This contest is now closed! We are busy narrowing down the entries. Thanks to everyone who participated!
The Sagebrush Classic Feast has offered two tickets to their July 18th event as a prize in a Beer Haiku contest. You’ll be able to enter by either Twitter @pdxfooddude, or in the comments for this post. The proceeds for this event benefits Central Oregon children and families, so I’m happy to support the cause.
This is a big event, held in Bend Oregon every year by Deschutes Brewery.
Think golf, music and feasting:
The feast consists of 18 chefs preparing small plates to compliment a particular beer. Of course there will be wine too. Here is a list of the pairings this year.
Think some amazing chefs:
José Andrés (I would go just to see him), Michael Smith of Extra Virgin, Mark Kiffin – The Compound, Cathy Whims from Portland’s Nostrana, Jackie Lau – Roy’s in Honolulu, Ken Frank from La Toque in Napa, and many more. You can see the complete list here.
The prize for the best beer haiku is two tickets to the Sagebrush Classic Feast at Broken Top, a value of $400.
“From 5 pm until dark, the plates kept coming and the Deschutes beer kept flowing. Everyone was happy. No one left hungry. There was no one there to say “no”…. There aren’t many parties like Sagebrush in the entire country, so the opportunity to sample the fare of some of the world’s top chefs in one place is rare—especially at a place three hours from Portland.” – Willamette Week
The rules are pretty simple. It must be in haiku format. The ancient art of haiku requires precision: a five syllable first line; seven syllable second line; and five syllable third line. The best haiku features a final line that works like a friendly elbow in the ribs. We only ask that the haiku be at least loosely about beer.
We’ll collect entries until July 10th, and will judge them quickly so you have time to make your plans. Everyone have fun with it! Please leave your entries in the comments or Twitter @pdxfooddude. Entries on Twitter will be copied to PFD.
Don’t really like beer
but lavender ale at EAT
was bubble flowers
Bitter hops give way
to smooth chocolate goodness–
Ain’t no PBR.
Inebriate me
You sweet nectar of mankind
I’ll piss my heart out
Black and Tan. You were
all i needed to swim in
seas of blissful gold
Once more with feeling
Dirty hobo with Schlitz
Piss in my alley
Oregon craft beer
July: our month-long party!
Can I squeeze this in?
Thank you God for beer
Brewing our own is such fun
Cheers to Craft Beer Month
Oregon Brewed
Great taste abounds
Want to play a round?
Willamette hops taste
like summer: green flowers bright
and sharp as sunlight.
Leave it to the chefs
A Bartlett and Budweiser
The wrong beer pearing
Suffering from heat?
An important reminder:
Beer contains water.
Alone in a crowd,
The India Pale Rider.
Sucks to your amber.
Malt, hops, water, yeast.
Combine to such sweet nectar.
Best enjoyed with food.
Chow and Deschutes brews,
paired with elegance and skill.
Tastebuds… get ready!
From Twitter @MTpilot:
From keg, tap, or can
We like cold, but not too cold
History’s best drink
From Twitter @boyerpm
Deschutes Green Lakes Ale
Happy hour favorite
Bend’s greatest brewers
Happy bubbles spring
Into summer beer joy hops
Fall into the clouds
from sneaker and stein
regions untold, snifter, flute
chalice i’ve had you
For an excuse to
Drink cheap lager from a can
I bought a large lawn
Mopped floor, dishes done.
If I were a chef I’d think
Beer was not enough.
Anticipation
Midnight sun TTs Cold brew
Intoxication
Delicious Deschutes
Quenches every thirst I have
Of this state’s bounty.
Who needs more reasons
to ponder beer’s majesty?
Beer haiku contest!
water and a grain
ferment to sweet elixir
we drink from the cup
Alchemist Brewer,
Turning hop water to booze.
Now a craft, divine!
sun streams hot languish
frosty golden glass cream head
first sip moustache aahh
Imbibe and unite –
drunk poets, crafty brewers –
Our paths part at dawn
Now quenched, we are one
Beer my faithful companion
Sometimes I fall down
beer is delicious
beer, food, are great together
heavenly combo
What kills libido?
Hops are high in estrogen.
Women yell, “DRINK UP!”
Calm Deschutes beauty
Beer paired with excellent food
Let this never end.
summer or winter
any time of year will do
a year round hop treat
beer quenches your thirst
with beautiful amber hue
nature’s best reward
capped bottle sweating
cool hoppy goodness inside
opener absent
You’re winking through the
bottom of my glass, so let’s
get another pint.
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Fermentation good
mind, body, and soul rejoice!
except your liver
Hop cone waits on vine
Barley bows its head to nature’s bliss
Beers burgeoning kiss
Drinking Sapporo
While Tokyo is Burning
Go Go Godzilla
Mirror Pond — even
my beer-hating boyfriend can-
not resist its lure.
Hoppy elixir
Overindulged just a bit
Explains my headache
Lured in again
The beer siren pulled me in
Intoxicating
What’s on tap, you ask?
Tasty and handcrafted brews.
Deschutes, for the win!
popping out the cork
pinpoint bubbles trickle up
the head! it’s a beer!
Slightly soft belly
Relic of ales and lagers
Trade physique for beer
Let’s have some pints
Nature’s gift to all mankind
Now who feels like war?
Foaming ’round the edge
The shocking cold refreshes
Oh Pacific O
I wanna have beer
e’vry day and e’vry night.
Do you like beer too?
cheap yellow beer child,
I played Deschutes and ladders
ain’t been the same since.
reflecting on the
mirror pond: my reflection
means it sat too long?
Foam, froth, so much more
Hops, malt, a magical thing
In my glass, they sing
“All I wanna do
is drink beer for breakfast” yeah!
Replacements were right.
@VeritasTours via Twitter:
hops notes flicker in
wheat, barley, join together
frothy foam goodness
Beer, you are my friend;
I drink you every Friday.
Thank God it’s Thursday!
no bitter beer face
here where hop lovers’ pairings
delight my whole tongue
Would He ask the same
if postponed two thousand years?
One step: drink this bread.
I take it in slow
Drinking in the taste of now
I’ll have another
Happy hour ended?
I never meant to pay six
Dollars for this swill
@SuperDylan via Twitter
Oh Magical Beer,
Cure me of this life I lead,
Or is it your fault?
two pints of ale sweat
on the table between them
before the next word
the egyptians knew
that beer was universal
like war, death, and love
each cold sip of ale
is an exhalation of
all the world’s rivers
it is at two pints
that he feels himself transformed
from damp clay to god
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