Fresh off the 6th Annual Baker’s Dozen Festival in Portland, Oregon’s renowned coffee beer and doughnut festival expands to Central Oregon. The event features three things Oregonians do best: beer, coffee, and doughnuts, each represented by a baker’s dozen artisans. The name is a throwback to when bakers, to thank their customers, would throw in an extra something-something when they purchased a dozen (12). Attendees suffer no FOMO; admission includes samples of absolutely everything including many of the specific coffee roasts featured in the beers. The festival takes place at Silver Moon Brewing (24 NW Greenwood Ave.) on Sat, May 21, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tickets are available online for $39 at BendTicket.com/go/BakersDozenBend (and will be $49 at the door IF available but it’s expected to sell out.)
The inaugural line-up features predominantly Central Oregon breweries. Each beer incorporates a different local roaster’s beans. Beer samples come in three-ounce pours, roasters will be pouring unlimited coffee samples of the cuppajoe used in the beers, and delectable doughnut morsels will be quartered since who can possibly eat 13 whole doughnuts (but maybe 13 doughnut holes). The lineup is subject to change:
Alesong Brewing & Blending featuring Coffee Plant
Bridge 99 Brewing f/ Hot Shot Coffee
Cascade Lakes Brewing
Craft Brewing & Kitchen
Crux Fermentation Project f/ Riff Cold Brew
McMenamins Old St. Francis f/ McMenamins Coffee
Monkless Brewing f/ Backporch Coffee Roasters
Silver Moon Brewing
Spider City Brewing f/ Lone Pine Coffee
Sunriver Brewing
Three Creeks Brewing f/ Sisters Coffee
Wild Ride Brewing
Doughnuts will be provided by Anita’s Kitchen, Chalk to Flour Bakery, Delish Donuts, The Dough Nut, Drake, Little Pine Donuts, Monkless Brasserie, Richards Pastries and Doughnuts, Sisters Bakery, Sweetheart Donuts, Treeline Baking Co., and more for a lineup that may cause some people to refer to this beerfest as a doughnut fest.
This event benefits The Rawley Project a non-profit animal protection and welfare organization created to rescue dogs that may be suffering from a life of cruelty, neglect and abandonment and strives to serve our community by providing protection and refuge for pets with humans in crisis through the foster program.
Pertinent links: Ticketing BendTicket.com/go/BakersDozenBend ($39 online, $49 at the door if available)
Facebook: Facebook.com/BakersDozenPDX
Instagram: @BakersDozenPDX
Visit Silver Moon online at SilverMoonBrewing.com or, y’know, IRL at 24 NW Greenwood Ave.
