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Supercool IPA combines chinook, azacca, and amarillo hops with a traditional, true top cropping ale yeast. Open fermentation and a unique dryhopping process lend the Supercool complexities not found in modern IPAs. 6.5%

Engelberg Pilsener helped start the wave of well hopped pils in Portland. Using tettnanger hops and a classic yeast strain chosen specifically for this beer, the Engelberg hits the palate with firm, appetizing bitterness while remaining light and delicately balanced. 4.75%

Money Avenue IPA is a modern high flavor/low bitterness IPA with an Upright distinction. Hopped with el dorado, strata, and whole leaf cascade, then open fermented, the Money Ave drinks harmoniously, finishing dry and drinkable. 7%

Four Play, exclusive to the brewery tasting room, is a wheat based saison that spends 18 months in casks with tart cherries and a variety of yeasts and bacteria. The blend yields a sour beer with a complex finish full of oak and minerality. 5%

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Seasonal & one-off brews

Purple Cosmos is a blend of saisons aged two years in oak, then finished with pinot noir and pinot meunier must from Schaad Cellars, combining a mature beer profile with bright, bracing fruit. The deeply colored brew is quite dry, tannic, and mineral-rich, complementing the oak character and yielding a lively and assertive beer. 8.25%

Prescott Pils
is a rustic, open fermented lager made entirely with Oregon ingredients. Barley grown
at Goshie Farms creates a flavorful base, with warm malt tones to support generous hopping of meridian and willamette, including a light dry addition yielding deep herbal flavors. 5.5%

Brighter Days IPA is a smooth drinking, well hopped beer using comet, Idaho 7, and topaz. Low bitterness and a light body allow the three varieties to carry the profile, integrating well with the soft malt and yeast character. 6.9%


Two Tall Hops is our take on a fruity IPA, combining amarillo and azacca hops with the brewery's house yeast blend and open fermentation. The beer shows an attractive papaya note, drinking softly with hop flavor not only in the nose but throughout the palate. 6.8%

Barrel Aged Two Tone shows classic Upright character. Beginning as a wheat based beer hopped with cascade, citra, and el dorado, the Two Tone underwent open fermentation with our house kveik blend and then spent one year in a few of our best oak barrels, picked up nuanced "wild" notes and tons of minerality to complement the hops and provide a historic finish. 5.75%


Foundation Ale began as a farmhouse style beer using Skagit Valley barley, wheat, and triticale, along with a big blend of santiam, liberty, crystal, and sladek hops. It spent over six months in a foeder, developing a modern brettanomyces profile, touch of acidity, and light oak notes. We then blended it with an extra young, "alternative" wit that also featured Skagit Valley grains, and dryhopped the blend with Oregon grown strata. Classic Upright - easy but layered, sessionable and satisfying. 5.2%

Borgamot Berliner Weisse was produced for Tinker Tavern, an upcoming neighborhood bar in Montavilla. We took a traditionally brewed Berliner Weisse, aged it in wine barrels with a little apricot, and then finished the blend with bergamot. High acidity and bold aromatics drive the beer, while the barrel profile lends it nuances not common in the style. And yes, we're Star Trek fans. 3.5%

Vermouth Barrel Flora is another version of our botanical saison. Brewed in the summer of 2019 with calendula, hops, and homegrown yarrow flowers, then matured in two vermouth casks for nine months, the beer now shows contrasting darker aromatic notes with brighter acidity and a light, oaky finish. 6%

Barleywine was brewed to showcase our house Yorkshire ale yeast and celebrate a truly classic style that isn't seen much these days despite a timeless quality. This beer features a 50/50 split of maris otter and optic pale malts, columbia, savinjski golding, and styrian golding hops, and a lengthy four hour direct fire boil. Naturally big but full of attractive flavors and quite drinkable, we hope that this barleywine rekindles interest in beer that tastes like beer. 9.5%

2020 Oregon Native is a special vintage - our first fermented and aged solely in foeders versus smaller barrels. The beer developed quickly, with lush and spicy oak character contrasting the vibrant and concise pinot noir. It drinks more lively and bright than previous releases, without sacrificing complexity. As always, the Oregon Native was made using exceptional fruit from Patton Valley Vineyards and 100% fermented with indigenous orchard yeast. 8%

 
Sherry Barrel Stock Ale is a collaborative blend made with Level Brewing. A seldomly seen style today, English stock ales were once popular blends of old, vintage casks with young, fresh beer, in which the aged beer lent drying oak and wild brettanomyces notes while the young beer provides a contrasting balance. Our version used sherry barrels for the vintage portion, and Level provided the young half, ultimately yielding a wonderfully complex historically modeled beer. 8.4%


Ives is our house wild ale, built on a base of raw wheat and barrel fermented in select casks. The most recent release is a draft only blend of four casks brewed between January and February of 2017, yielding earthy and fruity brettanomyces character with strong mid-palate acidity that softens on the finish. 6%