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.
[3][4] 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.
NOTE: no Beer-fest was held in 2020 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.