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.

Lagunitas Owner on Guitar, Cool Jar Give-away & Doggystyle Cookies at Saraveza

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Wed. May 11th: Sure, sometimes we get to tip one back with the awesome brewers & founders behind our favorite suds, but how often do we get a performance to boot?  Join us as we welcome Lagunitas Brewing Founder, Tony Magee & his guitar, for a live performance. A true entertainer, Tony’s show is a rare and amazing night out, especially if you pair it with an über-fresh pint of “Hop Stoopid”.  In addition to the crowd favorite IIPA, we’ll be pouring Pilsner, “W.T.F.” & “Undercover Investigation Shut-Down” Strong Ales.

As if that’s not enough, your first taste of these delectable offerings will be from the coolest quaffin’ vessel on the planet (The Famous Lagunitas Jar) free for you to take home (while supplies last, of course)! AND some Sugar Pimp cookies in honor of our guests - gratis!  So, get your butt down here for what’s sure to be a GREAT night of music and beer!

Beer & Cheesecake Pairings

Thursday, April 28, 2011

SUN, MAY 8th, 1-3pm @ Saraveza’s backspace: Join Lisa Morrison, the Beer Goddess, and Sarah Pederson of Saraveza for a unique Mother’s Day event.  Help your mom discover her perfect craft beer and cheesecake pair! (or just come and tell your mom about it later!) Enjoy samples of 6 savory and sweet cheesecakes made by local bakers & brewers as well as 8+ craft beers.

Some of the delicious cheesecakes:
- Block 15 Bourbon Bleu Cheesecake w/ Bacon Balsamic Reduction
- Vanilla cheesecake, chocolate cookie crust with salted peanut-caramel
- Goat Cheese Chipotle Swirl Cheesecake w/ toasted pumpkin seed & tortilla crust
- Hair of the Dog Cherry Adam Cheesecake
- Alaskan Smoked Porter Cheesecake and more!

$30 per person. Space is limited, purchase tickets starting on Mon, April 25th at Saraveza! Takes place behind Saraveza @ 5433 N Michigan Ave.

This event benefits the Pink Boots Society, a non-profit Portland-based organization that supports and promotes careers in beer for women.

Happy Hour ALL Night Long w/ Double Mountain, Firestone Walker & Nectar Ales

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Thurs, April 28, 5-10pm: In the United States alone, someone is infected with HIV every nine and a half minutes. On Thurs, April 28, Saraveza will donate a generous percentage of revenue from our dinner hours to Portland’s HIV Day Center, OHSU Partnership Project and the Dining Out For Life fundraiser. 

HAPPY HOUR ALL NIGHT LONG IN THE BACK ROOM: Double Mountain, Firestone Walker and Nectar Ales have generously donated kegs for the evening.  Saraveza will open it’s back room to pour these beers during a 6-10pm happy hour.  100% of Double Mountain, Firestone Walker and Nectar Ales proceeds will go back to the fundraiser.

Flat Tail Brewing at Saraveza this Friday!

Monday, April 11, 2011

FRI. April 15th, 7-10pm: Corvalis’s new superstar brewery, Flat Tail Brewing, is going to be on center stage this Friday night at Saraveza.  A newer Oregon brewery, Flat Tail has come out of the gates running!!  We’re pumped to have head brewer, Dave Marliave pouring samples of their Licentious Goat IIPA (winner of this years People’s Choice Award at the KLCC Brew Festival) and their New Belgian IIPA brewed with lemon grass and citrus peel!  And of course, we’ll raffle off the house!

Join us Friday to meet the beaver brewers and if you’re lucky, you might go home with some schwag! 

Free Bacon Night!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Every 2nd Monday of the month from 6-10pm, come on down to Saraveza for a beer and get your pork on!  All craft beer pours are paired with our house smoked bacon. Seriously.  Free.  Bacon.