Events

Upcoming 2014 events (updated 2/2/2014):

• 2/8/2014: Chicago Cider Summit
• 2/14-& 2/16/2014: Clark County Wine & Chocolate Weekend. My review from 2010.
• 2/15/2014:  ZwickelmainiA! in Portland, OR. I participated in 2010.
• 2/20-12/22/2014: Business and Art of Craft Distilling. Mt. Vernon, WA
• 2/23: The Seattle Wine and Food Experience
• 2/22/2014: Fruit Tree Grafting, Clackamas Community College
• February: Winter MashFest, Vancouver, WA. My review of the event for 2011
• 3/14-3/16/2014: 10th Annual Oregon Cheese Festival, Central Point, OR.
• 3/18-3/19/2014: Hard Cider: From Orchard to Shelf. Mt. Vernon, WA
• 3/21-3/22/2014: The International Mazer Cup, Boulder, CO
• 3/29-3/30: Taste Washington! wine tasting with some cider. Seattle, WA
• 4/18-4/19: 18th Annual Spring Beer & Wine Fest with Tour de Cheese, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR.
  • My 2010 review of the event, cider, wine and distilled spirits,  and cheese. They also had food and beer.
  • Review of 2011.
• 4/28-5/9/2014: Craft Cidery Startup Workshop Pt1, Online (hosted by Oregon State University)
• 5/3/2014: Business of Making Hard Cider. Mt. Vernon, WA
• 5/10/2014: Introduction to Cider Fruit Orchard Management Class, Mt Vernon, WA
• 5/12-5/16/2014:  Craft Cidery Startup Workshop Pt2, Corvallis, OR
• June is Dairy Month
• 6/5-6/7/2014: WineMaker Magazine Conference in Virginia. I have attended in the past.
• 6/20-6/21/2014: Portland Cider Summit
• 9/5-9/6/2014: Seattle Cider Summit

Also view the Tour Map to find events or interesting places to check out by geography.

Other places to look up events:

• Northwest Brewing News
• NW Cider Association
• Oregon Cheese Guild
• Oregon Brewers Guild
• Oregon Winepress

Past Events of 2013:

• 3/17: Home Orchard Society Fruit Propagation Fair & Scion Exchange. HOS Arboretum. My review from 2010.
• 3/23-3/24: Great Lakes International Cider & Perry Competition
• 3/30: Cider Fest at Hophouse, Portland, OR
• 4/26-4/27: Oregon Gardens Brew Fest, Silverton, OR. We have gone in the past.
• 5/11: Orcas Island Cider and Mead Festival, Orcas Island, WA.
• 5/25-5/27: Memorial Day Weekend wine tasting.
• 6/8-6/9 (second weekend in June): Portland Fruit Beer Fest Festival. My reviews from 2011, 2012, and 2013.
• 6/14-6/16: Washington Brewer’s Festival.
  • A review written by my husband Burtle Beer.
• 6/16: Portland Beer and Cheese Fest. My review from 2012.
• June is Dairy Month
• 6/21-6/22: Portland Cider Summit.
  • My review from 2011
  • I poured at the event in 2012.
• 6/21-6/23: 34th Annual American Homebrweers Association National Homebrewer’s Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
• 6/27-6/30: North American Organic Brewers Festival, Portland, OR.
• 7/5-7/7: Seattle International Beer Fest. This is slightly different than the one held in Portland.
• 7/7: Summer Cider Day, Port Townsend, WA.
• 7/8-7/12: Cidermaking class with Peter Mitchell, Mt. Vernon, WA. I took this class in 2010.
• 7/19-7/21: Portland International Beer Fest.
  • My review from 2010.
  • 2011 Review Part I and Part II.
• 7/20-7/21: Hood River Cherry Celebration
• 7/24-7/23: Oregon Brewer’s Festival.
  • 2011 Review Part I and Part II.
• 8/3 (First Saturday of August): National Mead Day. I went to a mead making class in 2010 to honor the day.
• 8/9-8/11: The Bite of Oregon
• 8/9-8/11, 2012: Vancouver Brew Fest. I served there in 2012.
• August: Summer MashFest, Vancouver, WA. A review of how serving my cider to the public went in 2011.
• September: Great Lakes Cider & Perry Festival, Uncle John’s Cider Mill, St. Johns, MI
• September: Seattle Cider Summit.
• September: Hood River Pear Celebration. I went in 2009.
• October: Finger Lakes Cider Week
• October: Lakewood Cider Day, CO
• October: New York Cider Week
• Two weekends in October:  Portland Nursery Annual Apple Tasting Event (second and third weekends in October). Possible cider tasting, too. I’ve attended in 2009 and 2010.
• October: Home Orchard Society’s All About Fruit Show. I attended in 2010 and in 2011.
• October (Sunday a week after HOS All About Fruit Show):  Venersborg School Fall Heirloom Apple Tasting, Battle Ground, WA.
• October: Hood River Heirloom Apple Celebration
• 10/26 (last Saturday in October): Cedar Creek Gris Mill crushes apples outside of Woodland, WA. I went in 2009.
• 11/2-11/3 (first weekend in November): Franklin County Cider Days, MA (perhaps the crown jewel of cider fests in the nation)
• November: Cider Week Virginia.
• November: Virginia Cider Week
• Thanksgiving Weekend Wine Tasting. In 2009, I went to Wandering Aengus Ciderwork’s facility.
• 12/4-12/8 (first weekend in December): Portland’s 2012 Holiday Ale Festival. We went in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012.
• 12/7/2013: Introduction to Cider Fruit Orchard Management Class, Mt Vernon, WA
• December: Vancouver Winter Beer Festival, WA.

Past Events of 2014:

• January: Wassailing
• 1/14/2014: First class of a four part series: Cider & Perry Orcharding through the Year. Mt Vernon, WA
• 1/24 & 1/25/2014: First Taste Oregon (formerly Oregon Wine, Food, and Beer Festival), Salem, OR. My review from 2013.
• 2/1/2014: Fruit Tree Pruning, Clackamas Community College

Past one time events:

• 11/5-11/6 2010: Pelican Pub & Brewery’s Mushroom Fall Brewer’s Dinner Weekend