May 13-19 marks the official American Craft Beer Week! Each day take advantage of $1 off beers any time on the following featured breweries:
Monday: Breakside
Tuesday: Epic
Wednesday: The Commons
Thursday: Upright
Friday: Ft George
Saturday: pFriem
Sunday: $8 domestic taster trays
Big Week, Small Breweries!
Make it an “Epic” night on Friday, May 3rd from 5-9 PM. Bazi will be featuring four of Epic Brewing’s award winning Belgian style beers on draft and new to the market – Belgian Style Wit and Straight Up Saison.
The four Epic beers include:
Brainless® IPA – a tribute to the collaborative efforts of innovative brewers. The fruity Belgian yeast and powerful American hops relentlessly tease your pallet.
Brainless® on Peaches – using the double gold medal winning Brainless® Belgian, added organic peach puree and aged it in French Chardonnay casks. It develops nicely as it warms displaying more fruit and wine.
Straight Up Saison – brewed with barley, oats and wheat, this hazy yellow offering’s silky texture is offset by its high level of carbonation. More spice complexity and malt sweetness refresh the tongue as the wheat and yeast work together to finish dry and slightly sour.
Wit Beer – slightly higher in alcohol content than traditional Wits, ours is traditionally brewed, using wheat, oats, authentic Belgian yeast, malts and just a sprinkle of hops. Spices include coriander, sweet and bitter orange peel and grains of paradise.
Epic Brewing will be Bazi’s featured brewery for the month of May, so expect lots of rotation from this award winning brewery. A taster tray of all four beers will be available during the Epic Appreciation Night for $8 – each pour consisting of 5 oz tasters.
Celebrate Koninginnedag “Queen’s Day” on Friday, April 26 from 7-10 PM with a Bols/Upright Kopstootje tasting.
Queen’s Day is celebrated the last weekend of April in the Netherlands and Dutch Belgium every year. This will be the last Queen’s Day, as Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands announced her abdication after 33 years on the throne and her oldest son will become the King in May. So what better way to celebrate a Dutch tradition than with a Kopstootje Biere tasting!
About a year ago, Netherlands based Bols and Oregon’s Upright Brewing partnered to create the perfect pairing of beer and spirits, the Kopstootje Biere. The Kopstootje, or “little headbutt”, is the Dutch version of beer and a shot. A tulip glass is filled to the rim with genever and served with a beer back. Since the glass would overflow if moved, the drinker bends down to take the first sip off the top, following that with a sip of beer. The Bols/Upright collaboration is surprisingly a good match, with the maltiness and botanicals of genever complementing the malt and hops in the Biere de Garde (Bols Genever actually includes hops as one of its botanicals).
Guest bartender Jacob Grier and brand ambassador for Lucas Bols USA will be on-site to answer questions about the collaboration and the Kopstootje tasting tradition. The Kopstootje pairing will be available for $5. Bazi’s cocktail program will feature specials on the Red Light District, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and a few others, all using Bols genever as the base spirit ingredient.
Join Bazi and 50 other restaurants in the Portland metro area on Thursday, April 25 from open to close for Dining Out for Life, an annual dining fundraising event raising money for AIDS service organizations.
Bazi will be donating a portion of food and beverage sales to this great cause. Visit Dining Out for Life for a list of all participating establishments.
 Join Artisanal Imports at Bazi on Thursday, April 18 from 6-9 PM for a complementary tasting and educational experience.
If you’re thinking of attending the Cheers to Belgian Beers festival this weekend, here’s your chance to taste and learn about Belgian styles before venturing to Belgian-inspired beers. La Trappe is one of only seven Trappist breweries in the world allowed to carry the logo “Authentic Trappist Product”. This logo guarantees authenticity, recipe, tradition and, in the case of La Trappe, a thriving working relationship between monastery and brewery. La Trappe is the only Trappist Ale that is made in The Netherlands; the other six Trappist breweries are situated in Belgium. Jason of Artisanal Imports will be on-site to answer questions about various Belgian-styles. A $12 event sampler tray will be available for purchase featuring four – 5 oz pours of La Trappe beers: Isid’or, dubbel, tripel and quad. |
Join Double Mountain and Bazi on Friday, April 12 from 5-9 PM as we drink our weekend to April 15 with a special tap takeover featuring the beers from the Four Horsemen series. You’ve probably had one here and there, now is your opportunity to have all four in one place.
Beers of the Apocalypse:
WHITE RIDER OF CONQUEST: Strong Belgian-style Blonde Ale
A big, golden-hued flavor bomb with heady alcohol and silky mouthfeel. Abundantly estery yeast notes underpinned by enticing hoppiness. “Perilously drinkable” (to cop a phrase from Michael Jackson, the Beer Hunter). First of the “Four Horsemen” series.
8.7% ABV, 29 BU
RED WAR: Strong Belgian-style Red Ale
A big yet very approachable beer. Lots of fruity complexity (banana, cherry, apricot), without a lot of the smoky phenols and higher alcohol notes of many Belgian ale strains. The fermentation finished dry, but with residual sweetness from a blend of light and dark crystal malts. Installment #2 in “Four Horsemen” series.
8.4% ABV, 30 BU
BLACK FAMINE: Belgian-style Quad
The third in the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series, Famine brings you closer to the dark side. Black and chocolate malts were used sparingly so as to not get in the way of the wonderful dark fruit esters characteristic to the Ardennes yeast strain. The nose gives you toffee, dark fruit, and raisin, while a creamy vanilla rounds out the middle. Fruit and ripe banana flavors hang on the tongue, finishing bright.
8.5% ABV, 40 BU
PALE DEATH: Strong Belgian-Style Imperial IPA
A single hop beer using a huge amount of Mosaic hops with a large dry-hop addition gives a great aroma of Kiwi, mango, and pineapple with spiciness from the Ardennes yeast (coriander, orange peel). Flavors of orange and mango are balanced by danky (garlic/onion notes), subtle yeast and an alcohol warming. Well balanced malt flavor and dry finish.
9.3% ABV, 75 BU
An Event Taster Tray will be available for purchase for $8 – featuring 5 oz pours of each beer.
There is no other race in the world like the Paris-Roubaix. The French race is known as the ‘Hell of the North’ thanks to its torturous pavé sectors and the many stories of pain and destruction that they hold.
Both Cycling.TV and NBC Sports have confirmed broadcasting. Join Bazi on Sunday, April 7 for one or both viewings:
4 PM – 30 minute extended highlights
8 PM – 11 PM As Live Replay
Enjoy an all Sunday Happy Hour!
Join Bazi and other cycling enthusiasts as we broadcast the Flanders Classics on demand staring Wednesday, March 20th. In addition to the Flanders Classics, Bazi has added Paris-Roubaix to the race broadcast schedule by popular request. The schedule and race lineup will be the following:
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CHECK CYCLING.TV TO CONFIRM.
Sunday, April 7 at 4 PM & 8 PM – Paris-Roubaix (4 PM – 30 minute extended highlights / 8 PM – 3 hour as live playback)
Wednesday, April 10 at 6 PM – Brabantse Pijl (Approx. 5 Minute Recap)
Wednesday, April 17 at 6 PM – La Fleche Wallonne (Approx. 3 Hour As Live Playback)
Sunday, April 21 at 5 PM – Liege-Basogne-Liege (Approx. 3 Hour As Live Playback)
All races will be streamed on the 114” HDTV.
Bazi import beer lineup will be featuring beers from the Flanders region of Belgium. A Flanders Flight will be available during each race for $12 which includes 4 – 5 oz tasters. Food and other beverage specials will also be available during the races including cocktails with Diep9 Genever, the oldest distillery in East Flanders.
We’ll also be giving away some cool shirts courtesy of our friends at www.beercycling.com
Catch all the action at Bazi on Friday, March 22 at 7 PM and Tuesday, March 26 at 7:30 PM. Reservations are encouraged by calling 503-234-8888.
Wherever there are Irish people in the world, there are St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and there are a lot of Irish people in Belgium.
Artichoke Music students will be throwing a party at Bazi on Sunday, March 17 from 3-5 PM. Enjoy live authentic Irish music, $5 Irish coffees, and Irish whiskey discounts.
So come enjoy a chilled afternoon with some great music, food and beverage specials made for a Leprechaun.
If Monks lived in Portland, this would be their watering hole. Full service bar bringing centuries of Belgian inspired beer and food under one roof plus a premium liquor selection. Explore with a nationally recognized Bier-Cocktail or simply sip on a glass of wine. As a Euro-theme establishment we embrace bringing community together through sports. Watch every local team (Blazers, Ducks, Timbers) on our 114" HDTV. We are located in the heart of the Hawthorne District, tucked away just off of SE 32nd Avenue. Look for the orange building.
