Portland Craft Beer Festival
Portland, Oregon
The Portland Craft Beer Festival is an annual summer celebration of Portland brewing, bringing together dozens of local breweries and cider makers for a multi-day festival of beers made in and around the city. Attendees can work through a deep lineup of hop-forward ales, crisp lagers, barrel-aged projects, and seasonal releases while meeting the people who brew them.
The festival's premise is simple and very Portland: celebrate the beer made here. Where destination festivals fly in breweries from around the country, the Portland Craft Beer Festival keeps its focus on the city's own producers - which in Portland still means one of the deepest and most competitive lineups any festival could ask for. Portland has one of the densest concentrations of independent breweries in the world, and this festival is one of the best single places to sample that range side by side.
The event has traditionally been held over a summer weekend with food carts, music, and a relaxed daytime atmosphere that makes it as approachable for casual drinkers as for dedicated beer travelers. Pours run from the city's long-established anchors to the newest taprooms pouring their first festival beers, and the lineup changes meaningfully every year as Portland's scene keeps turning over.
If you are visiting Portland for the festival, it pairs naturally with a brewery crawl - most of the city's taprooms are a short ride from wherever the festival footprint lands, and the surrounding neighborhoods are dense with patios, bottle shops, and beer bars that round out a full weekend.
This page is the permanent home of the Portland Craft Beer Festival on Beer.Social. When the next edition is announced we link the current dates and participating breweries here, and past editions are archived below.
Past editions
- 2026: 4th Annual Portland Craft Beer Festival (July 6, 2026) — Alameda Brewing Co