FIVE VORTEX VARIANTS FOR FIVE YEARS OF VORTEX MONTH Over 19 years of making beer, Fort George has worked on a lot of IPAs. At least a few thousand. But by far the IPA we’ve worked on the most is our beloved, bestselling Vortex IPA. Vortex has been a Northwest favorite for nearly two decades,…
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In 2026, Fort George’s Festival of Dark Arts featured a world-class line-up of stouts from 71 breweries. Dark Beer flowed from 91 taps at 9 pouring locations around the festival grounds in Downtown Astoria. Imagined, planned, set up, and executed by over 350 volunteers, employees, artists, musicians, performers, and friends, Festival of Dark Arts 2026…
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On February 1st, we ring in our 17th annual Stout Month. Every year as February winds its cold, wet tendrils around the North Coast of Oregon, bringing with it the usual seasonal overcast skies, a decline in tourism and general habits of hibernation among the residents, we fight back with as many different Stouts as…
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Inaugural Beer Tree Fest – A Fort George Winter Beer Festival Winter is the season of the tree. Reverence for trees predates recorded history. Ancient Romans decorated trees. Vikings worshipped trees. A tree bridges the space between the land of the living and the land of the dead. Humans were made from trees. Here at…
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At Fort George, we use what we’ve got around us to make good beer. Because we’re on the very top edge of Oregon State – we have hundreds of hop farms and grain growers just miles away in every direction. And we’ve also got Pumpkins. Pumpkins are one of the oldest cultivated crops in the…
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The sky may be clear and blue but it is well and truly Fall in Astoria. Every season is the best season on the North Coast but if you’re like us, the marginally slower pace, less predictable weather, superior outerwear options and gradual shift in outdoor activities makes this season the standout. You might fish…
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We’re always pretty well-connected to our hop growers since we need their cool stuff (hops) to make our beer taste good. In early fall, though, we become very well-connected to our hop growers as we coordinate multiple company-wide efforts to pick up, process, brew and package thousands of pounds of fresh hops from all over…
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When we set out to craft the perfect Pilsner, we started at the beginning. The original brewers of Pilsner, in the Czech city of Pilsen, conceived of a beer designed specifically for their unique region and climate. Lush, green and temperate, rain drenched hillsides channeling clean water through the surrounding valleys, into cool, clear streams…
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THE ORIGINS of VORTEX IPA Back in 2006, our two co-founders were midway through a cross-country trek, headed back to the North Coast in the cab of a rented truck pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with tanks and brewing equipment they’d picked up from a shuttered Virginia brewery. A call came in on the CB…
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Things may look a little different than they did when we first opened in 2007, but one thing remains the same: we’re still making beer, and you’re still drinking it. Thank you. Cheers to 18 years of beer.
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