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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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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At Fort George, February is Stout Month. Every year new and unique stouts are released throughout the month. In the midst of this quaffable darkness, in the darkest month of the year, in the darkest, uppermost corner of Oregon, The Festival of Dark Arts descends on Fort George, transforming the heart of Astoria into a…
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Topaz Farm and Fort George come together for the second year to improve our communities and our beer. Humans probably lost something fundamental to our physical and emotional well-being when we abandoned our relationship with agriculture and started buying all our produce from box stores. The void that our supposed progress away from the land…
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February has been Stout Month ever since Fort George opened its doors in 2007. Every year new stouts are released throughout the month. In the middle of the darkest month of the year, in the darkest, uppermost corner of Oregon, The Festival of Dark Arts descends on the Fort George Block, transforming the heart of…
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A STOUT MONTH 2023 POEM: Twas the night before Stout Month, when all through the pubs Not a pale malt was boiling, not even the trubs; The tap slats were hung by the art boards with care, In hopes that stout beer drinkers soon would be there; The brewers were nestled all snug in their…
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On December 8th, 1922 a devastating fire ripped through downtown Astoria, Oregon, leveling most of the city. While the fires raged around his newly-completed two-story auto showroom, Sherman Lovell climbed the stairs to the roof of the Lovell Building. In the streets below, desperate citizens and volunteer firefighters were blowing up buildings in the fire’s…
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It’s pretty easy to give a dog its perfect life. In their dreams, dogs dream only of the perfect life and a dog’s perfect life is a life with you. Though a dog’s needs can be varied and complex (they might chew up an entire cabinet door, eat a bunch of your socks, pee on…
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