- Iron City Brewing Sold
- Red Hook's seasonal Wit made with Ginger
- Bridgeport's 2011 Stumptown Tart with Strawberries
- Widmer's Galaxy Hopped Barleywine hits Store Shelves
Plus from yesterday:
- Block 15's European inspired Bier Cafe 'Les Caves'
- Samuel Adams your new Money Lender
- 16 Tons Anniversary Beer from Oakshire
- Portland Fruit Beer Festival - Homebrew Competition
- Brewing up Cocktails special Easter Sunday edition with Oakshire Brewing
- Migration Brewing's Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
- Bushwhacker's Basque and Asturias Cider Tasting
- Brewpublic's Spring Microhopic
- Upright Brewing's Gose re-release Party
- Breakside Brewery's upcoming Experimental Beer Release Schedule
- Avery Brewing's Absinthe Barrel-Aged Beer
Keep reading for the details.
Iron City Brewing Sold
News broke yesterday evening that the Pittsburgh, PA based brewer Iron City had been sold to a NY equity firm called Uni-World Capital. Iron City has had trouble since coming out of bankruptcy in 07 after previously being known as Pittsburgh Brewing. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
2011 Bridgeport Stumptown Tart with StrawberriesOn June 2nd Bridgeport releases their 4th edition of Stumptown Tart that's choice featured fruit changes every year. The 2011 vintage uses 2,000 lbs of Strawberry's from Willamette Valley Fruit Company. Bridgeport hosts a release party at 530pm on 6/2 at the pearl district brewpub.
From the kitchen, Les Caves will feature a focused menu with an emphasis on our region's agricultural products and from-scratch cooking. Offerings will include snacks to complement beer, mussels, house cured meats, dry aged steak, artisan cheese, fresh vegetables, and a heavy rotation of seasonal items. Many of the items will highlight cooking with beer, such as kriek-braised rabbit and wit-braised leeks. Les Caves will also open at 9am on the weekends for "Beer Geek Brunch". The menu will include buttermilk stout pancakes, authentic Brussels-style waffles, scrambles, house stout sausages, and more. Also on offer will be mugs of Oakshire's Espresso Stout and a rotating mug of Hair of The Dog.
Widmer's Brothers Reserve Galaxy Hopped Barleywine hits store shelves
Iron City Brewing Sold
News broke yesterday evening that the Pittsburgh, PA based brewer Iron City had been sold to a NY equity firm called Uni-World Capital. Iron City has had trouble since coming out of bankruptcy in 07 after previously being known as Pittsburgh Brewing. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
"The beer that has survived Prohibition and the imprisonment of three previous owners, that has labored under the misconception that it is exempt from paying its water and sewer bills, is about to become the ward of a new proprietor. Like the brewery's previous fiduciaries, its new owner will, no doubt, swear allegiance to the concept of restoring the golden lager to its rightful place in the pantheon of premium brews."and Brookston
2011 Bridgeport Stumptown Tart with Strawberries
'Les Caves', Block 15's new European-inspired Bier Cafe
Owned and founded by Block 15, Les Caves is going to be a separate space and business adjacent to the brewery on 3rd Street in downtown Corvallis. Les Caves is modeled as a European Bier Cafe and will share the same community and environmental commitments as Block 15. It will have Belgian, British, and German influences, both in design and the menu. Block 15 will brew two exclusive taps for the bar: Caves IPA and Caves Saison, a seasonally evolving farmhouse inspired ale. The other 14 taps will rotate with what are considered to be fine examples of beer from local breweries and around the world. The cafe will also serve over 100 bottles of fine beers, stored and served at the correct temperature and presented in the appropriate glassware. Additionally, the space will offer vintage and rare beers. Owner Nick Arzner began collecting kegs and bottles a couple years ago for the project, and will use his brewing connections to procure limited releases. The bottle menu will include sold out releases from Block 15 and, in the future, exclusive bottling for the cafe.
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| Demolition photo of the new 'Les Caves' space |
Widmer's Brothers Reserve Galaxy Hopped Barleywine hits store shelves
Read The New School's preview and review of the new beer here.
Red Hook's new seasonal Wit
Coming soon to 6-Packs and Draft is a new seasonal twist on a Belgian Witbier from Red Hook. Wit. “Made with ginger, but still digs Mary Ann.”
Redhook’s twist on the Belgian style ale is the addition of fresh ginger, which adds a refreshing snappiness to this lighter-bodied wheat beer. Redhook Wit is perfect for the warm summer months of outdoor BBQ-ing, sitting by the pool, or just taking a break by hanging inside enjoying the AC and watching old re-runs of Gilligan’s Island. ABV: 5.3% / IBU: 8
Redhook’s twist on the Belgian style ale is the addition of fresh ginger, which adds a refreshing snappiness to this lighter-bodied wheat beer. Redhook Wit is perfect for the warm summer months of outdoor BBQ-ing, sitting by the pool, or just taking a break by hanging inside enjoying the AC and watching old re-runs of Gilligan’s Island. ABV: 5.3% / IBU: 8
Samuel Adams is your new Money Lender
From the Boston Beer Co.'s Brewing the American Dream Program comes word that the company wants to lend out a million dollars this year to small businesses in increments ranging from $500 to $25, 000. They have already lent to over 50 entrepreneurs and are currently on the lookout for more.
Owner Jim Koch says, "We have way more money than qualified applicants. People don't know that this kind of money is available."
Click through here to get to the lending page and application: http://www.samueladams.com/btad/how-it-works.aspx 
Oakshire's 16 Tons Anniversary Collaboration Beer
Eugene bottleshop and taphouse 16 Tons is approaching its 1 Year Anniversary, and in celebration Mike, one of the owners, has brewed a Saison with Matt Van Wyk at Oakshire Brewing. The Saison is spiced with Green Oolong Tea. Look for it around the anniversary on April 29th.
Upright Brewing Gose release on Monday
On Monday April 11th, at 6pm, Upright Brewing re-releases the World Beer Cup award-winning Gose at the Grain & Gristle. Upright's is a classic interpretation of a Gose, a rare German style that is a low alcohol wheat beer base spiced with coriander and salt and just a little lactic tartness. Look for bottles available at both the brewery tasting room and Grain & Gristle, with bottle shops soon to follow.
Portland Fruit Beer Festival - Homebrewing Contest
Coming June 11th and 12th, Burnside Brewing introduces the state's first ever Fruit Beer Festival, focusing on original, one-off, and experimental brews over a broad range of styles. Details are still scarce, but there will be a homebrew competition portion of the festival, and the details on that and volunteer shifts are up now on the Oregon Brew Crew website.
'Les Caves', Block 15's new European-inspired Bier Cafe
Owned and founded by Block 15, Les Caves is going to be a separate space and business adjacent to the brewery on 3rd Street in downtown Corvallis. Les Caves is modeled as a European Bier Cafe and will share the same community and environmental commitments as Block 15. It will have Belgian, British, and German influences, both in design and the menu. Block 15 will brew two exclusive taps for the bar: Caves IPA and Caves Saison, a seasonally evolving farmhouse inspired ale. The other 14 taps will rotate with what are considered to be fine examples of beer from local breweries and around the world. The cafe will also serve over 100 bottles of fine beers, stored and served at the correct temperature and presented in the appropriate glassware. Additionally, the space will offer vintage and rare beers. Owner Nick Arzner began collecting kegs and bottles a couple years ago for the project, and will use his brewing connections to procure limited releases. The bottle menu will include sold out releases from Block 15 and, in the future, exclusive bottling for the cafe.
From the kitchen, Les Caves will feature a focused menu with an emphasis on our region's agricultural products and from-scratch cooking. Offerings will include snacks to complement beer, mussels, house cured meats, dry aged steak, artisan cheese, fresh vegetables, and a heavy rotation of seasonal items. Many of the items will highlight cooking with beer, such as kriek-braised rabbit and wit-braised leeks. Les Caves will also open at 9am on the weekends for "Beer Geek Brunch". The menu will include buttermilk stout pancakes, authentic Brussels-style waffles, scrambles, house stout sausages, and more. Also on offer will be mugs of Oakshire's Espresso Stout and a rotating mug of Hair of The Dog.
Projected opening is September of 2011. Watch the Block 15 Brewer's Brain blog for updates.
Avery Brewing's Absinthe Barrel-Aged Beer
After trying for years, Boulder, CO's Avery Brewing has finally obtained some very rare Absinthe barrels thanks to Leopold Brothers distillery. Which beer the brewery will age in the barrels is still up for debate, with the leading candidate being The Czar, an imperial stout.
Via Draft Mag
Special Easter edition of Brewing up Cocktails with Oakshire
For the fourth edition of Brewing up Cocktails, an event series that explores the interplay of beer and spirits to create new drinks, writers and mixologists Ezra Johnson-Greenough and Jacob Grier have taken on yet another challenging theme. This time they’re focusing on the 'Flip' class of drinks that uses whole eggs, and will be partnering with Eugene-based Oakshire Brewing. Oakshire will be providing the beers, as well as farm fresh eggs from the brewery’s own chickens. Join them on a beery Easter egg hunt on April 24 at Spints Alehouse.
Flips are a class of mixed drinks that use raw eggs to create a rich and creamy texture. What many do not know about flips is that their origins are as a beer cocktail. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, sailors first used the term as far back as 1695 to describe a mixture of beer, rum, and sugar heated with a hot iron poker. The first official record of the modern day interpretation of flips was in Jerry Thomas's 1862 How to Mix Drinks; or, The Bon-Vivant's Companion. In this book Thomas states that:
Flips are a class of mixed drinks that use raw eggs to create a rich and creamy texture. What many do not know about flips is that their origins are as a beer cocktail. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, sailors first used the term as far back as 1695 to describe a mixture of beer, rum, and sugar heated with a hot iron poker. The first official record of the modern day interpretation of flips was in Jerry Thomas's 1862 How to Mix Drinks; or, The Bon-Vivant's Companion. In this book Thomas states that:
"The essential in flips of all sorts is to produce the smoothness by repeated pouring back and forward between two vessels and beating up the eggs well in the first instance the sweetening and spices according to taste."While modern day flips have fallen out of popularity and current definitions of what constitutes a flip vary to sometimes include cream, nog, egg whites, etc., for the purposes of defining the class of drinks and bringing it back to historical roots this chapter of Brewing up Cocktails shall use only whole eggs (including the yolk), along with beer and spirits to help bring along the flip's much overdue comeback.
Bushwhacker's Basque and Asturias Cider Tasting on Thursday
This Thursday Bushwhacker Cidery and Cider Taphouse is putting together a special sampling of rare Basque and Asturias ciders from regions in Northern Spain. The flavors in these types of ciders are impossible to find in any other kinds of offerings. Ninkasi Brewing brand manager and Cider expert Morgan Miller describes Basque as "still, very dry, with a delicate apple aroma. In flavor they fall somewhere between a traditional English farmhouse cider and the best English and North American 'commercial' ciders."
In addition to the cider, they will also have special guests from Viridian Farms, a Willamette Valley farm growing European produce, specializing in the produce of Basque country. Their produce can be found at many high end restaurants, and also Pastaworks. They will be bringing tales of a recent trip to Spain, as well as sharing Basque cheese and walnuts, a traditional Basque dessert.
Pouring will be Bonnie from Domaine Selections, Holly from DeMaison importers, and Bushwhacker owner Jeff Smith. Enjoy traditional and modern music from the region, while you watch the experts demonstrate the correct way to pour these ciders. This is a rare opportunity to try some of these amazing ciders.
Brewpublic's Spring Microhopic at Migration
The next Mircrohopic event put on by Brewpublic will be at Migration Brewing on April 23rd and celebrate an array of Spring beer releases from Amnesia Brewing, Breakside Brewing, Burnside Brewing and Beetje Brewing.
Migration Brewing's Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
Today, Wednesday, April 6th, is the limited release of Migration's Barrel Aged Imperial Stout. They will have some live music with the Migration String Band Starting at 7, and new amazing photography hanging on the walls with the photographer there to mingle.
Breakside Brewery's Upcoming Experimental Releases
Each Wednesday North Portland's Breakside Brewery releases special one-off and experimental beers at its brewpub at 3pm. Most of these only last one maybe two days on tap.
April 6 - Extra Light English Pale A true bitter, brewed to a whopping 3.9% ABV and loaded with hop character. Sometimes experimental brewing means packing as much flavor as you can into a very light beer.
April 13 - Night of the Dry Hops! In the spirit of the popular Night of the Smoked Porters, Breakside has brewed five test batches of its summer pale ale, each dry hopped with a different, less common American hop varietal. No Simcoe, Amarillo, or Citra here! The featured hops are Newport, Vanguard, Ahtanum, Santiam, and Galena. The beers will be served side by side in a sampler tray, and customers will have the chance to vote on a People’s Choice Hop. The winning hop will then be featured in the larger batch of the brewery’s summer pale ale.
April 20 - Lober Agol An heirloom English style also known as Devon white ale, this wheaten brew is fermented with brewer’s yeast as well as flour, baker’s yeast, and egg whites.
April 27 - Bramble A barrel-aged Belgian brown ale housed in an Old Tom Gin barrel with blackberries, lemon peel and juniper berry. The latest in the brewery’s series of cocktail beers.
Upcoming Seasonal Beers
This April, Breakside will release four new seasonal beers. Tapped today (April 5) will be the Double Dry Hop Blonde, a 9% strong golden ale brewed in the spirit of English blonde barleywines and Belgian hoppy blondes. Also released today is the IPA Jr., an experiment from the brewery in which the regular IPA recipe was brewed down to pale ale strength, while also featuring different aroma hops. Later in the month, expect to see a Rye Kolsch as well as a wheat pale ale called Amarillo Wheat, brewed in collaboration with homebrewer Ritch Marvin. Breakside’s seasonal beers have been moving fast—these batches tend to last only about ten days, so get them while they’re here!
OWNER JIM KOCK
ReplyDeletei spit all over my screen on that one, bro
Glad someone else goto to enjoy it before I fixed it, Jimmy.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was at the beer bloggers conference in Boulder, Greg Koch was introduced at Jim Koch. That was pretty funny.
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