Eat Drink Vegan/ Vegan Beer and Food Fest

Portland Vegan Beer and Food Festival

6/11/16

After 9 months of school hell, this event was the perfect way to celebrate the school year coming to an end. The VBFF (now called Eat Drink Vegan) has two options for tickets, VIP and general admission. You need to get VIP. This ticket is 65$ and comes with 60 beer tokens (1 token= 1 3oz pour) and access to the event 2 hours earlier than general admission (no lines for tastings). My friends and I got into the event right as it opened and began tasting all the beers.

You may be thinking, "Hey, 60 tokens at 3 ounces each is 180 ounces. That's 22.5 8-ounce beers!!! WTF?" But it is true. Last year they had unlimited beer pours, however I don't think the OLCC liked that so they made them give a certain amount of tokens. VBFF was probably like,  "yeah, sure, we will give out tokens..." So yeah, I made it through probably 20 tokens and I was very buzzed by the end of this.

The food was amazing! The tamales below were only $4 each, I can't remember the name of the vendor but when I find out I will edit it in. Most of the food was pretty expensive, but Doomies has these Vegan Burgers that are kind of like big macs and they were SO GOOD. 

One of my favorite things from the event was the Vegan fashion! So many people had great vegan inspired shirts that I started asking people to take their photo. The shirt below is from a company called In The Soulshine. They are located in Australia and have a vegan inspired messages on all their shirts! Link to their page: http://www.inthesoulshine.com.au/

Next year I definitely want to have a little more focus on the fashion aspect of veganism. 

"VEGAN AS FUCK"

"BE KIND TO ANIMALS OR ILL KILL YOU"

"SAVING ONE ANIMAL MAY NOT CHANGE THE WORLD, BUT IT SURE CHANGES THE WORLD FOR THAT ONE ANIMAL"

ANIMALS ARE NOT FABRIC

HORNS UP FOR VEGANISM

THE FUTURE IS VEGAN

This shirt...

I was able to capture an awkward high five/fist bump. (Look at his face)

The music was fantastic! There was a great lineup with some really fun bands. Now by this point, things start to get a little hazy, but it was really fun listening to music and dancing around.

I would rate the VBFF a 10/10 and I would definitely go back next year. I would ABSOLUTELY get VIP though. Once general admission got in, the lines for everything were too long and it wasn't as much fun. Spending the extra $20 for the upgrade is best.