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 was the biggest, best, darkest beer festival ever held in Astoria… maybe in the world. Next year it will be even bigger, better and darker.
The first Festival of Dark Arts was held in Astoria in February 2002. Jack Harris, Fort George Co-Founder, celebrated the first Stout Month in 1992 while working at the McMenamin’s Cornelius Pass Roadhouse. Everywhere he moved and everywhere he brewed, he took Stout Month with him. You can read more about the history of Stout Month here.
The first Festival of Dark Arts in Astoria was a collaboration with Astoria Visual Arts and featured 10-12 stouts on tap, a gallery of dark art and fire dancers in the street.
In 2026, over 3,000 attendees sampled stouts from all over the country, enjoying 28 performances on 4 stages, live tattooing, tarot readings, magic, ice sculptors, dancers, arcade games, beer painters, dark crafts and a myriad of food offerings perfectly suited to stout from battered shrimp to Jackalope Tacos.
2026 Breweries
Black Raven Brewing Co. | Block 15 Brewing | Boneyard Beer | Cerebral Brewing | Coldfire | Great Notion Brewing | North Jetty Brewery | Scuttlebutt | Shred | Terminal Gravity | Cellarmaker Brewing Company | Grains of Wrath | Living Häus | Mikerphone | North Park Beer Co. | Reuben’s Brews | Uprise Brewing Co. | Varietal Beer Co.
Von Ebert Brewing | Xicha Brewing | Grand Fir Brewing | Holy Mountain Brewing | Maine Beer Co. | Maplewood Brewery & Distillery | Public Coast Brewing | Ravenna Brewing Co | Ruse Brewing | Cerveza Santa Sabina | Stormbreaker Brewing | Stoup Brewing | Structures Brewing | Vice Beer | Weldwerks | Hop Butcher For the World
Working Hands | Moksa Brewing | Kings & Daughters | Kismetic | Our Mutual Friend Brewing | Bizarre Brewing | AleSmith | Alvarado Street Brewery | everywhere | Firestone Walker Brewing Co. | Irrelevant Beer | McMenamins | Obelisk Beer Co. | Riip Beer Co. | Widmer Brothers Brewing | Alesong | Breakside Brewery | Brujos Brewing | Burial Beer Co.
Claim 52 | Cloudburst Brewing | Deschutes Brewery | FiftyFifty Brewing Co. | Ghost Town Brewing | Horus | Anchorage Brewing | Human People | Little Beast Brewing | Mount Olympus Brewing | Georgetown Brewing | North Park | Block 15 Brewing |pFriem Family Brewers | Sunriver Brewing | Astoria Brewing Co. | Gigantic Brewing Co. | pFriem Family Brewers | Sunriver Brewing Co. | Wayfinder |
