Brew with the Brewmaster of Widmer!

Brew with the Brewer!

Uptown Market  & Widmer Brothers Brewing Team Up for the Ultimate Homebrew Clone Experience!

On Saturday, April 14 Uptown Market  is excited to host a special brewing education event with Widmer Brother’s Brewer Ben Dobler and Jacob Leonard. In this special 4 hour session Ben and Jacob will demonstrate how to make Widmer Pitch Black IPA, while guests ask questions and the West side’s favorite new bottle and homebrew shop pours samples. Everyone is welcome, from the never-brewed beer drinker, to the expert home brewer. We will brew a clone of Widmer’s Pitch Black IPA and guests will be able to enjoy Pitch Black IPA while they learn how it is made, what is made from and be able to ask the brewer himself any questions that cross their mind. Brew with the Brewer is scheduled to begin at 2 pm Saturday, April 14^th and is FREE to the public!

We are going to have all of our 6 taps full of Widmer Beer!  One of the beers is going to be the collaboration that Uptown Market participated on at the Pilot System at the Rose Quarter.  We will have their Spiced IPA, Drifter, Alt, Dark Saizon and of course the Pitch Black on tap as well.

Portland U-Brew

Aaron, your favorite character from Portland U Brew and Pub is gong to be at Uptown Market this Thursday, starting around 6 pm till whenever.  Come in and join us for some good fun and of course some good beer!

Southern Oregon Brewing is here!

That's right, Southern Oregon Brewing is back in our house this Friday, the 13th, they are going to be here from 5 pm to 7 pm.  Come in and visit your favorite brewery from down south!

Homebrew Contest: Fruit Beer

Homebrew contest on July 1st!

Fruit Beer is the Category for the contest leading into summer.

This contest will be judged with feedback provided.

Rules: You must use either some food or fruit in the beer.  Must be a home brew.  We must receive your $5 and entry form at least 3 days prior (June 28th).  You may store your beer here or bring it with you to the contest, 3 12oz, 2 22oz bottles or 1 growler.

Examples of Food/Fruit Beers: Jasmine IPA, Apricot Amber, Rose Hipped IPA, Blueberry Stout

Entry: Uptown Market, 6620 SW Scholls Ferry Rd.

When: July 1st, 2012 at 2 pm

Event: First Thursday with John Foyston & Powered by Yeast

 

John Foyston, who you know and have come to love through the Oregonian is going to be our featured artist in the upcoming first thursday, April 5th, 2012.  We will have his art up on consignment for the month of April so come and support your local beer writer and artist.  John Foyston has been writing for the oregonian for more than 20 years.  He has a local beer blog called The Beer Here that is widely popular in the beer community.  Below are some of his paintings for your viewing pleasure, but be sure to come in April 5th to meet the artist and check out the rest of his work!

Powered by yeast will be here to serve beer, wine and mead.  They rep Ft George Beer and many other great labels.  If you missed the last first thursday be sure to come down and check this one out.

This Thursday, April 5th from 6pm to 9pm.  Come one come all and enjoy some local art!

Deschutes Brewing is Here

 

Brian from deschutes is going to be here friday the 6th for an IPA tasting.  We are going to have their newest white IPA available for tasting the Chain Breaker.  Come in from 5 to 7 pm while Briant is here and get some of Bend's great brew!

Vertigo Brewing!

Vertigo Brewing is here Saturday the 7th of April.  Come in and support another great local brewery to the Portland area.  We are excited to have them in to our shop to taste their wonderful beers!

Long Brewing Tasting

Long Brewing is here this Friday!  Come try their award winning beers.  We are going to have their IPA on tap.  Take the opportunity to get a taste of some great beers!

Ambacht Brewing

Ambacht Brewing is here this Saturday!  Come try their great farmhouse ales and belgian style ales!  These guys are local here in Hillsboro so come support yet another local brewery!

Boulevard Brewing Tasting!

Boulevard Brewing is here Friday, come try some of the great beers that they make.  Many Farmhouse ales and Belgian Style.  Some great deals while they are in.  Come join us in welcoming them to the northwest all the way from Missouri.  Bring your friends for some great craft beer!

Event: Hop Valley Tasting

Hop Valley is at Uptown Market on Saturday from 3 to 6 pm.  These guys are great and excited to share their local beer with you.  Bring yourself, your palate and ready to taste some great craft beer!  Come in and support yet another local craft brewery in Oregon.

Hop Works Urban Brewery

Hopworks Urban Brewery is going to be at Uptown Market this Thursday!  We are excited to have them in to do a tasting.  Come one, come all, as always we have popcorn and ever so much beer.  Tasting starts at 5pm and goes until 7pm.

Pelican Brewery is HERE!

Pelican Brewery is at Uptown Market this Friday from 5 pm to 7 pm.  We are excited to have this great brewery share some of their wonderful beer with us.  We are going to have their Doryman's Dark Ale on tap.  Come out and bring your friends, and mostly of all have a great time enjoying craft beer.

Lujon Wine - And Saint Patty's day fun!

Lujon Wine is here at Uptown Market this Saturday from 3pm to 6pm.  Come enjoy some Saint Patty's day fun with us.  Bring your friends and have some award winning wine from our very own local wine maker!

Event: Pyramid and Mactarnahans brewing!

We are going to have Pyramid Breweries in Thursday from 5pm to 7pm to taste some of their great beers.  We are going to have their black lager on tap for tasting along with other samples they bring as usual.  So if you haven't been to one of our events before this is a good one to come and see the store and what we are all about.  

Event: Oakshire Brewing

That's right, Oakshire brewing is going to be in our shop from 5-7.  Come get some of their great brews that they have all the time and some of the new seasonal.  There should be prizes and raffles so come in and say hi, grab some great beer and start the weekend off right.

Event: Coppola Wine

Coppola Wine will be in this Saturday at 3 pm.  We are going to be showing some movies from Francis Coppola during the day some come in and get some great wine and check out the place!

Homebrew Imperial IPA Competition

Information on our Homebrew Competition:

First Thursday Art Show and Stock your Wine Cellar

Thursday March 1st, 2012 will be the inaugural first Thursday at Uptown Market.  We are going to strive to provide artists a venue to display their art each first Thursday of the month to mirror the event that happens in the pearl district downtown.  This particular event is going to showcase the art of Todd Herman, a comic artist in the local Portland community.  Todd's art is normally featured in comic books but has a portfolio that will be revealed and available for sale on March 1st.

Along with the Art we are also going to be doing a Stock your Cellar event.  This is a special event in which our wine distributor, Young's Market, is going to come out and taste some exceptional wines.  As part of the promotion we are going to offer case sales at 10% markup on cost to be delivered to Uptown Market.

Dion Winery has also elected to participate in this event and will be here to taste their Pinot Noir selection.  Dion Winery is a local winery that is self distributed locally and made locally.

David HIll Winery will also be present to taste some of their great wines.

This event is going to be a great chance to see some wonderful exciting art as well as taste some great wine.  Join us Thursday, March 1, 2012 for this event.  Scheduled to start at 6:00 pm.

Our featured artist, Todd Herman is a cartoonist/storyboard artist/designer based in Portland Oregon, whose graphic novel credits include 'The Fog' and 'Cut' for Dark Horse Comics, 'Galveston' and 'Fall Of Cthulhu: Nemesis' for Boom! Studios, 'The Warriors: Jailbreak' for Dynamite Entertainment, as well as a three year stint storyboarding the Eddie Murphy stop action animated television series 'The PJ's'.  A film version of his 2007 graphic novel, 'Cut', written by Dark Horse Comics founder Mike Richardson, is currently in preproduction at Peter Jackson's Weta Digital.  His favorite genres are horror and comedy.

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Logsdon Farmhouse Ales comes to Uptown Market

Logsdon Farmhouse Ales will be at Uptown Market this Friday from 5 to 7 pm.  We are excited to have their brewer here to answer any questions that you might have regarding their wonderful beers!  They will be tasting some of their great beers starting at 5pm.  Most of their beers are USDA approved organic and a great opportunity to taste some new Belgian style ales made right here in Oregon.  Bring yourself, bring your friends, but most importantly bring your taste buds cause they are going to be blown away!