OBF coming soon

20 years of the Oregon Brewers Festival already?! Why, that would make some of the attendees this year all of 1 year old when the first festival crawled up out of the Willamette sludge onto Waterfront Park and announced the evolution of American craft beer.

Yours truly has received an advance copy of the as-usual most excellent festival program, written this year by Gary Corbin. I am spending a couple of days flying around the country trying all the beers at the festival before announcing my picks for this year's hits. The coveted "buzz beer" award will be presented by the howling masses at Portland's Waterfront Park this Thu. - Sun, July 26 - 29.

They oughta make a javascript countdown clock for the OBF, doncha think?