Thanks for helping out the Oregon Food Bank, Willamette Riverkeeper, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and Oregon Tilth while sampling the World’s best Organic Beers.

Thank you to everyone who attended this years Festival, we hope you enjoyed yourselves because we enjoyed having you there.

Thank you to our Volunteers. Your help is invaluable and makes the Festival possible.

Thank you to the participating Breweries and Distributers for delivering not just the THE WORLD’S LARGEST SELECTION ORGANIC BEERS but the THE WORLD’S BEST BEERS.

Thank you to our Vendors for offering with not only Great Food and Drinks, but Information about sustainability, brewing, and better living.

Thank you to our Entertainers for doing what you do best.

Thank you to the City of Portland, Portland Parks and Recreation, OLCC, and Tri-Met.

Thank you to our Families, not only for their support at the Festival, but for their support and the love they bring to our lives.

Thank you to our friends and neighbors around Overlook Park and North Portland.

and to anyone we forgot mention, Thank you.

Introducing Captain Organic!

FOUND:

1)  A purse, which appears to be intact - must identify for return. RETURNED

2) A shirt.

3) A cell phone, battery may be dead (otherwise I think they would call it, don’t you). You must describe it for its return.

Lost and found items can be returned to / claimed at Roots Organic Brewing Co. 1520 S.E. 7th Ave. Portland.

Cheers.

LOST on Friday:

1) An iPOD.

Lost and found items can be returned to / claimed at Roots Organic Brewing Co. 1520 S.E. 7th Ave. Portland..

Cheers.

A friendly reminder to our Overlook neighbors the NAOBF will be setting up in Overlook Park on Thursday in preparation for the Festival’s opening on Friday June 26 at noon.

North American Organic Brewers Festival organizers joined forces with Hopworks Urban Brewery to brew a revolutionary Cascadian Dark Ale, dubbed Secession, which will debut at the NAOBF June 26-28th in Portland’s Overlook Park.

Secession is characterized by an alliance of Northwest hop flavors as powerful as Cascadia’s coniferous forests, and roasty malts as black as the rubber boots Cascadians don from September to June, (and brewers wear year round).

Secession is brewed in the emerging Cascadian Dark Ale style, often mistakenly called Black IPA. Pioneered by brewers in Newport, Oregon and Victoria, BC the style has been gaining traction across Cascadia and further afield. NAOBF organizers Abram Goldman-Armstrong, a homebrewer since 1995, and Izaak Butler who has helped him brew many 10-gallon batches of CDA, teamed up with Hopworks  Brewmaster Christian Ettinger and Assistant Brewmaster Ben Love to brew 20 barrels of Secession on Hopworks’ biodiesel-fueled brewkettle. Secession is a classic example of this truly indigenous Cascadian beer style, bountifully hopped with Nugget, Magnum, Centennial, Atahnum, Simcoe, and Amarillo hops from first wort to the fermentor. Its 70 units of bitterness, are offset by a roasty character from organic chocolate and Carafa malts, with a hint of caramel lurking in the forest of hop flavors.

Thanks to Good Day Oregon on KPTV channel 12 and to Andy Carson with cameraman Mike Heinrich for coming out this morning to Roots Organic Brewing and talking with us about Organic Beer, the NAOBF, and efforts in Sustainable practices. Cheers!

Thanks to speaker Eric Crum from PSU’s Center for Urban Studies, who met with some of this years Recycling Czars on Monday evening, for discussing what products can be and cannot be recycled or composted.

The festivals vendors are required to serve food with compostable utensils and containers, but Recycling Czars should be on the lookout for items brought in by attendees that are neither compostable or recyclable, “When in doubt, throw it out.”

Its great to see people interested in Recycling, Composting and gaining awareness about new products, like the festivals compostable cornstarch cups, that do not need to go to the Landfill. Single use products are changing and its up to us to educate each other. With the smallest effort we can improve our environment and our health.

For more information please visit: http://www.sustainableportland.org

Early risers catch the NAOBF Organizers on Good Day Oregon with  Weatherman Andy Carson on KPTV channel 12 from 4:30am to 9am Tuesday, June 23.

Recycling Czars meeting Monday June 22 @ 7pm at Roots Organic Brewing Co. 1520 SE 7th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97214

Training Meeting:
Recycling Czars have a training meeting with the City of Portland Master Recylers program held at Roots Organic Brewing on Monday, June 22 @ 7 pm, the week of the festival. This training lets Czars know what items are acceptable in the compost and recycling. Our tasting glasses and all food service wear used by our food vendors is compostable. The glasses look like plastic, but are made of Natureworks PLA which is cornstarch based and must go in the compost, not recycling.