I’m going to my first Zwickelmania this weekend! (Crazy, I’ve never been!) What do you think of Zwickelmania? What should I do?
Portland, ORE. – Zwickelmania is a free statewide event that offers visitors a chance to tour Oregon breweries, meet the brewers and sample their favorite beers. The 6th annual Zwickelmania will take place Saturday, Feb. 15 from 11am to 4pm.
Kells Brew Pub, located at 210 NW 21st Ave., will be offering tours of the brewery, live tastings of its India Session Lager spring seasonal off the zwickel, and snacks.
Kells is also providing its Double Decker bus for a free Zwickel crawl between five Northwest Portland breweries. The Kells Bus will shuttle between Kells Brew Pub, Lucky Lab Brewing on NW Quimby, BridgePort Brew Pub, Deschutes Brewery and McMenamins Crystal Ballroom.
The bus will leave each location every 10 minutes, beginning at 11am. Buses will be picking up and dropping off at each location at the designated time. Wait out front for pick up. The official schedule follows:
Kells Brew Pub: 11:00, 11:50, 12:40, 1:
Lucky Lab Brewing: 11:10, 12:00, 12:50, 1:40, 2:30, 3:20
BridgePort Brew Pub: 11:20, 12:10, 1:00, 1:50, 2:40, 3:30
Deschutes Brewery: 11:30, 12:20, 1:10, 2:00, 2:50, 3:40
McMenamins Crystal Brewery: 11:40, 12:30, 1:20, 2:10, 3:00 3:50
Share your experience on Twitter and Instagram using the #zwickel14 hashtag.
For more information, call 503-710-7175 or visit www.kellsbrewpub.com.
There’s so much going on during Zwickelmania it’s nearly overwhelming so my suggestion is to try to go to places you haven’t been to before or places that don’t normally do tours that you’re interested in. BREWVANA is also running a free, eight-stop shuttle and Rogue has three routes ($5 gets you rides all day on all three). If you’re interested in where those routes go and intersect I made a map, posted on my blog yesterday: http://www.bitteredunits.blogspot.com/2014/02/can-you-tell-me-how-to-get-how-to-get.html. Regardless of where you go, have a great time!