(Graphic courtesy of Baker’s Dozen)
Oregon’s beloved coffee beer and doughnut festival, Baker’s Dozen, returns for its tenth invitational. The event returns featuring three things Portland does best: beer, coffee, and doughnuts, each represented by a baker’s dozen artisans. The name is a throwback to when bakers, to thank their customers, would throw in an extra something-something when they purchased one dozen (12) of, say, doughnuts. Admission includes samples of everything including many of the specific coffee roasts featured in the beers. The festival returns to a the audience’s favorite location, The Zed at Zoiglhaus (5716 SE 92nd Ave.) on Saturday, April 11, from 10am to 1pm. Tickets are available now for $40 ($50 at the door if available, but note that this event sells out annually) at the all new website for tickets and info, BakersDozenFest.com.
To celebrate the decade milestone, many of the delicacies from the inaugural year return. On the beer side, this includes Gigantic’s Too Much Coffee Man, Laurelwood’s Cold Brewed Coffee Stout, McMenamins’ On Caravan Turkish Coffee Brown, and the jaw-dropping Orange Mocha Frappuccino (OK, “Overcast: Café Borgia Stout”) from Oakshirein Eugene. Year one breweries returning with new flavors include Breakside with Honey Nut Mocha Porter, Bend’s Boneyard presenting Heavy Eyes (coffee’d Czech dark lager), and Kell’s Coffee Cream Ale.
Returning doughnuts include Annie’s apple fritter, Tonalli’s banana buttermilk bar, Blue Star’s blueberry basil bourbon brioche, Delicious Donuts’ blueberry cake, Fleur de Lis’ potato doughnut, Helen Bernhard’s glazed raspberry jelly-filled, and Voodoo Doughnuts’ Captain My Captain for all you Cap’n Crunch crazies.
2026 Breweries & Roasters (beers subject to change): Boneyard Beer (featuring local Bend roaster Thump), Breakside Beer (alongside Good Coffee), Ft. George Brewery (& Sleepy Monk Coffee) providing “Sparklewood & 21” held off from Festival of the Dark Arts to bring us this coffee and cherry stout, Gigantic Brewing (& Coava Coffee), Kell’s, Laurelwood, Leikam Brewing (riffing on the extinct Feckin’ Brewery’s entry in year one, “Top o’ the Feckin’ Mornin’” with a stout featuring Crater Lake Whiskey-soaked coffee beans from Roasted by Mom that will be called Top o’ the Fekakta Morning”), Lucky Lab Brewing!, McMenamins (with house-roasted coffee), Oakshire Brewing (& Wandering Goat Coffee) Steeplejack (with house-roasted Harder Day Coffee), a collaboration between Wild Ride Brewing and Crux Fermentation Project (& Backporch Coffee), and host Zoiglaus in collaboration withPortland Roasting.
2026 Bakeries (doughnuts subject to change): Angel’s Doughnuts (nee Tonalli’s), Annie’s Donuts, Blue Star Donuts, Delicious Donuts, JoNuts (from Albany) Helen Bernhard Bakery, Mochinut, Sesame Donuts, Too Sweet Cakes, and Yanni’s Loukoumades.
This event benefits All Hands Raised, a nonprofit organization benefiting Portland public schools, with a focus on racial equality, which is committed to improving education for children and youth throughout Multnomah County from cradle to career.
Tickets & info: BakersDozenFest.com ($40 online, $50 at the door if available)
Facebook: Facebook.com/BakersDozenFest
Instagram: @BakersDozenFest
Visit Zoiglhaus online at Zoiglhaus.com or, y’know, IRL at 5716 SE 92nd Ave., Portland
