PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - This Thanksgiving, Portland businesses made sure people had a warm place to go and a warm meal to eat.
“The idea to try and help each other out is the whole idea of Thanksgiving,” community member Richard Peterson said.
Peterson attended Prost!’s 17th annual free Thanksgiving dinner. He recently moved to the area.
“I don’t really have any place to celebrate yet,” he said, “and so, I just came out here to enjoy. I think it’s a really great idea.”
Sick of seeing the same Portland recommendations over and over again? Yes! I am with you in spirit.
At this point in my life, Portland has basically become a weekend trip every other month. Papa’s parents recently bought a house in Camas, Washington (about 20 minutes from the city) so we’re constantly crossing state lines to hang out, eat pizza, and hunt down whatever new bakery PDX locals are raving about.
At last Saturday’s 2025 Great American Beer Festival the breweries and cideries of Oregon were celebrated with 30 awards, including 29 medals and a brewery of the year accolade. With 29 out of 347 medals awarded, Oregon ranked with the third most of any state behind only California and Colorado.
Oregon breweries took home an impressive haul of medals at this past weekend’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver.
In all, Oregon breweries and cideries took home 29 of the 347 medals handed out at what is widely considered to be the nation’s most preeminent beer festival. To put that another way, more than 8 percent of all available medals were awarded to Oregon, a state with just over 1 percent of America’s total population.
The best lagers made in the U.S. in 2025 have been named by the judges at The Great American Beer Festival. The festival ran Oct. 8-10 in Denver, Colorado. The festival’s competition results were announced on Saturday.
The Brewers Association (BA) awarded 347 medals to 273 breweries and cideries Saturday during the trade group’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver.
“Year after year, the Great American Beer Festival sets the bar for American brewing (and for the second year in a row, cidermaking),” BA competition director Chris Williams said. “The 2025 competition was no exception.
The 39th annual Great American Beer Festival concluded Saturday with the 2025 GABF awards ceremony. The GABF is the largest and most prestigious beer-judging competition in the nation. Washington and Oregon breweries brought home 48 medals this year. I share the winners below. (Pictured above: Grains of Wrath Brewing and Von Ebert Brewing celebrate.)
Von Ebert Brewing continues to cement its reputation as one of Oregon’s premier craft breweries, taking home two prestigious gold medals at this year’s Great American Beer Festival. The wins for Drink Me Potion Raspberry Tart Ale and Clubhaus Lager highlight the brewery’s dedication to quality, innovation, and year-round offerings that celebrate the Pacific Northwest’s flavors.
Von Ebert Brewing continues to cement its reputation as one of Oregon’s premier craft breweries, taking home two prestigious gold medals at this year’s Great American Beer Festival. The wins for Drink Me Potion Raspberry Tart Ale and Clubhaus Lager highlight the brewery’s dedication to quality, innovation, and year-round offerings that celebrate the Pacific Northwest’s flavors. With expanded production and a new N. Mississippi location, Von Ebert is poised to bring its award-winning beers to even more fans across the region.
Denver, Colorado • October 11, 2025— The Brewers Association (BA) revealed the 2025 award-winning beers and ciders at this year’s Great American Beer Festival® (GABF) competition ceremony. Expanding on last year’s introduction of cider categories, the 2025 competition featured a special, one-time-only Vera Hop category.
Oregon breweries and cideries took home 29 medals at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival on Saturday, October 11th. The brand new UPP Liquids led the way with 5 medals (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) tying with Colorado’s Westbound & Down for the most medaled brewery of the competition which also earned Upp the brewery of the year (251-500 barrels).
Von Ebert Brewing’s announcement that they have transformed its 20,000-gallon grain silo into a hand-painted replica of its Volatile Substance IPA can is more than a playful piece, it can be an example in experiential marketing.
At its core, this project converts an otherwise functional piece of infrastructure into a 26-foot-tall billboard that will captures attention (both with consumers already family and with whoever walks or drives by) and it can spark social media activity.
There are big beer cans. And then there’s Von Ebert’s new silo on North Mississippi Avenue in Portland — a 12-foot wide, 26-foot tall fermentation tank now painted to look like a can of Volatile Substance NW IPA. If you could actually walk by and crack it open, it could serve roughly 158,000 pints.
Von Ebert Brewing is making a bold visual and flavorful statement in Portland’s N. Mississippi Ave. neighborhood. With the reveal of a towering beer can silo and the launch of a surprise fresh hop IPA, the brewery blends artistry, community, and craft innovation. The installation marks a milestone in Von Ebert’s growth—and a toast to the local spirit that fuels it.
Dear Client: Top IPA brand Voodoo Ranger has always been about outside-the-box marketing, from the Napa Valley Voodoo Ranger IPA Action Park gag to their recent Roulette IPA collaboration with infamous Chicago liqueur Malort [see CBD 05-09-2025]. The brand’s latest stunt is the Voodoo Ranger Tanker Tour, featuring a literal 21-foot tanker shaped like a giant can of Juice Force IPA that will make the rounds across several states, challenging drinkers to “empty the tanker one tallboy at a time.”
