A spin on their classic offerings, Von Ebert Brewing will brew fresh hop versions of Volatile Substance IPA, Sector 7 Hazy IPA and Pils

A spin on their classic offerings, Von Ebert Brewing will brew fresh hop versions of Volatile Substance IPA, Sector 7 Hazy IPA and Pils

More people are interested in who makes the world’s best pilsner than ever before. As I’ve written previously, pilsners have long been the style that brewers order when visiting another brewery. This is because pilsners are clean and simple and there is nowhere for a brewer to hide “off” flavors.

But these days it’s not just brewers ordering these beers. Brewery patrons are buying more pilsners, and major beer competitions across the U.S. have seen an increased number of pilsners entered for consideration in 2024.

 During hop harvest season there is a lot to look forward to, but Portland, Oregon-based Von Ebert Brewing’s fresh Hop releases are always something extra special worth seeking out. This year some of them are hitting 16oz cans for the first time, while others will remain elusive on draft unless you make it to one of their taprooms or a special event such as the Portland Fresh Hop Pop-Up Beer Fest.

Von Ebert's ethos of constant improvement aligns perfectly with Hopsteiner’s ideal of Dare to Brew Different. 

Von Ebert Brewing will release its seasonal Festbier, a style of German lager commonly consumed around Oktoberfest.

“For a brewery honoring the German roots of Grandma Von Ebert, this beer embodies our motto ‘where tradition meets evolution.’ The festival beers of Bavaria evolved from darker colored Märzens to the lighter colored Festbiers you see today. In this beer, we highlight that modern presentation,” said Sam Pecoraro, brewmaster of Von Ebert Brewing. “Festbier’s smooth, subtle use of hops and slightly more malty notes makes it a perfect beer to transition from summer to fall.”

Oregon hop growers will harvest around 5,500 acres this season, compared to 7,000 acres just two years ago.

 "It’s a significant amount of hop trellises that don’t have hops on them right now," said Sam Pecoraro with Von Ebert Brewing.  He added the reduction in acreage is due to a correction in the market.  Craft beer demand is down two-percent this year, leaving growers with an oversupply, and it’s impacting all aspects of the beer industry.

You might call Red Gillen the Oregon ambassador for Japan’s craft beer movement.

After spending years living in Japan, he moved back to the U.S. and in 2008 started a website, oshuushu.com, as a way to keep his Japanese language skills fresh and write about one of his interests, craft beer. In a few years, that morphed into Gillen offering Japanese-language tours of Portland-area craft breweries.

After scattered closures and openings, Oregon's saturation of breweries has been pretty flat over the past several years. A return to strong growth looks doubtful.

The national Brewers Association counted 318 craft breweries across Oregon in 2023, same as 2022 and essentially unchanged since 2019, when it counted 311.

PORTLAND, Ore (KOIN) — Nothing goes together quite like beer and competition, and there’s an event this weekend that will have you lifting a glass to celebrate. For the first time in 5 years, The Bitburger Challenge is back at the Prost! PDX Biergarten. Brewers from the PNW and around the country compete to brew up the best German Style Pilsner in all the land! Three decorated local beer experts came in-studio to tell us all about it. We welcomed Sam Pecoraro, the Brewmaster at Von Ebert, Whitney Burnside, owner and Brewmaster at Grand Fir Brewing, and Dan Hart, the owner of Prost!

Hours after my newsletter landed last week, this came across my email: “Von Ebert Brewing will close its Pearl location to focus on brewery operations and opening of new N. Cook Street taproom.”  

At the end of April 2024, Von Ebert Brewing will close its NW Portland, OR Pearl district location to focus on its brewery operations and the opening of the new production brewery and taproom on N. Cook Street in the former Ecliptic Brewing mothership. Employees from the closing location have been offered jobs at the other taprooms and restaurants.

The prestigious World Beer Cup awards were announced at The Venetian Las Vegas on April 24th, 2024. The Brewers Association developed the World Beer Cup Competition in 1996 to celebrate the art and science of brewing internationally. Unlike the other big BA beer competition the Great American Beer Festival, the World Beer Cup awards beers from across the world not just in the U.S., with an international set of judges at what is referred to as “The Olympics of Beer Competitions.”

Portland, Oregon’s Von Ebert Brewing is celebrating its 6th anniversary by releasing two special collaboration beers with Firestone Walker Brewing Co. from California.

“We wanted to celebrate this milestone with our friends at Firestone Walker Brewing Company, who are West Coast craft brewing pioneers and innovators, through collaborations that truly highlight our mutual drive to cultivate a brewery culture of continuous improvement to quench our beer drinkers,” said Sam Pecoraro, brewmaster of Von Ebert Brewing.

This weekend, Von Ebert Brewing is celebrating its 6th anniversary by releasing two special collaboration beers with Firestone Walker Brewing Company from California.

Known for their award-winning Pilsner Pils and Volatile Substance IPA, Von Ebert Brewing wanted to feature those styles in their collaborations. Using Yakima Chief Hops 702 extracts, Von Ebert and Firestone Walker developed the “6th Anniversary West Coast IPA” and “6th Anniversary German-style Pilsner,” which will be available at all four Von Ebert locations and Portland-area bottle shops.

This weekend, Von Ebert Brewing is celebrating its 6th anniversary by releasing two special collaboration beers with Firestone Walker Brewing Company from California.

Known for their award-winning Pilsner Pils and Volatile Substance IPA, Von Ebert Brewing wanted to feature those styles in their collaborations. Using Yakima Chief Hops 702 extracts, Von Ebert and Firestone Walker developed the “6th Anniversary West Coast IPA” and “6th Anniversary German-style Pilsner,” which will be available at all four Von Ebert locations and Portland-area bottle shops.

Von Ebert Brewing in Portland, Oregon marks its 6th anniversary this weekend with a grand celebration and the launch of two unique collaboration brews in partnership with Firestone Walker Brewing Company from California.

Oregon craft beer’s prestigious Oregon Beer Awards were announced at another sold-out ceremony at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, April 4th 2024. This was the 9th annual Oregon Beer Awards, which started as a much smaller event first held at the Doug Fir Lounge before expanding into the double-blind judged competition that has inspired similar awards across the country with their high competition standards and gala awards show inspired by the Oscars.

For the best part of the past year I have been working on a project I’m finally able to announce. It started when I pitched our local travel sites on the idea of updating their beer coverage, which is both anemic and out of date. This is a minor travesty, because every state’s travel association should at least adequately promote local beer. It’s worse for Oregon, though, a genuinely exceptional place for beer.

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