)
  H.U.B. “Evelyn Sunshine”
  Anderson Valley 20th Anniversary IIPA
  Burnside “Alter Ego”
  Alameda “Yellow Wolf”
  Oakshire Perfect Storm
  Oakshire “Glen’s Hop Vice” single hopped
  Flat Tail “Some Like It Hop”
  Coalition “Double Dog Dare”
  Boneyard “Notorious” TRIPA
  Migration “Double Dry-Hopped Luscious Lupulin”
  Hop Valley/The Bier Stein Collaboration “6th Element”
  Block 15 “the Late Gift” Nelson Sauvign
  Full Sail “Elevation
  ”Lompoc Dry-Hopped “Peregrine”
  Widmer “Nelson”
  Beer Valley “Leafer Madness”
  Vertigo “Friar Gone Wild” IIPA
  Deschutes “Imperial Hop In the Dark”
  Walking Man “Iron Man”
  Hale’s “Aftermath”
  Pike “Double IPA”
  Lazy Boy “Anniversary”
  Pizza Port “Cho Saikou”#
  Pizza Port “Poor Man’s”#
  Russian River “Pliny the Elder”
  Southern Tier “Oaked Unearthly”
  Dogfish Head “90 Minute”
  Sierra Nevada “Hoptimum”
  Lagunitas “Hop Stoopid”
  Nogne O “#500”
  Avery “Maharaja”
  Stone “Ruination”
  Great Divide “16th Anniv.” Wood Aged
  Great Divide “17th Anniv.” Wood Aged
  Bear Republic “RyeValry” Belgo-IIPA
  Bear Republic “Cafe 15″
  Flying Dog “Raging Bitch” Belgo-IIPA
  Lenny’s “R.I.P.A.”
  Firestone Walker “Double Jack”
  Victory “Hop Wallop”
…and more!

* denotes exclusive IIPA Fest release
# denotes special one-time in Oregon release

New Belgium & Saraveza Team Up For Fun at Sunday Parkways!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Sunday, June 26th, 11am-4pm: Saraveza and New Belgium Brewing are setting up shop at Arbor Lodge Park this Sunday to make buttons and hand out prizes to anyone on a bike! 

Stop on by…bring a picture to make a personalized button!  Try out one of our fun bikes!  Kate and Sarah will be handing out prizes for all!  For those needing to veer off the path, the Saraveza crew will be holding down the fort pouring New Belgium specialties: Lips of Faith “Super Cru,” “La Folie,” “Grand Cru Abbey” and New Belgium summer favorite “Somersault.”

Sunday Parkways is a 2-way route of city streets open to walk, bike, roll, run, jump and skip - without having to watch out for cars! The 8-mile North Portland Sunday Parkways route will have two loops, connecting Peninsula, Arbor Lodge, Kenton, and McCoy Parks, plus the Willamette Bluff.  Food, music and activities are located in the parks and along the route including Saraveza and New Belgium’s booth! 

Be the First to Try Oregon’s Newest: Logsdon Farmhouse Ales

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Fri, June 24th, 6-9pm: Straight off the farm, Logsdon Farmhouse Ales is a new co-op in Hood River County making real-deal handcrafted farmhouse ales.  A serious venture, Logsdon only uses locally grown whole organic hops, feeds their spent barley, oats and wheat directly to their herd of organic raised Scottish Highlander cattle and has started a nursery of Flemish cherry trees for upcoming lambic style and tart red beers.
Brand spankin’ new to town, you’ll find bottles of their Seizoen and Seizoen Bretta at Saraveza.  Even though there are NO plans to sell beer on draft, we’ll be pouring 10 liters of their Bretta starting at 6pm - this may be your only chance to try Logsdon on draft!  Most importantly, Dave, Chuck and John will be at Saraveza sampling their goods to YOU!  Come on down and try Hood River’s little piece of Belgium.

Bamburg Onions & Beer: Eat this Dad!

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Sun. June 19th, 11am - 8pm: Fathers Unite!!  In honor of all the dads out there, we’ve got a special meal* brewing for Father’s Day.  Bamburg, Germany is famous for it’s Rauch beer and food that pairs meticulously with it.  A Bamburg specialty, the Bamburg Onion, is the plate that Saraveza believes is over-the-top delicious.  Pork, bacon, onion all smoked on our Omaha Smoker and then served (if you dare!) with your choice of draft Rauch beer. 

So bring your dad, bring your friends or just come’on down for this special meal deal and enjoy a piece of Bamburg. 

* This Father’s Day meal is a pre-cursor to our “For Those About to Rauch” fest coming Fall 2011. 

Bridging the Taps: Illegal Oregon Beer Minutes Away!

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Sat. June 18th. Bus trips start at 2pm: Meet at Saraveza, hop on Brewvana‘s bus and “Bridge the Taps” at Washington’s premiere bottle shop,  By the Bottle, where you can savor 8 brews UNAVAILABLE in Oregon (think Lost Abbey, Black Raven, etc.)  Spend your time savoring Washington’s most elite and then travel back home on the Brewvana bus. 

HERE’S THE BEERS YOU’LL GET TO TRY:
Odin Brewing Freya’s Gold Kolsch-Seattle, WA
Fremont Brewing Interurban IPA-Seattle, WA
Port Brewing Mongo Double IPA-San Diego, CA
Naked City Brewing Jack the Ripa Rye IPA-Seattle, WA
Black Raven Brewing Trickster IPA-Seattle, WA
Port Brewing Shark Attack Imperial Red Ale-San Diego, CA
Iron Horse Brewing Irish Death Specialty Dark Ale-Ellensberg, WA
Lost Abbey 10 Commandments Belgian Strong Dark Ale-San Diego, CA

GET A BUS PASS & GET ON BOARD*: Bus pass includes: 8 beer tokens (to use at Saraveza or By The Bottle), bus entertainment (live music, beer trivia, raffles, prizes & snacks), unlimited round trip bus rides (between Saraveza and By the Bottle), a 5% off coupon for your next visit to By the Bottle.  Available at Saraveza or By the Bottle. Ticket price $16 now / $20 day of.

Bus schedule:
2pm - 1st bus departs from Saraveza
2:30pm - 1st departure from By the Bottle
Returns to each location approximately every half hour.
*Bus stops running at 8pm.

3rd Annual Craft Dash - SOLD OUT!

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Sat. July 9 (same day as Mississippi St. Fair): The North Portland Craft Dash is a “good cause” 5k that celebrates the neighborhood’s best beer offerings! Starting at Killingsworth’s The Hop & Vine and ending at Amnesia Brewing’s patio, you’ll be presented with prizes and a drink ticket for the Mississippi Street Fair.

In signing up for the Craft Dash, you’ll receive a commemorative t-shirt and pint glass and beer at each of the five stops on the run.  Male and Female grand prize includes a case of beer every month for a year from Widmer!!  Prize for best costume!  This year’s Craft Dash artist is Blaine Fontana.  All proceeds go to North Portland’s Open Meadow Alternative School.

SOLD OUT! Registered Folks: Makes sure to show up at the Hop & Vine at 8AM on July 9. Make sure to bring your ID with you & cash for after at the Mississippi Street Fair.