We are giving away a beer package for the 2012 Portland Holiday Ale Festival on Wednesday, November 28 through Sunday, December 2, 2012. The package includes two mugs and 20 tokens!
To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed Monday, November 26 after Midnight.
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From our sponsors at Holiday Ale Festival:
Portland Holiday Ale Festival
Wednesday, November 28 @ Noon – 10 p.m.
Thursday, November 29 – Saturday, December 1 @ 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Sunday, December 2 @ 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
$30 general admission package | $65 VIP admission package (Package Info Below)
21 and Over
Purchase tickets at holidayale.com
Pioneer Courthouse Square
701 SW 6th Avenue Portland, OR 97204
(503) 223-1613
The 17th annual Holiday Ale Festival will take place Nov. 28 through Dec. 2 at Pioneer Courthouse Square, located at 701 SW Sixth Ave. in downtown Portland, on the MAX Light Rail line. The popular event will feature at least four-dozen big, bold ales designed to fend off the cold chill of a long winter night. From Belgians, barleywines and CDAs to winter warmers, porters and stouts, these beers have either been crafted specifically for the event or are hard-to-fine vintages, underscoring the event’s reputation as one of finest gathering of winter beers anywhere in the nation.
Event hours are Noon to 10 pm Wednesday, 11 am to 10 pm Thursday through Saturday, and 11 am to 5 pm Sunday. To avoid the lengthy lines that often accompany Northwest beer fests, the recommended days for attendance are Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. The Holiday Ale Festival is for ages 21 and over.
What makes this festival standout from other similar events is the beer selection: the festival works with every brewery involved to make sure they send a beer that has either been made or blended specifically for the event, or is a rare or vintage beer that isn’t commonly tapped in the state.
To enter and consume beer, the purchase of an entry package is required. The general admission package at the door costs $30 and includes the 2012 tasting mug and 10 taster tickets. Advance general admission packages cost $30 and include the tasting mug, 12 taster tickets and expedited entry all five days. Advance VIP packages are available for $65 and include the tasting mug, 28 taster tickets, a bottle of water, access to VIP lines (including special tappings) and express entry all five days. Express re-entry requires a wristband and the 2012 mug, and is subject to the festival’s capacity. Previous year’s mugs will not be filled. Advance packages are available online at www.holidayale.com after Oct. 19.
Once inside the festival, a full mug of beer costs four taster tickets, and a four-ounce taste costs one ticket. Certain limited release and special tappings may not be available in full mug pours, or may cost double tickets. Additional beer tickets can be purchased for $1 apiece. Designated drivers in a party of two or more may purchase a designated driver wristband for $5, which includes Crater Lake Root Beer or bottled water for the duration of the stay.
Despite being held outdoors during one of the coldest months of the year, more than 17,000 festival attendees stay warm and dry over the five day festival under clear-topped tents that cover the venue. Gas heaters create a cozy ambiance beneath the boughs of the region’s largest decorated Christmas tree. In addition to beer tasting, the festival also features meet the brewer events, a root beer garden, food vendors, beer pairings with cupcakes & cheese, event merchandise and a coat and bag check that raises funds for the Children’s Cancer Association.
One of the event highlights is often the beer names themselves: this year, look for Frosty’s Revenge, Blitz’n Prancer, Milk & Cookies, Figgy Pudding and Very Ill Tempered Gnome. The marjority of the beers hail from Oregon, but there are also breweries representing Washington, California, Colorado, Delaware and Montana.
Returning to the event is the ninth annual Sunday Beer Brunch, taking place on Dec. 2 from 11 am to 1 pm on the upper level of Pioneer Courthouse Square. The auxiliary event features European pastries, cured meats and artisanal cheeses to accompany an assortment of exclusive vintage winter beers not available at the festival itself, plus special large format bottles to be shared. Tickets cost $65 and are available at www.holidayale.com.
For more information, visit www.holidayale.com or call 503-252-9899.
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I would love to attend the Holiday Ale Festival as I’ve never been, before (work schedule / personal schedule have prevented attending in the past). I try to attend every other local beer/wine festival that I can each year – I’ll live in this area for the rest of my life for the wine/beer/liquor options we have (there’s just no competition anywhere else).
Beer me!
I would like to attend the festival because I could use a night out and it sounds like a fabulous event…..and I like good beer!
I may have achieved all my life goals if I win these. oh and I love beer
*All I want for christmas*
I want this, but I fear my heart may explode with joy.
Nah, still want it!
Help me beat these winter time blues with some winter time brews :)
Love me some hearty, rib-sticking, winter-time meal-beers… especially when enjoyed in PDX but ESPECIALLY when enjoyed in PDX during the Portland Holiday Ale Fest.
Yes please! Winter beer fest for the win!
I love beer! I love the holidays! I love Pioneer Courthouse square! I hate waiting in long lines…. VIP Tickets please and thank you!
i would love to go and bring this sweetheart i have been dating for the past few months! he has never been to the holiday ale fest before!!
I would like to attend because I really like beer and there are sure to be several on tap that I’ve never tried.
I’d love to go! I try to support our amazing beer scene, both by buying & trying different kinds and by volunteering at beer fests.
I want to go real bad.
I pour beer over my cereal!
Winter beers under the sparkling Christmas tree, heaven.
I want to go the mostest, realest bad.
Finally!!! PSU has arranged finals week to be before the beerfest! Ive been trying to come back to these tasty holiday brews for two years! Make a hardworking students day PDX pipeline? It would be amazing!
please pick me so I can drink myself some delicious brews
I would like to attend this festival and be apart of a true portland holiday tradition. Tasty beers, a christmas tree and holiday spirit what more could we ask for?
I would love to win because the Holiday Ale Fest is my favorite beer festival of the year and an unbeatable holiday tradition.
I’m constantly enamored by the inventive brews that breweries come up with, and to experience it all in the shade of the tree in Pioneer Courthouse Square is pretty truly magical.
Oh how I love winter beers. This sounds amazing!
I loves me some holiday brews, and what better reason for a long overdue visit with old friends.
I will make it my personal mission to taste every beer.
I should win because it is almost my birthday and what better way to spend it?
Holiday Ale? Yes, please. Never been.
I’d love nothing more than to guzzle some dark winter brews in the midst of magical Pioneer Courthouse Square!
Freshly 21 and haven’t been able to make it to a beer festival yet! Born and raised here in Oregon and adore the holidays for all reasons, including the winter ales! I love my state, never leaving. :)
Its my first Christmas in PDX. The closest thing to family are friends and lagers. I should go.
I love the Holiday Ale Festival and I wait all year long to drink the most amazing ales from all over.
Hey, keep up the good work guys. I’m assuming you post we’re supposed to comment on is this one for the tcikets. Why I would like to go: Living in Portland for 3+ years I’ve always passed the Holiday Ale Festival but unfortunately have not had the funds to attend. Unless there is some Thanksgiving bonus my work has not told me about, the same will hold true this year. I’m a beer lover and PDX Pipeline follower (iPhone, facebook, site) who appreciates a good Porltand beer festival. Thanks Pipeline!
Holiday Ale Festival, whoo hoo!
Would love to win tickets for this event. Thanks for the opportunity, PDXPIPELINE.
Dear Holiday Ale Fest,
I miss you so much and I will not rest until I am back in the warm embrace of your loving arms.
Mike
Must. Win. Love. Beer. Please. . . . . Pretty please. . . . With hops on top.
I would like to try out the latest beers and to mingle with the local folks. The free tickets would make a nice early Christmas present for a friend :)
That is my husband’s birthday weekend, plus we could really use a date night, and what could be better than an evening of seasonal beer? Please help me give him a wonderful birthday present!
So here is my plea… This is my favorite beer festival. What’s not to love about Rich, delicious holiday ales? PLUS, the festival will be right before I head off into the woods in the cold and rain (maybe even snow!) with 17 high school students for 3 days, so I really really really need some liquid courage before I take off on this endeavor! Thanks and cheers!
I love beer. I love seasonal ale. This is a event I would love to attend!
We are brand new to Portland and hail from Kansas City, home of Boulevard Brewing. We’ve been told the best brews are now right in our backyard and would love a chance to meet the locals and try their winter ales! Pick me!
I would LOVE to win tickets for my husband to attend this festival! He’s from Portland and loves beer but since he parted ways with his previous job, we’ve been unable to enjoy the AMAZING beer that Portland has to offer! Having a ticket would let him enjoy it!
And of course, I would love to attend with him!
I have wanted to attend this festival for years, ever since I turned 21 and back to Portland. BUT I was working holiday retail at the time, and was never actually abel to go. The irony: I was working at Macys, just kiddy-corner from the square where it all goes down. Now I am back again from school, jobless and paying off massive amounts of school debt, and all I want to do to help brighten the holidays is get inside those beer tents! Please please please pick me!!
I just turned 21, and love winter ales. I think this would be the best way to get my holiday cheer going, because I couldn’t afford this festival otherwise! Help a brotha out?
I’d like to win because this is exactly what I asked Santa for last year and he didn’t bring it so here’s pdxpipeline’s chance to one-up Ol’ St. Nicholas.
Best beer festival of the year!!
this fest usually falls on my birthday so would make an awesome BD present for me. oh and i love winter brews so this is my favorite Portland beer festival. thx!
Drink till you want me
Please pick me! I want to start liking winter beers more!
I’ve been waiting for this all year!
I love beer!
Impoverished do-gooder desiring a treat of crispy spicy ale, please
Although I brew my own beer… I still enjoy holiday crafted beers :)
My wife and I love the Holiday Ale Fest! My favorite aspect is the rotating taps of rare/aged ales; can’t miss Mirror Mirror and the procession of Jim’s. It’s also a great opportunity to drink with Santa and see the Ramblin’ Rod-style Patch People.
mmmmmmmmmm BEER… I have would love to go to winter ale fest!!
From changing horrendously smelly dirty diapers to waking up at four am like a zombie to rock a kicking infant, my husband has made it through the first year of our son’s life beautifully and with few complaints.
HE DESERVES THIS!! A night of relaxation, discovering new brews and enjoying old favorites. Help me help him before he totally loses it.
Why: I’m 22 and have been tasting wines and beers since 21. Being able to experience such a wide variety would be amazing.
all my friends are going, and i want to go too!
The cure for what ales me!
The only thing better than drinking big holiday brews downtown would be drinking FREE holiday brews downtown!!!
The Holiday Ale Fest is the perfect start to the holiday season! Mmm beer.
I’d love to take my dad! I’m 22, he’s already taken me to quite a few. It’d be nice to return the favor!
Nothing better this time of year than wonderful stout winter ales to warm you up on the cold winter days. Would so love to be a part of this event and winning these passes would be just the ticket!
I never miss the Holiday Ale Fest
This is the winter beer fest to go to! I would love to get some tickets!
Cheers
If beer was a river and I was a duck, I’d swim to the bottom and drink it all up! But beer ain’t a river and I ain’t no duck, so let me win tickets and I’ll drink to luck!
Woooooah…. sooo many entries…. I love beer more than all these fools combined (no, really)!
I would take someone who deserves a freebie way more than me (I am a broke slacker. My buddy is a hard working great friend who has ale instead of blood running thru his veins & appreciates small craft as much as I do).
This festival is tha bessssss bc you get to see the brewers get all lovey-lovey with their uber special special kegs- & seeing that many happy nerds in one place is my kind of party!
My partner is a homebrewer.so we go to lots of fests. But, my personal favorite is the holiday ale fest-i love the beers, the crowd and the atmosphere. Best one all year by far! Our problem is that were a social worker and a therapist and that equals a very tight budget for things like fests. But wed love the chance to go!
I’m as homebrewer and love to support oregon beer events. The beer atmosphere out here is unbeatable and a big reason I plan to never leave!
My partner is a homebrewer so we support lots of fests. But, this once is my favourite by far! Great people, beer and atmosphere
I have been waiting for this all year…would love to go admit would be hard to afford otherwise.
My childhood friend is coming this weekend and I’d love to consume some figgy pudding and milk & cookies, just like in the old days.
Because Benjamin Franklin loves me and wants me to be happy.
OOh! I really want to get warm and toasty by tasting all the delicious creative holiday ales this festival has to offer!!! Help satiate my curiosity!!
great way to taste several beers and how better to do it than to share it with a friend.
because i entered another contest
I love beer. Especially FREE, craft beer!
I want to experience the velvet merkin one more time!
I would like to go because my partner is a mechanic from Germany who works for a brewery. I am a bartender always looking for new product to showcase. Between the two of us you cant find a.more beer loving couple. Please pick me.
I’d like to try Figgy Pudding and Very Ill Tempered Gnome!
Job hunting…on a tight budget…would love to win tickets to this event. Cheers!
Big beers for a dreary winter day.
Beer!
Just moved to Portland and I can’t afford to do anything. A free Ale Festival would make my holidays!! :o)
I love beer, promise to bring lots of people, and I promise to take public transportation to and from the festival.
I love puppies!!!!!!!
The winter ale fest is the best way to kick off the winter season in Portland. Lots of great costumes, beer and friends!!!I
BEEEEEEEEEEER
Pretty please, pick me! 20 tokens would be a good start for the festival. I’m ready for the holiday cheer!
because my homebrewing husband deserves a break!!!
The holiday beer fest is the best time for beer. Winter beers are my favorite. I am a dad of three that doesn’t get out that often. Please set me up and I will be a happy pappy.
Do you have the cure for what Ales me? I think you do… (it’s beer). New in town would love to start packing on the winter weight.
I’ve never been to a beer fest in PDX! It’s time to change this sad fact!!
I love beer festivals! This is the one I always miss, so I would love to win tickets!
Ho Ho Ho Santa wants to go.
My favorite kind of beers and my favorite Portland beer festival! Would loooooooooove to win tickets to this!!
Three words: Holiday. Ale. Festival.
Three more words: I’ve. Never. Been!
Three additional words: Off. The. Chain.
Also: Children’s. Cancer. Association. :)
I’m so excited. Last years was a blast!!
I want in on the fun!
We live for beer! Enough said.
Here’s hoping, once again, that I win this one!! Would love to treat my son to this event..
Would love to surprise my husband with this awesome festival!
“B-double E-double R-U-N – “BEER RUN”
Well, I can’t really run as my knees ain’t what they used to be, but if Godzilla were to appear on the horizon in an agitated state, I’m sure I could sufficiently haul posterior quickly and safely out of the way of the king of all monsters and hopefully deep into the heart of the Holiday Ale Fest thanks to you!
We have friends in town and would love to show off Portland’s beer scene. Portland, in general, but definitely the beer!
Portland does love its beer! Would love to go.
This is one beer festival that I’ve never been to, but sure would like to. I’ve been trying to register for a volunteer shift on the holiday ale festival, but apparently all of the shifts are already spoken for.
Can’t wait to bust out the Buddy The Elf costume again for this event!
I would love to attend, I’ve never been. I enjoy trying new beers, ales, fall harvest.
I have been having beer fest withdrawals for a few months. I plan on only working half days during the Holiday Ale Fest so I can partake in the libations and revelry.
My husband is a HUGE beer fan… I’d love to treat him to this! :)
I want to sample the big, bold wintertime brews that I can’t get anywhere else!
As Christmas approaches and the weather gets colder,
there is nothing more fun and nothing bolder,
then a gathering of friends at a winter ale fest,
where the people are happy and the beer is the best,
There is no better way to get in the mood,
just drink a dark beer and devour some food,
and as you’re laughing away and loosing track of the time,
should loudly with pride “thank you PDX Pipeline!”
I’ve been a wine person but am learning more about beer and love it! This sounds like a great way to sample delicious ales. I’d buy a ticket but can’t afford it. A free ticket would be amazing!
because i want to drink a lot of booze and look at boobs.
booze n boobz.
I would love to surprise my husband with tickets to Portland’s Holiday Ale Festival. We are usually out of town this time of year–but we finally get a Portland Christmas and what a great way to celebrate it!! Thanks PDX Pipeline!!
I love the beer names! Last years favorite – “Barry White’s Voice in a Bottle”
I would love to win this on account of I am disabled and live on a fixed income and can not afford to go out also my 25 year old son will be here visiting this weekend and it would be a great outing to enjoy with him
My brother recently turned 21 and I would absolutely love to take him to this event. They are so much fun, especially during the holiday. I’ve never been to Portland and getting away for a little while, sounds like a perfect bonding opportunity.
Please & Thank you!
Why??? Because I love beer! And I love portland!! It’s the perfect combo!!
I’ve lived in Portland six years now and beer fests are still the best thing about this place. Never been to a Christmas one, though. Can’t wait for those specialty beers. I also owe my buddy some payback so this would be for him. Well, me too, obviously.
I’ve lived in Portland six years now and beer fests are still the best thing about this place. Never been to a Christmas one, though. Can’t wait for those specialty beers. I also owe my buddy some payback so this would be for him. Well, me too, obviously.
I would love to win tickets to this
A family tradition!
I am a chef that just arrived in Portland a week ago and since I will be cooking at a new restaurant downtown, it would benefit me greatly to sample some of the local brews.
this is the best beer fest every year by far. the atmosphere under the tent but still outside is amazing. the best time to go used to be during the civil war game but it’s moved this year. thanks for the chance at tix for this, it’s a great time!
b/c i love beer!
30+ years of Oregon beer and we have never been to the Holiday Ale Festival. Now is the time!
Great winter beers! Cold outside, warm inside!
This was Timmy’s last request before the accident. But His wife will take his place now. I will give her and her girlfriend the tickets. ;)
Coming home to Portland from Los Angeles specifically for the Ale Festival. Free tickets would be amazing.
Obviously drinking those beers will make me look like the girls in the ad. I must go!
I hope I win: I like beer, and I’m pretty thirsty right now. Thanks!
Can’t wait to sample the winter beers!
winter is coming
Love to drink beer! Crossing my fingers I win. :-)
We’ll have out of town guests that weekend who would love the festival. Thanks!
Being a transplant to Portland the Holiday Ale Fest is a great event. Always an awesome beer line up, the event is run perfectly by a freindly staff and a great way to be apart of the Portland beer scene.
I want to drink delicious holiday beer and sing carols around the giant christmas tree!
Help…I need to take a friend to a event during the day on Dec. 1st, so his wife can get the house ready for his 55th surpise Birthday Party….Help…nothing else going on that day
Need to get my husband out of the house….so he can we can get the Party for our friends 55th birthday party….
Help….I need to get a friend out of his house, while his wife gets the surprise Birthday party set up….he will be 55 years old….
Why would I like to attend the Holiday Ale Festival?? Because I LOVE beer!! It sounds like great hoilday fun!!
My favorite holiday tradition!! I’m going to this either way, but I could really use the free tickets!!!
Because i look forward to this every year! Tis the season!!
What the Holiday Ale Festival needs are two fun girls who especially love dark beer (but otherwise would not be able to attend)!
Pick me! The friend I’m taking is pretty in pink! Lots of Holiday Ale = pink cheeks!
Winter beers are unique and creative! especially during the holiday time more special time to celebrate drinking…
If I win, I will drink beer, I will share beer, it will be merry, and it will be good.
Smiles. Laughs. Beers. Portland.
Rainy portland goes so well with dark beer! It brightens my day☆ It’s my cure, my light for the Seasonal Affective Disorder!
I’d love to take my husband to this. What a great way to start the holiday season!
This event is awesome! It’s a great season to get warmed up with some beer and there will be lots of good beer here!
I’m not pregnant – nor trying… yet – but I concluded yesterday that Porter would be an adorable name for a boy (or girl!). Oh, how I love my Porter! It would also be especially nice to share some cheer with my sweet, hard working man at the Holiday Ale Festival! :)
Attended last year for the first time- came away with an appreciation for many new beers, some hilarious memories, and a handful of new friends! Hope to bring many more folks with me this year. One of the best things do to in Portland in the rainy cold winter!
I have much to be thankful for, beer of course is high on the list. However I am currently on antibiotics for 10 days that allow no alcoholic consumption, and what better day to end my stint of sobriety than a beer fest!!! I want to win!
I’m a big bold gal that loves big bold ales! I would be so at home here! Pick me please :)
Would love to go, have never been!
Beer is my life – my life for beer
Guests coming to town. They will need some beer.
I love this ale festival, it’s one of my favorites!
I am from Georgia and need to drink to deal with the crappy Oregon winter!!!! Please
I would love to try all the delicious beers!
I’m about to enter the Coast Guard and a nice evening before I leave would be great
I have always wanted to attend the festival and this is my first year living in Portland! Beer is the best way to celebrate the best time of the year. I’m dying to go!
yes yes yes please, I drove by this last year and it looked like a good time!
I’m looking to enjoy some winter brew and hopefully meet some cute beer loving ladies.
Went to this a couple of years ago and had a blast. Would love to go to this very cool event again. Winter beers are my favorites.
I hear so many good things about this festival but still haven’t been.
through the lips and over the gums,
look out tummy here it comes!
Because I’ve never been!
My wife just spent nine months beer-free before pushing a living human out of her womb. She deserves a drink.
I’d love to take my hubby and his buds. He has been working very hard this year and could use the break.
I would looooove to attend the festival for the first time. I always walk by it and am jealous that I don’t have tickets. Oh and did I mention that it’s just a couple weeks before my birthday?? Nothing like starting the celebration a little early! Pretty please?
My first Christmas in Portland & working in the beverage industry! It’d be irresponsible for me NOT to participate!
Why?
BEER!
I love holiday ales, and holiday festivals!
This is my favorite beer festival of the year! The official start of the winter season!
I’ve never been but would love to go!
I can’t think of a better way to escape my children and my father-in-law at the same time!
I would love to be able to attend this event this year and show my best friend from Chicago what amazing holiday ales Oregon has to offer!
My beer lovin’ bff and I need some Holiday ales to kick off the Holidays!) Pick me!)
It’s my turn to treat my seriously awesome friend to a beer fest – I would be giddy to get to go to this event.
Been going since this was called”Twelve Ales of Christmas”. Love this event.
Portland’s living room is the most awesome place to share winter warmers.
Just moved here this week from the East Coast for work. I want to see how the brews here compare to the Atlantic ales.
I would love to take some friends to the fest and share some really amazing beer. Not to mention it is the perfect weather for some warming ales.
This really sounds like a fun festival. I would really like to attend!
Pick me! I will treat my new-to-PDX coworker to the best beer festival in Portland~
I went last year and this is the best beer festival in portland. I’m a super-poor college student and would love to be able to attend this year.
I went last year and really loved the awesome multi-level setup, the holiday cheer in the air (everyone was so friendly and toasting everything), and especially the roasted chestnuts! I’d love to win tickets this year.
Portland. Beer. Holidays.
The trifecta! :)
This ale festival looks awesome!! I love beer!!
Love those winter warmers! Please pick me, I’d love to taste them all!
Happy Holiday Season PDX Pipeline! My husband and I stumbled upon the very first one 17 years ago….hardly anyone was there and it was soooo cold. We have never went back but I am sure it is a very cool event today. We would love to find out and we still have our mugs from the first event today :) We are in desperate need of a “date” Please, Please pick us. Thank You!!! Happy Holidays :)
Hi! My name is Heather and my husband and I just got married on November 10th. We had a fabulous time and it was truly magical (everything that I had always dreamed of). However, we were the only one’s to pay for the wedding. It was worth every penny saved but does not leave us with much to spend for the holidays. My husband is a beer guru and moved to Portland in 2004 because he heard that is was called “bearvana” and could not wait to taste all the microbrews that Portland had to offer. We have gone to the Beer fest every year since then and would be almost sacrilegious not to go this year. We would love to win free tickets to the 2012 Winter Beer Fest!! We already have a craving for the “very ill tempered Gnome” : ) Thanks for considering us! Happy Holidays!!
You had me at mugs!
Mmmmms, please?
We we would LOVE to attend Please :)
I would like to attend because I like beer!
Put your boots on papa, grab a holiday ale
Put your boots on papa, grab a holiday ale
A dark for you, for me there’s somethin’ pale
Prancer’s Revenge, Milk n’ Cookies or a Gnome
Prancer’s Revenge, Milk n’ Cookies or a Gnome
Bring a sack, so I can take them home
Let’s go, go, go…to the ale festival
Yeah let’s go, go, go to that ale festival
We can eat, drink & dance, let that cold wind blow
Price is right but free is hard to beat
Price is right but free is hard to beat
If I had 2 tickets, weekend sure be sweet
Times is tight n’ I sure do want to win
Yeah, times is tight, n’ I sure do hope to win
Get that VIP, and we’ll walk right on in
This is such a great event. I would love to take the boyfriend out and let him blow off a little steam before his college finals start the following week. I hope I win.
the person above has the best /\
But id love to win because i otherwise could not afford the opportunity to attend and try those delicious holiday ales. This is going to a a very special weekend, back in ptown since being gone for a few months! cheeers <3
My favorite beer fest in Portland!!
A great beer festival. So cozy and warm under that tent with yummy beers!!
I would love to go. My husband has always wanted to go. We just happen to be staying in Portland on Friday November 30th. We have not had a date night in a long time and can not wait to have a night away from the children., and I would love to surprise him with this. He would be estatic. If not, well I am sure we can find something to do in Portland this wonderful holiday season. Happy Holidays to you and good luck to all entering ;-) ~Mellissa
Here’s to Portland giving imports a run for their money! I would love to go to this festival to appreciate some of the northwests “other” artists.
I want to go and I cannot go without winning.
My dad’s never been to a beer festival and it would be fun to take him.
I deserve to win the $60, because I’ll easily drink $120 worth of beer.
Cheers!
I want to go to this so bady!! I can’t afford it and fear I won’t get to enjoy the holiday season with awesome beer
I have to make my poor friend leave the house and do something that isn’t kid friendly
Can’t wait to taste as many as I can, love the winter warmers!
This would be the best anniversary present ever!!
How else to survive both the winter doldrums and the advent of the holiday season (read: family that will not leave) than with copious amounts of delicious libations??
So many beers to try, so little time.
These tickets would be a great present to my fiancee (who loves beer as much as I do, obviously) for our two year anniversary :)
Holiday Ale Fest!
Just had my sixth surgery in 22 months and BEER would be the perfect way to forget all about it….
Longtime microbrew fan; first time Holiday Alefest attendee.
Nothing says Christmas in Portland like the Holiday Ale Fest!
I love beer. I have a 10 month old baby who kept me from this wonderful event last year. People get uncomfortable when an 8 month pregnant lady is out sampling beer.
First holidays in Portland could use an Ale Fest to start them off right!
Wishing for a babysitter this week to be able to go.
Would love to see what it’s all about!
Sounds fun.
As an impoverished grad student, I can only afford to get drunk on someone else’s dime. Please pick me.
Love the holiday Ale Fest! I’d love to take my little brother (who just turned 21), and show him the crazy world of Holiday beers!
This would be an awesome present for a special someone who could really use the beer break. Holday ales may not be the solution for work burnout, but it sure helps to take a little time out and enjoy some pre-holiday beer cheer, and see the relativity of it all. Please pick me and help me make this gift of beer relief!
Born in Oregon in 67, and the Craft BEER keeps getting better.
I’m no more deserving than any of the other commenters but I’d be super thrilled if I won!
Beer me
I would love to go to the ale festival, as its my first Christmas in Portland, and it sounds amazing! We moved here from Texas in May, and are in love with this city, this state, and even the rain :)
This fest is THE BEST!!!! We always look forward to it & nothing gets the holidays started better than sipping a bunch of yummy craft beers in our beautiful downtown living room. It’s a required event in our household, just like getting pictures with Santa :) cheers to another great Holiday Ale Fest!
Beer is good for the soul.
Portland is my new home (and the best city on Earth) and what a better way to spend the Holiday season than at the epicenter of this great city drinking delicious brew under a warm tent hopefully in the rain with my best friend (my only family within 2000+ miles)!
Love the Holiday Ale Festival and getting in for free would be icing on the cake!
What an awesome event! I missed it last year but would love to head down after work (its a hop, skip & a jump away) and try these amazing winter beers!
Wow, a lot of people want tot go to this event! And I know why; great fun! Count me in, please!!
I’ve never missed this! Love the beer!
It’s my birthday Saturday! Pick me !
It’s the most wonderful fest of the year!
Yes please
Beer is everywhere
In Pioneer Courthouse Square
I’d love to be there!
I would love to win tickets to this Holiday Ale Festival for my hisband’s birthday, which is tomorrow! What a great way to celebrate his birthday and kick off the holiday season!
A friend asked me to go this year but have not answered him yet. Would love to surprise him by going AND getting us in free!
My wife hasn’t been able to attend this festival for the past few years; I’d like to win this package so she can come along with me and enjoy the wonderful beers.
Just want to go enjoy the brews!
I want to win because it is so cold here. so cold that only alcohol can thaw my soul…..
I would love to go since I’ve never gone!!
I would love to go! Please enter me. My boyfriend and I will be an asset to the festivities! Thanks
Mmmmmmm Beer!
Mmmmmm beer!
Would love to have a night out and drink some beer!
I would like to attend because this is the last weekend before I leave for business trip to Japan!
Every year I head to the holiday ale fest. I love the beer, the people watching, and the general jovial attitude of the crowd. Plus being able to see the tree through the tent is a big bonus.
We are newer to the area and would love to taste all of the local brews!
I would really like to go because it is my first year in Portland, and the west coast in general from the Midwest. I think it would be great to be able to experience this event as well as try some awesome local brews.
The Holiday Ale Fest is a classic, but I haven’t been able to attend for the last few years… I’d love to reestablish the tradition!
I want free tickets because it’s the only way I can afford to go. The ale festival is a little out of my budget this holiday season.
Please give me those tickets to the beer fest. I’m thirsty, broke, and I’ll most surely be getting coal in my stocking this year.
I’d like to win so I can taste some delicious winter beers like the VELVET MERKIN!
I need some good winter beer to kick off the holidays!
All I want for Christmas!
I would love to win because I haven’t had any alcohol in almost 4 months due to a cleanse/diet I’ve been on and this would be the perfect reward for my tough efforts.
Love to make it out to this! I’ve volunteered at beer fests, etc but never been able to actually “attend” one as a guest. Pick me!
My girlfriend has not been able to attend the last three years but we finally think we can go together. It would be great to take on a free ticket to taste some of our favorite seasonal beers.
My favorite brewfest of the year! Love me some delicious holiday beers.
The Liver is evil and it must be punished.
This would make my husbands year! We are fairly new to Portland and just found out about this event through your email. I really appreciate the heads up. I hope we can go!
I should win these tickets because I get really thirsty during the winter season and ales are the only quencher. Please pick me for the ticket package.
My husband got jumped over the holiday by some jerks looking for a fight and he’s been out of commission with a terrible concussion since Wednesdaynight. He is a commercial fisherman and has to begin the grueling crab season December 16th but hasn’t had any fun this holiday season due to terrible vertigo. I think he will be recovered by the festival and winning this would make him so happy. Thanks for your consideration.
Well let me throw my name into the mix, sounds like a good time.
woooo! Beer :D
I could go for some holiday brews!
The vinter varmers are the best!!
I would love to go and have some winter ales on your tab. The best way to stay warm!
I would like to go to get some great Portland brews!
I love beer. How fantabulous it would be to win. Ho ho ho!
I LOVE BEER and my Birthday I was in Minnesota with my family and unable to celebrate this would be the best Birthday present and I would bring lots of people with me to celebrate in Portland this weekend with the best beer!
I love beer festivals and yet I’ve never had the chance to attend this one! This year I’m finally in town and can attend. :-)
Coffee. Beer?
Cofffffeeee. Beeeeer?
C-O-F, B-E-E-R.
Because it finally ’tis the season for less hoppy and heavier beers!! …and because my GF will need a designated driver and I am the one of the two of us that can best control myself around all of that holiday cheer. …and because it is the best beer fest evah!!
Me me me me! I’d love to go to wash away all my past terrible holidays and create a new one- getting drunk!
Running late for work! Worth it for a chance to enjoy beers and holiday lights.
to stay warm and lubricated
I would love to go as I have never been and my wife is new to the area.
I’ve never been to the Holiday Ale Fest, and I’ve love love LOVE to go!
Hi Pdx Pipeline!
I have wanted to attend this event for several years and have never been able to make it. This year, I’m finally going… and to make it better… it’s my birthday weekend! It would be awesome to top it off with free tix and beer! Really, who wants to buy their own birthday beer? Egads! The horror!
Almost 39,
Nora
Winter beers are my favorite! <3
I want to go because I want to treat my friend who just got laid off and has never been. Too expensive of a festival with no job and three little ones to take care of. This is a great festival! Thanks!
It would make my winter warmer.
Best fest of the year. Always love meeting Santa (and sharing a beer with him)… maybe ‘Sugar’ & ‘Spice’ will be there, too??? Let’s hope…
Nothing gets you through the holidays with family like a few (or twelve) good beers!
Would love to get out of the house, away from our 3yr old and 3 month old and enjoy a nw winter night drinking!!
Because it’s the best fest of the year!
Because I need some beer to make it through the holidays!
This is my favorite beerfest anywhere, as prices have gone up it’s made it harder and harder to attend, would love to surprise my wife with this package!!
Best brewfest ever!!!
I have lived in Portland ten years and have never attended this festival and I would love to go! Please hook me up!
I love big bold brews, my fav tasting of the year!
I would love to attend the holiday ale festival this year because it is one of my favorite yearly events in Portland! I went to it last year and it was amazing– it’s definitely that point in the year for me where I need some holiday cheer and attending the ale festival this weekend is definitely the right way to start that off!
I want to attend because beer is incredible and the NW can’t be beat. My girlfriend deserves a fun night out and I haven’t been able to do it for a while now. Good luck everyone!
Yes! Pick me! Only the biggest, baddest beers come to this festival!
My husband really really wants to go to this year, and he has been down in the dumps since a family member passed back in August. I’d love to be able to take him and let him have some fun!
What a great way to kick off the holiday season!
I have heard about this festival for the last several years, but can never seem to get to it. I live for (or on) local craft beers & look forward to finally getting to this unique event.
Just spent many days moving and could sure use a break for some fun. Would love to attend!
my twin sister is here from Japan where there are no good microbrews. I would love to be able to take her to take some real beer and I have a fun day with her while she is here.
I’ve been to every beer festival BUT this one! It always evades me, much like Santa with his slippery, furtive tactics…would love to go this year and enjoy a brew in holiday cheer!
This event sounds like a lot of fun! I would love to go and try all the yummy new holiday brewskis ;) I would bring some awesome friends with me as well!!!! Happy holidays ;)
Beer me! Winner! It is my husbands birthday today and I would love to surprise him (after midnight) with news that I won tickets to the event!
I love the holiday ale fest. Strong winter warmer brews downtown at Pioneer Square are the best!
I haven’t been able to attend in the past, and it’s on my bucket list for this year! This is going to be a rough holiday season for me, and I am doing everything possible to surround myself with friends and create new positive memories of the holidays. I’d be more than grateful if I won this package!
Guess what? I love beer.
This is my favorite beer festival of the year! Best beer, friendliest people, and a whole lot of wholesome(ish) fun! Would love to attend again.
I want to win because I am a beer dork who has heard great things of barleywine but has never tried one.
It’s my birthday weekend… of course I’d love to win!
My boyfriend and I homebrew and we love to go to any of the beer festivals out there…to expose us to different flavors and let us know what is out there. Winning tickets would be an awesome early Christmas present Santa!!
My husband loves beer and I LOVE meed! Which you can also find at this beer rest. Can we just say NUM!
The Holiday Ale Festival!! OMG that sounds like so much fun! What a way to knock myself out of this “winter funk” that’s starting to set in! … And get into the holiday spirit by the big Pioneer Square Christmas Tree! Tickets would just make my day! I’d love to grab a friend and go!!!
I’ve been to the festival before. Good beer, yum snacks and fun peeps. Again, free? Please?
I could really use a date night with my husband. :)
This is the first beer fest i ever went to in Portland and the best by far! i would love to go back! thanks pdx pipeline!
I love this festival! The lights, the holidays, and the great beer. I would love to win tickets!
I want to go b/c my sister has gone every year and for some reason I’m always working… but now I work only a few blocks away!
love all of Beer Festivals Portland has and attend most all of them every year but the Holiday always gets me in the Christmas Spirit!!!
I live in Portland and I drink beer…who isn’t going to this?
The Holiday Ale Fest has the best vibe of all the beer festivals. Oh, and beer is delicious.
It’s something I goto every year! It’s a special chance to get some one of a kind beer!
My friend is coming home for a visit back to Portland and picked this weekend so we can go to the Ale Festival. I’d love to treat him with free tickets!
The holiday ale fest is my favorite beer festival by far! I’d love to win free tickets to get to try more beers!
They say it is better to give than to receive…and usually I agree, but if I won this package it would put that adage to a real test.
Because Wednesday is my birthday, and um beer!
It would be an AMAZING Northwest experience to add to my new life in Portland!!!!!!!!
I NEED to win because my husband’s birthday is coming up, and this is the perfect treat for a home brewer!! :)
Ooh ooh! Pick me! I’ve been to several of the beer festivals in Portland, but not the Holiday Ale Festival yet!
It’s one of the few beer festivals I like to attend because it’s so different from others – the venue, beer selection & crowd. With a tight budget, I’m not able to afford to go this year, so it would be awesome to win this and be able to go.
Pick me! I’d love to attend this and bring my special lady along as well!
This is the best event of the year!
I want to go, because I too, like beer.
I missed the brewers festival this year because of a family engagement and was disappointed to miss out on all that good beer. This is a chance for redemption! Thanks pdxpipeline.
Unemployed Craft Beer Geek needs beer, badly.
I am female, hear me roar
Holiday Ale, give me more
Oregon Beers, they’re the best
Putting the competition, to the test
The darker the better, so they say
Cool, malty brews, at the end of the day
Free drink tickets, that’s my plan
To celebrate the season, with my girlfriend (had you fooled huh?)
Happy Holidays PDX Pipeline!
Trying to get my girlfriend off beers with lemons in them.
I’d love to attend because this is my favorite beer fest!! Bring on the Super Jubel!
Yum, beer! What better way to get into the holiday spirit!
I would love to ring in the holidays and my birthday (the 30th) with the best of holiday brews!
Hi! It’s my birthday and tomorrow it’s my boyfriend’s and we just moved to Portland, and don’t know anyone, AND are still trying to find jobs. So we did not buy each other a present this year, and we have no one to celebrate with. This would be so much fun and cheer us up a great deal from missing our family and friends! We also love Oregon beer but have not been able to buy any in a while!
This is my favorite Portland brew fest. I love the different tiers and beers!! It’s a great group of people!
Finally a chance to go to the holiday ale festival. I have never been before and a winter brown ale sounds so delicious right now. Hopefully double mountain has a holiday brew! Thanks
I’d like to go to the festival since it is my FAVORITE beer festival all year. LOVE these rich, dark and heavy beers! :)
My favorite brew fests are during the cold winter nights. Under the Pioneer Courthouse Square Christmas Tree is just devine! Pick me! Pick me!
I’d love to attend because I really need a beer
I have never been to the beer festival but it sounds like a great event. My husband brews his own beer so I am sure he would love it.
I would love to go to this festival. Being so close to Christmas, we’re usually tight on money and haven’t got a good chance to enjoy the variety of seasonal brews at this festival.
cheers!
I don’t know if you choose the winner based upon how clever the submission is, or just at random. I hope you choose winners at random, because my response isn’t very clever, but I love beer and would love to try this velvet merkin I hear so much about!
Cheers x 20!
I would love to go to the Ale Festival at Pioneer Square because 1) What’s more Portland than beer at the Square? 2) My BF and I keep a beer journal of our favorite beers (imagine the possibilities!!).
girlfriend’s b-day is this weekend and I’d love to be able to make her take a break from grad school work to sip some beers around the tree.
Please, please, please! Its my bf’s birthday and that is all he wants to fo. Went last year and it was amazing !!
My boyfriend loves beer and beer festivals, but just lost his job. This would be a chance to cheer him up.
I NEEEEEDDDD a break from all this shopping!!!
I’d love to go because it sounds like a perfect way to start the holiday season.
Thanks for the article @PdxPipeline I really appreciate all that’s Portland that you present to the community of readers. As many have said I too enjoy beer, as others I too have never been to the Holiday Ale Festival. Win, lose or draw…I do plan on going either way, however winning tix would be especially nice…and I’d have my first reason to be thankful for next Thanksgiving.
Cheers :)
LOVE LOVE LOVE this one!
Hoping not too late!!! Would love to attend and get my holiday beer drinking on!
I never miss the winter ale fest, its the best one all year!!!
This has always been one of my favorite Portland events. The warm, welcoming atmosphere as hundreds of Portlanders enjoy some amazing beers while the drizzle (or occasional snow!) falls outside… Magical!
But $30 per person??? Ouch! They’re making the highlight of my winter season almost too expensive to attend now… But I would dearly dearly love to win those tickets so I could still attend!
“All I want for Christmas is two entries to the Holiday Ale Fest”…
(Ok, not exactly the lyrics to the song, but poetic license aside, I would LOVE to attend this years festival of ale) Please? ;)
I’ve never been to a beer festival. Would love to make this my first!
Roses are Red
PDX Pipeline is Cray
Pick me for the Ale Fest
Go ahead. Make. My. Day.
I would love to send the beer-loving boyfriend out for a man night!
I will promise to use one ticket for myself and the other find someone who has never gone to get some new blood in the beer scene. I will let them know the rules: No “Woo”-ing, no chugging, and your shirt has to stay on.
I would love to attend because winter ales are my favorite seasonals! The darker the better!
I’ve lived in Portland for 3 years and keep saying I’m going to go to this. I can’t afford it this year but would love a chance to experience this awesome festival. Thanks for all you guys do!
I love beer!
Need weekend plans. Need beer. Need to experience this Fest for the first time. Pick me please.
I heart Bud Light.
Daughter just got home from helping Sandy victims…beer for cheer!
I love the winter ale festival and what it brings. Yummy specialty beers to enjoy under the lit up tree with friends. Nothing gets you in the holiday spirit like the Portland winter ale festival :)
I would love to surprise my hard working husband with these tickets. Work and three busy kids make for little time to get out and enjoy life. Beer in PDX would be awesome! :)
I’ve heard my beer-drinking co-worker talk this up for years and I’ve never had the chance to go. So, this would be super nice for me and the Mrs. to check out!
Two reasons I should go…
1) BEeeeRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
2) ALEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Law school finals start soon. We need to go out and forget everything we know by drinking good holiday so that we can fill our heads full of crap about environmental law.
Beer makes the Holidays Happy!!!
Beer is my favorite thing.
I want to go because I LOVE beer!!!! this is one of the best wine and ale festivals of the year!
I would love to win this prize for my husband, this is an event he has been looking forward to attending all year. It would be a great post-Thanksgiving treat for him.
Because I love beer and I’d give you a hug.
I would love to attend because it’s one of those things that just gets you in the mood and holiday spirit. Nothing says happy holidays like beer!
This looks like a great time and I would know just who to ask to join me…thanks!
This sounds awesome I wanna go
This event sounds like a lot of fun. I want to go
My husband and I would love a fun date night that celebrates something we both love – craft beer and the holiday season!
I would really like to go to this event.
I had this highlighted on my 2012 calendar as my only non-drinking dates of the year. I then asked myself why? So now I’ve decided to erase that and add it to my 2013 calendar.
Beer + Holiday Festivities = an amazing time! I’ve never been to this festival and would love to go!
There is a festive feel
With a sip or two
Not like the force
Of shots
It creeps and sneaks
With bubbles replete
And happiness
Is revealed
Wan souls not welcome
And mediocre eschewed
There are hops and malt
Calling your name
While bands refrain
From bland sustain
And play melodies
With sweet return
The river rushes
Unknowing of blushes
Engendered by buzz
Encumbered by beer
Yet the art perseveres
With the talk of seers
And Rome is seduced
By the prattle of patrons
While the arches sustain
An artistic friend chain
The Clocktower stands
Straight and naked
Sylvia feeds Romulus
And Remus all day
We’re happy they seed
The rambunctious deed
We all want to see
The grand return of the wasted
I teach a Beer and Bluea Class, maybe one of my lucky students will get to attend this with teacher!
This will be my first Christmas in Portland and the only thing that makes the holidays feel like home is getting nice and tipsy in cold weather!
Have always wanted to attend and just moved to Poetland! Tickets would be AWESOME!!
I enjoy drinking beer.
This is my favorite beer fest of all. Hands down. It’s so festive under the big tree in Pioneer Square, everyone is so cheery, and the beer is so boozy! I want to win tickets!
Nothing makes winter more tolerable than a dark, delectable beer to fill one’s belly and spirits.
I would be delighted to attend such a worthy celebration of flavorful brews!
Holidays and beer bring me and friends together!
I met Santa at last year’s Winter Ale Fest. First time. We really hit off, I even got to sit on his lap. Almost a year later and no call back. I would like one more chance to seduce Santa.
This is the best beer festival of the year! I would love to win tickets to this event!!
The holiday ale festival is OUTSIDE MY OFFICE. I must be going to assuage my beer pangs. :)
Pick Me! Pick Me! I’d love to kick off the holidays this way!
Please pick me! I have the perfect newbie to bring with me…
I just moved to Portland after living in Barcelona, where the wine is great but the beer is terrible! I can’t tell you how much I missed a good IPA. A holiday ale fest with amazing microbrews–what a great welcome :)
i love beer
If I win tickets, I can afford to treat a date! And I would love to wick up all that booze with cupcakes and cheese – *that* is good planning.
It’s too good to be missed!
We’ve got a sitter + we love beer.
I tried to go last year. The tents were full! I waited for an hour and a half before my friends and I decided to leave. I would love to go and actually make it in side this year!
The Holiday Ale Fest is my favorite beer festival of the year. The beers are wonderful and I love being in the middle of downtown on a cold winter night with 1,000′s of happy people. I will be going no matter what, but get me the tickets and I will spend the money I save on getting friends to go with me! Cheers!!!
my bathroom plumbing just sprung a leak, not only putting our shower out of commission, but also dripping into the living room, frying our flat screen. could really use a pint (or three)!
My right arm is broken and I need practice drinking with my left!
beer . . . is there anything else that needs to be said? I think not.
I moved to Portland from Brazil and I’m a huge beer fan and even collect bottle labels and make artwork out of them. Throughout the entire year I convince all of my friends and coworkers to come join me at the all the beer fests from Brewers for Boobs to the International Beer fest and the Hood River Hops fest. After investing so much money year round, I would love to enjoy this one for free.
I would love to go to this, I’ve never been able to go before and it always looks like so much fun!
I want to taste the 2005 vintage Samiclaus. You haven’t lived until you’ve had it. Seriously.
Because this is the most important event of the whole year.
HI! Moved away from PDX last year for work and miss it sooooo much! It just so happens that I have some time off this next weekend and I will be visiting some friends on Hawthorne! I need to taste some of that holiday cheer beer!
Much Love.
I would love to win tickets to the Holiday Ale Festival to surprise my boyfriend with. It would be the perfect way to celebrate the holidays in Portland!!!
Beer!
Would love to attend for free! This would be a great event to go to with my husband on a chilly (but hopefully dry!) holiday weekend!
I would love some tickets, why I would love to go is I like beer, I like to drink beer, and I like to drink beer with friends. I have yet to ever get in to this festival and I hope to do so this year.
I cannot think of a better way to celebrate the holidays and pay tribute to the NW beers! Also, I lost a Civil War bet to my older brother and the free tickets would be a great way to settle my debt.
I love Julian. I love beer. Please pick me, I love being picked.
Would love to win tickets to this event…. my son and I would have such a great time attending. Thank you!!
I’d like to go in order to get merry!
I want to introduce my out-of-town friends to Portland’s beer scene and make them jealous.
Because life is too short to drink cheap beer!
These tickets would help take the edge off the repair costs for a new chimney!
sounds so nice to warm up with some holiday brews. count me in.
Santa gave me coal last year, so this will definitely make up for it!
I love this festival and look forward to attending every year. Can’t wait to get back and would really enjoy the hook from you guys.
NATIVE PORTLANDER……….myself and my friend…she said It;s great!! I have never been…tight money!!!…would really be a special treat to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FUN …FUN…FUN..PORTLAND STYLE
It’s my birthday on December 1st and this would be a very fun way to spend it! Thanks for considering us!
As a oregonian born and raised I enjoy a fine beer. i would enjoy attending this festival.
I need tickets! I love BEER!;)
I just turned 21, what better way to ring in the milestone than imbibing in seasonal ales?
I had registered to volunteer for a shift, but then my work schedule changed and I had to cancel. Now there aren’t any open shifts left, so… I’d love to win tickets so I can still go (without paying for it!).
got a friend who just moved here and’s never been to a Portland BrewFest!! so……
^______________________^
(sing to the tune of Jingle Bell Rock)
Jingle Beer, Jingle Beer, Jingle Beer Hops
Drinking good ales and telling good tales
Sippin’ a Brewdolph is bushels of fun
Now that ale fest has begun
Jingle Beer, Jingle Beer, Jingle Beer Hops
Tasting holiday beers, it’s the best time of year
Dancing and prancing in Pioneer Square
In the brew-filled air!
It’s the right time, to pick the right rhymes
To go to ale-fest for free
It’s a swell time to share a good time
There’s no place that I’d rather be
Giddy ‘up Northwesterners, pick up your feet
Head on down to Portland
Mix and Mingle at holiday Ale Fest
That’s the jingle beer
That’s the jingle beer
That’s the jingle beer hoppppppsssss.
I’d love to attend the Ale Festival this year. I haven’t gone in a few years and I miss it. I’d take my friend Sarah, who’s a winter beer connoisseur. And we’re both native Oregonians who are single and cute, so we’ll be helping out the single male population there at the festival. It’ll be a benefit to all to have us attend. :)
I’d love to go! I’ve been stuck in the world of summery light beers for way too long and need to expand my horizons!
Mmmm beeeeeer!!!!
I am having foot surgery tomorrow and beer would be the perfect get well tonic. :)
I’d love to Sample new Ales at the Holiday Ale Festivil. Seem like a perfect way to celebrate the season
I would love to go to the winter beer festival this year! I haven’t gone in a while.
I love beer. I will drink a lot. I will have an extremely good time.
When they pour, ain’t it thrilling,
Though your nose gets a fizzing
We’ll tipple and play, the dopplebock way,
Drinking in a Winter Festival.
I’ve had an awful year and the holidays are not looking any better. Alcohol and cool Portland people seem like a nice band-aid.
Does the Santa girl come with the tickets!?
I would love to try rare and vintage beers!
I would love to go. This mom needs a fun break after a long month of Nutcracker rehearsals and 4 shows my daughter performed in.
I’m going to skip paying a bill so I can go drink beer if I don’t win. I’m way too excited to drink beer wilst wearing a puffy jacket and gloves..$30 entry, like wha?! I can’t wait to try some Sugar and Spice!
My husband loves beer and has wanted to go to a tasting event for a while now.
Rare and vintage beers? Yes please! (and thank you)
I would love to win these tickets. This is by far my favorite ale fest in Portland. The tickets are a bit outside of my budget, so winning them would be fantastic. Thanks! :)
I would love to win because this is the best ale fest of the year!
I would love to attend with a friend – this sounds so festive and fun!
Love me some beer! ‘Nuff said!
I’d love to attend this year! As a new elementary school teacher, I’ve submitted my first personal day request for this Friday, just to get there early! What a treat to win some free beer tastings, too. Plus, I’ve invested in one of the most hideous X-Mas sweaters ever and need a friendly, non-judgemental place to show it off.
I can’t think of a better event to celebrate the one year anniversary of our first date with my boyfriend. Our first date was at a mcmenamins, enjoying their tasty local crafts, and we have attended a few small local brewfest and brew tours in the area. Being able to attend this would be a highlight- I remember wanting to attend this last year. We will be in Portland this weekend to run in the jingle bell run and this would be a great way to celebrate.
Love Beer!!
It’s an honor to simply be here with all the other nominees, who are all as equally deserving to go as I am. Or as me. Which is it? I’m not sure. It’s just a shame there has to be a loser here. Or many losers.
I love beer! And the holidays! What a perfect event for me, right? ;)
Tho free is a very good price, I’d be tempted to share the Annie Oakleys with Melissa since her song is so sweet!
I love beer and I love winter. Seems like this is the place for me to be.
give me the damn tickets!
I love winter ales, and there are so many unique beers I want to taste there.
I went to the Holiday Ale Fest last year and had an absolute blast. It is one of my favorite events in Portland, and a perfect way to celebrate the holidays with plenty of cheer. I would love to attend this year as well.
Let me at it!
I love beer what can I say. Just brewed up a batch this passed weekend and would love to see how it compares(when its ready) with some of the festivals offerings….. So pick me pick me pick me!
What a great way to deal with the cold weather! I have 3 perfect friends to take to this, so sure hope I win it! Thanks!
My husband and I have a special needs son and we haven’t been out of the house in months! Plus The free tickets would be amazing since things are tight at the end of the month due to medical bills. Pleeeaaase!
Would love to take my boyfriend there… he’s a huge beer junkie.
Wanting to experience this season in a whole new light. Pick me to help me enhance my holidaze spirits.
mmm…my favorite way to get jolly!!
My cousin and I get together every year for our own family Christmas since we’re the only west coasters. This would be the perfect celebration!
Man I love me some holiday beer bringing holiday cheer! Could it really be warm outside in Pioneer Square this week? I’d sure like to find out!
The Christmas Season,
It is explodin’
Crazed shoppers
malls overloadin’
For good deals
There’s nothin’ folks won’t do
Even if they gotta’ walk all over you
So you might as well
just go and drink some brew!
And you tell me
over and over and over
and over again my friend
You don’t believe
We’re on the Chhiristmas Eve of destruction!
i like beer. a lot!
I am willing to freeze my a** off just to be able to try all of the amazing beers at the Holiday Ale Festival!
This is my favorite beer festival! I am so excited to go to it again this year and would love to win tickets!
I think I may need this after the week I’m going to have.
I lost my brother this past August and this festival was something that we enjoyed together. I would love to attend, but have been pretty broke. Whomever goes- have a drink for Billy! :)
I <3 beer!
Mememememe!
Holiday beer is my favorite beer. What a treat this would be!
I need a break! Just spent all my money on tuition, and need a pick me up!
I love the Holidays and Beer! Pick Me!
Man how many holiday beer fests are happening out here? They are awesome. This would be sweet to hit up on Wednesday then stroll down to ground kontrol for the free play arcade night. Hook me up por favor.
There ain’t nothing wrong about this. Specialty beers are too good not to try each year. And this would be the only way I would be able to taste the sweet nectar of the gods. Great website you have up here.
Imagine the shock of your in-laws ‘surprising you’ flying across the country and showing up on your doorstep Thanksgiving day, expecting a holiday celebration. Now imagine you don’t even have the familial obligation or incentive of getting lucky at the end of the day. It is just your platonic roommate’s crazy parents you’ve never even met before. In the midst of this chaos my roommate stepped up with a last minute grocery run and prepared a respectable Thanksgiving feast for my entire family, treating my guests as if they were his own. On top of that, he is the biggest beer geek I know and it is his birthday this weekend. He deserves this.
Beers of the Northwest unite and I’d love to be a part of that!
I really want to go because I love looking up at the Portland Christmas tree while drinking a bourbon barrel aged beer and thinking about tthe holidays. But there are over 400 entries so I have little chance of winning
I would love to win to surprise my boyfriend who has had a rough year. I have also never been able to attend so this would be amazing to win!
I would love to win so I can take my boyfriend who has had a rough year. He loves beer and loves to brewhis own. I think this would help brighten things up. I have also never been able to go! So this would be special for me to go to for the first time. :) <3<3<3
Way better odds than Powerball…
Without a doubt, the Ale Festival is the greatest present to be placed under a giant tree!
It has become a tradition for my wife and I since we moved here 3 years ago. We have met friends and always had a great time at this awesome event. Thx
This is a (beerfest) legend I have been told about living in Reno, NV; now after moving here, I am SO excited to try all of what this city has to offer. What a groovy give away!
Look at this weather today… truly amazing. For the last couple of days it’s been seriously cold and clear, two of the things that Oregon beer is most certainly not. So it’s only right that we start the holiday season on Wednesday by pouring torrents of dark craft beer in Pioneer Square on the same day that Portland weather returns to it’s “go inside and drink to forget” wintertime normalcy. I would like to mark this fine occasion by participating to the fullest in drunken merriness in the shadow of a big ass Xmas tree. Suck it Rockefeller Center!
best way to start off the holiday season is with holiday ales!
beer me!
It’s my first ever holiday ale festival and Portland Festival! Can’t wait.
First winter in Portland. Can’t think of a better way to stay warm on the inside then enjoying some great beers from the northwest.
What’s not to love! It’s a weekend of drinking dark, delicious, local, microbrews from the Northwest and beyond, hanging out with friends and good looking bearded men! The Holiday Ale Fest is the best in all the nation and it all happens in the comfort of Portland’s living room!
You had me at beer but the cupcakes and cheese will keep me around ;]
My friend Carl just drove cross country to move here. I’d love to bring him.
Where do you bring a beer fanatic? Portland! And why am I not at this festival ….oh yeah – no tix!!
Beer me up!
Holiday beers! Sounds like the perfect way to spend an evening.
Well this sounds amazing. I’m new in town. Would love to go!
‘Tis the season for holiday beer! Perfect event.
The Ale fest is a very special time for me. This time last year, I was going thru a messy break up with my hopes pinned on a new love. Now… exactly one year later, sadly, I’m doing the same thing. Except this time, I’m trying to pin my hopes on the same girl. How’s about you fill my woes with delicious hops and malty goodness, please?
I would love to sit on that drunk Santa’s lap this weekend!
Mmmmmmmm beeeer!
THREE REASONS YOU SHOULD PICK ME:
1) HoboHeShe, my rescued stray kitteh has oddly placed private parts, indeterminate age, a nasty cough and his/her first exam tomorrow. Plus my booze money might go to extra medicine.YOU BENEFIT BECAUSE YOU WILL FIND OUT IF HE/SHE IS A HERMAPHRODITE. Teeny violin: poor helpless abandoned kitteh
2) I am a starving artist who has found that there is nothing romantic about starving and is looking for a real job. But I’ve paid my taxes, avoided the food stamps, and made some art. YOU BENEFIT BECAUSE I’LL BE FAMOUS SOMEDAY AND I’LL REMEMBER THIS. Teeny violin: The starving part might not be an embellishment.
3) Has anyone else noticed the plague of the word ‘amazing (pronounced as ah-may-zing)’ by hipsters and seniors alike? I have been looking for a crowded place to count how many times I hear it within a specific time frame in a confined location. YOU WILL BENEFIT BECAUSE I WILL REPORT MY RESULTS BACK TO YOU. Teeny violin: The slow demise of literacy and the English language.
Mmmmmmmm PDX and Beer !! Yeah man
My company party is on the 1st, and I want to be in a good, festive mood by prefunking at the Ale Fest.
holiday beer ale! yea! missed this event last year and don’t want to miss it again. i love all the different beer options that portland/nw has to offer and this event highlights that!
Should I be honored to win this package, my girlfriend can have all the beer she wants, and pretty much anything else she wants too!
A hearty way to start the new year!
I have never been to the Holiday Ale Festival and asked my friend yesterday if she wanted to go. It’s been a tough year financially for her (not a rare thing, I know). I’d love to treat her to this event! If i win, I promise to donate the cost of my share of the tickets towards Christmas gifts for kids in need at my work place toy drive. :)
Love trying different Ales
May redeem the Christmas season.
Dec 2 is my birthday! Would love to go!
“I love beer.” Of course we do or we wouldn’t be at this site.
“I want to go.” The obvious result of drinking a lot of good beer.
“Pick me”…I’ll be okay, I should heal.
Seems like a good way to spend a day. My liver needs some exercise.
Would love to make this the kickoff to my holiday season.
I would love to win tickets to this event!!! We have family coming into town and would love to show off this amazing community to them.
I am planning to bring my husband for his birthday! We’ll be spending the day in Portland, and this would be so much fun! He would certainly enjoy it and I would score MAJOR points for bringing him to the Portland Holiday Ale Fest!
I want to win because I’ve never been, I work too much, and need to have some holiday fun!
beer for me and my friends!
BEER check…. portland check…. boarding a plane 6pm that night to head to Vegas for a week check. Lets do it before the plane ride :)
Great Festival! Always had a lot of variety and no shortage of fun!
I like beer, duh! And I really like beer, did I mention that?
Who won?