2009 NAOBF People’s Choice Award goes to - Standing Stone Double IPA

2nd place tie - HUB Secession CDA and Crannog Backhand of God Stout,
3rd place - Oakshire Watershed IPA.

Best Band - Rendevouz String Band

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.

The NAOBF will be presenting over 80 Ales, Lagers and Ciders. http://www.naobf.org/beer.html

Avoid the lines- get your NAOBF tasting glass and vouchers for tokens from your local beerstore. The NAOBF is proud to team up with Belmont Station, the Bridgetown Beerhouse, and Saraveza, to offer festival glasses before the event. Token vouchers can be redeemed at the “Tokens Only” table during the event, avoid the lines at the Mug and Token Sales booth.

Pass Go, collect your tokens, and start sampling the 75 organic beers at the event. Presale glasses are also available at NAOBF presenter Roots Organic Brewing.

Over 75 Organic Beers and Counting -

http://www.naobf.org/beer.html

Beer: Blue Dot Double IPA from Hair of the Dog - Portland, OR

Band: Rendezvous String Band

Brewer’s can now Sign Up online to enter your Organic beer for our festival and attend the Organic Brewers Symposium and Luncheon at this link:

http://www.naobf.org/brewery.html