Save the Date
Heads & Tails Brewfest and Crawfish Boil benefiting the Oregon Brewshed Alliance!
The first Saturday of August!
Uptown Brewing Tap Takeover and Karaoke at Santa Fe Taqueria!
Looking to have a blast on Saturday night? Look no further! Uptown Brewing will be hosting Karaoke with Can't Stop Entertainment at Santa Fe Taqueria. Starting @ 9pm.
Step One: Sample our Amazing Beers
Step Two: Pick out a song
Step Three: Entertain your friends
Step Four: Have a taco
REPEAT!
Uptown Brewing Tasting at Block and Board
Thursday April 14th from 5-8pm. We will be sampling our beers. Come grab a growler to go or a pint to stay. Block and Board is a butcher shop specializing in cuts from local, sustainable farms, plus sandwiches, beer & wine.
Tabor Challenge This Weekend
Looking for a great way to get some exercise this weekend? The 2nd annual Tabor Challenge 5k takes place Saturday and there will be a cold USA waiting for you beer enthusiasts at the finish line!
YNot Have some Ribs?!
Uptown is participating in the rib challenge at YNOT Have Fun / LaserPort / Bar & Grill benefiting the ADAPT Training's Advanced Scholarship fund.
April 23rd 1-3pm.
$25 gets you 2 ribs from each participant, 8 total and a great plate of sides!
Purchase your tickets here:
Uptown Brewing will be at the Spring Beer and Wine Festival!
Get your tickets to the Portland Spring Beer and Wine Fest and grab a Hero or Oatis Reddin' at the Uptown Market booth!
Beer Review: Saison de Lis
Saison de Lis
Belgian Style Ale brewed with chamomile flowers
By Perennial Artisan Ales
750 ml, 5% abv
This review comes from one of our owners, AJ! As always feel free to ask any of our bartenders and servers what they would recommend. We're your source for beer advice!
The first sip has a slight tart taste. The second brings the experience of the effervescence throughout the mouth and then lingers and bounces off sour sides of the tongue. The finish is actually smooth and soothing where the taste of the chamomile along with a slight bit of sweetness resides. The nose of the beer exudes sweetness and not surprisingly, flowers.
This beer has a good mouth feel as like many saisons and farmhouse ales. The addition of the flower brings revealing notes of sweetness and tartness at the same time which is unique and fun. This is definitely a beer for when the summer sun is out or along with a light dish of food such as fish or chicken.
It's Ladies Night Every Wednesday!
What's better on a Wednesday then ladies night and a Bull Run Cider tasting? Nothing... literally nothing comes to mind. So grab a gal pal and come try some cider!
Who Wants an Old German?!
This weeks beer review of Old German Premium Lager by Pittsburgh Brewery comes to you from the infamous Brixton!
The story of this beer goes: "Little Herman" or the Old German himself, learned the recipe from his Oma and Opa (Grandma & Grandpa) brewing it at home. As demand grew he wanted to spread and share his original recipe with everyone for an affordable price. Hence the great pricing at a dollar a can!
As far as qualities go for this standard German lager:
-Appearance: Light golden yellow to straw yellow. With a light amount of head retention no more then a centimeter once the head settled.
-Aroma: A little musty, grainy scent to it. Very subtle.
-Mouthfeel: Mostly Clears off the palate in seconds, light bodied.
-Taste: Light Apple-like sweetness upfront, bready they the middle with a lingering metallic taste.
-Overall: (3.5 of 5) straight forward & affordable lager, I'd take any day over any macro-brew.
Thanks Brix!
Are you ready for Tuesday nights @ LO to be FLIPPIN' FANTASTIC!?
Starting March 15th you can flip us for your food bill from 7pm-9pm so bring your friends and come hungry!
Who will win the Chowder Cup?!
A dozen regional restaurants and pubs will vie for the coveted Chowder Cup at the 10th annual Chowder Challenge on Saturday.
This year’s participants are Lompoc Beer 5th Quadrant, Burnside Brewing Co, Cascade Brewing Barrel House, D'S BAR, Farm House Cafe, Pelican Brewing Company, Produce Row Cafe, Saraveza, Sports on Tap,Stormbreaker Brewing, Uptown Market and Widmer Brothers Brewing.
Patrons (ages 12 and up) pay $10 for a tasting tray featuring a dozen two-ounce samples of New England-style clam chowders served in non-labeled tasting cups. After tasting all entries, attendees vote for their favorite. The chowder receiving the most votes is named the People's Choice Winner and takes home the coveted Chowder Cup and a cash prize; awards are also given for second and third place.
The event also features live music, a beer garden, a raffle with gift cards from the participants, and pub food for purchase. The event is open to all ages.
All net proceeds are donated to Portland’s Community Transitional School, which provides important educational services to children who are homeless or otherwise at risk of school failure.
Uptown participating in the Black out Beer Fest!
Get a taste of the dark side at the 4th annual Black Out Beer Fest! Taste nearly 30 dark beers from breweries around the Northwest.
It's FREE to hang out and enjoy live music by Train River. To drink, admission packages are $15 and include a souvenir glass tasting mug and 8 beer tickets. Additional beer tickets are available for $1 apiece. It generally costs four tickets for a full mug or $1 for a taste. Mugs and tickets are puchased at the door. This event is 21+.
Uptown Market is Open for ZWICKLEMANIA!
Come check out the brewery on Saturday February 13th and sample Uptown Brewing's own creations!
Looking for Lunch with a Twist?
You can pre-order your salad as your class starts and it will be ready for pick up with us at the end of class!
Does planning Valentine's Day make you want to reach for a drink? We've got you covered...
We have a special 4-pack of beer wrapped up and ready to be gifted to your beer lover! Just $17.50 Alameda Brewing Co.Love Squirts, Lagunitas Brewing Co- Brown Shugga,Samuel Smith's Brewery-Chocolate Stout, Lindemans-Framboise
For your Valentines day dinner we have a great selection of wines at every price point.
10% off all Chardonnay through Sunday!
2013 Liberty Schools Chardonnay- $14
2013 Michael David Chardonnay-$13
2013 Z Alexander Brown Uncaged Cabernet Sauvignon-$15
2010 Hestia Malbec-$28
2012 Bergstrom Old Stones Chardonnay- $35
2014 Bergstrom Gregory Ranch Pinot Noir-$60
Veuve Clicquot Brut Champagne- $65
Biutiful Brut Nature Cava-$14
Beer Review-The Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout
This weeks beer review comes from me (Liz) Uptown's CheersLeader/Marketing Director. I'm lucky enough to get to go between both locations meeting people and drinking fantastic beer. I've now had Yeti at both my home and Lake Oswego because I forgot to take a picture the first time... I excel at my job. As I'm not a regular stout drinker myself I took the recommendation from one of our staff and tried Great Divide Brewing Co.-Yeti Imperial Stout and attempted a serious review. Let's get to it!
Style: Russian Imperial Stout ABV 9.5% 75 IBU
Poured into my giant wine glass this jet black stout has a creamy caramel colored head that lingers creating lacing that persists to the end of the glass. The sweet chocolate aroma is accentuated with coffee notes. The powerful roasty malt base leads into sweet caramel notes. As the beer warmed up roasted toffee and oak become more noticeable to the taste. The underlying bitterness of the self described “hefty” 75 IBUs are ever present while the mouth feel is full bodied with slight carbonation.
Overall this award winning Imperial Stout lives up to its reputation. Although the strong alcohol presence is clearly perceptible in the flavor, especially in the lingering aftertaste, I found this stout to be smooth and well balanced for its style. It was the perfect rich and tasty desert after a long of day of professional Facebooking! Cheers!
Food Cart Now Open, we put a sign up so it's OFFICIAL
Friday Sept 25th!
The Food Cart got a bit of a menu-makeover!
Get a pint and a sausage dog for $7.00 All snacks and small bites 1/2 off
It's Friday, come eat and drink... it's gonna be great.
Oktoberfest at Uptown Market! 9/26
Bavarian Crown Prince Louis, later King Louis I of Bavaria, marries Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. The Bavarian royalty invited the citizens of Munich to attend the festivities, held on the fields in front of the city gates. These famous public fields were named Theresienwiese—"Therese's fields"—in honor of the crown princess; although locals have since abbreviated the name simply to the "Wies'n." Horse races in the presence of the royal family concluded the popular event, celebrated in varying forms all across Bavaria.
The decision to repeat the festivities and the horse races in the subsequent year gave rise to the tradition of the annual Oktoberfest, which now begins in late September and lasts until the first Sunday in October. Alcohol consumption is an important part of the modern festival, and more than 1 million gallons of beer are consumed annually at Oktoberfest.
Today, Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September (and running to early October). It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an enjoyable event with an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.
Oktoberfestbiers are the beers that have been served at the event in Munich since 1818, and are supplied by 6 breweries known as the Big Six: Spaten, Löwenbräu, Augustiner, Hofbräu, Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr. Traditionally Oktoberfestbiers were the lagers of around 5.5 to 6% abv called Märzen - brewed in March and allowed to ferment slowly during the summer months. Originally these would have been dark lagers, but from 1872 a strong March brewed version of an amber-red Vienna lager made by Josef Sedlmayr became the favourite Oktoberfestbier.
This year, Uptown Oktoberfest will feature a Paulaner tasting, live music, German pretzels from Fressen Bakery, and hopefully lots of folks in lederhosen. Tasting begins at on September 26th, but the party will continue on with more festbiers and frivolity! Join us!
Prost!
Hoppy Ciderfest at Uptown! 8/14
Hoppy Ciderfest at Uptown!
Hoppy Ciderfest will feature the best & hoppiest ciders of the Northwest! We'll be offering Swift Cider, Apple Outlaw, Red Tank Cider, Portland Cider Company, and of course, a brand new cider by Uptown Market (Cider by Hunter)! Hop-heads and cider lovers alike will be able to indulge in a wide range of flavors ranging from the sweet and fruity to the piney and citrusy. This Friday, August 14th from 5pm to 8pm.
