While it ’s dependable Portland really only has two time of year – showery and not showery – our heart is indomitable when it comes to festivals in the leaping months . With summer , which may as well be rename “ bikes and beer time of year , ” just around the corner , it ’s a marvelous prison term to quicken your appetite for all the ingestible trade good that make this city marvelous . Here ’s what you ca n’t miss through these last few months of the monsoon !

Savor the first sips of a new IIIPA from Culmination

Bring your four-legged friend to a barleywine festival

Check out a tasty new breakfast stout

Pad that beer belly of yours for a good cause

Experience the glory of chocolate and whiskey pairings

Have some coffee beer with your donuts

Give two of the Portland comedy scene’s rising stars a proper send-off

Finally feel like you deserve that beer by running for it

Cruise down to the OC for authentic Irish ales

Spend St. Patrick’s Day at Downtown’s oldest Irish pub

Start beer festival season with wine, beer, cheese, and chocolate

Wake and bake like a real adult-aged child

Celebrate the little guys of the beer industry

Have beer and bridges; will run

Celebrate soil-grown Oregonian cannabis

Celebrate Mexico’s 1862 victory over the French

Embrace the malty magnificence of Belgian beer

Make the pilgrimage to WhiskeyTown

Pour one out for Fred

Drink some Ecliptic beer, run a mile, then drink some more

Portland Shamrock Run

Shamrock Run Portland

outside of N.W.I.P.A, beer

Flickr/Michael “Kiwi” Roe

buoy beer company bottles

Buoy Beer Company

beer and donuts

Flickr/Joselito Tagaro

egg, bacon, toast and cheese at hunnymilk

Hunnymilk Portland

corona beer

Flickr/Sarah-Rose