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Fresh Hop Festival 2024

Arts and Entertainment

September 17, 2024

From: Fresh Hop Festival

PLAY will pour twelve fresh hop beers in the main hall, host live music, face painting and debut the new cocktail menu in the lounge over the course of the weekend.  Each day there will be a specialty flight of four fresh hop beers.  

Schedule of events:

Wednesday, September 18th

11am Eight Fresh hop beers will be tapped in the main hall.  The bar will offer a flight of four fresh hop offerings.  

7pm Pants with Pockets performs live on the patio.  Pants with Pockets is a group of Eugene String Queens. Each one of the all female group hail from various local bluegrass groups including Meadow Rue, Cherry Hill and Bake Club. 

Thursday, September 19th

11am Four more fresh hop kegs will be tapped in the main hall and a new preset flight will be offered of four unique fresh hop beers.  

7pm Meadow Rue performs on the patio.  Meadow Rue is a string band out of Oregon's Willamette Valley featuring soaring harmonies and original song writing from Greg Oldson & Sarah Mazze. Jack Wheeler's dobro and Heather Brey's fiddle add layers of joyful and mournful sounds. Steve Korin on upright bass.

Friday, September 20th

11am A new flight of four fresh hop offerings will be offered in the main hall.

5pm Cross Roads Farms will be at PLAY selling their peppers and hot sauce.  Cross Roads Farm is the former home to Agrarian Brewing and hop farm.  The hop picking parties that they hosted out at the farm inspired this event.  Having Cross Roads present is a tribute to the love we at Play have for the contribution to the Eugene craft beer community that Agrarian made over the years.  

6pm Chantel Wright, face painter extraordinaire, will be transforming faces into mystical animals on the PLAY patio.  

Saturday, September 21st

11am A new flight of four fresh hop offerings will be offered in the main hall.

4pm  Autumn cocktail menu debut in the Cocktail Lounge

4-6pm Tasting with Hood River Distillers in the Cocktail Lounge

It’s harvest season and the bines are ripe for the plucking.  Join us to explore the flavors of the hop season with beers from some of our favorite breweries made to showcase fresh hops.  It’s a race to the tank and a dash to the taps to get the beer in your glass as fresh as possible. 

Date: September 18 - 21, 2024

Location: 232 West 5th Avenue, Eugene, OR

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