Stone Brewing Co. Releases Stone Saison, A Modern Take on a Farmhouse Classic

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ESCONDIDO, CA (June 1, 2015) – Stone Brewing Co. is reintroducing its take on a traditional Belgian farmhouse ale, using Southern California ingredients grown on its 19-acre farm. Stone Saison is brewed with lemon zest, grains of paradise, lemon thyme, lavender and a small dose of habanero peppers, making it the quintessential refresher for the warm-weather months. Starting today, the beer returns in 12-ounce six-packs and on draft to retailers, restaurants and bars in markets where Stone beers are sold.

“Before we began brewing batches of this year’s release, we looked at a few ways to slightly improve on last year’s recipe for Stone Saison,” said Stone Brewmaster Mitch Steele. “The herbs and spices remain the same, but we adjusted the proportions to create a refined combination highlighting each ingredient while offering a perfectly balanced flavor profile overall.”
 

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 Grown at the craft beer company’s Stone Farms, lemon thyme and lavender contribute floral, citrusy aromas and flavors, while lemon zest and grains of paradise add vibrant grapefruit and white pepper notes that mingle with restrained, earthy heat brought on by habanero peppers. These homegrown specialty edibles balance exceptionally well with the subtle banana and clove qualities courtesy of Stone’s house strain of Belgian yeast. The resulting beer finishes with a crisp, dry and refreshing mix of spices, red apple and a hint of heat.

Stone Saison will be available in limited quantities through the warm and sunny season. The beer’s citrusy, floral and spice qualities will shine through all summer long. 

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Stone Saison Quick Facts:

Name: Stone Saison
URL: Stonebrewing.com/saison
Stats: 6% ABV, 35 IBUs
Availability: Limited 12-ounce bottles in six-packs and draft, beginning June 1
Hops Bill: Perle and Aramis
National Distribution: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA and Puerto Rico
International Distribution: Australia; Alberta and British Columbia, Canada; Japan; Singapore; and United Kingdom
Find Beer: find.stonebrewing.com

 

About Stone Brewing Co.

 Founded by Greg Koch and Steve Wagner in 1996, San Diego-based Stone Brewing Co. is the 9th largest craft brewer in the United States.

Stone has been listed on the Inc. 500 | 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list 10 times, and has been called the “All-time Top Brewery on Planet Earth” by BeerAdvocate magazine twice. The multifaceted company will be the first American craft brewer to own and operate its own brewery in Europe, and is also building a production brewery and destination restaurant in Richmond, Virginia. Brewing at both locations is anticipated to begin late 2015. Known for its bold, flavorful and largely hop-centric beers, Stone has earned a reputation for brewing outstanding, unique beers while maintaining an unwavering commitment to sustainability, business ethics, philanthropy and the art of brewing. For more information on Stone Brewing Co., please visit stonebrewing.com or the company’s social media sites: Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and The Stone Blog.

Pike Brewing Releases Washington State's First Varietal Beer, Pike Locale Skagit Valley Alba.

 

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Introducing Pike Locale Skagit Valley Alba, Washington State’s first varietal beer.

Seattle, WA – June 1, 2015: Malt is the soul of beer; akin to grapes in wine. Brewers have an incredible diversity of hops to brew with and yet since Prohibition have been limited in malt choices. Now Pike Brewing Company is working directly with Skagit Valley farmers to grow barley varietals specifically for craft beer malt. These varietals will bring new, full and complex flavors that today’s craft beer drinkers want. We are introducing this with Pike Locale, a series of beers made with 100% Washington State ingredients that define our local terroir.

The first beer in the Pike Locale series is Skagit Valley Alba. Just in time for summer, Skagit Valley Alba is light and citrusy with a clean, earthy and nutty malt finish. Subtly seasoned with Yakima Valley hops, Pike Locale Skagit Valley Alba pours a beautiful spun gold color with crisp, pale foam. This limited release beer is available beginning June 1 on draft and in 22oz dinner bottles at local pubs, restaurants, grocers and bottle shops. 

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“We know that craft beer drinkers are passionate about drinking locally,” said Art Dixon, Pike Brewing Lead Brewer. “As brewers we’re excited to introduce them to all new flavors with these locally grown malts.”  

Since Prohibition the barley grain supply for brewers has been dictated by macrobreweries, who prefer high protein, low flavor grains. There are over 11,000 varieties of barley and yet only a handful are used for malt today. For this beer, Pike Brewing is working with Skagit Valley Malting, a new craft maltster.  They are able to malt barley in smaller quantities, tailoring their process to the exact specifications each varietal needs to bring out its fullest flavor in craft beer.

“With Pike Locale we are reviving the pre-Prohibition tradition of sourcing quality ingredients as close to the brewery as possible,” notes Pike Brewing Founder and President, Charles Finkel. “Prohibition dealt a blow to brewers and small farmers alike. And since that time craft brewers have done an admirable job brewing delicious beers with a very limited palate of malts. Pike Locale ushers in a new chapter with these locally grown, varietal malts that will introduce beer drinkers to new flavors.”

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Skagit Valley Alba’s base malt was grown by Knutzen Farms (Skagit Valley) and includes malts from Palouse Colony Farm (Whitman County), Washington Bulb Co. and Hedlin Farms (Skagit Valley). Its Cascade, Centennial and Mosaic hops come from the Yakima Valley and its honey from Salish Lodge bees in Snohomish County. It is brewed with water from the Cedar River Watershed and uses Pike #1 yeast.

Future beers in the Pike Locale series, featuring other heritage and varietal malts, will be available as the grains become available and as Pike Brewing Company’s brewers create new recipes for them.

Pike Locale Skagit Valley Alba

OG      1.046

ABV    5.5 %

IBU     28

About Pike Brewing Company: The Pike Brewing Company is a family owned brewery located in the historic Pike Place Public Market neighborhood. It was founded in 1989 by craft beer pioneers, Charles and Rose Ann Finkel. Pike Brewing handcrafts beers of character including the Pike Pale Ale, Pike IPA, Naughty Nellie, Space Needle IPA, Kilt Lifter, Monk’s Uncle, and XXXXX Stout along with seasonal offerings such as Harlot’s Harvest, Old Bawdy, Auld Acquaintance, Derby Lager, Saison Houblon, and Octopus Ink. The Pike Pub is known for local, sustainable and seasonal pub fare and for housing the world-famous Micro-Brewery Museum, illustrating 9,000 years of beer history.
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Double Mountain Cluster Single-Hop IPA Gets A New Look

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Hood River, OR - June 1st, 2015 -A Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom seasonal favorite, the Cluster Single-Hop IPA returns in bottles for the third year with a fresh new label. This unique and versatile IPA is currently available on draft and by bottle at the Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom located in downtown Hood River. Cluster can be found throughout the Northwest, British Columbia, and Southern California in early June 2015.

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"We are excited about the rework of the Cluster label. The starry moonscape really stands out on the shelves." Head Brewmaster/owner Matt Swihart talks about this year's Cluster batch. "For a magical reason that remains a mystery to me, the farmer gods treated us to an excellent crop on the Clusters in 2014, so this year's beer is exceptional crisp, tasty and wonderfully balanced. This is my favorite year so far... but look out 2016." 
 

Cluster

Single-Hop IPA

7.3% ABV, 85 BU

Description: The oft forgotten Cluster hop was the dominant hop in the US brewing industry for centuries.  With the Cluster, we’re bringing this beauty of a hop back into the limelight.  Clusters were added at every stage of the brewing process, allowing a good taste of the hop’s complexity and versatility.  A more delicate floral note at the top leads you deeper into a grove of pineapple and orange, and a dewy herbal character follows closely behind.  It glows like an early summer sunset, has a clean bitterness, and dried out nicely, 
making it highly drinkable.  ABV 7.3%, 85 BU

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About Double Mountain Brewery and Taproom: Double Mountain Brewery and Taproom was established in 2007 in the heart of downtown Hood River, OR. Founders Matt Swihart and Charlie Devereux opened the brewery with a clear mission: make great beer for craft beer fans. Double Mountain Brewery’s unique location lends to not only using pure and clean glacial water for their beers, but they also take advantage of regionally grown hops. Double Mountain Brewery and Taproom’s unfiltered and long-aged beers deliver maximum flavor and character. They can be found on tap and in bottles throughout the Pacific Northwest and Southern California. Learn more at: www.doublemountainbrewery.com

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Portland Fruit Beer Festival Reveals The Beer list and Exclusive Bottle Release

   

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Portland, OR June 1st, 2015 -
With less than 2 weeks remaining until the 5th annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival organizers are revealing the tantalizing beer list today as well as a first ever Fruit Beer Fest exclusive bottle release. Fruit of the Garden of Good and Evil is a collaboration between Burnside Brewing Co. and Reverend Nat's Hard Cider. This years festival features a 40% space increase by adding an extra space for more room, more beers and hard cider just west of the main festival lot on NE 7th and Burnside.

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Fruit of the Garden of Good and Evil
Exclusive Portland Fruit Beer Festival bottle release and beer from Burnside Brewing Co. and Reverend Nat's Hard Cider: Fruit of the Garden of Good and Evil. This unholy marriage of beer and cider is the ultimate temptation of luscious, juicy and tropical fruit character with notes of Pineapple and Apricot that pulls you in before ending in a firey tropical heat of Ghost Peppers, Scotch Bonnets and Aji peppers and a thirst quenching 4.5% (estimated) ABV. Available in 22oz bottles only at Burnside Brewing during the Fruit Beer Fest for $7 with limited draft poured at the festival, Reverend Nat's and special events.

Main Fest Draft Beer List:

Alameda Brewing: Berried By Night
Marionberry CDA
Guided only by the light of the moon, we poured over 130 pounds of Marion blackberries, copious amounts of 7 varieties of hops, and just a bit of roasted malt into this very Cascadian beer. Enjoy the night, any time of day. 7.4% ABV. 75 IBU

Baerlic Brewing: Apolis Cider Weiss
What do you get when you use wild lactobacillus from the skin of English apples to kettle sour a Gose only to blend that with Reverend Nat's Ciderkin Cider? A ridonkulously refreshing beer that hails from no place but the epic depths of our whacked out minds. 4.23% ABV enough IBU.

Breakside Brewery: Tropical Fruit Salad
Quasi IPA Six fruit blend

Hops like Mosaic, Citra, and Eldorado are often described as having the flavor and aroma of tropical fruit. So, we've reverse engineered the flavors of American IPA using real tropical fruit. A blend of six carefully selected fruits go into this beer, as well as a healthy dose of similar tasting hops. Try it for yourself and see how hop and fruit flavor meld together! 6.2% ABV Unknown IBU

Burnside Brewing: Peaches of Immortality
The Legend of Peaches of Immortality: Peaches symbolizing immortality (or the wish for a long and healthy life) are a common symbol in Chinese art, appearing in depictions or descriptions in a number of fables, paintings, and other forms of art, often in association with thematically similar iconography, such as certain deities or immortals

The immortals waited six thousand years before gathering for this magnificent feast; the peach tree put forth leaves once every thousand years and it required another three thousand years for the fruit to ripen. Statues depicting Xi Wangmu's attendants often held three peaches. 3,000 years of life after the consumption of a single peach. 6.2% ABV 3 IBU.

Burnside Brewing/Reverend Nat's Hard Cider: Fruit of the Garden of Good & Evil

An unholy collaboration between Portland's Burnside Brewing Co. and Reverend Nat's Hard Cider in celebration of the 5th annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival. A blend of Cider, Apricot, Pineapple, Ghost Chili's, Scotch Bonnet Peppers, Aji Peppers, Water, Malt, Yeast and Hops.

The Commons Brewery: Rouge Mélangé
Syrah and Grenache grape must
A Belgian Single, with Syrah and Grenache grape must from Rex Hill Winery. 5.2% ABV 7 IBU

Deschutes Brewery: Dr. Plum
For sour beer enjoyment we prescribe Dr. Plum! A base of Deschutes River Ale that we aged in oak for over 12 months with B. Lambicus, B. Bruxellensis, Lactobacillus and tart Italian Plum. Light and refreshing with a hint of fruit and a sour kick. It cures what ales ya! ABV: 5.6% IBU: 24

Ecliptic Brewing: Ultra Violet Blackberry Sour Ale
Ultraviolet is brewed with Oregon blackberries, soured in the brewhouse and fermented with Belgian yeast. The result is a tart and crisp sour ale, with ripe blackberry flavors radiating through it like cosmic rays traveling the universe. 7.5% ABV

Elysian Brewing/Payette Brewing: Huckleberry Sour
Elysian Brewing of Seattle, Washington and Payette Brewing of Boise, Idaho teamed up for the first time to brew this Northwest huckleberry sour. The beer is light, tart and bright freakin’ PINK! It’s brewed in the (mostly) traditional Berliner Weisse style, employs a grain bill of half wheat and half barley, is soured with Lactobacillus, and weighs in at a thirst quenching 2.8% ABV. Add to this a whopping two-and-a-half pounds per barrel of delicious Idaho-grown huckleberries and you have the perfect antidote for these hot summer days.

Ex Novo Brewing: Class Monkey

A blend of Ex Novo Olde Ex Malt Liquor and fine orange juice. It puts the class in classic. 5.0% ABV.

Fat Head's Brewing: Prickly Pear Saison
Farmhouse style Saison with slightly tart, spicy, herbal notes and hints of prickly pear. 5.4 % ABV 26 IBU

Flat Tail Brewing: Apricot Orange Ginger Saison
This otherwise classic franco-belgian style saison is infused with fresh squeezed ginger juice processed in house, oregon fruit apricot puree, and bitter orange peel, for a bright fruity saison with a cleansing ginger heat in the finish. 7.5 % ABV.

Gigantic Brewing: Passionfruit Tart
Tropical Passion fruit, crackery pilsner malt, clean tartness. 10.6 Plato 4.8% ABV

Hopworks Urban Brewery: Radlerita
Margarita-esque beer made with Lime radler, sea salt and tequila infused oak chips. 2.8% ABV 15 IBU

Kells Brew Pub: Raspberry Creamcicle

Poured on Nitro. This beer has a nose of raspberries with a smooth and full but light body.The nitro makes it creamy and mellow and the finish is tart from the fruit. It is so easy to drink. Brewed with 6-row, wheat, corn, rice, flaked barley, and a healthy dose of biscuit malt. All tettnanger hops and fermented with 1056 ale yeast before being lagered an additional 6 weeks with Raspberries added in the brite tank. OG 1047 FG 1008 18 IBU 4.86% abv  SRM 4.5 before fruit

Lucky Labrador Brew Pub: Banana Bread
Wheat, chocolate, and aromatic malts give this barely hopped brown ale a malty aroma and smooth mouthfeel. Banana, clove, vanilla, and ginger was added to the beer during boiling, fermentation, and conditioning to bring all the flavors of a banana bread Grandma would be proud of. We hope you enjoy this unique ale. 4.76% ABV 3 IBU

Oakshire Brewing: Stone Free Cranberry Ginger Wild Ale
Stone Free is a blend of a Brett fermented Berliner Weisse and a wine barrel aged sour golden ale aged on Cranberries and Ginger. It is deep pink in color with tart fruit, funky and bready aromas and a background waft of ginger. Stone Free has both sweet and tart flavors intertwined with mild spicy ginger and a crisp and dry tangy finish. 5.1% ABV.

Fort George Brewery: Pucker Pi Beer
Kettle Soured Strawberry-Rhubarb Wheat Ale
Light Strawberry and tart rhubarb balance a mild acidity from kettle souring. 4.9% ABV

Laurelwood Brewing: There Gose the Neighborhood

Gose is an old wheat beer style originated in Leipzig, Germany. It is a beer that uses Lactobacillus bacteria to acidify the beer giving it a tart, lemony flavor. Gose’s are spiced with coriander and salt to give them a deep and savory character which balances nicely with the tart finish.  We used Jacobsen Sea salt from the Oregon coast to give it a rich sea salt flavor. The beer itself is hazy and light, like many wheat beers, and is very refreshing. We added Oregon Fruit Boysenberry puree to our Gose for the Fruit Beer Fest which added a pink/ purple color and mild berry flavor.  We hope you enjoy this delicious beer, Prost! ABV: 5.1% IBU:  8

Lompoc Brewing: Golden Pear
A golden ale fermented in stainless steel with pears and aged on the pears for a year. Subtle notes of pear with a slight tartness. 5.0% ABV

Upright Brewing: B.B. Stout
named in honor of the late B.B. King, is a straightforward beer with big flavors. Fermented in our open top tanks, the beer maintains a robust profile typical of the stout style with the addition of over 200 pounds of blueberry, adding one extra flavorful layer to the beer.

Widmer Brothers Brewing: Fresh Strawberries
Tart Farmhouse Saison with Strawberries
Fresh Strawberries is a collaboration brew with Coda Brewing from Aurora, Colorado.  Using Saison as a base, we added fresh strawberries and then kettle soured the beer with Lactobacillus to increase the tartness and balance out the sweetness from the fruit. French Sasion yeast allowed us to pull some subtle spicy notes in the aroma and flavor. 5.4 % ABV.


Ciders/Other:

2 Towns Ciderhouse: Peach Saison Cider
Tart fresh-pressed NW apples fermented with peaches and an authentic French saison yeast. Dry, slightly spicy and phenolic, with lots of big clean fresh peach aromatics. Small batch, limited release run. 6%abv

Reverend Nat's Hard Cider: Ghost Chili Tepache

Pineapple Cider

Bringing back the crowd-pleaser spicy hot Tepache from last year's fest, this time with only Ghost Peppers. 3.2% ABV

Cider Riot: Hedgerow Fruits
plum and blackcurrant cider. 
Yamhill County was once the prune capital of the world, for Hedgerow Fruits we combine Italian prune plums with blackcurrants for a dry tart cider. Hedgerow Fruits is our tribute to the late English beer writer Michael Jackson, who was fond of referring to “notes of hedgerow fruits” as a beer descriptor. Made for the Portland Fruit Beer Fest, Hedgerow Fruits is a limited release from Cider Riot! 6.9% ABV

Hi-Wheel: Kiwi Lime
A tart fizzy wine made from fresh lime juice and kiwi, delightfully carbonated and refreshing. 6.5% ABV

Portland Fruit Beer Festival

Friday Evening Session
Friday June 12th 4pm – 9pm

Regular Festival Hours:

Saturday June 13th 11am – 9pm
Sunday June 14th 11am – 6pm

Advanced General Admission

$20 for 12 tickets and a Glass, print your ticket for faster entry.

LOCATION:

7th & E. Burnside on the North side of the street. Taking place between Burnside & Couch streets on 7th and in the parking lot of Burnside Brewing Co. at 701 E. Burnside and the car lot across 7th in Portland, OR 97214

Website: www.fruitbeerfest.com

Twitter: @FruitBeerFest

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Oregon Garden Brewfest Announces the 2015 Beer and Cider Tap List

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Oregon Garden announces participating beer & cider tap list

for 11th annual Oregon Garden Brewfest

Northwest’s most scenic beer festival also makes the ideal gift for Father’s Day

SILVERTON, Ore. — If you’re looking to give the greatest Father’s Day gift ever, then plan on a trip to the Oregon Garden Brewfest (#OGBF). This year’s event, which will take place on Father’s Day weekend June 19 through 21, will feature more than 135 handcrafted beers, ciders and mead from nearly 70 different breweries from across the nation (a complete list is pasted in at the bottom of this release), along with local food; activities including shuffleboard, skee-ball and foosball; and live music on two stages from a dozen regional bands.

Located in the historic town of Silverton, just an hour’s drive from the Portland metropolitan area, the Oregon Garden Brewfest allows visitors to stroll the 80-acre botanical garden with beer in hand. Event hours are Noon to 11 pm Friday & Saturday, and Noon to 5 pm Sunday. The event is for ages 21 and over on Friday and Saturday; minors are welcome all hours on Sunday, when they can create their own wooden coaster for Dad.

Admission ranges from $15 to $50, but all admission packages include a souvenir tasting glass and a number of tasting tickets; see ticket pricing and purchase in advance at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oregon-garden-brewfest-2015-tickets-13448706443.

A full glass of beer costs four tickets, and a taster costs one ticket. Additional tasting tickets may be purchased for $1 apiece. Designated drivers pay a cover charge of $5 and receive a bottle of water. Parking at The Oregon Garden is $5 per car; free shuttles are available from various locations in Silverton.

A dozen regional bands will play on two stages, beginning at 5pm on Friday and Saturday. Friday’s lineup features Alder Street, The Jackalope Saints, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, Jamie Wyatt, Water Tower and Deadwood Standing. Saturday’s bands include Will West & The Friendly Strangers, Balto, Transcendental Brass Band, Redwood Son, Ural Thomas & The Pain and The Tumblers. For a listing of times, visit www.oregongarden.org/events-brewfest-music.

The fourth annual Oregon Garden Brewer’s Tasting Dinner will take place on the eve of the festival, June 18 at 7 pm. This six-course dinner, which features small plates paired with local beers from six area breweries, is attended by participating brewers, industry insiders and a few lucky beer aficionados; a limited number of tickets remain and are available on the event website.

The ideal way to enjoy the Brewfest is to book a room at The Oregon Garden Resort, a Moonstone Hotel Property located just steps away from the festival. Brewfest Packages starts at $239 and include accommodations, two 3-day admission passes to Brewfest (each pass includes a tasting glass and five tasting tickets), a food voucher for the Oregon Garden Resort’s food booth, a continental buffet breakfast and admission to The Oregon Garden. Packages can be booked at www.oregongardenresort.com/Packages.htm or by calling 503-874-2500.

The Oregon Garden Brewfest is presented by Venti’s Café and sponsored by The Gallon House, Bierhaus Mt. Angel, Country Financial, Oregon Lottery, Imperial Bottle Shop, Pepsi, Renewal by Andersen, PGE, Crater Lake Soda, The Beer Connoisseur Magazine, Oregon Beer Growler and Ale Ways Brewery Tours.

While the Oregon Garden is a pet-friendly property, pets are not allowed inside the Brewfest; only service dogs with appropriate identification will be allowed entry. For more information about the event, visit www.oregongarden.org/events/brewfest.

Following is the tap list for the 2015 event:

10 Barrel Brewing: JOE IPA/IPA

10 Barrel Brewing: Swill/American Style Radler

2 Towns Ciderhouse: OutCider: Unfiltered Hard Cider

2 Towns Ciderhouse: Imperial Hop & Stalk/Hopped Hard Cider

21st Amendment Brewery: Down to Earth Session IPA/Session IPA

21st Amendment Brewery: Hell or High Watermelon Wheat/Wheat

Alameda Brewing: Yellow Wolf Imperial IPA/Imperial IPA

Alameda Brewing: Klickitat Pale Ale/Pale Ale

ATLAS Hard Cider: The RADLER/Cider

ATLAS Hard Cider: Hard Apricot Cider: Cider

Awesome Ales: Southern Sky/French Pale Ale

Awesome Ales: TBD

Base Camp Brewing: Hop in the 'Pool Helles/Late-Hopped Helles Lager

Base Camp Brewing: Pilgrimage Saison/Saison

Blue Moon Brewing: Summer Honey Wheat Ale/Wheat Ale

Blue Moon Brewing: White IPA/Belgian Style IPA

Brew Werks: TBD

Brew Werks: TBD

BridgePort Brewing: BridgePort Conviction Pale Ale/Pale Ale

BridgePort Brewing: BridgePort Long Ball Ale/Golden Ale

Buoy Beer: Czech Pilsner/Pilsner

Buoy Beer: Oregon Garden Lavender Saison/Saison

Calapooia Brewery: Calapooia Chili Beer/Fruit/Chili

Calapooia Brewery: Calapooia Paddle me IPA/American IPA

Climate City Brewing: Nookie/IPA

Climate City Brewing: Yellow Belly/Blonde

Coin Toss Brewing: Black Hole/Cascadian Dark Ale

Coin Toss Brewing: George's Honest Ale/

Coronado Brewing: Islander IPA/American IPA

Coronado Brewing: Orange Avenue Wit/California Wit

Crispin Cider: Crispin Original Cider: Apple Cider

Crispin Cider: Blackberry Pear Cider: Pear Cider

Crux Fermentation Project: Half Hitch/Imperial IPA

Crux Fermentation Project: Impasse Saison/Farmhouse Ale

Deluxe Brewing: Va Va Voom NW Vienna Lager/Vienna Lager

Deluxe Brewing: Little Bo Pils/Bohemian Pilsner

Dick's Brewing: Dick's Danger Ale/CDA

Dick's Brewing: Dick's Cream Stout/Sweet Stout

Double Mountain Brewery: TBD

Double Mountain Brewery: TBD

Ecliptic Brewing: Orbiter IPA/IPA

Ecliptic Brewing: Aurora Crimson Saison/Saison w/ Rhubarb

Elk Horn Brewery: TBD

Elk Horn Brewery: TBD

Elysian Brewing: Dayglow/IPA

Elysian Brewing: Superfuzz/Blood Orange Pale Ale

Epic Brewing: Escape to Colorado/IPA

Epic Brewing: Hop Syndrome/Lager

Ex Novo Brewing: Eliot IPA/Northwest IPA

Ex Novo Brewing: Sour Hop Kids/Dry Hopped Sour Ale

Fat Head's Brewery: Head Hunter/IPA

Fat Head's Brewery: Bumble Berry/Honey Blueberry Ale

Feckin: Measure 91/Pale ale

Feckin: IRA /Red

Firestone Walker Brewing: TBD

Firestone Walker Brewing: TBD

Flat Tail Brewing: Rough Cut IPA/IPA

Flat Tail Brewing: El Guapo/Chile Beer

Fort George Brewery: 3-Way IPA/IPA

Fort George Brewery: Spruce Budd Ale/Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

Fremont Brewing: Summer Ale/Pale Ale

Fremont Brewing: Interurban IPA/IPA

Georgetown Brewing: Eddie India Pale Lager/India Pale Lager

Georgetown Brewing: Johnny Utah Citra Pale Ale/Pale Ale

Gigantic Brewing: Gigantic IPA/IPA

Gigantic Brewing: White Light White Heat/Belgian-style White IPA

Gilgamesh Brewing: Radler/Grapefruit Radler

Gilgamesh Brewing: Oedipus IPA/IPA

Golden Valley Brewery: Carlton Kolsch/Kolsch-Style Ale

Golden Valley Brewery: Chehalem Mountain IPA/IPA

Hop Valley Brewing: Citrus Mistress/IPA

Hop Valley Brewing: Sir Orange A Lot/Pale

Hopworks: Pigwar White IPA /IPA

Hopworks: Ace of Spades Imperial IPA /Imperial IPA

Klamath Basin Brewing: Backroad Vanilla Porter/Vanilla Porter

Klamath Basin Brewing: Dog Days Wheat IPA/Wheat IPA

Lagunitas Brewing: A Little Sumpin' Sumpin' Ale/American Pale Wheat Ale

Lagunitas Brewing: Day Time/American IPA

Laurelwood Brewing: Green Elephant IPA/IPA

Laurelwood Brewing: Free Range Red/Red

Leinenkugel's Brewing: Summer Shandy/Shandy/Radler

Leinenkugel's Brewing: Big Eddy Royal Nektar Ale/Braggot

Logsdon Farmhouse Ales: Kili Wit/Belgian Wheat

Logsdon Farmhouse Ales: Seizoen/Saison

Mazama Brewing: Mosaic Eruption/IPA

Mazama Brewing: Saison d'Etre/Saison

McMenamins Old Church Brewery: Lumber-sexual IPL/India Pale Lager

McMenamins Old Church Brewery: Bonne Chiere Grand Reserve/Belgian Triple

Natian Brewery: Everyday /Organic IPA

Natian Brewery: KnockBack/Organic Amber Lager

Nectar Creek Mead: Waggle/Wildflower Session Mead

Nectar Creek Mead: Sting/Ginger Session Mead

Ninkasi Brewing: Total Domination/IPA

Ninkasi Brewing: Lux/German Style Helles Lager

No-Li Brewhouse: Crony/NW Brown Ale

No-Li Brewhouse: Poser/Pale Ale

Ordnance Brewing: Rivercrest Kolsch/Kolsch

Ordnance Brewing: Full Metal Jacket (FMJ)/IPA

Pelican Brewing: Kiwanda Cream Ale/Cream Ale

Pelican Brewing: Umbrella IPA/Single Hop IPA

Ram Brewery-Salem: Big Reds IPA/Northwest  IPA

Ram Brewery-Salem: Treehouse/Apricot Honey Summer Ale

Rusty Truck Brewing: TBD

Rusty Truck Brewing: TBD

Salem Ale Works: Hootenanny Honey Basil/Delicious

Salem Ale Works: Stout!/American Stout

Santiam Brewing: Pirate Stout/Rum Barrel Aged Coconut Stout

Santiam Brewing: Ecotopia /Pacific Northwest Style IPA

Seven Brides Brewing: Emily's Red Ale/Amber/Red Ale

Seven Brides Brewing: Strawberry Blonde Wheat/Fruit Beer

Sierra Nevada Brewing: Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale/Fresh Hop IPA

Sierra Nevada Brewing: River Rye'd/Rye IPA

Silver Moon Brewing: Get Sum Pale Ale/Pale Ale

Silver Moon Brewing: VooDoo Dog India Session Red/Session Red

Sunriver Brewing: Fighting Falcon/Double IPA

Sunriver Brewing: S.U.P/Summer Ale

Terminal Gravity Brewing: Eagle Cap IPA/IPA

Terminal Gravity Brewing: Wallowa Lake Lager /Pre-Prohibtion Style Lager

Twisted Snout Brewery: Raspberry Truffle/Fruited Porter

Twisted Snout Brewery: Tail Curler IPA #5/IPA

Two Kilts Brewing: Crystal Kush/India Session Lager

Two Kilts Brewing: Scottish Ale/Scottish style Ale

Vagabond Brewing: TBD

Vagabond Brewing: TBD

Wandering Aengus Ciderworks: Wanderlust/Cider

Wandering Aengus Ciderworks: Anthem Hops/Cider

Widmer Brothers Brewing: Replay IPA/Session IPA

Widmer Brothers Brewing: Hefe Shandy/Shandy

Wild Ride Brewing: Hopperhead IPA/IPA

Wild Ride Brewing: Whoopty Whoop Wheat/Hefeweizen w/ Lemon Peel

Woodchuck Hard Cider: Woodchuck Gumption/cider

Woodchuck Hard Cider: Woodchuck Season

No-Li Brings Home International Brewing Medals

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SPOKANE, WA (May 29, 2015) The winners of the 2015 Australian International Beer Festival were announced and No-Li brought two new medals back to Spokane!

Mosh Pit Tart Cherry and Rise & Grind were recognized for their creativity and quality in brewing - landing No-Li their 15^th and 16^th international awards.

Head Brewer, Carey Fristoe, and Brewing Operations Manager, Damon Scott, celebrated the brewery’s recent medals with an eye on the future. “We are just getting started.  We rise each morning and grind it out with a passion for mind-bending recipes with no boundaries,” says Carey.

“We share our passion for uniqueness and innovation through beers like a milk stout with freshly roasted Gemelli coffee beans or 1.5 pounds of cherries per gallon in Mosh Pit Tart Cherry,” says Damon.

In the spirit of creativity and brewing beer with no boundaries, No-Li recently released Brass Monkey (a golden ale brewed with orange peel) as its new Expo Series summer seasonal and Defacto (a whiskey barrel-aged imperial black IPA) as a part of its growing Barrel-Aged Series line-up.

Cheers to Spokane-Style beers!

For a complete list of AIBA winners, visit http://www.rasv.com.au/Events/AIBA_Home/AIBA_Results/.

About No-Li Brewhouse
 Born & Raised in Washington’s Inland Empire, No-Li Brewhouse is an internationally award-winning brewery, crafting Spokane-Style beers with No Boundaries: innovative beers brewed with locally sourced ingredients. No-Li has won sixteen international awards, including a gold medal from the 2012 Great American Beer Festival. For more information about the beers, brewery and the pub visit www.nolibrewhouse.com or follow us on.   

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Speakeasy Ales & Lagers to Celebrate 18 Years, Expansion & Release of Baby Daddy IPA

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San Francisco, CA - 5/29/2015

Speakeasy Ales & Lagers is turning 18 and throwing an epic party at their San Francisco brewery on June 20th from 1-6pm. The event will not only toast their birthday, but also the release of their first beer in a can, Baby Daddy IPA, and their tremendous expansion. Attendees will be able to soak up the sun, nosh on delicious local food, tour the new brewhouse, and listen to live music.

General admission and Godfather VIP Club tickets are now on sale. All attendees will receive a collectible anniversary glass and enjoy unlimited tastings. In addition to Baby Daddy IPA, Speakeasy will be pouring Blind Tiger Imperial IPA, Untouchable IPA, Black Hand Chocolate Milk Stout, and Double Daddy IPA, just to name a few beers. There will be many more!

Tours of Speakeasy’s new brewhouse will start every 30 minutes between 1:30 and 4:00pm, and will be led by Speakeasy’s Director of Brewing, Kushal Hall, and Lead Brewer Joe Smith. Guests can learn about the expansion, see the new equipment, and ask questions.

In addition to the beer, delicious local food will be available for purchase from Wes Burger Pop-up, Front Porch Southern Home Cooking, Memphis Minnie's BBQ, and the Voodoo Van. Speakeasy beer may even find it’s way into the ingredients. Musical entertainment will be announced at a later date.

For more information and tickets visit the event website. Follow Speakeasy on Facebook and Twitter to get event updates.

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Since 1997, a wily band of bootleggers led by homebrewer Forest Gray were inspired to bring their exceptional brews from the underground to the masses, defiantly producing small batches of beer in a secret warehouse in San Francisco. Starting with a single, iconic beer, Prohibition Ale, Speakeasy now brews a wide array of acclaimed beers including Big Daddy IPA, Payback Porter, Double Daddy, Scarface Imperial Stout and many more, which are distributed across the entire West Coast and other major U.S. markets.

Top Rung Brewing Releasing Raspberry Wheat

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Lacy,WA (May 28, 2015) On June 6^th Top Rung Brewing Company will release a seasonal beer that has been much anticipated, our Raspberry Wheat.  A nice wheat beer that is infused with real raspberries and co-mingles with those raspberries in the brite tank for several weeks to impart an awesome raspberry flavor that is not overpowering but provides a subtle sweetness, flavor, and aroma complimented by a nice golden straw color.  A great seasonal to enjoy as the weather warms! 

Raspberry Wheat Statistics:  ABV: 4.6%, IBU: 25

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 Top Rung Brewing is a 10 barrel production brewery with tasting room at the brewery. Top Rung Brewing is a destination for craft beer drinkers to enjoy their beverage and view a production brewery facility.  Our tasting room is family friendly and while we will only offer snacks, we partner with local food vendors and food trucks as well as allow patrons to bring in their own food of their choice or have it delivered.  Top Rung Brewing: bringing quality craft beer to Lacey.

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N0-Li Announces The 'Kan JamBEERee

BIGGER, BADDER & EVEN MORE BEER!

No-Li Announces their Next Beer Festival: The 'KAN JamBEERee

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Spokane, Wash…No-Li Brewhouse brought Spokane Craft Beer Week to a close the only way they know how…with beer, a band and a big ol’ bash! No Boundaries on the River 3.0 Small Batch Festival was, without question, Spokane craft beer culture at it’s best. 500 guests showed up to enjoy thirteen unique and barrel aged No-Li beers.  Some of the favorites that wowed the crowed were Brass Monkey Orange Dreamsicle, Whiskey barrel-aged Wrecking Ball, and Mango/Pineapple infused Poser.  Drinks, food and fun were had by all!

With the success of NBoR 3.0 and an entire summer of sunshine in sight, No-Li Brewhouse has announced their next big beer extravaganza: The ‘KAN JamBEERee! Unlike anything Spokane has ever seen, this celebration of craft beer promises to astound and amaze all who attend! “We’re going to have some stellar breweries from around the Northwest pouring specialty beer you can’t find anywhere else,” says No-Li’s Sales & Marketing Manager, Callet Ioane.  “Beer, food trucks and live music – all outdoors along the Spokane River.  We’re excited to create a new experience for Spokane and certainly one that will keep building and pushing our culture of craft beer.”

The ‘KAN JamBEERee is set for Saturday, August 22^nd.   Tickets will go on sale soon and No-Li will announce the guest breweries and beer list via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram leading up to festival.  
Cheers to great beer and stay tuned!

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Born & Raised in Washington’s Inland Empire, No-Li Brewhouse is an internationally award-winning brewery, crafting Spokane-Style beers with No Boundaries: innovative beers brewed with locally sourced ingredients. No-Li has won sixteen international awards, including a gold medal from the 2012 Great American Beer Festival. For more information about the beers, brewery and the pub, visit www.nolibrewhouse.com
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Breakside Brewery Announces New Bottle and Draft Beer Releases

Breakside Brewing has a whole slew of new bottle and draft beer releases. Check out the info below.

 

 

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Portland & Milwaukie (May 26, 2015) - Oregon's Breakside Brewery is releasing new limited edition beers in bottles "Back to the Future IPA" for Portland Beer Week and "Oui, Chef" the latest in the Farmhouse, Fruit & Funk Series. In addition to the 2 highly anticipated bottle releases are two new draft-only IPA's in the form of "Old World IPA" (available now) and "Session Double IPA" (released later this week). Back to the Future IPA (a collaboration with Seattle's Fremont Brewing Co.) will be available primarily during Portland Beer Week at participating locations on draft and in 22oz bottles. Oui, Chef is available right now on draft and will be available everywhere in bottles in June. The new Session Double IPA is a test-run on a new IPA the brewers are particularly excited about that may become a new year-round IPA exclusively for Breakside's upcoming 12oz bottles and 6-packs, we look forward to hearing your feedback! 

Back to the Future IPA
- a collaboration with our friends at Fremont Brewing Co. for Portland Beer Week

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This IPA is a cross-border collaboration with Seattle's Fremont Brewing. We planned the beer together and each brewed a batch of it for our cities' respective Beer Weeks. When we set out to do this beer together, we knew that we wanted to make a big IPA and showcase some fun hop varietals that don't get much attention..yet.

We specifically chose new varietals that we think have a lot of promise, and it's named after the futuristic hops used in each version: Jarrylo and Equinox in Fremont's, and Azacca and Ella in ours. These beers very might well introduce you to new hop varietals that will be front and center in many IPAs to come.

7% ABV
68 IBU
Malts: Two Row, Light Crystal
Hops: Chinook, Ella, Azacca

Back to the Future Release Parties:

Bottle Release Party

Friday June 12th, 2015 6pm
Whole Foods Market - Pearl
1210 NW Couch St, Portland, OR 97209

Sample our new collaboration IPA during Portland Beer Week as well as beers from our collaborator --Fremont Brewing Co.

Breakside & Fremont Brewing Tap Takeover and Back to the Future IPA Draft Release
Saturday June 13th, 2015 5pm
Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark, Portland, OR

Special beers on tap from Breakside and Fremont Brewing as well as the new collab Back to the Future IPA and a special Salt & Straw Beer Ice Cream to boot!
Oui, Chef
saison with spelt and fennel

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Oui, Chef is a straw-colored farmhouse ale brewed with European spelt and two types of fennel. We use both fennel seed and fennel pollen at different points in the brewing process to layer in the complex savory and herbal notes from the spice. Originally brewed as part of our Chef Collaboration series in 2012, this beer was designed by our brewers and Chef Gabriel Rucker of Le Pigeon Restaurant in Portland.

This is the third release in our new Farmhouse, Fruit and Funk Series. This set of six beers--each available for two months of the year--showcases the deft and playful ways in which our brewers use non-traditional ingredients to make complex, flavorful beers. From lychee and yellow chilies to Oregon-grown peaches and California kumquats, this line of beers stakes a claim for the "culinary beer" as an emergent, delicious and elegant new beer style.

6.9%ABV
34 IBU
Malts: German Pilsner and Spelt, Crystal 15L
Hops: cascade
Special ingredients: Fennel seed and fennel pollen

Old World IPA
a draft-only ipa with intense floral and herbal notes 

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This draft only release is a beer that evolved from our award-winning English Pale Ale, which re-tooled to give it a bolder hop presence and higher alcohol. In other words, we wanted to put our pale ale on steroids and turned it into an IPA. Thus, Old World IPA was born. While the aggressive use of hops is very American, this beer's roots are quintessentially European. We've sourced world-class English malt to give the beer a beguiling softness; Slovenian hops used throughout the brewing process give the beer its distinctive floral, herbal, woody and spicy notes.

We hope that this beer shows you a whole new realm of IPAs--a style that was born of the Old World and perfected in the Northwest. Available on draft only during May 2015.

6% ABV
40 IBU
Malts: Two Row, British Pale, Melanoidin, CaraMunich
Hops: Crystal, Styrian Goldings


Session Double IPA
our favorite hoppy test batch ever. Widely available for the first time.

Our brewers love hops. They love them so much that they are always tracking down new varietals, coming up with new combinations, and seeking to extract the most flavor and aroma they can from the beautiful hops we have in the Northwest. Often times, the beers they make with these new hops and schedules are done in small batches at our pub, where they are served on draft to our regulars. Every once in a while, the brewers get so excited about a new hoppy beer that they decide to immediately scale it up to share it with a wider audience. Session Double IPA is one of those beers.

This IPA uses Mosaic, Cascade and Columbus hops to make for one of the most expressive, dank and tropical beers we've ever made. Strong resinous notes are coupled with hints of citrus and big juicy flavors of mango and tangerine. The bitterness is balanced against a simple malt bill to allow for these hops to really shine.

6.2% ABV
65 IBU
Malts: Two Row, Munich
Hops: Mosaic, Columbus and Cascade

About Breakside Brewery

Opened in 2010 in the quiet Woodlawn neighborhood of Northeast Portland as a restaurant and nano-sized brewery, Breakside expanded to a 3.5 BBL brewhouse while winning their first medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2011 where they have earned medals each year since. In late 2013 the brewery expanded operations to Milwaukie, Oregon with a 30BBL production brewery filled with 60 and 120BBL tanks, barrel rooms for wild and non-wild/sour fermentation's and a 20 tap tasting room. In 2014 Breakside was awarded with the highly coveted Gold Medal for American-style IPA at the Great American Beer Festival for their flagship IPA that was also named to Men's Journals 100 Best Beers In The World and Sip Northwest's Best IPA in the Northwest. Breakside is also known for their experimental, barrel-aged and sour beers like Bourbon Barrel-Aged Aztec a strong amber ale with chocolate and chilies that won Bronze at both Chicago's Festival of Barrel-Aged Beers and Best of Craft Beer Awards and Passionfruit Sour a berliner-weisse style beer that earned a Bronze at the 2013 GABF.

Breakside Beers are available on draft and in 22oz bottles in Oregon, Seattle-Washington area, Denver, Hawaii and British Columbia. 2015 expansion plans include introducing 6-packs of 12oz bottles and more specialty bottles and sour beers. Visit www.breakside.com for more info.
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