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From Roots’ MySpace blog:

Join us at Roots Organic Brewing Company on April 5, 2008 for the 2nd Annual Portland’s Cheers to Belgian Beers Festival. This festival was launched in the spring of 2007 and was held at Rock Bottom Brewery in it’s first year. Ten local Portland Breweries were challenged to create their own Belgian Style Beer Recipe with the same yeast strain. Proceeds generated from the festival were donated to charity.

Festival goers voted for their favorite Belgian Beer, and Roots Brewery won for its Eastside Abbey Belgian Ale. Therefore, the Master Brewers at Roots have selected the yeast strain for this year’s challenge, and will host the festival at their pub at 1520 SE 7th Avenue in Portland on Saturday April 5th, 2008. You will be able to sip delicious Belgian Ales from fancy commemorative glassware and feel good about it at the same time. All proceeds benefit the Oregon chapter of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society
Yeast Strain 2008: Ardennes/ La Chouffe

Participating Breweries:

Roots
Alameda Brewhouse
Rock Bottom Brewery
Hopworks Urban Brewery
New Old Lompoc
Lucky Lab Brewery
Amnesia Brewing
Philadelphia’s
BJ’s
McMenamin’s Crystal Brewery and John Barleycorn’s (collaboration)
Laurelwood
McMenamin’s CPR
Hair of the Dog
Raccoon Lodge

LINKS:
Roots Organic Brewing Co.

Root’s myspace page

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