Fuji To Hood Festival Returns to Portland in 2026

Fuji To Hood, a Japan/Oregon collaboration festival, returns to Portland later this month. It started out in 2018 as a simple collaboration beer festival, and since then has evolved into an extensive cross-cultural festival. Tickets are still available to enjoy this epic convergence of Japan and Oregon when it comes to beer, cider, wine, spirits, food, music, martial arts, and more.

Fuji To Hood: What it Is and How it Works

As I mentioned above, the Fuji to Hood festival was founded in 2018 and first held in Portland by Red Gillen, Ezra Johnson-Greenough, Michael Walcott, and Tomas Sluiter. In 2019, Nobuhiro Tajima founded and organized the first “Hood to Fuji” sister event in Japan. It now bounces between Japan and Oregon in a biennial fashion, meaning the last time the festival was held here was in 2024. And this year, they have more participants than ever.

Oregon beer and cider brewers work with their Japanese brewer compadres to create the ultimate in collabs. These teams choose and use a selection of special ingredients from Japan in their work for this occasion—those ingredients include:

• Japanese cedar.
• Flowers from the Osmanthus, an evergreen shrub from East Asia.
• Kabosu citrus, which is closely related to yuzu.
• Haskap fruit, blue in color and from a deciduous shrub.
• A Japanese-grown hop variety Sorachi Ace, developed in Japan for Sapporo Breweries.

25 small craft breweries and cideries will travel from Japan to Portland debut these original collaborative brews, which yields fun, tasty—and surprising—beverages.

From the organizers: “Fuji to Hood is a festival built around the belief that sharing beer, food, and drink can be catalysts for lifelong friendships and better understanding. Organizers believe in person-to-person social interactions as a way to break down barriers and share cultures.” This is a beautiful mission and one I support.

You may also know the producers of Fuji to Hood, Beer Friends’, from their sister fest, MXPDX, which brings Oregon and Mexican brewers together. Beer Friends’ is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.

Fuji to Hood Tickets

This year’s Fuji to Hood festival takes place on Saturday, July 18 from 1pm to 8pm at the Redd on Salmon event space. You can buy General Admission tickets on the Fuji to Hood website. Tickets are $35.00 (with a $4.26 fee).

The ticket includes a piece of official collectible glassware (required for drinking) and 10 drink tickets. Each ticket is good for one 4oz pour from each of the 25 collab craft beers and ciders.

Note: Minors and non-drinkers/designated drivers can attend for free.

Buy your tickets here. Also, if you’d like to volunteer, fill out this form.

Collaboration Breweries and Cideries at Fuji to Hood

These are the teams that created the beer and cider for this year’s Fuji To Hood.

• Away Days Brewing x Black Tide
• Baerlic Brewing x Groundtap Brewing
• Bauman’s Cider x Himitsu Beer
• Binary Brewing x Repubrew
• Block 15 Brewing x Y. Market Brewing
• Boneyard Beer x Ise Kadoya Brewery
• Breakside Brewing x Yoho Brewing
• Buoy Beer x Baeren Beer
• ColdFire Brewing x Spring Valley Brewing
• Deschutes Brewery x Minoh Beer
• Fort George Brewing x West Coast Brewing
• Gigantic Brewing x Uchu Brewing
• Heater Allen Brewing x Heiwa Craft Brewing
• Hopworks Brewery x Fukuoka Craft
• Level Beer x Fujizakuara Kogen
• Little Beast Brewing x Kyoto Brewing
• Little Hop Brewing x Yokohama Beer
• Migration Brewing x Shonan Beer
• Obelisk Beer x OK, Adam Hard Cider
• Portland Cider Co. x Son of the Smith Hard Cider
• Ruse Brewing x Namachan Brewing
• SteepleJack Beer x Harvest Moon
• Threshold Brewing x Teenage Brewing
• Von Ebert Brewing x Totopia Brewery
• Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery x North Island Beer

Additional Beverages

Along with beer and cider, there will be additional Oregon beverage vendors:

• Shiba Wichern Cellars, wine from Akiko Shiba, co-owner and head winemaker.
• Stone Barn Brandyworks, fruit brandy and liqueurs, as well as single-barrel whiskey.
• SakéOne, a sake maker in Forest Grove, which you may have seen at the recent WasabiFest and/or Veganizer Asian Market.
• Spirit of Sage, a Khmer and Korean-owned cocktail company.

What To Eat at Fuji to Hood

There will be plenty of great eats from some top notch vendors, including Oyatsupan, Senyo by Ramen Ippo, SHO Sushi, Soen, Aji Fish Butchery, HeyDay, Sumomo, Obon Shokudo, Behind the Museum Cafe, Smith Teamaker, Jorinji Miso, and Edible Art by Natsuko, who makes wagashi.

Additionally, Ikoi No Kai, a volunteer-run lunch program for Japanese seniors, will be there. More details about those on the food side of the event.

Performances and Other Vendors

The Obukan Kendo Club (judo) and Okuban Judo (founded in 1926 in Portland and teaches Kodokan Judo), Takohachi (Taiko dum group), and Portland Sumo (sumo wrestling) will be performing during the festival.

Finally, there will be a number of other vendors offering everything from pottery to technology, tattoos to knives. That includes Seisuke Knife (“a kitchen knife is a piece of art”), Kiiroya Pottery (inspired by nature), Cataround Stamps, Stumptown Otaku (gifts for geeks and nerds), Wacom, Innokenty Meshchakov Tattoos, Erika Harada (Japanese American katazome textile artist), East Winds Co (gifts), and more.

I hope you will consider attending this year’s Fuji to Hood festival!

Fuji to Hood Festival
Saturday, July 18, 2026
1pm to 8pm
The Redd on Salmon Street, 831 SE Salmon Street, Portland
Ticket link
Fuji to Hood website | Instagram | Facebook

Updated July 7, 2026 to correct ticket fee amount.