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BEERS
Year-Round Beers - Seasonals & Specialties
We currently make four year-round beers along a wide and ever-changing variety of seasonals, one-offs, experiments, and labors of love. All of our beers feature an organic Pilsner malt (from Gambrinus Malting in British Columbia) as the base ingredient, supplemented by various high-quality specialty malts and often copious amounts of hops.
To learn more about how we do it, check out our Brewery page. To see what's currently pouring at the brewery, go to the Taproom page.
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YEAR-ROUND BEERS
» KÖLSCH «
In Cologne, Germany, many a brewery produces a light-bodied ale with a delicate fruitiness and rounded maltiness, attributable to the unique yeast strain commonly used. Our Kölsch is unfiltered and more generously hopped than its German cousin.
Brewed with Gambrinus Organic Pilsner and Munich malt and
Perle hops. 5.2% ABV, 40 BU,
» The VAPORIZER « Dry Hopped Pale Ale
“THE VAPORIZER” is a golden-hued Pale Ale that features a beautifully hoppy aroma and flavor. The malt is 100% Gambrinus Pilsner, our sweet and supple house malt from Gambrinus Malting in British Columbia. The hops are primarily of the Challenger variety, grown on a single farm in the Yakima Valley. We dry-hop “THE VAPORIZER” to pump up the hoppy goodness. It’s an appetizingly dry, clean and pure-tasting take on a hoppy Pale Ale.
Brewed with Gambrinus Pilsner malt and Challenger hops. 6% ABV, 50 BU
» INDIA RED ALE «
The “IRA”, as it’s known around here, marries a ruby red color and rich body with the hop flavors of an IPA. Our unique ale yeast strain adds a delicious layer of complexity. One of the first beers we made, and an enduring favorite.
Brewed with Gambrinus Organic Pilsner malt, imported crystal
malt, Simcoe and Brewers’ Gold hops. 6.5% ABV, 65 BU
» HOP LAVA «
This big, glowing, powerful IPA is packed with assertive Northwest hops that are floral, citrusy and resinous. A healthy dose of Munich malt helps to provide backbone and balance against the hoppy attack. The result? Explosive!
Brewed with Gambrinus Organic Pilsner and Munich Malt,
Centennial and Cascade hops. 7.0% ABV, 75 BU
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SEASONALS & SPECIALTIES
[updated
May 2011]
We've brewed more than a dozen different unique specialty beers since we've opened, and are dedicated to constantly providing our customers with variety and invention. Here's a list of some of our past, present and future offerings:
» BLACK IRISH «
Dublin-Style Nitro Stout
A proper stout to call our own…this brew is a quintessential Double Mountain interpretation of a classic style. Rich, creamy, roasty and beautifully bitter. Poured with a thick head, courtesy of nitrogen. 4.0% ABV, 50 BU
» "LITTLE G" E.S.B. «
In honor of the birth of his beautiful little daughter Gwyneth, Kyle presents us with a beautiful Extra Special Bitter. This classy rendition of the ESB style is full of personality, just like its namesake. Brewed with a healthy dose of Oregon Goldings and Cascade hops, Little G has aggressive hop profile that's balanced by five different specialty malts which deliver a balanced, toasty, caramel finish. Cheers to the new daddy! 5.8% ABV 50 BU
» Spicy BROWN ALE «
Greg and Kyle designed this fabulous creation while Matt was on vacation. The complex blend of many dried spices pierces a caramelly dark malt background. The dry maltiness is balanced nicely by bitterness from both the hops and the spices themselves. 6.2% ABV, 40 BU
» TWO x FOUR« NEW!
Anniversary Ale
To honor our Fourth Anniversary in style, we brewed this Strong Ale with our two house yeasts (Kölsch and Rochefort), four hops (Simcoe, Magnum, Chinook and Goldings), and six malts (Pilsner, Wheat, Light Munich, Dark Munich, Crystal and Pale Chocolate). The rich malty backbone is redolent of dark fruits and fruity alcohol; a mouthful of poppin’ hoppiness provides a lingering bitterness that lasts forever. We don’t really know what style we’d call Two x Four, other than “Big Aggressive Ale”. Handle with care…
8% ABV, 75 BU
» TRIPEL NIPEL « NEW!
($5 / 12 oz. goblet)
Tripels were the super-strong special brews to emerge from the monastic breweries of Belgium, to celebrate the heaven of peace and silence. Nipel features 150 lbs. of local wildflower honey from Rocky and Dave, beekeepers extraordinaire, from the slopes of Mt. Hood up in Parkdale. The resulting beer is apple/peach fruity, light on the palate, and balanced with German Magnum hops. 9% ABV, 30 BU
» SACRÉ BLEU! « NEW!
($5 / 12 oz. goblet)
This is the second beer of our Holy Trinity series of Belgian Trappist-style releases. We’re using the house yeast from the Abbaye de Scourmount, their beers simply labeled Chimay, the abbey’s home town. Sacré Bleu! is loosely based in the Dubbel style, using darker malts to provide some nutty earthiness and light chocolate character. The malt flavors blend with the signature yeasty notes of fruit, nutmeg, and vanilla to provide for a wonderfully complex beer. 8% ABV, 35 BU
» DEVIL’S KRIEK 2010 « Belgian-Style sour Ale with Cherries
It is with great pleasure that we brew Devil's Kriek once a year at cherry harvest, and let it develop its intensity for a full twelve months, until it's time to do it again. This year's batch is intensely dark and fruity, thanks to over 70 lbs. per barrel of Bings (twice what we used last year) from Matt's orchard in Odell. The light sourness comes not from sour cherries, but from Brettanomyces "wild yeast", which slowly add the tang and a host of other funky flavors. A brown ale base provides a tasty counterpart to the fruit. 8.3% ABV
» RED LIGHT DISTRICT » NEW
($5 / 12 oz. goblet)
RLD completes the trifecta of our foray into the dry Trappist yeast. The brew’s reddish color is derived from addition of roasted caramel malts and its alcohol sweetness from the late addition of 200 lbs of wildflower honey. This is the strongest of the three beers and the honey sweetness lingers more than its nipelly cousin, giving more depth and some fig fruitiness. Should you try all three beers of the series late in the evening, you may find yourself window shopping down the wrong street in Amsterdam. 9.4% ABV, 30 BU
» KILLER GREEN 2008 « Fresh Hop IPA
The folks at Weathers Farms supplied us with some beautiful Perle hops this year, which lent a more balanced aroma to our '08 effort. Matt chose to tweak this year's brew with more malt and some Simcoe hops (dried, not fresh), which helped to make the beer bigger in all respects. A seriously heady beer!
Brewed with organic Pilsner Malt, imported crystal malts, Simcoe and fresh Oregon Perle hops. 7.8% ABV, 70 BU
» MOLTEN LAVA « Imperial IPA
This is Hop Lava's bigger, meaner cousin -- a radiant orange-hued beer featuring more than six pounds of hops per barrel. The out-of-control hopping is barely balanced by a tight malt backbone and noticable alcohol notes. We used our Kolsch yeast on this one, which gives it a different type of fruitiness than the Belgian ale yeast used in Hop Lava.
Brewed with organic Pilsner and Munich malt, imported crystal malt, Centennial and Cascade hops. 9.0%ABV, 95+ BU
» PILSNER «
Matt's own "Bohemian Rhapsody", featuring traditional ingredients used in a distinctly Northwest recipe. We aged this beer for between six and nine weeks -- two to three times our normal program -- to give our Czech lager yeast enough tie to do its thing, and to allow the flavors to mellow and merge. The result was a hophead's Pilsner that was supremely satisfying.
Brewed with organic Pilsner malt, Czech lager yeast, and Sterling hops. 5.5%ABV, 50 BU
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