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Portland Sunday Events, December 6

• 19Ten Art Opening @ 1910 N. Killingsworth (opening of new art space)
• Holiday Art Bazaar @ Lotus Seed (holiday goodies)
• Serious Business @ Rep Cap (electro indie rap)
• Holiday Ale Festival @ Pioneer Square (beer drinkers unite)
• Sinferno Cabaret @ Dante's (fire dancing, strippers, magicians)
• Zoo Bombers @ Zoo Bomb Monument (mini bike madness)
• From Pipeline: Scanfair: Celebrate the sights, sounds, tastes and traditions of a Scandinavian Christmas (more info)
• Soulstice @ Groove Suite (deep house)
• Reduced Entry @ OMSI (cheap tix to all things museum of science and industry)
• Anime Hentai @ Paris Theater (cartoons)
• Soft Sundays w/ Gretchen Mitchell @ Club Calabash (r&b, blues, soul)
• Band Showcase @ Rontoms (bands, beer, hipsters)“

Brewcaster sent over this video of today's North Portland Anticon. It looks like a good time and if you missed this one, there is still the official Portland Santacon coming up on the 19th.

Related events and info:

• 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | December 3-6
• More Portland Santacon Info: December 5, 12 & 19
• Picture: North Portland Santacon aka Anticon
• Portland Videos

North Portland Anticon / Santacon
December 5, 2009
Photo by Brewcaster

Related events and info from PDX Pipeline:

• 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | December 3-6
• More Portland Santacon Info: December 5, 12 & 19
• North Portland Anitcon Pub Routes on Urban Drinks: urbandrinks.com/crawls/usa/or/portland
• Gang-Themed Santacon on 82nd Street? | December 5th
• North Portland Santacon (NoPDX Anticon) Date & Information | 2009

Yesterday, the Holiday Ale Festival had a beer sampling for media people and somehow we got invited. It was Brewcaster's birthday, but not wanting to miss free beer, he brought his video equipment and made this short above. Preston Weesner, the event organizer is speaking he gave a lot of great info. I forgot most of it but I did write down a few things, so here they are:

• Preston Weesner: “Sours are the new IPA”.
• They are breaking the info on all the new beers/special beers on Facebook and twitter (@holidayale). These can run out as quickly as 20 minutes as they are specialty small batches.
• There were only 12 beers the first year, but it has gotten so popular that there is now a waiting list for new breweries decided by a lottery.
• Fred Eckhardt was there and if you were unaware, he is THE MAN.

Since Pipeline is an events site rather than a beer geek site, here is some info from those who know about these matters:

• From Brewpublic: The Holiday Jim Kennedy Ale
• From It's Pub Night: Holiday Ale Fest Advice
• From Potlandbeer.org: Holiday Ale Festival 2009: Pretty Great

Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | December 3-6