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Check out the just announced new Cocktail menu and Food specials, updated beer descriptions and the announcement of Dogfish Head Higher Math 20th Anniversary Cherry and Chocolate strong ale!
Cherry Cocktails:
Cherrywood Sour - Bourbon, kriek beer, lemon juice, egg white, thyme syrup
Cherry Festivus Daiquir - rum, lime juice, kriek beer, syrup Chocolate Dipped Cherry - pFriem strong dark, kriek beer
Cerasus Stoovlees Stew - Painted hills stew meat made with kriek beer and served on top of street frites
Choco Kriek Brownie served with Salt & Straw Double Fold Vanilla ice cream
10 Barrel Brewing: Spiral Staircase
A brand new Imperial Porter with Cherries from Brewmaster Tonya Cornett.
Block 15: Kriek
Oud Bruins matured in bourbon barrels with locally grown Montmorency tart cherries. A blend of three seasons. 7.75% ABV
Breakside: Kriek
strong cherry ale fermented with our house “wild blend” containing three types of Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus and a saison yeast. 100% keg conditioned for maximum flavor development from the Brett. 7.9% Abv.
The Commons: Brotherly Love
Brotherly Love is our Belgian Dark Strong Ale, Little Brother, aged in second-use Bourbon barrels with Northwest grown sour cherries and Ecuadorian cacao nibs roasted by Woodblock Chocolate in SE Portland.
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Crooked Stave: L'Brett d'Cherry
L’Brett
d’Cherry starts as our favorite Golden sour barrels that we blend
together into our large oak foeders for secondary fermentation with
4,000lbs of Colorado harvested sour cherries. 6% Abv.
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Crooked Stave: Mama Bear's Sour Cherry Pie
We
take our Burgundy sour base beer and age it in used Bourbon barrels
before blending select barrels into our large oak foeders and
additionally aging on 3,000 lbs of Colorado harvest sour cherries. 7%
Abv.
Crooked Stave: Nightmare on Brett Cherry
The
biggest of the three Cherry beers we made in 2015, we pack all the
cherries we can into this beer aging for months in our foeders. The
result yields cherry, cascara and coffee aromas and flavors with a light
hint of whiskey barrel character to warm the finish. 9.666% Abv.
Culmination Brewing: Kriek
Wheat
beer aged in a single Pinot barrel with Brett Brux and Oregon tart
cherries. Funky brett aroma, medium red color. Mild tartness. Estimated
7.5% Abv.
De Garde: Cherry Blu Bu
Berliner-weisse style sour wheat beer brewed with Cherries and Blueberries.
The Dissident is an Oud Bruin, a distinctive Flanders-style sour brown ale, with a heavenly aroma and flavor. Our first wild yeast beer, we use Brettanomyces and local cherries to give The Dissident its characteristic sour taste. Our stiffest brewing challenge, it must be fermented in isolation from our other beers for a full 18 months, partly in pinot and cabernet barrels. The words coddled and “worth it” come to mind. 10.7% Abv.
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| Courtsey of Dogfish Head |
Higher Math is a tribute to that auspicious first beer and celebrates 20 off-centered years of Dogfish Head. It’s a golden strong ale fermented with sour cherry juice and cocoa nibs and clocks in at 17% ABV.
Double Mountain: Devil's Kriek
Cherry season is upon us once again, and that means it’s time to peer into the tanks that have been sitting in the cellar for the last year or so. When we checked in on this slumbering beauty we found her to be funky, refreshingly tart, and devilishly deep crimson. Local Bing and Van cherries from the Double Mountain Orchard from the Columbia Gorge lend the color and a juicy character. Kept at cellar temperature on whole fruit for 12 months, and served in its own glass. 9.3% ABV, 9 BU
ABV: 9.3% IBU: 9
Cherry season is upon us once again, and that means it’s time to peer into the tanks that have been sitting in the cellar for the last year or so. When we checked in on this slumbering beauty we found her to be funky, refreshingly tart, and devilishly deep crimson. Local Bing and Van cherries from the Double Mountain Orchard from the Columbia Gorge lend the color and a juicy character. Kept at cellar temperature on whole fruit for 12 months, and served in its own glass. 9.3% ABV, 9 BU
ABV: 9.3% IBU: 9
Double Mountain: Tahoma Kriek
The Tahoma Kriek uses a strong Belgian Blonde ale for a base prior to the addition of local Rainier Cherries. Our house yeast strains and Brettanomyces Lambicus, was allowed free reign to develop its sour and complex character, resulting in a stronger, more bracingly tart and juicy ale than the more classic beers in the style. This beauty was kept at cellar temperatures on the whole fruit for 13 months. Best enjoyed with a good cheese and better company. 10.3% ABV, 10 BU
ABV: 10.3% IBU: 10
Ecliptic Brewing: Capella Porter with Cherries
Capella Porter with Cherries is named after a bright star in constellation Auriga. Sweet dark malt aromas are followed by a nice medium body. Flavors of chocolate and caramel meld with just a touch of roast. A collection of American hops (Nugget, Chinook, Centennial and Cascade) brighten this lively porter. Cherries were added in a secondary fermentation for an added layer of subtle sweet cherry flavor.
Golden Valley’s first kriek (cherry beer) was aged on locally grown fruit, all of which was hand-picked by our brewmaster. Cerisely Funky spent six months conditioning with Brettanomyces in French oak wine barrels, sharing that space over the final few months with 60 pounds of Royal Anne cherries. Bright cherry, meet Brett funk. OG 1.044 IBU 8 ABV 5.2%
Lambic brewed with wild Belgian Schaerbeek sour cherries.
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New Belgium: Transatlantique Kriek
New
Belgium Brewing and Old Beersel of Belgium have partnered to create
Transatlantique Kriek, a spontaneously fermented lambic ale made with
sour cherries. This authentic kriek beer began life in the oaken vessels
at Gert en Jos Christiaens’ brewery in the Lembeek region of Belgium.
After more than two years aging, Oud Beersel’s offering shipped across
the Atlantic and found its way to the intuitive palate of New Belgium’s
brewmaster, Peter Bouckaert. After much sampling and internal
consultation, Peter and his brew staff created a full-bodied Belgian
golden lager to round out the light-bodied kriek. The cherry nose gives
way to a pleasingly sour flash across the palate that rolls gently into a
slightly sweet finish. Crisp, effervescent carbonation keeps the
mouthfeel bright and delightfully tingly. 8% Abv.
Oakshire Brewing: 8
Eight
years after brewing our first batch of beer, we felt the need to
celebrate our success with the small community of our most loyal
supporters. To commemorate this occasion, we crafted this Belgian Ale
and matured it in a handful of select pinot noir wine barrels and aged
it with Northwest grown cherries . This Belgian Kreik-inspired ale has
flavors of tart fruit, oak, and just a touch of funkiness from the
Brettanomyces. Raise your glass of Oakshire's Brewers Reserve 8, and
say it out loud, "Cheers to Eight Years! |
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Our award-winning Doryman’s Ale is aged for 4 months in wheat whiskey barrels with a blend of two Oregon cherry varietals.
Lose yourself in the complex aroma of ripe cherries and delicate oak while the roasted malts and Northwest hops tie everything together. The sweet cherries pair harmo- niously with the roasted malts while the sour cherries leave a subtle and pleasant
tartness on your palate. The Cascade and Mt. Hood hops provide just the right amount of their wonderfully assertive character to give this beer its clean and balanced finish.
Lose yourself in the complex aroma of ripe cherries and delicate oak while the roasted malts and Northwest hops tie everything together. The sweet cherries pair harmo- niously with the roasted malts while the sour cherries leave a subtle and pleasant
tartness on your palate. The Cascade and Mt. Hood hops provide just the right amount of their wonderfully assertive character to give this beer its clean and balanced finish.
Reverend Nats Hard Cider: Cherried Winter Abbey Spice
This cider is a take on a very old recipe dating from early 1600s colonial America, with a modern twist of added carbonation. Raisins, unrefined cane sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg were fermented to dryness with oak. This special Cherry Fest keg has the added delight of juice from Washington-grown Montmorency and Hungarian Balaton tart cherries.
Schooner Exact: Sodo Weisse with Cherries
Tart
and refreshing, our kettle sour is a take on the style of a classic
Berliner Weisse. Honey cereal and slight floral and fruity notes on the
nose transitions into a pleasant burst of acidity in the mouth followed
by a lingering dry malt finish. Method: 72 hour kettle souring with
lactobacillus followed by traditional boil and fermentation.
Approximately 10 lbs/barrel Montmorency cherries during final 10 minutes
of boil. 3.4% Abv.
Slaapmutkske: Flemish Old Style Kriek
A newly released sour Red ale with Cherries.
Solera: Kriek
0 IBU, 5% ABV
A barrel-fermented Saison with fresh Cherries added from Baird Family Orchards. The Hearts’ Beat pours intensely red and drinks with a huge tannic quality, showing bits of brett lambicus and orchard yeasts in the flavor.
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The first Kriek Lambic in our LAMBICKX line! Wonderful aroma of almonds, macaroon and cherry stones. Dry, elegant fruit palate. Lightly sparkling to still. Lambics are truly the "wines" of the beer world. Just as wines vary by season, soil, climate, and aging method, lambics (unlike any other type of beer) vary by season, brewery location, barrel size and wood type and length of aging. 6.5% ABV.
Cascade Brewing: Cherry Bourbonic Plague
This NW-style sour ale is a special treat from the blenders. We took a 20 month old Thai cinnamon version of the Bourbonic and aged it a further four months on Bing cherries. Dark cherries, Bourbon and spices greet you in the nose. Big, rich, dark cherries, dates, oak, leather and tobacco dance on the palate. Deep cherry notes, dark fruits and a warming Bourbon flavor finish this off as only the Bourbonic can. 13% Abv.
This NW-style sour ale is a special treat from the blenders. We took a 20 month old Thai cinnamon version of the Bourbonic and aged it a further four months on Bing cherries. Dark cherries, Bourbon and spices greet you in the nose. Big, rich, dark cherries, dates, oak, leather and tobacco dance on the palate. Deep cherry notes, dark fruits and a warming Bourbon flavor finish this off as only the Bourbonic can. 13% Abv.
Cherry Festivus
Saturday, November 21st Noon - 11pm $20
1522 Southeast 32nd Ave.
Portland, OR 97214
