Portland International Beerfest

Portland International Beerfest is an annual three-day beer festival in Portland, Oregon .The festival was founded in 2001 by Rick Carpenter.

About
The Portland International Beerfest (PIB) is an annual festival of beers in Portland, Oregon. It is a three-day long event held around late June with a sister festival located in Seattle around the same time of year. Pet Cross, a federally registered charity is a beneficiary of the festival. Each year the beer festivals donates roughly $20,000 to local animal welfare groups in Portland and Seattle. The PIB specializes in rare, hard-to-find, exotic beers from 16 countries, and also feature unique and experimental pours from local breweries from the pacific northwest. Food is provided by local food trucks and there are activities and performances by local artists as entertainment.

History
NOTE: no Beer-fest was held in 2020 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.