Oregon Brewers Festival: The Buzz Beers!

Photo courtesy Oregon Brewers Festival

Two weeks ago, I published the Oregon Brewers Festival's 85 beer lineup.  The festival organizers have just confirmed to me that they have purchased a minimum of 20 kegs of each beer!

In addition, a certain number of kegs (of each beer) will be allocated for each day.  So, if you attend the festival at the start of any day, you should be able to try any of the beers in the “regular” lineup.  Now on to the Buzz beers...

So what exactly are Buzz beers?  While most of the beers in the regular lineup are broadly distributed (broad is a relative term), Buzz beers are produced on a more limited basis.  Many were made exclusively for OBF, so this may be your only opportunity to try some of these brews.

The current lineup of 53 Buzz beers is listed below.  If you’re interested in sampling these, here’s what you need to know:

• Buzz beers will be served only in the Buzz Tent.  So look for the aforementioned tent.
• Quantities of Buzz beers will be very limited—just a keg or two of each (compared to the 20+ kegs for each of the regular beers).
• About 8+ Buzz beers will be poured at any given time.
• Follow @OBFBuzzTent on Twitter for periodic updates on what’s pouring. 
• Samples only—no full pours.
• 2 tokens per sample.

So between the regular and Buzz lineups, you'll have nearly 140 options!  Is that enough beer for you?

Which Buzz beers are you planning to taste?   Click for more interesting facts about Oregon Brewers Festival.    Check out my OBF tasting suggestions that you can download and take to the fest!

7/29 update:  Late Friday night, OBF announced that the Buzz Tent is closed for the rest of the weekend.  The Buzz crazy crowd emptied all of kegs during the first two days!  Don't worry, there are still 85 beers left.  I was able to taste two Buzz beers.  Check out my OBF Day 2 summary for the details.

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	Brewery	Beer
	10 Barrel	Monkey Juice
	21st Amendment	Old Glory
	Alameda	Siberian Bear
	Alaskan	Alaskan Smoked Porter
	Ale Industries	Dry Hogged Bacon Brown
	Ale Industries	Grand Cru Barrel Aged Sour
	Bear Republic	Old Baba Yaga
	Beer Valley	Heavy Sugars Braggot
	Beer Valley	Delta 9 IPA
	Bison	Organic Belgian Ale Brewed with Marmalade
	Black Diamond	Grand Cru Bourbon Barrel
	Bonyard Beer	Notorious IPA (3)
	Bonyard Beer	Bourbon Backbone
	Boulevard	Collaboration No. 2
	Boundary Bay	Boundary Bay Imperial IPA
	BridgePort	Stumptown Tart
	Cascade	Various Live Barrels
	Coalition	Hanso vs. Bulleit
	Deschutes	Conflux
	Eel River	Onyx
	Elysian	Sextacula
	Fearless	Fearless Strong Scotch Ale
	FiftyFifty	Imperial Eclipse Stout
	FiftyFifty	Baril Rouge Baltique
	Fort George	Magnifera Indica Belgae
	Full Sail	Old Boardhead Barleywine Ale 1995
	Gilgamesh	Mega Monster Imperial IPA
	Goose Island	Adeline
	Hollister	Black Ice
	Laht Neppur	Little Boy Stout
	Lompoc	Bourbon Barrel LSD
	Lucky Lab	Super Gin Dog Ale
	Mad River	Le Frambic
	Maui	Imperial CoCoNuT Porter
	Maui	Oaked Father Damien Abbey
	Maui	Oaked KGB Russian Imperial Stout
	McMenamins Crystal	Mils Flur Na H'Alba
	McMenamins Fulton Pub	Crimson and Clover
	McMenamins Thompson	Northwest Lassie
	McMenamins West Linn	Twister
	Mt Emily	Organic Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine
	Natian	Hint O'Mint
	Ninkasi	Gin Barrel Aged Collaboration Ale
	Oakshire	Old Tom's Imperial Overcast
	Old Market	Eaki's Gold
	Riverport	5/5 Pepper Beer
	Rogue	Rogue Creamery 75th Anniversary Ale
	Seven Brides	Port Barrel Aged Weezinator
	Squatters	Pequeno Imperial
	Stone Brewing Co	Stone Smoked Porter w/Vanilla Beans
	Surly	Five
	Uncommon Brewers	American Special Bitter
	Vertigo	Barrel Aged Dark Ale