2023 3-WAY IPA THREE WAYS

The third and final iteration of Fort George’s biggest Summer Seasonal, 3-Way IPA, releases on Friday, July 1st at the Beer Pier on the scenic Astoria Waterfront, just east of the Megler Bridge. For 11 years, Fort George and two of our closest friends have marked the beginning of summer with a 3-Way IPA: a…
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Spruce Picking 2023

Every year, right around the beginning of May, Fort George packs a lunch and goes out into the forest. Come with us, come into the forest for Spruce Picking. We have a lot of options when it comes to forests in this area. We’ve got Spruce, Hemlock, Doug Fir, privately owned forest, State Forests, Federal Forests,…
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Java the Hop 2023

Unique, Single-Origin Hops + exciting, Single-Origin Coffees = Java the Hop Fort George & Coava Coffee If you’ve only seen one movie in your entire life – chances are it was a Star Wars movie. And if it wasn’t, rest assured that it had some similar plot points. The timeless appeal of highly-accessible pop science…
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Festival of Dark Arts 2023 ReCap

February has been Stout Month ever since Fort George opened its doors in 2007. Every year new stouts are released throughout the month. In the middle of the darkest month of the year, in the darkest, uppermost corner of Oregon, The Festival of Dark Arts descends on the Fort George Block, transforming the heart of…
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Short Sands Year Round

Short Sands Lager in 12oz 6-Packs Year Round from Fort George. Listen. You don’t know how much we love lagers. The first beer we put into cans, all those many years ago in 2011, was a Pre-Prohibition-Style Lager called 1811. It was named for the year Astoria was founded, and released specially for this settlements’…
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Twas the Night Before Stout Month. . . .

A STOUT MONTH 2023 POEM: Twas the night before Stout Month, when all through the pubs Not a pale malt was boiling, not even the trubs; The tap slats were hung by the art boards with care, In hopes that stout beer drinkers soon would be there; The brewers were nestled all snug in their…
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100 years of Growth & Resilience: The Astoria Fire of 1922

On December 8th, 1922 a devastating fire ripped through downtown Astoria, Oregon, leveling most of the city. While the fires raged around his newly-completed two-story auto showroom, Sherman Lovell climbed the stairs to the roof of the Lovell Building. In the streets below, desperate citizens and volunteer firefighters were blowing up buildings in the fire’s…
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Pizza Pals: A New Winter Seasonal IPA

Pizza Pals is a new winter seasonal IPA brewed in collaboration with Ruse’s Crust Collective on the Vancouver Waterfront. Come with us, celebrate the world’s most logical food and beverage pairing all winter long, November to February. Grab a pint of Pizza Pals with your pizza pals at Fort George and all over the Pacific Northwest…
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Pet of the Week!

It’s pretty easy to give a dog its perfect life. In their dreams, dogs dream only of the perfect life and a dog’s perfect life is a life with you. Though a dog’s needs can be varied and complex (they might chew up an entire cabinet door, eat a bunch of your socks, pee on…
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3-WAY IPA 2022: It’s Summer Time

Ravenna Brewing Company, Alvarado Street Brewing & Fort George This weekend, summer begins.  Hearken back to days of yore – youthful summer afternoons spent sunbathing on rocky river shores. Or perhaps sheltering from the inevitable Northwest rain underneath a picnic canopy at the State Park, sadly clutching your towel and scraping the mud off your…
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