The 2023 Sip of Spring will be Saturday, June 17th at John’s Marketplace on 35th and Powell.

The Sip of Spring is a small gathering of select breweries with beers the brewers want to share and drink with their beer fans. Plan to meet some friends in a centrally located venue, have an afternoon outdoors in the sun with good beers and food options and work on that elusive Portland tan.

Choose from multiple food carts to grab a snack from while your sip beer. If you need beer to-go, John’s has you covered with hundreds of beer, cider and wine’s, and kegs too if that’s how you roll!

Admission costs will be $25 for a tasting glass and 8 tasting tickets (+ ticket fee); or $50 for a 2 person pass, this ticket is for two people and comes with two tasting glasses, 16 drink tickets plus a bonus 4 drink tickets (+ ticket fee). 21+ only.

Two ticket deal - If you buy a ticket for you and a friend you get 4 bonus beer tickets!

This is a rain or shine event. The fest takes place in, around and under the cover of the food court awning right next to John’s marketplace Powell

(Brought to you by the same team that produces the Holiday Ale Festival and the Sip of Fall)

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2023 Beer list -

Bauman’s Cider

-Strawberry Mojito - Hyper-local and super-seasonal: Our own strawberries, ripe and bursting with fresh berry goodness! We blend them here with our farm-fermented cider and our own mint, muddled to perfection. Semi-sweet 6.7% ABV.

-Reine des Pommes - "Queen of the Apples" is a blend of some of our favorite tannic French cider apples, including the prized Reine des Pommes. Off-dry and full of fruity notes of baked apples, Meadowfoam honey and Meyer lemons. 6.9% ABV.

Crux Brewing

- Southland Grisette - Southland is our southern hemisphere spin on the traditional grisette, a saison-adjacent style meant to refresh and replenish the miners of southern Belgium. We added a tasteful amount of Motueka hops and Feijoa fruit, providing a touch of New Zealand tropical citrus to this delightful Belgian-style ale.5.2% ABV.

- Bramble Candy - Sour ale aged in Red Wine Barrels with a tangled blend of sour cultures. Then infused with a tart twist of real Oregon raspberries and Marion berries. It drips with juicy berry notes balanced by a funky wine-like earthiness — that's what we call 'nature's candy! 7.5% ABV.

Hopworks Brewing

- Rindless Watermelon Lime Gose - Rindless Watermelon Gose is pale orange with a kiss of pink. Aromas and flavors are of watermelon candy and bright lime followed by some light saltiness to help clean off the palate. This sour ale finishes clean and snappy, with a hint of wheat maltiness 5.2% ABV.

- Trail Time Summer IPA- A crushable, fruit-forward IPA with notes of pineapple, orange zest and papaya. It finishes light and crisp, with a nice, drying bitterness. The hop profile is a balanced blend of Chinook, El Dorado, Centennial, Strata and HBC 638 hops, providing a big, fruity boost 6.5% ABV.

Level Brewing

- Stable Genius Hazy IPA “Indictment Edition” - Bright citrus and tropical fruit flavors and aromas with notes of impending divorce. 6.5% ABV.

- Steamed Hams lager - Light, clean, crisp, bitter with earthy, floral and spicy hop flavors and aromas. Made to pair with hamburgers! 5% ABV.

Obelisk Brewing

- Sculpture Garden - West Coast India Pale Ale dry hopped with Chinook, Nelson, Nelson CGX™, and Motueka hops. Ripe tropical and stone fruits like mango, nectarine, pineapple, gooseberry, and kiwi, with a dank resinous quality complimented by a soft bitterness that lets the fruit shine through. 7% ABV.

- Sun Shrine - A not so traditional Kolsch-inspired ale brewed with German malts, German Tettnanger hops, and Strata CGX™ hops. A measured amount of Strata CGX™️ dry hop lightly accents the beer with some elevated fruit flavor and aroma. This beer is super dry yet full of lemon zest, tangerine, peach, melon, crackery malt character, and a balanced bitterness that makes a crisp and refreshing beer. 4.2% ABV.

Ruse Brewing

- Parallel Principles - American Style Pale Ale brewed with wheat and dry hopped with Vista, Strata and Mosaic. Collaboration with Irrelevant Brewing in Vancouver, WA. 5.3% ABV.

- Phases of Darkness Vanilla - Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout aged in Heaven Hill Casks for 13 months then conditioned on Vanilla from Tanzania, New Caledonia and Sri Lanka 15% ABV.

Threshold Brewing

- Infinite Realms - Hazy IPA - brewed with New Zealand Nectaron hops, 6.5% ABV.

- Savage Crush No. 4 - Mango and Passionfruit Margarita Smoothie Sour, 6.5% ABV.

Von Ebert Brewing

- Chain Seeker - A summer IPA; light body with notes of lemon, lime and strawberry 5.4%ABV.

- Fir Tip Helles – Bavarian-style Helles conditioned on locally foraged fir tips. Notes of honeysuckle, resin, and cracker 4.8%ABV.

Upright Brewing

- Table Flipper - The PNW’s only open fermented malt liquor 6.3% ABV.

- Fantasia - Fantasia is a double-oaked wild ale, first maturing in neutral wine barrels before being foeder finished over peaches from Baird Family Orchards7% ABV.

Vintage Bottles - Crooked Stave Brewing - 2016 5 Golden Rings is a specialty blend in five hand selected white wine barrels. The addition of mulberries, candied ginger, California orange peel, and Muscat raisins offers the perfect balance to the oak characteristics from the barrels.