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Deschutes Black Butte XXI: $12.49

Good news, the Deschutes Black Butte XXI is in. We have plenty to cover the existing pre-sells with some left over. The price was correct and it will not need to be adjusted. If you have not ordered any yet you can do so now and are assured delivery. We are working hard to get all of the orders boxed up. ========================================== Here is what the brewery has to say about it...... A tribute to Black Butte Porter, the revolutionary Deschutes Brewery beer that has excited beer enthusiasts since its release in 1988. This special Reserve Series brew is an extreme version of Black Butte Porter that the Deschutes brewers enhanced with several pounds Bellatazza coffee, Theo’s Chocolate cocoa nibs and by aging parts in Stranahan’s whiskey barrels. These regional partners from Bend, Seattle and Denver, respectively, each provide quality artisan ingredients that give this commemorative beer a truly handcrafted complexity.

Alaskan Smoked Porter 2008: $6.35

** This may be our last shipment of 2008 the supply is running thin. *** Alaskan Smoked Porter is credited with helping revive the German rauchbier style, or smoke-flavored beers, in the United States. The most award-winning beer in the history of the Great American Beer Festival, Alaskan Smoked Porter has a dark, robust body and pronounced smoky flavor. This unique beer is produced in limited vintages each year and may be aged in the bottle much like fine wine. It ages very well and will continue to mellow and increase in complexity for some time. For those of you who love the hops, you will probably like it better young, for the rest of us aging it for a year or two smoothes and mellows it. Also See Below for Shirts: [SKU:ALASKANSMOKEDTM] [SKU:ALASKANSMOKEDTLG] [SKU:ALASKANSMOKEDTXL] [SKU:ALASKANSMOKEDTXX]

Rodenbach Flemish Sour: $9.42

Ahhhh, the return of a classic. Deep mahogany in color with a small but persistent head. The aroma is oaky with a light sweetness and raspberry / cherry notes. The beer is light on the tongue with just a hint of caramel malt to play off of the lactic tartness and just a hint of damp earth. The finish is dry with minerals and fruit skin. Try this side by side with the [SKU:699176203317] and see which you like best.

21st Amendment IPA: $1.80

This micro brew in a can pours a rich gold color with a tint of orange. The head is white and sudsy and settles to a thin layer. The aroma is floral in the hops and honey in malt. The flavor lightly malty up front with a grassy fruity hop and a 70 IBU bitter finish. This is a tasty, well-constructed IPA that truly has malt to hop balance. I know many beers say that but it is rarely true.

Bridgeport Stump Town Tart: $5.24

Full Sail Session Black: $1.10

Stone 13th Anniversary Ale: $6.65

This is an ultra red ale. It comes in at 9.5%, is a beep red color and the head is thin and tan. The aroma is almost completely of lime and pine hops from the double dry hopping. The flavor bitter up front with pine hop and toffee / cake malt. The finish is bitter and hoppy with long staying power. This is the kind of thing Stone is known for and it does not disappoint.

Ninkasi Sampler Pack: $55.41

Three each of their main brews as well as three bottles of their seasonal. The lineup of beers may change due to availability.

Ninkasi Radiant Summer: $4.24

This wonderfully dry hopped amber pours a red copper color with a thin tight head. The beer has the intoxicating smell of a bale of Liberty hops and deep crystal malt. The flavor had a mid level bitterness from start to lingering finish. The body is creamy and the malt is light caramel and bread. Yet another striking brew from the folks at Ninkasi.

Ninkasi Tricerahops Double IPA: $5.80

This 9.6% hop fest is a masterpiece of brewing. It pours light amber in color with a small cap of dense foam. The aroma is huge with orange hops and just a hint of malt sweetness. The flavor is also big on the orange hop profile but the malt brings in some chewy caramel without being overly sweet. The mouthfeel is smooth and has a medium body. This is one of my favorite double/Imperial IPAs.

Ninkasi Total Domination IPA: $4.24

Hazy orange in color this hop driven brew pours with a small white head. The aroma is big and fruity, all hops with an orange, tropical and floral smell. The flavor has a fresh hoppy quality to it with orange rind, and some grapefruit along with some grassiness. There is a touch of caramel malt in there someplace but make no mistake, it is all about the hop.

Southern Oregon Brewing Woodshed Red: $4.71

A deep mahogany color, this beer pours with one to two fingers of head that settles to a thing layer. The aroma is toasty with some mellow toffee. The flavor is nutty caramel malt and an earthy floral hop. The finish has a midrange bitterness and the mouth feel is smooth and full. Overall drinkability is high, great with food and quaffable all by itself.

Rogue Sesquicentenial Portland: $6.11

I can think of no better way for Oregon to celebrate its 150th year as a state than to raise a pint of beer that was made especially for the purpose. This hoppy amber ale pours a copper in color with two fingers of head. The aroma is grassy and orange from the Willamette hops (only home grown hops for this Oregon brew). The flavor is bitter up front and moves to the balancing maltiness from the Munich barley. The finish is hoppy with citrus flavor and a parting bitterness.

Rogue Sesquicentennial Ashland: $6.11

Rogue Sesquicentennial Newport: $6.11

Rogue Sesquicentennial Eugene: $6.11

Red Branch Diabhal: $6.32

I know they bill this brew as a Belgian strong golden but make no mistake this is a golden braggot. If you don’t know, a “Braggot” is mead (honey wine) made with malt (tastes more like a mead than a beer) while a “Honey Beer” is a beer made with honey (tastes more like a beer than a mead). Trust me when I say that this is an excellent golden braggot (and I used to make gallons of the stuff in my younger days). The main thing is to set you expectations in line with drinking a mead not a beer. The color is golden and a thin head that leave nice lace. The aroma is floral and orange from the honey, a bit of yeast and some oaty malt. The flavor has some sweetness to it but it is tart. For those of you who have had semi-dry to dry mead you know what I’m talking about. Mead is nautrally more acidic than beer and therefore will have a flavor that is more tart and that comes just from the fermentation of a lot of honey. Lightly malty with a crisp fruity component from the honey and finish that is sweet with a hint of yeast. If you are interested in trying a more typical “Brown Braggot” try Dansk “Old Danish” http://www.liquidsolutions.biz/home/product.asp?sku=062067029509

Trade Route Infedel Lime IPA: $4.81

Don’t worry this is not a Miller Chill type of beer. This is a real IPA made with kaffir lime leaves added. The color is a rich golden. The head is thin. The aroma has a slight sweet malt, piney hop, and an herbal note from the leaves. The flavor is crisp with a easy bready malt, citrus/lime from the leaves and hops. It has a good hop bitterness and the leaves provide a unique bitterness all their own. Fun, different, and not at all like those cheap ass lime beers you see from the mega breweries.

New Belgium Lips of Faith Kriek: $10.54

A burgundy red brew that is Belgian funky, oak aged with cherries. The aroma is of cherry, wood, and mild sour acidity. Flemish red in character with juicy cherry, vanilla oak and lactic tart. Very limited supply.

Deschutes Mirror Mirror: $10.99

From the brewery....... Deschutes Brewery's - 2009 Reserve Mirror Mirror, the flavorful brew that officially kicked off our Reserve Series back in 2006, is returning due to popular demand by both our brewers and our fans. Mirror Mirror is an inspired version of the brewery’s flagship, Mirror Pond Pale Ale, which has been doubled up to barley wine strength – yielding a rich malt base with hints of raisin and oak tinged with the slightest citrus hop aroma. After its initial release we kept a small stash of Mirror Mirror in a hidden corner of the warehouse, sending a few kegs here and there to select festivals. We also tapped a few kegs for special occasions at both our Bend and Portland pubs. From this, beer enthusiasts discovered this unique beer, and a loyal following was born.

Mate Veza Yerba Mate Gold: $4.83

Pale yellow color with a medium head is brewed with yerba mate’. The aroma is a mix of flowers and lime with a nice bitter component. The flavor has a light mate’ bitterness along side the hops with a pale malt and a touch of woodiness. And again the caffeine from the mate’ is just an extra added bonus.

Mate Veza Yerba Mate IPA: $5.29

Brilliant golden / orange in color, this beer brewed with yerba mate’ pours with a good head that falls quickly. The aroma is big and citrus with a floral note and a touch of brown malt. The flavor has a matte bitterness up front with grapefruit hop flavors and ends with a smokey nutty finish. The bitterness is unique (from the mate’) and the flavors work well together to pull together as a satisfying and distinctive brew. The caffeine from the mate’ is just an extra added bonus.

Rabbits Foot Dry Mead: $15.37

Light gold in color and an aroma berry and vanilla. Made with raspberry honey the flavor is crisp and light with an easy acidity and a toasty oak. This tasty 13% mead pairs well with lighter meat dished such as chicken or shrimp.

Rabbits Foot Raspberry: $16.87

Fragrant nose of ripe raspberry with a smooth warming finish, an exceptional after-dinner wine. Excellent with poached fruit, or enjoy after a fine meal as a dessert on its own.

Rabbits Foot Sweet: $16.87

Full of floral aromas of wildflowers and fragrant jasmine and a wonderful lingering sweetness. The flavor may be sweet but the body is not as heavy as some so it is flavorful and very drinkable.

Cascade Lakes Paulina Pilsner: $3.98

This local, fresh, clean, crisp pilsner pours a light gold with a sudsy head. The aroma is of biscuit malt and floral hops. The flavor is bready with a spice hop with a clean flora finish.

New Belgium La Folie: $14.99

This amazing Flanders Red style brew was aged 1 to 3 years in French oak to achieve”Mouth Puckering Perfection”. Reddish brown in color it pour with little head. The aroma is sour and sharp but with rich caramel and a touch of fruit. The flavor is very sour as well with light fruit (cherry/raspberry) and earthy wood. I think it is an outstand Flanders style and it holds up agains many of the classics (Rodenbach Grand Cru, Duchesse De Bourgogne, or Vichtenaar)

Big Sky Moose Drool Can: $1.50

Now this Montana classic comes in a convenient can to accompany you on all of your outdoor recreations. This American brown ale is one of those beers that is just so easy to drink. Brown in color with a tint of red, its aroma nutty and lightly malty sweet. Smooth in texture with a tad touch of hops.

Russian River Pliny The Elder: $4.26

Deep golden with a bit of haze. The head pours thick and foamy. Its persistence is good and there is even a touch of lace. The aroma is of floral and resinous hops. The flavor has an oily, fruity hop note that is nectarine and pine with a tickle of caramel and nut in the malt. The finish has a good lingering bitterness but the main focus of this beer is the hop flavor. Not as bitter as many double IPAs but more flavorful than most. This is one of the heist rated double IPAs out there. I whish I had more of these to offer you so please bare with the inevitable “Out Of Stock”s we will see.

Blue Frog The Big DIPA: $9.42

Hazy amber gold with a orange citrus hop aroma and a toffee malt and an appropriate bitterness. 8% and 83 IBUs

Belhaven Scottish Stout: $5.04

Black / brown in color with a creamy beige / tan head. The aroma is chocolate, toffee and vanilla. The flavor follows the aroma with some coffee tones and dry roast / light hop bitter finish.

Schnider Hopfen Weisse: $5.29

This hopped up weisse beer is cloudy and straw yellow with a big wheat head. The aroma and flavor lives up to the idea of a well (over??) hopped wheat beer is with fruity, lemon, grass hops that play well with the tangy wheat and the fruity yeast ester.

Santa Cruz Mt. IPA: $5.67

Straw golden in color with an ivory head, this beer has an aroma of toasty malt and fruit hops. The flavor is of piney earthy hops and a creamy pale malt.

Six Rivers IPA: $1.67

This copper IPA has a woody biscuit aroma and a flavor that is deep toffee in malt with medium hop bitterness that comes in late on the palate.

Santa Cruz Mt. Coffee Porter: $5.67

A dark brown that pours with a thin tan head. The aroma is big coffee (duh!) with roasted malt and light hop. The flavor is bitter sweet chocolate, big roast and citrus hop.

Stone Levitation Ale: $1.89

Copper in color with a medium head that leaves some nice lace. It is one of the hopiest ambers I have ever seen. The aroma is nutty with a big spice and floral hop. The flavor comes through with a bit of caramel and brown malts with a substantial bitterness.

Elysian Avatar Jasmine IPA: $4.25

Copper / orange in color with a lean white head. The aroma is all of sweet Jasmine. The flavor is lightly floral bitter hop with sweet golden malt and grassy jasmine notes. Not as bitter and hoppy as most NW IPAs but the Jasmine aroma and flavor makes this one of the best flower beers there is.

Oregon Pinot Noir Sixpack: $89.99

Sixpack of superb Oregon Pinots ready to drink now at a super price of 89.99 for the six. Klay 2006, Pug Dog 2006, Chris Bridge 2005, Stangeland 2006, Viridian 2006 and Kaison 2006.

Alaskan White: $1.55

Belgian wit in style, it is a hazy gold color and pours with two fingers of creamy foam. The aroma is all orange and coriander with an underlying wheat. The flavor wheat tart with fruity orange tone and a perfume spice finish. The hops are light (as per style) and provide a touch of bitterness to chase down the spices.

HUB Cross Town Pale: $5.28

The clear amber color and big creamy head is an excellent start to this pale ale. The aroma is of toasty bready malt and a fruity hop that is mild and easy. The flavor is malty up front like a good pale should be with some pungent pine hops.

HUB IPA: $5.28

H.U.B. (Hopworks Urban Brewery) is one of Portland’s hottest breweries and I for one am stoked that they are now bottling. They have some of the most talented brewers around, a well-executed restaurant / brewpub and a reputation that can take them to the top. The first four out of the gate are some of their standard lineup, which they do very well. I hope to see some imperials, barleywines and Belgian styles in the future. By all means please check out the reviews at Beer Advocate http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16353 As they work their way into the bottle market the supply might be a little hit and miss. Please bare with us, it will be worth the wait. Organic IPA pours a gold color with a large head. The aroma is hoppy with pine and pear with a touch of citrus. The flavor a light doughy malt with a resiny orange hop bitterness. The mouthfeel is full and the finish dry. A fine IPA by any ones standards.

HUB Deluxe Organic Ale: $5.28

The Deluxe Organic Amber run a bit on the malty side compaired to most ambers. The color is copper orange and the aroma starts malty with a pine floral hop. The flavor is also malty with a fruity floral hop flavor. The finish of the 55 IBUs is what justifies the malty character. When you start a sip of this 6.9% amber is lulls you into a malty malaise but finishes you with an ample hop kick.

HUB Survival 7-Grain Stout: $5.28

This deep black/brown coffee stout is made with barley, wheat, oats, amaranth, quinoa, spelt, kamut and cold pressed “Stumptown” brand coffee. The aroma is deep with coffee, chocolate, cake, and cereal grains. The flavor is ultra smooth. The coffee is well integrated without being brash or overpowering. The body is creamy smooth and the roasted grain flavor moves into a sweet cocoa and finishes with a light bitterness.

Great Divide Saison: $8.54

A hazy gold with a frothy head that settles thin. Tart wheat aroma with a big floral hop and a touch of spice and earth. The flavor is tangy with honey notes, with some clove and with mild pear apricot fruit. The hops are lightly bitter with some earth and spice and the mouth feel is of medium body with prickly carbonation.

Great Divide Dunkel Weiss: $8.54

Deep red / brown in color. It pours with a large wheat head. The aroma is sweet with caramel malt, fruity ester and a nutty quality. The flavor starts sweet but then moves on to a spicy phenol, banana ester, then to a roasty chocolate malt. It is more agressivly flavored than its German cousins but more flavor is not a bad thing al long as you are ready for it.

Great Divide Belgica: $1.80

Clear and golden yellow, this beer has a big creamy head. The aroma is of tropical and citrus fruit with a spicy Belgian yeast. The flaor is sweet and fruity with grassy hops and pale biscuit malt.

Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat: $3.72

This tart and fruity wheat beers is a warm weather refresher right out of the bottle. The wheat is tarts the orange is fruity and lightly acidic which makes it a refreshing thirst quencher.

Kostriker Schwarzbier 12oz: $2.27

This is one of those gold standards in beer style. It is everything the German “Black Beer” style is supposed to be. It pours with an ample tan head that is sticky and persists. The aroma is earthy with a touch of dark (charred) malt. Faint malt sweetness with a light hop hit at the end. The body is light and the finish is clean as a lager should be.

Schlafly Reserve Barleywine 08: $13.67

A deep copper / orange color and pours with a cream white head that has good retention. The aroma is fruity apple, wood with honey. The flavor is oaky with sweet caramel malt, bready yeast and a light hop bitterness. Great drinkability and aging potential.

Schlafly Reserve Imp Stout 08: $13.67

It starts with a big frothy tan head atop of the solid black brew. The aroma is roasty with coffee, dark chocolate, coffee and a dark fruit that is plum/prune. The flavor follows the aroma with roasted barley, dark chocolate, and coffee. It also has a leafy / grassy hop with mid level bitterness. The finish is oaky dry with a mild alcohol presence.

Deschutes Red Chair IPA: $5.67

This IPA from Deschutes pours an amber orange color. The head is ample and an off white. The aroma is of herbal hops with a lightly sweet biscuit malt. The flavor is mid range bitter with a peppery citrus hop and a caramel honey malt. The body is light as and the finish is dry as they are positioning this to be a summer beer. Plenty of bitterness and flavor for hot weather refreshment.

Mactarnahans Summer Grifter: $2.29

Copper in color with a small tight head. The aroma is hoppy with citrus and spice. The flavor is of lemony / piney hops, with a touch of malt. This is a tasty IPA at a great price; something you could enjoy all evening long.

Midnight Sun Arctic Devil: $15.80

Folks, this is one of my absolute favorite barley wines. This one is soooooo intense and malty. I would almost call this one an “Old Ale” instead of a “Barley Wine”. Totally malt driven. Malty, rich and smooth with some fruity tones and more alcohol that the flavor lets on. For More Info… http://www.midnightsunbrewing.com/beer_arcticDevil.php

Deschutes Bond Street Hop Henge: $4.55

New label, awesome beer!! Ummmm, hop-elicious. Who cares what this thing looks like; the first thing to hit you as you pour this baby is the resinious, cirtusy pine aroma. It smells like walking into a hop storage cooler. But after that you will notice a big head comes rolling out but does not stay long. The color is deep amber with a copper tint. Now as the more volatile aromas boil off you can notice a fruity orange component as well a hint of crystal malt. The aroma is superb, in fact I am delaying trying a taste just so I can full appreciate its beautiful aroma. The flavors are all about the hops as well. Medium body with a bit grapefruit hop flavor and as that hop hit dies down the flavor moves into a fruity orange and woody hop mélange. Although this has a good hop bitterness it is not overpowering; the malting is just enough to balance the bitterness but not so much as to detract from this awesome hop flavor. For a hop driven beer to get my A+ two thumbs up rating, it has to be complex, balanced, and drinkable. Hop Henge is all that and more.

Turley 2006 Cederman Vineyard Zinfandel: $39.99

A Treat a the price. Only 24 bottles available.

6-Pack of Reds for $60: $60.00

SIX WINTER REDS FOR $60.00 PLUS $9.95 SHIPPING TO ANYWHERE IN THE U.S. EXCEPT AK, HI, NH, NJ or MA. THE SIX-PACK INCLUDES A CAB, A SYRAH AND A ZIN FROM CALIFORNIA, A MERLOT FROM WASHINGTON, A PINOT NOIR FROM OREGON, AND ONE MORE RED FROM ???. As usual, our shippers are insulated, so cold damage is rare, but the buyer assumes resposibility for damages due to cold.

12-Bottle Mixed Case for $119.95: $119.95

Twelve yummy wines -- six red and six white -- for $119.95 plus $9.99 shipping to any state in the U.S of A. except AK, HI, NH, NJ or MA. Reds include a cabrernet sauvignon, a pinot noir, a merlot, a malbec, a syrah and a zinfandel. Whites include a chardonnay, a sauvignon blanc, a torrontes, and pinot grigio, a reisling and a blend. Damage due to cold is rare, however the customer must assume full respornsibility for damage to shipped wines due to cold.

Alaskan Summer Ale: $1.55

Light refreshing kolsch style ale. Light gold in color with a nice malt aroma with a whiff of spicy hops. Crisp in character with a toasty malt flavor and a flowery hop finish. It really is aptly named as it is a great summer ale.

Alaskan Sample Pack: $37.20

Four bottles each of 6 different Alaskan 12oz beers. Below is a list of the beers provided. Some changes may occur due to seasonal availability. [KIT]

Allagash Hugh Malone: $18.95

For those of you out there who are not total beer geeks, this beers name is a pun on humulone. Humulones are the orangey, soft resin in hops that is primarily responsible for the bittering properties of the hops. This Belgain style IPA pours a hazy orange with a dense sticky head. The flavor is fruity, lemony, and spicy like a good Belgian, with a pronounced woody, piney hop hit like a good IPA. Very limited, get it while you can.

Hair of the Dog Blue Dot: $7.37

It's back, get while the getting is good!!! Hair of the Dog “Blue Dot Double India Pale Ale”. It pours a golden orange color, the head and carbonation are low but as this was just bottled I’m sure both will increase very soon. The nose is citrusy with tangerine and grapefruit with a touch of caramel. The flavor is HUGE and hoppy without being too bitter. The drinkability is great and it should age well given that it has plenty of malt to make things interesting as the hops mellow with age. I plan to put a few down and see where it goes.

Pike Old Bawdy 2007: $10.54

This is one hell of a barley wine. This beer pours a tawny brown with a good head. It has a malt and fruitiness like a Full Sail Old Broardhead but more hop presence than a Rogue Old Crustacean. You get a malty caramel hit up front with a light fruitiness then a powerfully bitter hop finish. It states a 90 IBU rating but this beer has more apparent bitterness than most 100 IBU beers I’ve tasted. The big hops and the 10% alcohol will allow this barley wine to age beautifully for 10 years plus.

Alaskan Barleywine Six Pack 20% off.: $43.15

Buy 6 Alaskan Barley Wine and receive a 20% discount over the single bottle price. QTY of 1 equals 6 bottles. !!!GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2007 TORANADO FESTIVAL!!! This A+ brew pours a rich brown with a red tint. The aroma is sweet with cookie dough and chocolate with dark fruit. The head pours well but falls rather quickly. The flavor is toasty up front with sweet malt, plum and raisin fruitiness. The finish is spicy with modest but well balanced hop bitterness. This award winning barleywine should age for 5 years easy and only get better and smother through the years. This barleywine is now in my top three of all time. It has it all flavor, balance and than non-abrasive oomph that is the mark of well-made barleywine. Sure there are stronger, hoppier, or maltier ones but none pull it all together quite as well as Alaskan.

Stone Imperial Russian Stout: $6.65

Hello comrades! Stones 2009 Imperial Russian is as good as ever. Inky black and as thick and rich as ever. This strong (10.5%) massive beer has a plum, licorice and coffee aroma. Its flavor is roasty with a black current fruity character. In other words it is everything you want out of an Imperial Stout. So now that your taxes are signed and sent in, enjoy a wonderful pint of Stone I.R.S.

Stone Sublinely Self-Righteous Ale: $6.65

This Black IPA / American Strong Ale is yet another fine brew from Stone. It pours black (really a very dark brown) with a medium head. The aroma is very hoppy with pine, and citrus rind, other scents include a light fruitiness and coffee from the dark malts. The flavor up front is of resinious hops then moves into the dark roasty malt. There is a bit of sweetness but the finish is of that Stone style bitterness.

The Bruery Saison Rue: $12.64

This Saison pours a golden orange with a slight haze. The head is about a half inch thick and has good staying power. The aroma is lightly sweet with spicy yeast and a touch of brett. The flavor is fruity and flora up front with some earthy funkiness and a dry finish.

Caldera Ashland Amber: $1.74

This canned micro pours an expect amber color with two fingers of off white head. The aroma is of pale malt, a hint of caramel with grassy and pine hops. The flavor starts with a well-developed malt backbone that has a touch of breadiness. The hops provide a balanced bitterness with herbal and pine flavors.

Bridgeport Hop Czar Imperial IPA: $5.24

Wow!!!! Hops, hops, hops, hop, hops and more hops. This imperial IPA pours a rich gold with a touch of copper. The head is small and tight. The aroma is of floral and fruity hops. The flavor is of citrus and berry hop with a bitter mid pallet and a finish that is dry and MASSIVELY bitter. Needless to say it is all about the hops and all about the bitter. It is aptly names the “Hop Czar” also see “Hop Emperor”, “Hop tyrant”, and “Hop Suzerian”.

Turley 2006 Moore Vineyard Zinfandel: $69.99

DELICIOUS!!! WE HAVE A LIMITED SUPPLY, SO GET YOURS BEFORE THEY ARE GONE!!

Moylans Hopsickle Imperial Ale: $10.55

If you ARE looking for a hop monster, this is it. This 9.2% behemoth is so loaded with hops that it makes your saliva glands kick into high gear. This gives the beer a weird (but very pleasant) juiciness you don’t usually find in a beer. It pours a deep copper with a large head. Its aroma is piney with a hint of grapefruit. The flavor is of tart fruity hops with the pine backing it up. There is malt in there someplace but for the life of me I can’t really pin it down due to the overwhelming assault from the hops.

De Struise Tsjeeses: $8.44

This winter Belgian is exactly what I expect out of one of the finest craft breweries in Belgium. Big sweet, fruity with a spice hit. The color is a yellow orange with two fingers worth of head. The aroma is sweet with spicy coriander, orange and ginger. The flavor is sweet and a tad doughy with cherry and prunes. The spice comes through in the flavor as well and also includes a bit of clove, cardamom and hop bitterness. DO NOT serve this cold or you will end up with a metallic taste, you have been warned!

Green Flash Barley Wine: $6.35

At 10% this beer pours a medium brown with a thin but persistant head. The aroma is pine/citrus in hop and toffee in malt. The flavor has a sweet caramel malt to it and a leafy earthy hop. It has a good solid bitterness to back up the sweet flavor so it doesn’t end sticky.

Capital Blonde Doppelbock: $2.85

It’s appearance is light copper/amber and the head is big and fluffy. The aroma is sweet with a touch of fruit and toasted malt. The flavor is all about the malt with Munich malt flavors, nutty and a hint of honey. The hops are low and the finish is matly with a insinuation of alcohol. It has a great creamy body and is 7.8%.

Full Sail Keelhauler: $4.55

This Scottish style ale is from their “Brewmaster Reserve” line. It pours reddish brown with a medium high head. The aroma is chocolaty malt and peaty smoke with herbal hops. The flavor is caramel, smoke, gassy hops with a medium hop bitterness at the end.

Stone Old Gaurdian 2008: $8.25

Small quantity of 2008 vintage now available.

Amager Batch One: $9.97

This Danish barley wine is a self-proclaimed American-inspired ale using the Simcoe hop. It has a citrusy hop aroma along with candy sugar, grassy notes. The flavor is a rich, caramel maltiness followed up with the citrus, grassy notes of the hop coming through. Batch One comes in at 9.2% and is meant to be sipped and savored.

Amager Sundby Danish Stout: $9.17

This is Amager’s nod to traditional stout. It has a nice roasted malt and chocolate flavors. It has a slight sweetness to it and a creamy mouth feel. All in all a nice stout with flavorful hop profile and comes in at an easy to drink 6.2%

Nogne O Toshi Double IPA: $9.49

This latest offering from Nogne is a limitied edition collaboration with Toshi Ishti of Yo-Ho Brewing in Japan. The aroma is big warm citrus, floral, pine with caramel after notes. Taste is a clean, tropical, pine, caramel – balanced IPA. Note: That means it’s not an American northwest version

Alaskan Barleywine 2008: $8.99

!!!GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2007 TORANADO FESTIVAL!!! This A+ brew pours a rich brown with a red tint. The aroma is sweet with cookie dough and chocolate with dark fruit. The head pours well but falls rather quickly. The flavor is toasty up front with sweet malt, plum and raisin fruitiness. The finish is spicy with modest but well balanced hop bitterness. This award winning barleywine should age for 5 years easy and only get better and smother through the years. This barleywine is now in my top three of all time. It has it all flavor, balance and than non-abrasive oomph that is the mark of well-made barleywine. Sure there are stronger, hoppier, or maltier ones but none pull it all together quite as well as Alaskan.

Humboldt Brewing Hemp Ale: $5.64

This is cool, interesting pale ale made with hemp seeds. It pours a redish brown with a thin head. The aroma is of crystal malts, light floral hop and a spiciness that assume is from the seeds. The flavor is mildly of cereal grains and a touch of toffee. The hops are earthy and that spiciness comes through in the flavor. This pale has been a staple of the Humboldt brewing company for many many years and it has been over a decade since we have seen it up here in Oregon.

Mad River Serious Madness: $2.02

This strong ale / stout pours a dark brown almost black with two fingers of tan head. The aroma is pine and herbal hops with chocolate malt. The flavor is cake and caramel in the malt and hops that are spicy, piny, and lemony.

Olfabrikken Winter Porter: $15.79

This big “Winter” porter is brewed with a health amount of honey. The honey is well fermented and gives the beer a mead like quality along with its large roasty character and bitter hop finish.

Sierra Nevada Celebration 2003: $4.29

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale vintage 2003.

Reissdorf Koelsch 5 Liter: $35.75

Kolsch is typically lighter even than Pilsner in color and is often around 5% ABV with a slightly malty, fairly soft palate. The finish is decidedly dry due to its high attenuation and firm hop character. The cleanness is a result of a fairly long, cold maturation of two to six weeks. Nice web site, too bad it is only in German: http://www.reissdorf.de/.

Bridgeport Fallen Friar: $5.24

This is an outstanding Belgian Triple style that has been aged in oak. The color is a golden yellow. The head is a bit thin but laces beautifully. The aroma is sweet with pale malt and candy sugar, very mild fruity hop and a nice fruity (plum, peach) yeast ester. The flavor is bready malt, floral hop, and aforementioned fruit along with some peppery notes and a bit of oak. Bridgeport has done some Belgian styles in the past with mixed success but the Friar is an excellent triple that is spot-on style.

Reissdorf Kolsch 330ml: $3.50

Cascade Lakes IPA: $3.50

From the brewery: For those hop lovers out there, this is the beer for you. It is a traditional American Style I.P.A. featuring a significant amount of Northwest hops balanced with a hefty grain bill. If this beer doesn’t make your taste buds scream hops then we don’t know what will. Grains: 2-Row, Munich, Crystal, Carapils, Hops: Chinook, Amarillo Original Gravity: 1.060 Final Gravity: 1.014 I.B.U.'s: 65 Alcohol: 6.0

Mikkeller Its Alright: $6.02

This wild Belgian ale pours a straw yellow with a light orange. The head is about 1.5 fingers high and settles quick. The aroma is tart and funky with berry, toast and flowery hops. The flavor has a little barn yard, a little horse, a little woody earth with some fragrant hops of flower and grass and a peppery finish.

Huvila Artic Circle Ale: $8.96

This strong ale with juniper pours a medium brown with an amber tint. The head starts at two finger and falls to a thin film. The aroma is slightly sweet with brown malts and chocolate. The flavor has a toffee toasty sweet, a rye piquant, and a juniper woodiness. The juniper that is used is twigs and not berries. That means that it does not taste like gin but takes on a woody mellow earthy like tone. It is a good balance of sweet malt and sharp rye and juniper with a low hop bitterness.

Huvila ESB: $7.18

I’ll have to admit I am a big fan of well made ESB. Many (if not all) of the ESBs we get here in the Northwest are way over hopped. Many of the English ESB we get are too mild but this Finnish version has it all going on. Light maltiness, fruity yeast ester, and just enough bitterness to balance.

Huvila Porter: $8.23

A dark brown with red highlights. The aroma is of cocoa and coffee. The flavor is roasty, heavy black malts with grassy hops.

Pietra Biera Corsa Amber: $3.71

French amber made with chestnuts

Mikkeller Simcoe IPA: $6.02

Copper in color with some floating sediment. The head is about 1.5 inches tall with some decent staying power. The aroma and flavor follow the same path of grapefruit, apricot, grass, and touch of peach. The flavor has all of that along with plenty of bitterness and a spot of peach and spice.

Mikkeller Warrior IPA: $6.02

Hazy golden with a pillowy head with nice retension. The aroma is all about the warrior hops, pine, grapefruit, earth and herbs. The flavor turns more toward the resin side of pine, citrus rind and a peppery finish. The mouthfeel is rather prickly. More aggressive than the Simcoe version.

Baird Dark Sky Imperial Stout: $11.07

Deep dark brown in color. The head is thin and it has a bit of lacing. The aroma is of roasted malts, cherries and sweet prune. The flavor is coffee, hops, fig, with a spicy alcohol tinge.

Baird Shizuoka Natsurnikan Ale: $11.07

Not too sure what a Shizuka Natsumikan fruit is but it makes for a fine beer. A copper amber color with a thin head. The aroma is sweet golden malt with a citrus peel undertone. The flavor is fruity with a mild grapefruit, light hop bitterness and a pale malt sweetness. Don’t think that the grapefruit flavor is like a cascade hop, it is much milder and more straight up fruity.

Achel Trappist Brune: $5.30

Similar in color as the extra, it pours a reddish brown. Bready and sweet upfront it has a plum like fruitiness and a lightly vinous finish. Some compare this to a Belgian double but I do not think that is fair. Brunes tend to be drier in character and not so heavy on the caramels and toffee tones. This is an excellent example.

De Struise Black Albert: $10.13

This 100 IBU 13% “Royal” stout pours inky black with a thin but tight tan head. The aroma is of dark fruit (plum and fig) with espresso and hint of smoky wood. The flavor is heavy roasted malts, those dark fruits, a little molasses with an earthy woody finish. The big body and even bigger alcohol makes this beer a slow sipper but it is enjoyable from first sip to last.

Dansk Old Danish Braggot: $16.21

Braggot is an old, rather obscure style of brew. It is one that I have made at home for many years. It is a sumptuous mix of malted barley and honey. I know many of you are asking how this differs from a “Honey Beer” but the profile is very different. Honey beers are usually a golden or pale ale with honey added, a braggot starts with a malt bill that is high in the brown, caramel, and toffee range, hops that are low or completely absent and when you get a good braggot (like this one) the honey is well fermented and it tastes more like a mead than raw honey. Dansk pulls it all together with a hit of ginger into a brew that is sweet, strong and smooth without being sugary or insipid. This braggot rates an a+ in my book.

Full Sail Imperial Porter: $4.55

An amplified robust porter with a deep black color, a roasty malt flavor and a rich malt wetness that’s smooth and drinkable. A hearty cellar beer. Very Limited Availablity in 22oz Bottles.

Grado Plato Chocarrubica: $15.58

Chocarrubica is a top-fermenting oatmeal stout creation of deep black color. The adding of Venezuelan cocoa beans, carrubs from the island of Sicily , and large amount of oats {over 30%} gives this unusual Italian creation its silky, chocolate, and roasty character.

Karma Premium Lager: $3.86

A clear golden color, this beer pours fizzy with what ends up as a thin head. The aroma is sweet with a bit of citrus hops and gain / corn. The flavor is tart lemony hops with a crisp dry finish.

Himalayan Blue: $3.73

Pale golden in color with a thin head that falls quickly. Herbal in aroma with fresh grain whiffs. Pale malt up front with a bit of grainy husks with herbal zesty hop bitter finish. Dry in the finish with a malt tone that hangs in there.

Great Divide Claymore Scotch: $1.80

Deep dark brown with an ecru head that is not voluminous but has good staying power. The aroma is of smokey chocolate with grassy tobacco hints. The flavor is of roasted barley, peat, molasses and tobacco. A very good, complex scotch ale from the crew at Great divide.

Firestone Union Jack IPA: $5.67

This here is the GABF Gold Medal winner in IPA for 2008, so you know the expectation is high; it doesn’t disappoint. Orange /amber in color, this beer pours with a thin but brilliantly white head. The aroma is pine orange with some caramel. The flavor is grapefruit and pine from the hops with a bread and toffee malt. The finish is dry and bitter like a good IPA should be. It is award winning and well deserved.

BFM Cuvee du 7eme 330ml: $7.91

This amazing beer was created the day we commemorated the 7th anniversary of the Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes. The opening days, held every year on the first Saturday of November, are the opportunity for the brewer to devise a new recipe. This one-off impressed B. United International Inc.'s boss so much that he asked for it to be brewed again just for you lot across the Pond. It is brewed using a combination of 6 aroma hop varieties, which give it a moderate bitterness and a complex bouquet evolving over time. Yes, because Cuvee Du 7eme will improve over time, you should stash it away in a cellar.

Green Flash Double Stout: $6.34

This thick stout pours a deep black. It aroma is chocolaty with roasted barley and coffee. The flavor is on the sweet side of stout with a solid black malt up front with the aforementioned chocolate and coffee and just a hint of molasses. The body is medium but I expected more from watching it pour. The mouthfeel is smooth and silky

Beer Lao Dark: $1.96

This Laotian dark lager is a brilliantly clear light brown. The flavor has the tiniest hint of caramel and a light spice at the finish. It is quite nice, more flavor than most lagers from that area.

Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron: $4.25

This 12% wood aged brown ale pours a chocolate brown color with mahogany edges and a stick light brown head that falls to thin layer. The aroma is fig/prune with hints of wood and vanilla. The flavor is lightly roasty with chocolate, dark fruit, vanilla and a small earthy wood. I could see this beer aging well into the 5 to 10 year range. There are not many beers out there that I can say that about but this has the power, complexity and the aggressive malt profile that will stand the test of time. If you have the fortitude, wax dip a few of these and forget about them for 5 or 6 years, and see if I’m right. I know that’s what I plan to do. Below is the description from Dogfish Head….. An unfiltered, unfettered, unprecedented brown ale aged in handmade wooden brewing vessels. The caramel and vanilla complexity unique to this beer comes from the exotic Paraguayan Palo Santo wood from which these tanks were crafted. Palo Santo means "holy tree" and it's wood has been used in South American wine-making communities. This beer is a 12% abv, highly roasty, and malty brown ale aged on the Palo Santo wood.

Bayern Killarney Red Lager: $1.36

- From The Berwery - Brewed for St. Patrick's Day, Killarney was created to honor the Irish influence on Montana's culture. Brewed first in February of 1988, before other breweries came out with their versions of an Irish red beer, this beer is one of the brewmaster's favorites. It is brewed with two-row Harrington pale, carmel, Munich, wheat and German Dunkel malt. Bayern Killarney has an alc. content of 5.7% alc. vol. (14.2% Plato o.g.)

Bayern Dopplebock 5 Liter: $20.99

- From The Brewery - Doppel means double and this beer is double in every way. Bayern Doppelbock became an instant legend when Bayern introduced it in Missoula in December of 1987. Unlike its top-fermenting counterparts, this hearty German Dark Lager beer does not have the rough bite of a porter or a stout. Bayern Doppelbock is dark, smooth and has plenty of hops (Saaz & Hallertauer Perle) and malt. It has a starting gravity of >18 degrees Plato (7.8 - 8.4% ABV). Bayern Doppelbock is available in bottles and on draft from November through February, just in time for the holidays and the coldest months. Please enjoy this festive beer in moderation and leave your car at home if you are planning to celebrate with Doppelbock.

Bayern Doppelbock: $1.35

Bayern St. Wilbur: $1.36

- From the Brewery - There's nothing better than Bayern's unfiltered Hefeweizen. This Bavarian Hefeweizen ("hefe" means yeast), combines pure wheat flavor with Bayern's own strain of yeast. Bayern's Hefeweizen is hopped moderately with Hallertauer Perle (Germany), the alcohol content is 5.1% alc./volume (13.1 degrees Plato o.g.). We use malted wheat, two-row Harringtion Pale and carmel malt. Hefeweizen was invented in Bavaria and Bayern Brewing's Hefeweizen is one of the very few that is actually brewed as it is in Bavaria and by a Bavarian Brewmaster. So if you are interested in this style of beer, try this one first and see how the other ones compare to the original. At Bayern Brewing we use the recipe of the old "Brauerei zum Schiff" in Kaufbeuren, Germany, a brewery 60 miles southwest of Munich established in 1540. Jürgen Knöller, the owner of Bayern Brewing, apprenticed in this brewery from 1978 to 1981 and brought this original recipe to Missoula in 1987.

Bayern Dancing Trout: $1.36

-From the Brewery- Dancing Trout Ale is a German Wheat Ale, the filtered version of a true Bavarian Hefeweizen. In Bavaria this beer would be called a Kristall-Weizen (Crystal-Wheat) because of its clarity. Dancing Trout Ale is brewed with malted wheat, pale, carmel malt, and hopped with Cascade hops from Yakima, Washinton. Unlike its British and American counterparts, Dancing Trout Ale is brewed in the Bavarian tradition. You are enjoying a beer that has been aged a minimum of 28 days, versus 7-10 days for the average ale. Dancing Trout Ale is not too strong in alcohol (5.4% by volume) moderately hopped and light in color. Unlike many ales, Dancing Trout Ale is mild with no bitter aftertaste! We dedicate this latest addition to our Bayern familiy of quality German beers to helping preserve Montana's trout habitat, one beer at a time.

Bayern Pilsner: $1.35

The term "pilsener" is widely used to describe a number of beers available on the market. According to German criteria for a true pilsener, however, the vast majority of them would be unrecognizable as such. By this definition, a pilsener is a lager beer with a light golden color (5-8 color units by European Brewers' Convention standards), a specific gravity in the 11.5-12.5% Plato range, and a hops content of at least 28 EBUs (European Bitter Units). Most so-called domestic "pilseners" fall far short in these categories; Bayern Pilsener easily meets all three (6 color units, 12% Plato, 34 EBUs). What does all this technical jargon mean? It means you have purchased one of the very few authenic pilseners brewed in America. Reward yourself by enjoying this beer the way it was meant to be served: pour your cold Bayern Pilsener, in two or three slow steps, into the center of your glass (a fluted or "tulip" glass works best). The thick creamy head (the German term for this is "crown") and you have just created the mark of a classic Bavarian pilsener. It is functional, too - the crown holds finely distributed natural carbonation inside the glass and acts as a shelter for this beer's distintive, hoppy flavor..

Rogue Deadliest Ale: $6.11

This hoppy (80 IBU) red ale pours a dark amber with plenty of head and some good lacing. Nice floral hops in the aroma along with some caramel from the malt. The flavor had a solid malt component with tones of caramel, brown sugar and a touch of chocolate. The hops pine and grapefruit with plenty of bitter.

Rogue Sequicentennial Ale: $6.11

Pyramid Rollick: $1.54

This amber lager s orange/copper with little head. Light cystal malt aroma with a whiff of hop bitterness. It has a great soft, medium full body that was a great surprise from a lager (I expected something lighter on the tongue). The flavor is malty and toasty up front with a grassy hop bitterness in the mid to late pallet.

Marin White Knuckle Double IPA: $11.28

This double IPA pours a deep orange with a nice two finger cap and plenty of lace. The aroma is big on the fruity hops with grapefruit, pineapple and orange with some pine. The flavor is big on the resin hop flavors, a touch of smoke, citrus, and a caramel malt backing. An exceptional DIPA. A very limited supply.

Laughing Buddha Pandan Brown: $4.24

Pandan Brown Ale represents a major advancement in Asian style beer. It is a complex beer brewed with palm sugar and pandan leaves, two essential ingredients used in Southeast Asian cuisine. This is a truly unique and flavorful beer that you will enjoy. Pandan Brown Ale is a dark, full-bodied beer that will complement spicy Thai and Indian curries, as well as savory Filipino and Indonesian stews. Style: Brown Ale Ingredients: Crystal malts, chocolate malt, honey malt, palm sugar, pandan leaves, galena hops Alcohol By Volume: 6.0%

Laughing Buddha Mango Weizen: $4.24

Mango Weizen is our refreshing summer seasonal fermented with real mango fruit. The mango is subtle and not overly fruity because there's not artificial flavor added. Inspired by the Indian mango lassi, it can help put out the fire of a spicy curry, or be the perfect accompaniment to a summer barbecue. Style: American Wheat Ale / Fruit Beer Ingredients: Wheat malt, crystal malt, Munich malt, two row barley, mango puree, noble hops Alcohol By Volume: 5.0%

Laughing Buddha Dragon King: $4.24

Dragon King, known across Asia as the protector of the Buddha, a symbol of fortune, and the ruler of the sea. We crafted Dragon King Lager to highlight the best qualities of the famous lager beers of Japan, China, India, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, and the Philippines. It is brewed following the Japanese ichiban shibori, or first press, method of brewing. Dragon King pairs well with sushi, seafood, and stir-fry dishes. Style: Asian Style Lager Ingredients: Crystal malt, two row barley, premium rice, noble hops Alcohol By Volume: 4.5%

Laughing Buddha Ginger Pale: $4.24

Ginger Pale Ale is flavorful beer that pairs brilliantly with a variety of foods. It's wonderful with sushi, Thai dishes, and Peking duck because it cleanses the palate and awakens your taste buds. Brewed like a classic English pale ale, but uniquely with ginger, galangal, and Mandarin orange peel. Style: Pale Ale / Herb Spiced Beer Ingredients: Munich malt, crystal malt, victory malt, two row barley, ginger, galangal, Mandarin orange peel, noble hops Alcohol By Volume: 5.0%

Valentines Day Pack: $37.29

This 3-bottle pack of exceptional products has something for him, her and both. For her we start with a Merlot chocolate infused Port style wine that is sweet and sumptuious. For him we have a barley wine that malty, fruity and hoppy. And for both we have a chocolate stout that is both malty smooth and rich and chocolaty. Not only is it a great pack but you will also save over $5.00 off the retail price, and will be shipped in plenty of time for Valentines Day.

Cascade Lakes Monkey Face Prtr: $1.44

This is a great, very dark brown porter that pours with an ample head but not really any lace. The aroma is of heavily roasted coffee, dark chocolate with a bit of creamy sweetness. It has a medium body and a flavor that has that wonderful roasted barley bite, chocolate and a touch of caramel in the end.

Trentadue Chocolate Amore: $26.00

This decadent merlot style port is infused with chocolate and brought to 18.5%. Fruity and sweet this port style wine rolls over the tongue like velvet and the chocolate is rich and indulgent. This is a dessert that both of you can agree on.

Southern Oregon Porter: $4.24

This wonderful porter has a dry finish with chocolate and coffee flavors with just a hint of smoke at the end. It has a nice hop bitterness at 30 IBUs that come from 5 varieties of hops. Great out of the bottle and even better on tap at the Highland Stillhouse (www.highlandstillhouse.com my favorite hangout)

Sierra Nevada Celebration 2001: $5.42

A limited supply od Sierra Navada's Celebrations is now in stock.

Anchor Christmas Ale 2003: $4.47

A limited supply of vintage Anchor is now available.

Southern Oregon Pale: $4.24

The Rahr 2 row, Crisp Maris Otter and Castle Special B malts balances perfectly with the 35 IBUs from 7 hop varieties.

Southern Oregon Gold: $4.24

Brewed with lager yeast, this gold is easy but tasty with Challenger, Crystal, Sterling, Perles, and Strisselsplat hops. Very clean and crisp with a light lemony finish.

Haand Nissefar: $9.38

This dark Norwegian holiday ale pours a very dark brown almost black. The head is tan and small but leaves a good lace. The aroma is of ripe dark fruits, black roasted malts and a hint of molasses. The flavor is of dark chocolate, anise, cherry with a tart fruity finish.

Laurelwood Vinter Varmer: $5.40

A clear mahogany color with two fingers of head. The aroma is bready/toasty with some fruity hops. The malt flavor is nutty with caramel and the hop flavor is apricot and citrus. This is a tasty warmer that is not as heavy as some and very easy to drink.

Ridgeway Pickled Santa: $5.71

A brilliant copper color with a creamy off white head. The smell is big with the traditional Christmas spices. The flavor is of toasty malt, the aforementioned spices and a touch of hop bitterness at the finish.

Eel River Climax Noel: $6.65

This imperial red pours a dark amber. The head is thick and white with a good lacing. The aroma is flora with caramel malt. Spicy up front with a piney hop and a chewy lightly sweet malt. Not only does it taste good this beer feels good as well. The body is full, soft, and very smooth. Very nice 8% brew.

Full Sail SlipKnot IPA: $3.87

This years Slipknot lives up to its moniker of Imperial IPA and then some. It pours golden in color with a tint of copper. The brew was ampped up to 80 IBUs with Warrior, Simcoe, Crystal and Centennial hops. This gives is a powerful bitterness and a citrus/fruity hop flavor. Although they put in some Crystal and Munich malts into it to add some depth I can not say that is a truly BALANCED brew, but if you are a hophead of the highest order you will truly appreciate the skill and hard work John Harris put in to create this beauty.

JW Lees Harvest Calvados 2006/2007: $10.54

.W.Lees Vintage Harvest Ale is only brewed once a year for release on December 1 of each year. It is a Limited Edition Vintage to celebrate the first brew from each year's harvest of barley and hops. Only the first delivery of the year's classic barley malt 'Maris Otter' and the classic hop variety 'Goldings' from East Kent is therefore used. Fermentation is induced by J.W.Lees 'distinctive three-strain top-fermenting yeast. J.W.Lees Vintage Harvest Ale reaches 11.5 % alc./vol. once completely attenuated with a natural fermentation in open copper lined fermenting vessels that were commissioned in 1876 when the brew house was refurbished [J.W.Lees has been brewing at Greengate Brewery in Middleton Junction for six generations since 1828]. Pale in color it has a warm, estery aroma, a good deal of malty flavors on the palate, and a lot of hoppy dryness in the finish. Aged in apple brandy casks. I currently (1/20) have a case of the 2006 but when I reorder I do believe we will get the 2007 vintage. It is first come first serve

Malheur 10: $10.54

Orange in color with a large fluffy white head with some great lacing. The aroma is lightly malty with apple and citrus. The flavor is fruity with orange, peach and apple with a yeasty hint and a touch of alcohol spice.

Malheur 12: $11.52

This quadruple pours a solid brown with a creamy thin head. The smell is toffee and licorice with a bit of earthiness. The flavor is caramel, anise and raisin with a floral hop. The rich and creamy body is outstanding for its 12%.

Green Flash La Freak: $9.46

Yellow orange in color with a touch of haze and two fingers of white head. The aroma is floral with some grapefruit/orange tones. The flavor is citrus hops up front with Belgian yeast notes and a bitter finish.

Deschutes Jubel Ale: $1.55

Another yearly fav of mine. Dark brown in color, dark malt aromas along with chocolate and caramel. Flavors dominated by roasty malt, chocolate and bitter sweet tones. Very good, as usual. Early in the release the hops are bright and have a pine / juniper flavor. This mellows out as the season progresses.

Firestone Reserve Robust Porte: $5.67

This tasty porter pours a deep brown with a finger or two of head. The smell is roasty and chocolaty. The flavor is bready with cocoa and a ting of black malt.

Rogue Double Dead Guy: $11.29

This potent beer of the dead pours a solid amber with a hint of orange. The head is tall beige and sudsy. The aroma is sweet and malty with caramel and honey tones. The hops come across mainly floral with a touch of fruity apricot. The flavor is smooth despite the 9% and the malt come through as toffee with a hint of nuts and chocolate. The hops are present with some citrus peel and a touch of spice. There is a speck of alcohol twinge at the end but it is not hot and only help dry out the big malt character. Definitely an “A” level brew from the masters at Rogue.

Beer of the Month Club IPAs for 6 months: $18.95

This gift pack provides the recipient with two different IPA 6 packs every month for 6 Months. This pack is $18.95 each month plus shipping and handling. To calculate S&H put 1 in the Qty field and hit the Add to Cart Button. Then click on the Shipping Options button on the left and type in the destination zip code then click the Set Options button. The amount of shipping and handling will be displayed below the Shipping Options button.

Lompoc C-Note: $4.24

*** 12/27 *** The weather is finally back to normal here in Oregon, which means windy and wet for this time of year. We are now trying to catch up on our 2-week backlog of orders. Thank you so much for being patient and we will get the order out as soon as humanly possible. Matt C-Note Imperial Pale - This HUGE Imperial Pale Ale (100 IBU!) is a hop head’s dream. Using Crystal, Cluster, Cascade, Chinook, Centennial, Columbus and Challenger hops. (6.9% a/v) Lompoc is a Portland institution and has been providing Portlanders with craft ales since 1996.

The Bruery Trade Winds Triple: $9.99

Trade Winds Tripel is a Belgian-style Golden Ale with a Southeast Asian twist. Instead of using candi sugar (typical for such a beer), we use rice in the mash to lighten the body and increase the gravity, and spice with Thai Basil. The result is an aromatic, digestible and complex beer. ABV: 8%, IBU: 25, SRM: 5

Lompoc L.S.D.: $4.24

Lompoc Strong Draft - Portland’s new cult beer. LSD is an American strong ale with big body, a touch of smoked malt and a generous hop profile. With its big earthy, piney flavors it is a tasty brew most Portlanders know and love.(6.9% a/v)

The Bruery Orchard White: $8.44

Orchard White is an unfiltered, bottle conditioned Belgian-style witbier. This hazy, straw yellow beer is spiced with coriander, citrus peel and lavender added to the boil and whirlpool. A spicy, fruity yeast strain is used to add complexity, and rolled oats are added for a silky texture. ABV: 5.7%, IBU: 15, SRM: 3

The Bruery Black Orchard: $8.44

Black Orchard is an unfiltered, bottle conditioned Belgian-style black wheat beer, or “black wit”, if you will. This dark but surprisingly light bodied beer is very drinkable while still having character and complexity. Chamomile is added for its floral aroma, while the coriander and citrus peel give the characteristics of a traditional witbier. ABV: 5.7%, IBU: 15, SRM: 26

Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse: $6.34

Classic Berliner Weisse. Tart, wheaty, with a light fruity esther.

Norrebro Julebryg: $11.56

Norrebros Julebryg is a unique Danish style Christmas ale. Dark, spicy, complex and with a sweet finish, it is perfect for the season.

De Proef Kerstmutske: $14.74

De Proef Christmas brew.

Picobrouwerij Podge: $5.29

Creamy with coffee, dark chocolate and roasted malts, dark candi sugar and dry finish.

''T Smisje Kerst: $5.08

Sweet and candied fruit character, a very classic Belgium Christmas brew.

Hitachino Real Ginger: $5.28

Powerfully spicy ginger with a malty solid pale ale.

Rogue Sants Private Reserve: $1.92

Yes, it’s true, if Santa was going to knock back a pint it would be one of these. Deep garnet in color it pours with a rather thin head. The aroma is mainly of piney resinous hop with a little crystal malt. The flavor is lightly bready, caramel malt with plenty of piney hop bitterness (44 IBU). Every year I try and convince my kids that Santa is lactose intolerant and would much rather have a beer like this with his cookies than a pint of 2%.

De Dolle Dulle Teve: $6.13

Spicy, dry and tasty 10% Belgian triple.

Dieu Du Ciel Solstice d hiver: $5.60

Dark and strong, this hoppy winter beer is a touch sweet from a long boil which is gives it a burnt toffee and light coffee flavor. 9.8%

JW Lees Harvest Ale 2006: $7.81

Massive 11.5% caramely goodness.

JW Lees Harvest Port 2007: $9.99

J.W.Lees Vintage Harvest Ale is only brewed once a year for release on December 1 of each year. It is a Limited Edition Vintage to celebrate the first brew from each year's harvest of barley and hops. Only the first delivery of the year's classic barley malt 'Maris Otter' and the classic hop variety 'Goldings' from East Kent is therefore used. Fermentation is induced by J.W.Lees 'distinctive three-strain top-fermenting yeast. J.W.Lees Vintage Harvest Ale reaches 11.5 % alc./vol. once completely attenuated with a natural fermentation in open copper lined fermenting vessels that were commissioned in 1876 when the brew house was refurbished [J.W.Lees has been brewing at Greengate Brewery in Middleton Junction for six generations since 1828]. Pale in color it has a warm, estery aroma, a good deal of malty flavors on the palate, and a lot of hoppy dryness in the finish. Here is some info about the casks it was aged in. Willoughby's Finest Reserve Port [to mature JW Lees Harvest Ale] Specially blended for Willoughby's by Peter Symington, head winemaker at the Symington Family Port Companies, owners of Dow's, Graham's, Warre's and other famous Port shipping houses. This is a "Reserve" quality Port, not of a single vintage but of a superior blend, aged for up to 5 years in wood as opposed to the 2 or 3 years usually allowed for Ruby. It is full bodied, sweet and luscious, reminiscent of the style known in the 19th century as "Blackstrap".

Golden Valley Tannen Bomb: $1.62

Now to me, this is what winter beers are all about. Out of all the winter beers I look forward to this one the most. It has a big malty fruity flavor that just does it for me. Not too hoppy, a light bitterness to finish well but nothing overpowering. The 8% alcohol is smooth but will warm the cockles of your heart. Best served only slightly chilled so as to bring out the smooth malt and play that against the fruity character. I have to give props to Golden Valley for producing a winter beer like no other.

De Struise Pannepot: $8.05

Pannepot is a wonderfully spiced, 10% dark Belgian brew that is everything I expect out of an exceptional Belgian and more. Dark brown in color this beer pours with a massive meringue like head. Sweet fruity aromas that come across fig, pear with spicy notes of cinnamon and a whiff of licorice. The flavor is malty with a touch of sweetness; fig is a major flavor with brown sugar, and hints of chocolate and clove. Great creamy mouth feel and the 10% does not get in the way. A+

De Struise Earthmonk: $15.05

The Earth Monk being an Oud Bruin that pours a brownish red with a medium size head that has some good staying power. The aroma is woody with fruity cherry and a good spicy clove. The flavor is very tart and fruity with hit of grape, oak, cherries, vanilla, and it has malt of caramel and nut. The finish is of light hop and a dry tart lactic. No minimums, no maximums, order away.

Olfabrikken Jule Ale: $10.54

An opaque medium brown color that pours with a sticky tan foam. The aroma is hoppy with citrus rind and a bit of chocolate cookie dough from the malt. The flavor is hoppy with oily grapefruit with some restrained caramel and spice. A great Christmas beer that has more hop presence than most of its imported brethren.

Olfabrikken Kloster Jul: $12.64

Ummmmm, now this is a winter / Christmas beer to savor and cherish. Dark brown in color with mahogany around the edges. The head is very persistent with some amazing lace. That aroma is of heavenly chocolate covered spiced cherries. The flavor, like the aroma, is chocolate along with some same dark fruit and star anise. Do not serve this too cold, as it would do it a great disservice.

Sogaards Julebuk: $9.99

Solid brown in color with some red tints. This spiced bock beer is smooth and malty with the spicing not over the top. The aroma is malty sweet with a cake like quality. The flavor is of toasted bread, slight caramel and a bit of roasty chocolate. It does have a reserved hop finish but you are left with an overall soft malty character.

Legendes Noel des Geants: $4.13

This massivly carbonated Belgian pours amber with a slight haze. The aroma is of candied fruit with spice of anise, clove with a bit of molasses. The flavor is malty sweet with a doughy quality, allspice, cinnamon and a dark fruit ester. The mouthfeel is a bit warming from the alcohol and the overall flavor threshold is not as aggressive as my descriptors may sound. A good example of the fruity Belgian Christmas style.

Three Wise Beers Gift Pack: $30.15

Named for the three wise men. These three beers came from the east bearing gifts of Hops, Spices, and Mustard Seeds. With a 5% discount. [KIT]

Alvinne Gaspar: $5.29

Belgian IPA in style, golden amber in color with a light malting and a big hop flavor, aroma and bitterness. 8% alc/vol Malt: Pilsner, Pale, Chocolate, Wheat, Hops: Challenger, Saaz, East Kent Goldings. Unfiltered, Unpasteurized, bottle-conditioned. Aroma: Fruity with strong hoppy aroma. Flavor/Taste profile: Spicy, malt-sweet, hoppy-bitter palate, with a very very long dry & bitter finish.

Alvinne Melchior: $5.29

Malt: Pilsen, wheat, munich 15, cara 120, Hops: challenger, EK goldings, Saaz, Spices: mustard seeds. Clean, crisp and spicy. The spicy Saaz hops works perfectly with the mustard seed.

Alvinne Balthazar: $5.29

Belgian double style, highly carbonated and brown in color. Rich with flavors of dark fruit and chocolate and highly spiced. Malt: Pilsen, wheat, special B, amber 45, chocolate Hops: Challenger, EK goldings,Candi sugar: dark candi sugar, Spices: ginger, cardemon, coriander.

JW Lees Harvest Sherry 2007: $9.99

J.W.Lees Vintage Harvest Ale is only brewed once a year for release on December 1 of each year. It is a Limited Edition Vintage to celebrate the first brew from each year's harvest of barley and hops. Only the first delivery of the year's classic barley malt 'Maris Otter' and the classic hop variety 'Goldings' from East Kent is therefore used. Fermentation is induced by J.W.Lees 'distinctive three-strain top-fermenting yeast. J.W.Lees Vintage Harvest Ale reaches 11.5 % alc./vol. once completely attenuated with a natural fermentation in open copper lined fermenting vessels that were commissioned in 1876 when the brew house was refurbished [J.W.Lees has been brewing at Greengate Brewery in Middleton Junction for six generations since 1828]. Pale in color it has a warm, estery aroma, a good deal of malty flavors on the palate, and a lot of hoppy dryness in the finish. Here is some info about the casks it was aged in. Willoughby's Rayoso Cream Sherry [to mature JW Lees Harvest Ale] From Emilio Hidalgo in Jerez, this wine is drawn from their 8 year old Oloroso solera, and blended with PX and Moscatel to give the wine a rich, full bodied, sweet character without being cloying. Compared with the UK's leading brand of Cream, Harvey's Bristol Cream, Rayoso is darker, sweeter, fuller and deeper, with a long raisin finish.

Aecht Rauch Biere Urbock: $4.86

Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock is unpasteurized. Fuller and richer in body than the Maerzen, it uses more malt and is matured at least one month longer (1,805 lbs. of smoked malt is swalled up in one batch [one batch= 340 cases].) It is only brewed once a year for the Urbock-celebration at the Schlenkerla tavern in Bamberg in early October

Laughing Dog Cold Nose: $1.74

Brown/amber in color, this winter ale pours with a small off white head. The aroma is of toffee and a light flowery hop. The body is smooth with a medium mouth feel. The flavor is lightly roasty with just a touch of malt sweetness and a very mild bitter finish with a hop flavor of fruit and spice.

Allagash Four: $13.16

This one is one of the best offerings from Allagash. This quadruple is big and tasty. It pour a mahogany color and has a big sticky head. Spicy in the nose with hints of clove, pepper, and bread. The flavor is toasty with plum and apricot fruitiness. It finishes dry with a hit of coriander. Nice and warming at 10% this Belgian style ale will not disappoint.

Firestone Pale 31: $4.55

Golden amber in color this pale pours with a lacy white head. The aroma is of biscuit malt and floral hop with a touch of citrus. The flavor is bready with a hint of caramel. The hops are jasmine and grapefruit with a light but crisp bitter in the finish.

Avery The Kaiser: $9.12

Billed as an Imperial Oktoberfest, I was initially skeptical about it. I figured they would just get the alcohol higher and over hop it but that was just not the case. They did a fine job of pulling off an 9.3% Oktoberfest. A copper beauty that poured with a big head. The malt was big up front with a touch of fruitiness and the flavor moved on to an ample but not over done spicy noble hop character. The body was a little big for an Okt. but its not that surprising considering the amount of malt it takes to get to 9%. The finish is very clean as any good lager should be. A+

't Smisje Plus IPA: $5.29

This 10% Belgian IPA pours a deep gold color with a large rocky head. The aroma is big in the pine – resin hops from the dry hopped Amarillos. The flavor is grassy and citrusy from the Goldings, and Cascade hops as well as the lemon balm. The valerian they have added gives it a dusty earth quality at the finish that makes it like nothing you have had before.

't Smisje Fiori: $5.18

This Belgian spiced amber pours with an ample bright white head. It is made with Pilsner Malt, Caramel malt, Hallertauer, East Kent Goldings, Dark & white candi sugar, vanilla & coriander. This gives it a smooth mellow smokey character with a light body and crisp cirtusy hit from the coriander.

Brew Dog Paradox Port Dundas: $12.11

This imperial stout has been aged in 1966 Port Dundas Scotch whisky casks. Not only does has it retained all of its gloriously roasted and chocolate flavors from the stout; it also has brought on the wonderful vanilla, floral, whisky flavors from the cask. It is subtle, mellow and complex.

Bulmer Strongbow Cider 12 oz: $1.80

Tart crisp and appley. Fizzy and refreshing. This is a dry English cider that is quite thirst quenching and tasty.

Harvistoun Ola Dubh 12 Year: $7.92

Ola Dubh (or ‘Black Oil’) is a collaboration between Harviestoun Brewery and Highland Park. It is based on Harviestoun’s award-winning Old Engine Oil. With more than a stylistic nod to the classic Imperial Porters (and Stouts) of the nineteenth century, this deliciously rich, dark, 8% a.b.v. beer is the first ale to be aged in malt whisky casks from a named distillery and, with traceable casks and numbered bottles with genuine provenance. This one being aged in Highland Park “12 Year Old” casks. Retaining the appearance of used motor oil from which the beer gets its name, it is deep dark brown, dense and oily. On the nose there are notes of true oil and cocoa as well as faint smoke and heathery peat from the whisky casks. Although lighter in body that its appearance suggests, Ola Dubh is pithy, oily, salty and bitter on the palate. The (flavor) is exceptional; burnt and bitter notes with an interplay of late hop characters, orange oil, fruity tartness and then delicate, fragrant smoke.

Harvistoun Ola Dubh 16 Year: $8.96

Ola Dubh (or ‘Black Oil’) is a collaboration between Harviestoun Brewery and Highland Park. It is based on Harviestoun’s award-winning Old Engine Oil. With more than a stylistic nod to the classic Imperial Porters (and Stouts) of the nineteenth century, this deliciously rich, dark, 8% a.b.v. beer is the first ale to be aged in malt whisky casks from a named distillery and, with traceable casks and numbered bottles with genuine provenance. This one being aged in Highland Park “16 Year Old” casks. Retaining the appearance of used motor oil from which the beer gets its name, it is deep dark brown, dense and oily. On the nose there are notes of true oil and cocoa as well as faint smoke and heathery peat from the whisky casks. Although lighter in body that its appearance suggests, Ola Dubh is pithy, oily, salty and bitter on the palate. The (flavor) is exceptional; burnt and bitter notes with an interplay of late hop characters, orange oil, fruity tartness and then delicate, fragrant smoke.

Harvistoun Ola Dubh 30 Year: $13.69

Ola Dubh (or ‘Black Oil’) is a collaboration between Harviestoun Brewery and Highland Park. It is based on Harviestoun’s award-winning Old Engine Oil. With more than a stylistic nod to the classic Imperial Porters (and Stouts) of the nineteenth century, this deliciously rich, dark, 8% a.b.v. beer is the first ale to be aged in malt whisky casks from a named distillery and, with traceable casks and numbered bottles with genuine provenance. This one being aged in Highland Park “30 Year Old” casks. Retaining the appearance of used motor oil from which the beer gets its name, it is deep dark brown, dense and oily. On the nose there are notes of true oil and cocoa as well as faint smoke and heathery peat from the whisky casks. Although lighter in body that its appearance suggests, Ola Dubh is pithy, oily, salty and bitter on the palate. The (flavor) is exceptional; burnt and bitter notes with an interplay of late hop characters, orange oil, fruity tartness and then delicate, fragrant smoke.

Sinebrychoff Porter IV: $4.03

This is an exceptional Finnish Baltic style porter. Big rich and strong this one has a larger roasty character than most porters. It ages well and would be a good addition to any beer cellar. Ingredients: malts (Vienna, Munich, Chocolate, Caramel) , hops (Hallertau, Saaz)

Barley BB 10 750ml: $24.99

(Excerpts from importer) Ingredients: Pale malt, caramel malt, Pilsner malt, Sapa of Cannonau {Boiled wort of Cannonau red wine grapes}, white candi sugar, orange peel, Cascasde, Kent Golding Alc/vol: 10.0% Notes from Lorenzo Dabove: “Our new skillful craft brewers, without an old tradition to follow, are totally free to brew experimental beers using unusual ingredients often strictly linked to their area. This is the case of young Sardinian engineer Nicola Perra who for this extraordinary BB10 uses even sapa (boiled wort) of a renowned local wine called Cannonau. A natural “vinosity” accompanies us along the trip, from the warm and sumptuos scent of caramel, cocoa, dried plum, morello cherry and “strawberry” grapes to the palate rich of complex avors such as caramel, chocolate, liquorice, and plums with notes of sweet dried fruits such as gs and sultana. A typical winter warmer to enjoy before going to sleep but it could be perfect with famous piedmontese boiled meats, with a savory Sardinian sheep’s cheese or with a chocolate or ricotta dessert.”

Hofbrouwerijke Bosprotter: $12.64

Triple in style this Belgian pours a yellow orange color with a big fluffy head. The aroma is big, sweet, and fruity. Peaches, apple and pear work their way in as well as some banana. The hop aroma is grassy. The flavor is sweet with a mélange fruit along with a herbal hop that finished with a mild bitterness.

Royal Challenge: $3.86

This light yellow lager from India pours with little head. The aroma is grainy malt and floral hops. The flavor is lightly sweet with corn and biscuit flavors. The hops are a touch fruity with just a twinge of bitterness at the finish.

Krait Prestige Champagne Lager: $8.17

This Champagne style lager is brewed in Belgium and pours a pale golden color. It has a great head that leaves plenty of lace. The aroma is clean and very floral with powdery grains. The flavor is sweet pale malt and honey with the hops coming through as floral and herbaceous with a hint of bitter.

Bieres 23 Biere de Mars: $12.63

This saison is a beautiful bright gold color. Its carbonation is high but the head is small and bubbly. The aroma is lemony and minty. An easy tartness up front with a light pale malt flavor. The hops are herbal and have a good bitterness for a saison. There is a light earthiness at the finish and the mouth feel is light and pillowy from the high carbonation.

Bieres 23 Ambree: $12.63

This biere de garde style pours a hazy copper color. The head is large but settles down to a thin layer but leaves some nice lacing as it does. The aroma is fruity with notes of current and spice with some earthiness to boot. The flavor is malty caramel with sweet fruit esters and spicy herbal hops. The finish is dry with the earthy / funky tones one expects from a biere de garde.

Beer of the Month - Pride of the NW #1: $18.95

This beer of the month contract provides 2 six-packs each month for 12 months. The beers selected will be from the best Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska has to offer. Brands such as Deschutes, Pike, Alaskan and many others. Each month will be billed separately at a cost of $18.95 plus shipping and handling. To calculate S&H put 1 in the Qty field and hit the Add to Cart Button. Then click on the Shipping Options button on the left and type in the destination zip code then click the Set Options button. The amount of shipping and handling will be displayed below the Shipping Options button.

Serafijn Triple: $7.05

Deep gold in color with a good dense head. Its aroma is floral with honey and ginger. The flavor is sweet and fruity with some earthy hops and a spicy kick.

Serafijn Celtic Angel: $6.38

This Belgian brew pours a golden red with 2 fingers of sticky foam. The aroma is bready with some spice and the flavor is malty with a coriander and cinnamon spice.

Haand Dobbel Dram: $9.90

This Norwegian double IPA is orange / copper in color is a sudsy head that settles into a thin layer. The aroma is of lemony / tangerine hops with a floral bent. The flavor is lightly sweet with caramel and a touch of brown sugar (no it is not as sweet as those descriptors might make you believe but that is what I taste) with a tangy spicy bitter finish from the hops. Although this great 9 %er is quite bitter, it has a compelling drinkability.

Brew Dog Paradox CaolIslay 006: $12.11

These beers are highly limited runs of Brew Dog’s Imperial Stout that they have aged in some phenomenal Scotch casks. These brews draw a ton of flavor from the casks and will age well for a long time. Imperial Stout aged in 1989 Caol Islay casks.

Wolavers Pumpkin Ale: $1.61

Glowing orange amber color, it pours with two fingers of head. Light tart and pumpkin fruity with spicyclove hints

Avery Ale to the Chief: $9.49

This copper orange brew pours with a sticky medium sized head that leaves plenty of lace. Big hoppy aroma with piney, leafy, and lemony hops. The flavor has a caremel malting up front with a fruity apricot, pineapple hit and resiny, grapefruit hop notes. The bitterness is strong but not harsh and mostly in the back.

Jerome Golden Archangel: $11.80

This tasty 9% Belgian style from Argentina pours a crystal orange yellow with two finger of foam. The aroma is fruity and yeasty with apple and raspberry. The malt flavor is bready and the yeast / hop is fruity. The body is light and crisp

Hamms: $0.86

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Dupont Moinette Blond: $11.59

Hazy yellow in color MASSIVE rocky head that leave a true lacing down the glass. The aroma is spicy with coriander, pepper and a touch of clove. The yeast brings the traditional Sasion earthiness along with a complex but not overly strong fruity component. The hops a light and grassy and the finish is dusty and dry.

Norrebro Old Odense: $14.98

This gruit beer pours a light orange color with a touch of haze with a small off white head. The aroma is of tart berry and citrus fruit with a mélange of spices. The flavor is herbal and spicy up front then moves into pale malt and maple. It does have a tart hit in the finish but is still quite smooth. This non-hopped spice brew is unique and tasty. Here is an excerpt from the Shelton Brothers Import site. ------------------- Nørrebro Bryghus Launches Old Odense Ale – A Unique Beer Created in a Unique Way! It is with great pride and pleasure that Nørrebro Bryghus hereby announces that Old Odense Ale – a truly unique, challenging and charming beer, created as a joint brewing project between Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head and Nørrebro Bryghus – is now available through selected outlets in the US. The Beer Old Odense Ale is a 7.5 ABV beer that defies any known beer style or category. On the label we describe it as “Ale brewed with maple syrup and herbs”. But this says precious little about this bright and copper coloured beer with a very sparse and fragile head. The aroma is extremely complex and spicy, with notes of anis, tobacco, brettanomyces, leather and dried fruits. The body is rich and with a delicate sweetness that balances the sour tartness, making it far more accessible than a Belgian lambic, which would be the only well known style to which one could possibly compare Old Odense Ale. The Creation Following an initial contact between Sam Calagione and us at Nørrebro Bryghus, we agreed that Sam would visit Nørrebro Bryghus and do a guest brew in June 2007, and when we started discussing which beer to brew, Sam was quite adamant that it be an old, traditional Danish beer style. We therefore unearthed the obscure ‘Odense Old Style Ale’ web page with a translation of a 15th century pre-hop era gruit ale recipe from the town of Odense, and the process of converting this into something that might be brewed on a modern brewing system commenced. Not an easy task, which this list of ingredients might illustrate: Pale and dark barley malt, oats, fine syrup (in our translation: maple syrup form Sam’s dad’s farm in Massachusetts), smoked dark syrup, fir branches and fir bark, wood sage, hyssop, blackthorn berries, woodruff and star spice. The actual brewing of this beer was as fun as it was crazy and nerve-racking – stuff for an entire article (that actually has been written, but is yet to be published). Suffice to say here, that the amazing souring of the beer, that happened within 48 hours of fermentation, must be due to the potent ‘herbal juice’ hand squeezed by our honoured guest brewer from the herbs in the 7 huge gauze bags, and added to the wort kettle during the boil. How do I get hold of ‘Old Odense Ale’? Old Odense Ale is available in the US through our importer, Shelton Brothers of Belchertown, MA (www.sheltonbrothers.com). And don’t worry – the FDA has received samples for analysis for toxic substances (!) and has given us the green light to sell the beer in the US. Who and what is Nørrebro Bryghus? In September 2003 Nørrebro Bryghus opened its combined brewery, restaurant and bar in a former metal workshop close to downtown Copenhagen. The mission from day one was to contribute to a new evolution and expansion of the Danish beer culture. The Nørrebro Bryghus concept is based on creating the total experience – great beers, modern beer cuisine, excellent service in a unique ambience surrounded by award winning design and contemporary architecture. As it is the vision of Nørrebro Bryghus to supply quality beer to any venue where the customers expect the very best in craft beer, we launched our beers on bottles and kegs in 2006. Export began in 2007 with Sweden, Finland and the USA as the first markets importing Nørrebro Bryghus beers. As the first Danish craft brewery, Nørrebro Bryghus won two bronze medals at the 2008 World Beer Cup® in San Diego. Anders Kissmeyer, August 2008

Norrebro North Bridge Extreme: $15.21

Clear copper with a thick white head with good retention. The aroma is big spicy, herbal hops. The flavor is a bit sweet with some caramel and licorice along with a big bitterness and earthy, herbal hops. The finish is a lingering bitterness. At 9.6% this Imperial IPA is mainly for the hopheads

Norrebro Skargaards Porter: $14.98

Nice black color with a light tan head. Big coffee licorice aroma with an earthy hop. The flavor is roasty, nutty, caramel, and honey. The hop bitterness is pronounced.

Norrebro Little Korkny: $22.55

This Danish barley wine style ale pours a rich brown with a tint of red. The head is thin but that is to be expected from the low carbonation. The aromas are of dark fruit (fig, plum) chocolate and sweet malt. The flavor comes across as toffee and caramel with ripe fruit and toasty malt. The full and heavy mouth feel makes for a fine creamy sipping brew and that is backed up by it being 12.5%.

Russian River Damnation: $10.49

This Belgian Pale pours a bright yellow with an enormous head that falls very slowly. The aroma is bread/cake in malt with a fruity banana ester. The flavor comes across a bit doughy up front with plenty of fruity pear, spicy pepper, with a light, bright tart hop finish. A very tasty, easy to drink Belgian style.

Baird Rising Sun Pale: $5.29

Hazy orange in color, this bottle conditioned pale pours with a dense off white head. The aroma wafts up hoppy with orange and flowers. A petite bready caramel malt flavor swims along side of a torrent of fruity hops that are tangerine, cumquat and a yeast ether of cherry. This is both unique and intriguing it is not your typical pale. A+

Saint Somewhere Lectio Divina: $11.59

This Belgian Pale pours a peachy orange color with a massive foamy head. The aroma is candy sugar sweet with a massive, complex fruity character that is plum, ginger, peach, banana, and clove. The flavor is also fruity and spicy as above along with some caramel, cardamom, grapefruit hops and a rummy fruity finish.

Saint Somewhere Saison Athene: $11.59

This aromatic saison style brew pours a honey gold with a good head. The aroma is fruity pear with candy sugar, jasmine and spice. The flavor is of sweet ripe apple, dry earthiness and a peppery cinnamon finish. A very well put together saison.

Speakeasy White Lightning: $1.78

This beer is an American take on the Belgian Wit style. Golden in color with a fizzy head this beer has the orange coriander spiciness but without the free floating yeast (read filtered) or the cloudy unmalted wheat. What Kristal Weisse is to a Hefe Weisse; White Lighting is to a Wit. That is, all of the flavors are there and with it being filtered it makes the body light and the finish crisper and more refreshing. Not a classic Wit but it is even more refreshing on these warm summer days.

Baron Rumpelstiltskin: $13.51

Deep brown / mahogany in color with a thin tan head. This 9.5% Rauch Doppelbock comes with whiffs of fruit and a light roasted malt that is hidden behind the large rolling smoke aroma. The flavor has a grape plum hit up front with a chocolate and smoke finish.

Baron Rauchbier: $3.97

This smoked lager pours an amber yellow color with a thin but creamy head. The aroma is predominately smokey with an underlying pale malt. The flavor is lightly malt sweet with that great rauch malt smoke and a spicy herbal hop. The body is on the light side (which is nice) and the carbonation gives it a pillowy texture. So cook up some snitzel or a nice weissewurst and nock it back with this quite authentic German style Rauch.

Baron Uber-Weisse: $4.92

This Weizen Bock is cloudy brown with a medium bubbly head. The aroma is chocolaty malt with yeasty banana and clove notes. The flavor is of roasty caramel, cherries, and wheat graininess. The lower carbonation gives it a smooth medium body.

Baird Angry Boy Brown: $5.29

This beer has a deep brown with red highlights and a sticky, lacey head. The aroms is malty sweet with dried fruit and floral hops. The flavor is roasty with creamy chocolate and a tart fruity hop finish.

Baird RedRose Amber: $5.29

Its very dark amber color makes for a tan brownish head that is creamy and long lasting. The aroma is sweet with a fruity component along with a spicy citrus hop. The flavor is fruity with dark crystal and biscuit malts. The hops are there is a light drying giger quality.

Gouden Carolus Cuvee Van De Keizer: $12.65

Whoa Mamma!!! This is everything a Belgian grand cru should be, that is strong - 11%, sweet, and a massive fruity ester. Tasting of figs, dark cherries and candied fruit. If you are a Belgo-phile like me you absolutely must get this one.

Brew Dog Rip Tide: $11.59

This inky black brew pours brown around the edges with a tan head. The aroma is of dark roasted grain with licorice, espresso and dry dark cocoa. The flavor has coffee, creamy chocolate, and molasses. The mouthfeel is full and the finish is long and roasty with a touch of hop bitter.

Redstone Boysenberry Nectar: $15.75

This melomel pours a beautiful pink / purple color. The flavor is crisp lightly sweet and honey and fruity. The boysenberry is tasty but not overdone as the honey flavor is well balanced with the fruit. The body is lighter than many fruit meads, which makes it a highly refreshing melomel.

Mikkeller Draft Bear: $15.16

Amber gold in color the “Bear” pours with a sticky massive head. The aroma is of grassy and herbal hops than then moves on to sweet honey-ish pale malt. The flavor of this imperial pilsner style brew is of spicy herbal hops along with some hey, lemon zest and caramel. Serve fairly cold to keep the lively carbonation in check and bring the wonderful hops to the forefront.

Rogue XS Imperial Porter: $16.91

Pours a deep black with a tan head that settles into a thin layer. The aroma is grassy hops, with toffee, coffee and molasses. Big smooth mouth-feel with the flavors of sweet licorice, roasted black malt, smoky, and creamy chocolate with a medium bitter finish. Great Baltic porter style.

New Belgium Fat Tire Can: $1.55

Famous, malty, smooth amber ale. Now in a convenient can, take it to the golf course, rafting, camping, backpacking.

Grand Teton Au Naturale: $1.80

Bronze in color with a thin head. The aroma is of flowers, hay and a touch of honey. The flavor is lemony hops and sweet bready malt.

Grand Teton Bitch Creek ESB: $1.92

Deep ruby / orange in color this esb pours with a thin but dense head. The aroma is of floral hops and a touch of caramel. The flavor is fruity with an easy plum, pear quality. The hop flavor is floral and minty. The malt is a bit sweet and toffeeish with a light nutty hint. The finish is straight up hop bitter. Not the shocking, overwhelming kind but the sit up and take notice kind.

Grand Teton Sweet Grass IPA: $1.91

An amber brew with some gold around the edges, it pours with a thing bubbly head. The aroma is mild and of citrus and grass hops with a grainy malt. The flavor is a touch grapefruit; pale malt sweetness and a dry tea hop finish.

Erie Sunshine Wit: $1.62

This Pennsylvanian wit is cloudy yellow with an easy wheat and coriander flavor. Lightly spicy and sweet.

Green Flash Hop Head Red: $2.15

Amber / red in color this dry hopped red ale pours with a fluffy off white head that settles quickly. The aroma is of resinous hops and toasty biscuit malt. Piney leafy hop flavor up front with a good showing from the malt before the finish ends with a medium bitterness.

Erie Presque Isle: $1.62

Grassy hops with bit of lemon zest and pale grainy malt. Clean pilsner character with a light easy body.

Erie Railbender Ale: $1.62

Copper in color this Scottish style ale pours with a sparse but lacy head. The aroma is sweet with a touch of smoke and candy. The flavor is malty and bready with a little more prickly carbonation than one would expect from a flavor profile such as this.

Laughing Dog Dogzilla: $4.24

Dogzilla is a black IPA that pours a black/brown with an ample dense head. The hops are big with a piney / citrus aroma and flavor from the abundant Simcoe and cascades. The malt is well on the dry side and has a great roasty finish.

Firestone Double Barrel Ale: $4.55

Amber in color and more of a amber/pale in style. It pours with a thin head that laces fairly well. The aroma is of smooth caramel. The flavor is bready in the malt and herbal in the hops. There are notes of wood and berries in the finish. The barrel provides some nice subtle complexity without being too much.

Hinano Tahiti 16.9oz: $2.85

This brilliant yellow gold lager pours with a two finger sudsy head that leaves some lacing. Lightly grainy sweet with a herbal hop flavor and a light grassy bitter finish. (Sold by the case only.)

Jolly Pumpkin E.S. Bam: $10.54

Heavy amber/red in color it pours with a creamy beige head. With a hop prominent nose the aroma comes across fruity (berry) and earthy. The flavor is malty up front with brown malt and caramel flavors. It has the tell tale Jolly P. tartness along with a bit of pepper and citrus zest; with an earthy hop bitter finish. The lively carbonation gives it a light fluffy body. The flavors are well match and the drinkability is high.

Stone 12th Anniversary Ale: $7.55

We are now taking order for the Stone 12th Anniversary Ale. We should have it in shop on the 9th. Here is what the brewery has to say about it. “Our Anniversary Ale this year stems from 2 pilot beers that were brewed by members of Team Stone. The first was Jeremy Moynier’s incredibly delicious Oatmeal Stout, and the second was Jake Ratzke’s amazing homebrewed Imperial Stout that had authentic Oaxacan chocolate added to the boil. We loved both beers so much that we decided to combine the recipes to make this year’s Anniversary offering: Stone 12th Anniversary Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout. This beer pours deep black with a rich brown head of foam. The aroma is dominated by roast malt and cocoa. Upon tasting, the cocoa (we used unsweetened, unprocessed cacao sourced through our friends at Chuao Chocolatier) really comes through with a deep chocolate flavor and a long lasting bitter finish. The roasted grains used add coffee and licorice accents. It is a thick beer, but not sweet, with the addition of oatmeal in the mash providing a rich, silky mouthfeel that adds to the creamy texture.”

Brew Dog Hardcore IPA: $11.59

I totally dig this beer. If you think about what you would expect from a Scottish Imperial IPA this beer hits the mark. Ok, when I think of Scottish beer I think of a beer that is malty. This beer is that, it has plenty of sweet pale malt to go along with its respectable hop quantity that is required for an IPA. The hops present themselves in an orange and grassy aroma and flavor. With higher gravity Scottish beers you tend to find some amount of diacetyl. This is a yeast product that imparts a buttery/butterscotch flavor. Now this is not normally found in IPAs but it does make for an enjoyable, unique flavor profile. The other thing I expect out of a Scottish beer is fairly low hop bitterness. That is not to say that Hard Core has low hop bitterness because it would not be an imperial IPA if it had. What I am saying is that the 65 to 75 IBUs balances well with the malt but is not the tongue scrapingly 90+ you find in most American Imperial IPAs. Even if you are a total hophead I think if you honestly evaluate the sensory experience that Hard Core provides, you will come to enjoy it as much as I have.

Brew Dog Paradox Glen Moray 1991 005: $12.11

Brew Dog Paradox Imperial Speyside 1998 010: $12.11

Brew Dog Paradox Glen Grant 1970 003: $12.11

Rogue XS Brewers Ale 2008: $21.41

AKA "Brew Dawg" This excellent brown/orange brew has it all going on; more than it fair share of hops with plenty of malt to go with it and a respectable alcohol content that is well masked by the high flavor profile. It’s sort of an “Arrogant Bastard” on steroids. This 9%er pours with a small tight head. It has plenty of Melanoidin and high lovabond crystal malts along with Simco and Centennial hops. The aroma is a mix of orange, cake and caramel. The flavor has a sweet malty base but it’s the 106 IBU hops that dominate the profile. With grassy orange flavor notes and a powerful bitterness at the end, the finish is quite dry

Chateau Lorane Vandal Gold: $16.32

I have always loved this exquisite offering from Chateau Lorane and this years bottling has top all pervious vintages. This traditional mead pours a deep gold / orange color. By far one of the darkest I have seen available. The aroma is bright and lively up front with a sweet mead character and woody earthy tones from the buckwheat honey. The flavor starts off honey sweet then the acidity comes in to balance it out it moves to those wonderful subtle buckwheat tones and finishes with just a hint of mint. This mead has a unique flavors profile. It is sweet but well balanced and has a nice body without ending sticky. A+

Innstadt Original Edelsud: $3.74

Golden with a medium sudsy head that falls quickly. Up front the flavors are biscuit and pale malt with a finish of lightly spicy grassy hops. The bitterness it not big but is enough to cover for the up from malt.

Innstadt d Inn Staade: $4.02

This lightly amber lager has a nice head that sits well on the top. The aroma is malty with bread / cake quality. The flavor is malty like the aroma with an easy pear and spice flavor. Easy crisp and clean just like any good lager should be.

Track Town Triple Jump: $5.61

This Eugene City pale ale pours amber and golden with a thin head. The aroma is light and of flowers and oranges. It has a good bitterness for a pale. The mouth feel is a tad slick after the bitter start while the flavor is of lightly toasted malt and grassy and orange hops.

Track Town 200 Meter Ale: $5.61

This NW IPA pours orange with a big creamy head. The aroma is of citrus hop with a malty underpinning. The flavor has grapefruit and resinous hops and a pale and crystal malt to go along with it. One rock solid IPA.

Innstadt Doppelbock: $4.02

Light brown in color with amber around the edges its heads starts well but falls to a skinny layer. The aroma and flavor are match in that they both have qualities of nut, cake, smoke and a touch of raisin. Sweet but not sticky, tasty and easy to drink. Not the powerhouse like an Ayaniger but more tasty than a Paulaner.

Innstadt Bock Weisse: $4.02

This beautiful beer pours a clear red-orange with a ting of brown. The head starts big but does thin out. The aroma is bready with cloves and a hint of caramel. The flavor is sweet and fruity with doughy malt, aforementioned caramel and a tough of banana ester. The hops are there but not prominent, they give a nice bitter to wipe off the sweet but the banana comes back at the end and lingers just a while.

Ninkasi Believer Double Red: $4.24

Dark amber / red in color, its aroma is hoppy upfront with toasted malts. The flavor is well bittered with a citrusy earthy hop. The malt is lightly of chocolate cake and bread. I’m a big fan of the Believer as it is aggressively flavored but well balanced malt to hops.

Dogfish Head Fort: $18.95

Leave it to Dogfish Head to make an 18% fruit beer. This HUGE on the raspberries. Start to finish it is all about the fruit with a spicy kick at the end. It could use a little aging to clamp down the heat at the end but it should smooth out nicely.

Dogfish Head Black and Blue: $13.68

This 10% brew is made with black Raspberries and blueberries. It pouts red with a small head. The aroma is berry sweet. The flavor is sweet and fruity with wine tones and a spicy alcohol hit. An aggressive fruit beer in many ways, just like you would expect from Dogfish Head.

Mikkeller Black: $17.36

Well…it’s black in color (yep) with a brown head. Aroma is big heavy roast malt and sweet chocolate. The flavor is sweet with fruit, licorice, pepper, chocolate and alcohol. This 17.5% monster imperial stout is quite a beer to behold and not to be taken lightly.

Terminal Gravity ESG: $1.71

Bright light golden in color this “Extra Special Golden” has a pale malt aroma with a light floral hop. The flavor is a touch malty and grainy up front with an easy hop bitterness and a tangerine and grass flavor.

Dieu du Ciel Derniere Volonte: $5.29

A dry hopped Belgian Pale style it pours a light golden color with a small white head. The aroma is of noble hops and dry pale malt. The flavor is of biscuit malt, yeasty bread and a nice floral hop bitterness.

Dieu du Ciel Peche Mortel: $5.71

If one is looking for an awesome coffee beer experience, you can not do better then the Peche Mortel. Speedway is an excelent stout with coffee but the Peche is an excelent coffee with stout. And at 9.5% is has enough power to age well and packs a good punch. Don't just take my word for it, check out what they have to say about it over at BeerAdvocate.com http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1141/10325/?ba=bros

Dieu du Ciel Corne du Diablo: $4.76

This IPA pours an amber / orange color with a thick white head. The aroma is of fruity and floral hops along with a touch of sweet malt and nut. The flavor starts appropriately bitter with fruity and citrus hop notes. The malt does not get in the way of the hops and comes through with a hint of caramel and nut. It is a rock solid IPA that is notched above the standard Cascade fest (if you know what I mean).

Dogfish Head Red and White: $13.68

This brew is a 10% Wit style brewed with Pinot Noir Juice, and aged in Pinot barrels and on oak staves. Red orange in color it pours with a white head. The aroma is big with cherry fruitiness. The flavor is sweet with vanilla, oak and orange peel. It has a mild bitter finish with an alcohol spiciness.

Gayant la Divine: $10.54

This Bier de Garde style has a straightforward earthy quality along with a light body and a golden malt flavor.

Gayant la Goudale: $10.54

This is a spicy lightly hoppy lager that presents itself as more of a Belgian Blond ale. Golden in color with a big head that falls quickly. The flavor is lightly sweet with a gingery spice and a medium hop bitterness.

Klein Erik de Noorman: $14.90

Barleywine Dutch style. It pours amber with golden edges. The head is big with a medium persistence. The smell is fresh with a yeasty grape, biscuit malt and grass hop. The flavor has a light toffee sweet malt along with some bread. The hop flavor is low but the yeast fruitiness comes though in the way of orange, apple and a light coriander. Although not the darker brown style of barleywine we all might be used to, this fruity strong import is quite a treat.

Montegioco Quarta Runa: $22.49

The peaches are added during fermentation when the activity of the yeasts reaches the maximum vigor. The peaches are heated to 200° Celsius in an oven before being added in order to increase the flavor intensity of the wild peaches and eliminate the wild yeasts.

Malheur Brut Reserve: $27.99

This oak aged brew has an aroma that is big with peach, floral, orange, vanilla, lemon and a grassy herbal hop. The flavor fruity with apple, pear and a peppery spiciness with clove and cardamom. More hops than I expected and big dry finish with high carbonation that has a fluffy pillowy mouth feel.

Innstadt Neues Helles: $4.02

Light straw in color with a with a tight creamy head. The aroma is mostly of pale malt. Lightly sweet with a fresh noble hop showing. This is a great Helles and what makes a great Helles is the perfect balance of very subtle flavors of malt and hops. No matter what any brewer / marketing dolt does there will never be an imperial Helles it is a contradiction in term and style. The Helles style by definition has a low flavor threshold so it should not be marked down for not being bold or assertive but rather it should be judged for its light, clean lager body and subtle interplay between flavors.

Innstadt Weise: $4.02

This Weise bier pours a cloudy yellow with an appropriately massive head. The aroma and flavor is crisp with wheaty lemon and ester banana. Yeasty with a smooth mouth feel just a mention of spice. I really like this one and go back to it time and again.

Roots Island Red: $5.42

Deep mahogany red in color pours with two fingers of head. The aroma is grassy and earthy with dark crystal malts. Nice hop bitterness in the front flavor with a light caramel and plum fruitiness.

Malheur Dark Brut: $27.99

Another oak aged Belgian it is dark dark brown in color with a creamy tan head. Its aroma has a sherry quality with a fruity vinous tone, vanilla and a touch of oak. The flavor has a coffee, cherries, apricot and earthy wood tones. Big prickly carbonation with 12%.

Apis Bernardynski: $13.48

This chokeberry melomel pours a light golden color. The aroma is vinous and tart. The body is light and the flavor is tart and fruity kind of cherry raspberry mix. The honey provides a sweet cinnamon spiciness to the mix. The finish is light with a bit of drying tannins. The chokeberries give it a wonderfully unique flavor and the light body is unlike all of the other Polish meads I have tried.

Apis Kurpiowski 5 year: $20.98

This blackcurrant melomel pours amber with a pink hue. The aroma is lightly tart with currant and the honey comes through with a minty quality. The flavors start honey smooth but the current comes on quickly and leaves a nice tart finish. Definitely a sweet mead but the currants do their part to try and balance it out.

Track Town 100 Meter Ale: $5.61

Amber in color with slender off white head. Carmel malt nose with a pine hop. The flavor follows the aroma with a good bitter finish. Billed as a “India Style Red Ale” and that describes it quite well.

Barons Black Wattle: $1.05

Dark amber / brown color with a bubbly medium head. Roasty malts in the aroma with a light fruitiness and a bit of earthiness. The flavor is nutty with an easy malt sweetness. The finish as that light fruitiness (grape??), with a drying bitterness. This beer is an effortlessly enjoyable brew. Not too sweet, good complexity, not overly bitter with a great finish.

Snow Beauty Nigori: $9.43

This unfiltered sake pours very opaque milk-like white. The aroma is earthy and creamy with a slight tartness. The texture has a fine granular about it. The flavor starts with a light tartness. The creamy/smooth/grainy flavors come forward but die back leaving the tartness. The tartness does dissapear after about 5 seconds leaving a very clean finish. The tart, creamy, tart flavor profile is fun and tasty.

Jolly Pumpkin Maracaibo Especial: $14.73

This “Special Brown Ale” comes in a 7.5% and is made with cacao nibs and spices. Being a sour Belgian style it may not be for everyone. But for those of us who do enjoy a tart crisp brew this is pretty neat. The aroma is tart with fruity cinnamon notes. It does have a medium body to it but the tartness quickly overcomes it and lifts it off your tongue. There is a sweetness in there along with a “very ripe fruit” flavor, banana, spices and light chocolate.

De Proef Signature Ale: $14.73

Orange gold in color this beer pours with a huge rocky head. The character is of lemon zest, orange, grass, and floral hop. The malt is bready and a little sweet. Spicy and resinous with the nicely funky brettanomyces. Great 8.5% Belgian.

Jaros AM 5 Year: $29.98

This dwojniak style metheglin (mead with herbs) is one part honey to one part water and aged five years in oak. Golden amber in color the aroma has a slightly woody herbaceous quality as well as an almost tropical (mango / pineapple) aroma from the honey. Big sweet up from that moves into a light candied lemon tartness and a spicy herbal finish.

Snoqualmie Falls Steam Train: $4.24

It very very dark brown, almost black. The head is small but creamy head with tight bubbles. The aroma is of dark chocolate, coffee, roasted malt, with a touch of leafy hop and yeastiness. The flavor flows the aromas along with some additional current, anise and earth hops. An excellent example of the robust porter style.

Beer Valley Pigskin Pale: $3.19

Light golden in color it pours with a large frothy head. The aroma is of citrus and pine with a smidgen of malt. The flavor is good balance of malt toasty sweetness and hop bitter with citrus rind and pine. A standup APA with an exceptional fresh hop showing.

Beer Valley Leafer Madness: $7.08

This 9% "Imperial Pale Ale" is copper in color with little head. The aroma is big on tangerine / orange maybe with a little bread in the way of malt. The flavor sweet fruit hops at the start, mid-pallet changed to an aggressive grassy hop and the finish spicy with a medium bitterness and a light body. An outstanding brew that is both tasty and refreshing.

Momokawa Ruby: $13.48

With a SMV rating of zero, this sake wedges itself right in between sweet and dry. Admittedly this one is sweeter than most other Junmai Gingos I have tried. Sweeter tropical flavors dominate with melon and guava. For me this one can stand-alone or be paired with milder foods like chicken and pork. Junmai Ginjo milled to 60% and 15.5% alcohol.

Momokawa Silver: $13.48

The Silver is drier than the Momokawa Diamond with the Silver being a SMV +7. his sake has a big nose that is crisp with pear, tart apple and steely mineral notes. It is an exquisite pairing with lighter fair and will enhance the flavor of many fish, vegetables and some shellfish without overpowering. It is a Junmai Ginjo milled to 60% and an alcohol of 14.8% and made fresh right here in Oregon.

Momokawa Diamond: $13.48

Semi dry (for a sake) with fruity melon tones as well as an earthy mineral quality. This quality Junmai Ginjo is milled to 60%, 14.8% and made fresh right here in Oregon.

Lurgashall Tower Of London: $30.75

Ok I’ll admit it, this is the kind of stuff I still get really excited about. Get ready for this, it is mead fortified with scotch. A wonderfully semi sweet mead mixed with a plumy, low (no) peat scotch. The aroma is rather perfumey, kind of lavender / baby powder along with the big honey and fruity smells. The flavor is honey up front with plum and apricot next and then moves into woody tones and has a slightly tannic finish. It may be 20% alcohol but you would never know it. I served it chilled and it had NO heat to it at all. Only rich honey fruit tones and went down all too easy.

Samichlaus Helles: $6.34

Highly carbonated and pale golden in color. Fruity brandy soaked fruit aromas with apples, vanilla, and pear. The flavor is intense, grainy and honey. The mouthfeel is big and smooth and 14% and tasty and one big ass beer that will age well and it is nice to see this beer back into the Samichlaus lineup

Kasteel Donker-Foncee (Brown): $10.53

This beer is one of my all time favorites. This rich smooth sweet brown Belgian rankes up there with Rochfort 10, Chimay Grand Reserve, and a fresh Zatte Bie. Dark brown in color this beers aroma is caramel, figs with a lightly tart fruit. The flavor is prune, caramel, raisin, figs, and cinnamon. Smooth, rich and sweet and at 11% it is kind of like the port wine of beers.

Henry Weinhards Blue Boar Ale: $1.05

Light copper in color with a light grassy hop aroma. Pale malt flavor up front with slight bitter finish. If you are looking for something that is easy to drink and want to get away from the big hopped ales one usually finds on the shelves today, this is the one.

Kasteel Rogue: $10.53

This is a cherry infused Belgian brown. Brown bread, caramel and big cherry. Sweet fruity and delicious.

Nieuw Ligt Nijmegen: $25.55

This massive grand cru pours orange / amber with low carbonation and head. The aroma is very perfumey with honey, orange and spice. The flavor is malty and fruity with notes of toffee, apricots, baked apple, ginger, cake, and a whiff of banana. At 10% this beer is all a grand cru should be and that is strong and malty with tons of esters. Being in a 1 liter flip top bottle I can not ship this in a three bottle box. That will cause it to be ship on it side and the flip top will leak. These bottles MUST be shipped in a 6 or 12 bottle box. If you do order this in a 3 bottle box you WILL BE CHARGED FOR A 6 BOTTLE BOX, no matter what the website calculates. Sorry for the inconvenience but it is the only way I can ship this one.

Henry Weinhards IPA: $0.99

This is an IPA that is copper and gold in color. The aroma is grass and orange fruity. The malt is a touch bready and low lovibond crystal.

Weihenstaphaner German Sample Pack: $69.33

This pack includes four each of six different beers from the worlds oldest brewery. With a 5% discount. [KIT]

Weihenstephaner Dunkel: $2.99

IMHO this is the best Dunkel Weiss there is. The style is a fine balancing act that has the tart wheat on one side and the brown darker malts on the other. You want to add complexity and richer flavors with the brown malts but you do not want them to come across as sweet or to overpower the wheat. This beer does all that. It is a fine mix with a strong showing from the wheat, brown bread and toffee from the brown malts and the ever presence of the banana ester.

Greene King Wexford Irish Cream Ale (Can): $2.47

If you want smooth and mellow this baby tops it. Nitrogen charged with a malty, caramel, graininess with just a ting of fruitiness. For all of you Carffrey fans out there, this is as close as you are going to get here in the US.

Weihenstephaner Original Lager: $3.21

This Bavarian lager comes from the oldest brewery in the world, they have been at it for a long time and it shows. The aroma is kind of lemony, and malty. It has a great head that forms a delicate white lace on the glass. The flavor is the perfect complement of malty/biscuit to lemony hop bitterness. A true classic.

Weihenstaphaner Kristall: $3.21

Much like its Hefe brother this German wheat beer has the perfect mix of tart wheat character, fruity banana ester and just a slight hint of spiciness. As with any good wheat beer it pours with a voluminous pillowy head. Since this is a Kristall Weiss (filtered wheat beer) the finish is crisper and the body a little lighter than the Hefe version.

Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier: $3.21

From one of the oldest breweries in the world, this German wheat beer has the perfect mix of tart wheat character, fruity banana ester and just a slight hint of spiciness. As with any good wheat beer it pours with a voluminous pillowy head. Since this is a Hefe Weiss (beer served with the yeast) the finish is rounder and the body a little heavier than the Krstall (filtered) version. I guess when you started brewing around 1040AD you may have had just enough time it get your beer just right.

Greene King Abbot Ale (Can): $2.47

Amber tan in color with that big creamy head that comes from the widget action. The aromas are sweet grainy with a floral hop. Ultra smooth with toasted malts and earthy floral hops. Mildly fruity esters with a dry finish.

Lazy Boy Belgian: $4.97

Bright gold in color, it pours with a reputable three fingers of foam. The aroma is slightly sweet with big fruity esters and a general spice character. The flavors are of fruity peach and yellow plum with an easy grassy hop.

Lazy Boy Porter: $3.97

Very very dark brown in color with a tan head that is dense but thin. The aroma is of roasted / black malts with coffee and chocolate tones you come to expect from the style. The flavors match the aroma in addition to a tart hop character and well placed bitterness.

Lagunitas Brown Sugga 12oz: $1.73

Orange in color with a bit of haze and a fluffy off white head. The aroma start off sweet with caramel and fruity hops. The flavor is of brown sugar, toasty malts along with a spicy hit from the alcohol. Not as hoppy as “The Hairy Eyeball” but instead sweeter and smoother.

Weihenstephaner Korbinian: $3.21

Reddish brown in color this beer pours with a thin but tight head. The aroma is malty sweet with plum and brown bread. The flavor is chewy with caramel, chocolate and prune. The hops are mildly bitter and have a leafy flavor. This brew is more of a dessert beer and would certainly make a perfect end to any meal or maybe matched up to wash down something equally sumptuous as German Chocolate cake.

Weihenstephaner Vitus: $3.21

This weizenbock pours a dusky straw yellow. The aroma is spicy and wheaty. The flavor is big clove spicy along with banana and a slight bubble gum along with a tart wheat taste that is the mark of a fine German wheat beer. The aggressive flavor profile is strong and well balanced.

Mikkeller Jackie Brown: $10.01

Dark mahogany in color with a light tan head that laces well. The aroma is roasty, chocolate, caramel and herbal hops. The flavor is of bittersweet chocolate dark fruit and coffee. It has a nice smooth mouth feel and full body. A tad darker than most browns and more flavor as well.

Bocq Blanche de Namur: $7.80

This Belgian has everything you expect out of a wit and a little more. It pours a cloudy off white and the head is prodigious and persistent. Whiffs of orange and coriander boil from the glass. The flavor is of tart wheat, orange, and a touch of licorice.

Ridgeway Reindeers Revolt: $5.30

This English Christmas beer is a medium dark amber orange color with a average head that settles to a thin layer. The aroma is of lightly toasted brown malts and sweet plumb and a touch of grassy hop. The flavor is sweeter up front with the plum fruitiness and light caramel. The finish is well into the bitter range that balances well. And the story is of a beer-drinking reindeer complaining about his overweight slave driver who he hauls all over the world in the snow and muck.

Jenlain Biere de Noel: $8.42

Bright copper in color this beer pours with a large head that settles down into a thin layer with some lace. The aroma is of crystal malt, herbal / earthy hops with orange and spice. The flavor is toasty with orange peel, spicy clove, candy sugar, caramel and earthy hops. This is a great souped up Biere de garde.

Dick's Silk Lady: $1.59

Dick’s version of a Belgain Pale, it pours a light hazy orange with a dense lacey head. The aroma is fruity with pear, apple, and a little spice. The flavor is sweet and fruity with a touch of pepper and more hops than most Belgian Pales. A good domestic version of the style with just enough hops to make it interesting.

Ridgeway Criminally Bad Elf: $7.40

Outstanding English barley wine. Brown in color with a bit of amber. Dense ample head with malty aroma. The flavor is caramel and fruity without being sweet and a small hop finish. Great beer with a great label.

Mikkeller Big Worse: $10.67

Mikkeller’s 12% barley wine is an excellent product that straddles “drinkable now” and “excellent aging potential” well. Most of us beer geeks and handle (and enjoy) the big hops you tend to find in young American barley wines (“Big Foot”, “Old Crustacean”, “Old Horizontal”) but make no mistake, the Danish brew has that plus a big sweet malt bill that is chewy and tasty. I served it at about 60 degrees and the fig, date, caramel and chocolate come screaming through. The hops do their part at the end to calm things down and ready you for another sip. Yes there is a spicy (but not hot) alcohol kick but maybe that will age out. This one will age 5 easy maybe into the 7 to 10 range. The cage and cork (synthetic not natural) should slow oxidation while it matures over the long haul.

Flying Dog Double Dog: $2.30

Is this an Imperial IPA or is it a pale Barley Wine???? Well to be honest I do not know (or care). At 10.5% and 85 IBUs it is strong, bitter and very tasty. It pours a pale amber brown with a tight head that sticks around for a while. The aroma is heavy pale malts with a pine hop and a touch of apple. It has a medium to heavy body that is cut through with a stiff hop bitterness. The flavor although heavy on the hops and bitterness one can not ignore the big malt that weaves its way around all of the hop components. Even at 85 IBUs this level of malt can not be ignored. This is a good thing as it does provide some balance and what I see (taste) as a great aging potential. Enjoy this one now and for years to come out of the cellar

Aventinus Weizen Eisbock: $5.67

What can I say about the Aventinus Eisbock other than, “This stuff ROCKS!!” This beer is what you get when you take the already flavorful “Aventinus” freeze it, then remove that pesky water/ice that only gets in the way. 12% alcohol but smooth as silk and tons of Weizen flavor. With the big clove spiciness and fruity esters to match. This is a strong chewy beer that is not to be missed.

Jolly Pumpkin Fuego del Otono: $14.74

Orange amber in color this beer pours with a fluffy white head that has some good retension. Toasty and nutty in aroma with sweeter caramel and spice tones. The flavor is tart with a lemon orange fruitiness. Chestnuts and nutmeg in flavor along with a spicy colve and coriander. The yeast provides an earthy, bready quality and there is a woody finish along with a hop bite.

Trumer Pils: $1.45

Classic German style pils. It pours pale gold with a large head that falls quickly. The aroma is grassy/hay. The flavor is lightly malty sweet up front with a touch of lemon. The grassy hops kick in at the finish along with an easy bitterness. It has a very clean light body with prickly carbonation.

De Graal Dubbel: $8.44

It is mahogany brown with gold around the edges and pours with little head. The aroma is of cake, raisin and a touch of spice. The flavor starts off with the aforementioned raisins then moves on to a light chocolate and brown malt with a leafy hop and anise finish. The body is medium to light and the carbonation is rather low for a Belgian but with the lighter body that keeps the texture from getting too prickly.

De Graal Blond: $8.44

This 6.5% blond pours a light golden color with plenty of carbonation and a brilliant white head. Crisp and dry with an easy pale malt character with a leafy hop presence from start to finish. The finish is mildly bitter and ends clean.

Rogue XS Imperial Red: $15.54

This powerful red pours a deep hazy red with a tight creamy head. The aroma is malty caramel with a sharp citrus tone and some spice. The flavor is bitter with citrus earthy hop with a spicy dry finish. At 9% this is truly an “Imperial Red”

Stone Oaked Bastard 12oz: $2.90

As if Arrogant Bastard wasn’t tasty enough, they had to go and add oak into the mix. Powerful flowery, grassy hops with a touch of oak for the aroma. The flavor is hop bitter with a bit of malty caramel along with vanilla wood tones makes this beer one flavorful Bastard that should age well for years to come.

Shirayuki Nama: $5.25

A “Nama” sake is one that was not pasteurized before it was put in the aging barrel. This makes for a lighter more delicate sake. The aroma has a hint of coconut and the flavor is of vanilla extract, anise, and just a hint of earth and coconut. The finish has the vanilla and a gentle sweetness that holds on for just a second before disappearing.

Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast: $10.53

This coffee oatmeal stout really is for the beer geek in all of us. Inky black with a very tight tan/brown head. The aroma is big coffee, and roasted barley. The flavor is, you guessed it, big on the coffee with hits of sweet black licorice, chocolate and grainy oats. The body is medium heavy and the finish is black malt dry with a hop bitterness that cuts through all of those dark flavors. Most of the highest-rated Danish beers are from Mikkeller, and within the past few months, the brewery was voted the Best in Denmark by the Danish Beer Enthusiasts, and Beer Geek Breakfast has also just been voted the very best beer of Denmark.

Andrew Will 2005 Ciel du Cheval Red Blend: $55.99

Christmas 6 Pack - Premium: $62.57

*** Dec. 10th at 2:00pm Pacific is our cutoff time for guaranteed Christmas delivery. This has to do with our delivery cycle to get products back in stock and FedExs ability to get shipments to the east coast. Rest assured we will do everything in our power to get everything delivered before Christmas, even those after the 10th. But we can not guarantee any package after cutoff. *** A six pack of high quality imported winter brews. One each of six different 750ml bottles, at a 5% discount. [KIT] Substitutions of equal or greater value may be needed due to availability.

Nils Oscar Kalasol: $3.55

This “Fest” beer pours a deep copper orange color with a bubbly head. The aroma is toasted grain, caramelized sugar and flowers. The flavor is malty nutty with grassy citrus hops. The finish lingers nutty grassy and dry.

Oppigards Well Hopped Lager: $5.37

This lager pours with a frothy head, and herbal/grassy hop aroma. The flavor is lightly grainy malty up from with the hop flavors quickly rolling over it then finishing in an enjoyable bitterness.

Oppigards Golden Ale: $5.37

Gold with a tint of copper. Grassy aroma with a hint of apple. Creamy slightly sweet malt with a dry hop bitterness with a little touch of spice at the end.

BFM La Meule: $7.25

BFM (That’s Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes) is a Swiss company that puts out some real gems. This sage infused golden does not disappoint. It pours a straw yellow that has some haze. The aroma is of intense pale malt, sage, and a very lemony hop. The flavor may have some pale malt in it but it is the sage and lemon that come on quick and stay until the very end that fades into a hop bitterness. Herby, lemony sharp and hop bitter, not your typical beer and not everyone may like it but I think it is brilliant.

Scaldis Noel: $4.76

Oooh, I have enjoyed this perennial dessert Christmas beer as the capper to many a fine evenings. Deep amber / ruby in color this 12% beauty is well carbonated but has little in the way of a lasting head. Caramel and purple plum with dark candy sugar in the aroma. The flavor up front is the perfect contrast to the sumptuous aroma, it comes on strong with an alcohol twinge that instantly disappears into a brown sugar, raisin and plum flavor that lingers a while. Classic!!!

St. Bernardus Christmas Ale: $11.05

Brown with an amber tint to it, this Christmas beer has plenty of carbonation and a very large head. The aroma is of fig, date and cherry with the brown malts coming off as cake. The flavor is big on the fruits (cherry, dates and raisins) with a spice cake in the middle and a light hopping at the end. This beer being rich, fruity and strong (10%) this is what Belgian beer is all about.

BFM Dragonne: $21.03

After primary fermentation honey, cinnamon, anise, orange peel, cloves, cardamone, coriander and juniper are added to the maturation tank. The beer is then heated to 167 F to get all spices consummated in the liquid. La Dragonne does not have any carbonation and is to be enjoyed only hot to enjoy the intensity and balance of all flavors & aromas. Serving Instructions: 1. Open the bottle of La Dragonne 2. Heat a bain-marie (Water bath) up to 140 degrees F 3. Place the open La Dragonne in the water bath 4. Carefully pour the hot La Dragonne. 5. Caution: Make sure that the beer has slightly cooled before consuming. ** Pre Buy - $17.50 if ordered by 9/28 12:00PM Pacific time, after that $19.44 **

Birrifico Lurago La Fleurette: $20.43

La Fleurette has an amazingly unusual character and complexity. Just check out this ingredient list. - Malts: pilsner and rye - Hops: Kent Goldings - Yeast: Saccharomyces Cerevistiae - Whole Roses & Violets - Citrus Bee Honey - Elderberry - Black Pepper

Birrificio Scires: $23.67

This dark cherry ale is barrel aged and blended, young with old. Cloudy dark red with tons for carbonation that tries to creep out of the bottle when opened. The aroma is heavy cherry with a tart lactic kick. The flavor has just a short brown malt flavor that is quickly overrun by cherry, wood, and that tart lactic finish. The body is light but it is not that surprising considering it is quite dry. If you are looking for a tart dry cherry brew that is not as funky as most lambics but still has plenty of depth and character this one is for you.

Beer Valley Owyhee Amber: $3.45

Owyhee Amber Ale is an easy drinking Amber that will appeal to many but has enough character to impress even this jaded old beer drinker. Brewed with 2-row barley, Munich, and crystal malts, this amber beer is a cleaner, crisper version of an ale reminiscent of an amber lager beer that has the most phenomenal body and mouth-feel. This just may be my new amber of choice.

Ridgeway Insanely Bad Elf: $4.77

This light mahogany colored 11.2% insanity pours with a dense thick head that lasts well for such a high percent. Billed as an imperial red the one thing that comes to my mind is the images of sugarplums dancing in my head. Huge plum fruity with a touch of cherry and a big candy sweetness. Very Belgian in character since I can not think of any other English beers that approach this level of strength, ester, and sweetness.

Ridgeway Warm Welcome: $5.30

Peter got to work brewing the beer, which is of course a classic Brown ale with, er, more umph. It’s 6% by volume, a little hoppier than your average Brown, and with a little extra malty sweetness. A Nut Browned worthy of the holidays, for sure. Keep an eye out for a little earthy funkiness in the beer, the result of a special multi-strained yeast

Ridgeway Seriously Bad Elf: $6.72

Another masterpiece from Peter Scholey at Ridgeway Brewing. Seriously Bad Elf is Peters's very English interpretation of a Belgian Tripel, brewed to warming 9% alcohol.

Ridgeway Very Bad Elf: $6.02

Based on an original Pale Ale recipe from 1795, Very Bad Elf has nutty and sweet-roasted flavors attributable to its use of an ancient pale malt, uniquely recreated for this delightful ale. A rare variety of Fuggles hops dating to the mid-1800’s gives the beer a soft, rounded bitterness and uncanny drinkability.

Ridgeway Bad Elf: $5.70

This English IPA style is a little less hoppy, a little more malty, and a little more festive this time around. This Elf is so bad, it’s way good.

Nils Oscar IPA: $3.55

Deep orange red in color this Nils pours with a fizzy head the settles quickly. The aroma is hop fruity with grapefruit, orange, and a touch of something tropical along with some sweet pale malts. A good bitterness showing from the hops that balances out the malts well. Lightly doughy with tropical flavors.

Nils Oscar Imperial Stout: $4.15

This highly rated imperial stout just about has it all. Big huge flavor of highly roasted malts. Lots of chocolate and coffee flavors with the over the top roastiness pulling out some woody leather tones and a bitterness as well. The light cherry fruitiness adds a little something and the dry finish make you want more.

Haand Norse Porter: $9.38

Big and black with a prodigious tan head. The aroma is of dark chocolate, black malt and wood. The flavor is of coffee, bitter chocolate and has a touch of smokiness. Bolder than an English porter, not as hoppy as an American but not as sweet as a Baltic. I might call it an imperial porter due to its aggressive flavor but the average 6% would keep it from that category IMHO. Imperial or not this is one tasty porter.

Nogne O IPA: $8.43

Reddish in color with a creamy off white head. The aroma is malty up front with big fruity hop with grapefruit and orange. The flavor is piney with a semi sweet malt. Well balanced and a very well made American style IPA from Norway.

Mikkeller Stateside IPA: $9.39

This Mikkeller pours a copper color with a thick bubbly head. Lemony herbal hop aroma with a touch of malt. The flavor is pale malt and soft citrus hoppiness with a lingering bitter finish.

Nogne O Saison: $8.49

Peachy orange in color with a thin layer of foam. The aroma is of hay, pepper, sweet sage and flowers. The flavor is yeasty with floral hops and slightly sharp coriander like acidity. Bitter dry finish makes this a good saison with nice complexity.

Poperings Hommel Ale: $9.44

Although there are more and more IPAs out of Belgium, to me there is a qualitative difference between those and the Hommel ale. The new IPAs seem to be American inspired because the hop profile tends to be more on the heavy bitter with a more grassy citrus flavor. I do not know this for a fact but I would bet that the copious amount of hops it this beer come from the Poperinge area and has more of a flowery, resiny, almost cumin like flavor. To me this is a Belgian original that might just turn the head of the most jaded hophead.

Blue Mountain Cranberry Apple: $17.04

This beautiful ruby red cider is slightly effervescent with an easy prickle on the tongue. The aroma is a perfumy mix of apple and cranberry. The flavor is slightly sweet but the tartness from the cranberries quickly takes over and leaves you with a dry finish and a light body. The flavors blend well and have a nice balance between the apple and cranberry. Enough of each to complement each other without dominating. It is refreshing cold but sumptuous mulled hot with just a touch of clove and some cinnamon.

Baron Oktoberfest: $3.57

This Oktoberfest pours a dark copper with little head. The aroma is of fruity hop, biscuit and amber malts. The flavors start with the fruity hop (tangerine???) then moves to light crystal malt character that is replaced by an easy hop bitterness that finishes dry. Effortless drinkability with plenty of flavor.

Watari Bune: $16.78

This sake is classified as a Junmai, Ginjo 55 and is clearly stated on the label. Here is what that means. Ginjo is a government regulated term that denotes a sake as premium due to how the rice is milled. For a sake to be of Ginjo classification they must mill away at least 40% of the outer rice kernel. This mills off the proteins, fats, and amino acids that can produce unwanted flavors. The 55 stated on this sake means that the rice has had 45% milled off leaving 55%. The term Junmai means that this sake has not been fortified with distilled alcohol (more on that later). Enough terms, let’s get onto the review. Watari Bune pours still and the palest yellow. The aroma is spicy with an earthy licorice (true licorice not the anise you find in cadies) and a light fruity (banana) whiff at the end. The flavor has a very light acidity up front, a spicy warming mid pallet (16%) in which the licorice comes through. As the acidity and spiciness start to fade in the finish you are left with a mellow smoothness left on the tongue. Most Ginjo is best served chilled like a white wine (not cold) and some people prefer room temp.

Gekkeikan Zipang: $6.73

Zipang is a 7% sparkling sake that is a light and best served chilled. I drink Zipang like I would drink a nice Belgian blond or an American golden ale, that is I drink it when I want something flavorful but not too aggressive as well as something not too strong (sake can get into 18%+). Zipang pours clear and effervescent, the aroma is slightly earthy, the flavor is lemony up front with an easy slight coconut like finish. This is a good one to try if you have never had Sake.

Glazen Toren Saison: $13.17

This Belgian Saison style brew pours a deep gold with a big durable head that laces well. The aromas are of powdery earth, with a touch of straw and fruitiness of pear and apricot. The flavor is lemony, grassy with orange and black pepper. The high carbonation makes it prickly and airy. Great traditional Saison flavors but a modern (7.5%) alcohol level.

Glazen Toren Ondineke: $14.24

This well carbonated triples pours a light straw yellow. The head is a nice bright white which settles into a rocky foam. The aroma is big and spicy with coriander and light clove, leafy hops and sweet malt. The flavor malty with a touch of candy sugar, tart in its fruitiness with apple and lemon and pleasant herbal hop.

Domaine des Lambrays 2002 Clos des Lambrays: $125.00

Rated 93 by Wine Spectator. A Cellar Must!

Elsa Addis Tej Mild: $11.25

The Elsa “Mild” is an Ethiopian style sweet mead (but not as sweet as the “Addis Sweet”) that is made with hops. It pours a light straw yellow and makes many thin slow moving legs. The aroma is honey sweet with a hint of grass and pleasing spice. The flavor is sweet with a light cinnamon and black pepper tone. The finish comes on with a light acidity and finishes with a balance of tart acidity and honey sweet. The hops do not come on as bitter because they are not boiled (like in a beer) but instead provide the grassy spicy tones that set this mead apart.

St Peters IPA: $4.76

This is an excellent ENGLISH style IPA; its not Northwest, not even US style but straight up English style IPA. The beer pours amber orange in color with a medium head. The aroma is big on the flowery hop and has a toffee malt nose. The flavor has a flowery grassy hop flavor up front, and a treacle and toffee malt flavor. The bitterness is not HUGE but it does overpower the malt flavor and it lingers quite well.

Urthel Samaranth 750ml: $12.43

Considered a quadruple by many, this beer pours a pure copper color. The head starts well but settles thin. The aroma is peach fruity with a whiff of alcohol and at 11% that is not surprising. The flavor is cherries dipped in caramel with a cinnamon spice at the finish. You do need to serve this one a little cooler than most Belgians as the 11% does tend to heat up as it warms but this one has a lot of power in flavor as well as alcohol.

Glazen Jan de Lichte: $14.54

Deep gold in color with a huge rocky head. The aroma is honey and floral up front with lemony ctrus peel. The flavor is tart with a good hop showing in the way of floral and resin flavors. The orange and coriander are there which is good considering that they are billing this as an imperial Wit. Light mouthfeel and creamy texture make for an easy beer with tons of flavor.

Floreffe Melior: $9.02

I knew I would love this one as soon as I took my first whiff. This dark Belgian pours a deep brown color with an amber tint. The head is exactly what you want out of a good Belgian that is big thick and persistent. The aroma is sweet and big with a fig and dark cherry quality with a bit of woodiness at the end. The high carbonation gives it a pillowy mouth feel but a prickly finish. The beer is sweet but not heavy or sticky. The flavor is of dark cherry with a light chocolate and licorice finish. Now this is my kind of beer!!!

Viso Energy Vigor: $22.53

The Viso goal seems to be to provide people with a beverage that has the flavor of a great soda, the vitamins, minerals and electrolytes of a sports drink and some even have a caffeine level that surpasses Jolt Cola. The great thing about the Viso products is that although they have 100% of 12 vitamins and 2 minerals along with 2 electrolytes, but it does not taste like it. It tastes like a fruit drink that’s all. Vigor has all of the vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes of the other Viso products but is flavored with natural Meyer lemon, lime, and strawberry essences. It is sweetened by organic evaporated cane juice, along with the kick of 300mg of caffeine. Sold in units of 12.

Viso Diet Razza: $22.53

The Viso goal seems to be to provide people with a beverage that has the flavor of a great soda, the vitamins, minerals and electrolytes of a sports drink and some even have a caffeine level that surpasses Jolt Cola. The great thing about the Viso products is that although they have 100% of 12 vitamins and 2 minerals along with 2 electrolytes, but it does not taste like it. It tastes like a fruit drink that’s all. Razza is raspberry and strawberry flavored drink with 12 vitamins, two electrolytesand and sweetened with zero calorie Splenda ™. The thing about Viso is the flavor, sure it is good for you but who cares about that when it is something you like. Drink it for the fun and feel good in the process. Sold in units of 12.

Jolt Cola Battery: $2.17

Just when you thought you saw the last of Jolt cola, it is back and it is bigger (23.5oz) and badder than ever. Not only does it still have its great cola taste and a high caffeine JOLT but now comes packed with taurine, guarana, ginseng and b complex. A true pop culture classic with a modern twist. Sold in units of 12.

Jolt Ultra Battery: $2.17

The lemon lime flavor in Jolt’s diet “Ultra” makes it light and refreshing and works very well with the Splenda ™ sweetener. Like it says on the can it’s all positive, no funky aftertaste or medicinal flavors despite being diet AND jammed full of caffeine, taurine, guarana, ginseng and b complex. This is great stuff and I come back to it time and again.

Jolt Silver Battery: $2.17

Lemon Lime flavored jolt that is packed full of caffeine, taurine, guarana, ginseng and b complex. Sold in units of 12

Jolt Cherry Bomb Battery: $2.17

Cherry cola flavored Jolt. The cherry is well matched with the cola and does not overpower it like many of today’s cherry colas. Like the other Jolts products it has an abundance of caffeine, taurine, guarana, ginseng and b complex. Sold in units of 12

Jolt Blue Battery: $2.17

Blue is a touch sweeter than the other four varieties of Jolt. With a light berry / cotton candy flavor it is sweet and packs a punch with its supply of caffeine, taurine, guarana, ginseng and b complex.

Alaskan IPA Pint Glass: $3.50

Alaskan IPA pint Glass

Haand Norwegian Wood: $9.33

This Norwegian gruit (non hopped) ale has a powerful aroma of smoke and juniper. It pours an amber brown color with a very big head. The flavor starts off with smoked malt (beechwood would be my guess but I suppose aspen would not be out of the question) that moves on to a touch of molasses and a bitter juniper mid to finish. Those flavors linger on the tongue for some time but the dryness of the finish leaves you wanting more.

De Struisse Wit: $3.74

This Belgian Wit pours a golden straw color wit a giant frothy head. The aroma is wheaty with a touch of orange. The flavor is tart with a big fruity orange and just a hint of coriander. Rather low in bitterness but the big fruitiness makes it totally refreshing.

Bocq Blanche Des Moines: $9.49

Pale yellow in color this Belgian wit beer is light but flavorful, with a subtle balance between the spices and wheat. The aroma comes off orange and lemony with a hit of coriander. The flavor is of sweet spice, orange peel and a tart wheat character. The mouth feel is light and fluffy but with a tactile spiciness.

Eggenberg Urbock 23: $3.75

From those wacky Austrians who brought you Samichlaus, we are now carrying Urbock 23. This 9.6% golden bock is a tasty sipping treat. The aroma is of honey and yeasty bread. The flavor is sweet malt, herbal hop with a solid bitterness. Exactly what you would expect from the makers of Sami.

Golden Eagle Lager: $1.83

A straight forward lager style with a malty flavor that moves into a hop flavor that is lemony with a touch of apple. A nice brew to go with your vindaloo.

Mountain Meadows Agave Mead: $14.62

Mountain Meadows makes very high quality meads, and does a superb job of balancing the honey character in the mead with the other flavors they add. The one thing I like about their product line is the fact that they not only have a wide selection of flavors but also have a wide selection of sweetness levels. From a semi-dry 1.5% residual sugar to a sweet 9%. This range means that they have a mead for just about every palate. This is a unique semi-dry mead made with blue agave nectar. The Agave cactus is what they make tequila out of. The flavor is not over done and has just a light smokeyt hint at the end. It is one of my personal favs, very well done and must try.

Oud Beersel Oude Geuze Veille: $7.59

Following spontaneous fermentation in wooden barrels (no yeast or sugar added), young and old lambic are blended; which results in a dry, tart and fruity wine like taste. Oud Beersel Oude Geuze is the white sparkling wine of the beer world.

Oud Beersel Framboise: $7.59

Created by adding whole fresh raspberries to young lambic, which provides both seasoning and sparks another fermentation resulting in a product of great complexity. It has the acidity of champagne, the bouquet and delicate flavor of raspberries, and balance of almondy dryness.

Blaugies La Moneuse Special Winter: $7.99

A very festive and hardy holiday ‘saison’ home-made at Belgium’s smallest family brewery. Extra rich for the holiday season, at 8% alcohol by volume. Rated 8’s and 9’s (out of 10) by the authors of The Beers of Wallonia. As the label says, really just a richer version of La Moneuse, using a little caramelized malt and maybe more hops. The malt flavor of the Special is a little darker, roastier, and certainly sweeter, which must somehow distract attention a bit from the earthiness which is so notable in La Moneuse.

Blaugies La Moneuse Saison: $9.35

It has a hardy, semi-dry malt character - fresh, but not overpowering hoppiness, abundant yeasty, fruity flavors and a fairly strong, but pleasant and enticing, mustiness. Among Belgium’s saisons, La Moneuse sits with Saison Dupont on the opposite end of the spectrum from the quirky, thin, fruity varieties. But La Moneuse is quite distinct from the Dupont, which drinks much colder, hoppier, harder-edged, and has no discernible sweetness. This beer is a warmer, richer, spicier, more vinous, and arguably more approachable saison. Like many saisons, La Moneuse is a little bit over-carbonated, with an aggressive head.

Brasserie des Roc Sampler: $51.03

One each of des Roc's 750ml beers. Save 5% over the single bottle price. [KIT]

Brasserie des Rocs Grand Cru: $9.95

From Brasserie des Rocs has a rich, complex fruit aroma of cherries, golden raisins, peaches, and assorted dried fruits, laced with honey and caramel. The taste is smooth with rich flavors reminiscent of cherries dipped in caramel, finishing with notes of chocolate, roasted almonds, and a hint of molasses.

Unibroue 16: $9.50

This Belgian style Canadian brew pours orange/amber in color with a big fluffy head. The aroma is big and estery, yeasty bread, bananas and spice. The flavor is caramel and cake, figs, and currents with some peppery spice and a sweet creamy finish.

Koningshoeven Tripel: $10.70

Without going into too much mind numbing detail, this brewery from the Netherlands once brewed the “La Trappe” label and was an official “Trappist” ale. They then changed the brewery around and lost their “Trappist” status. The “La Trappe” label has since disappeared and the brewery is now brewing under the “Koningshoeven” label and has regained it official “Trappist” designation. This outstanding Trappist Tripel pours a little darker than most at a golden with red tints. The aroma is sweet and fruity with plum and pear components with whiffs of banana. The mouth-feel is creamy and the flavor is of plum and spicy coriander.

Longbottom Kona Fancy: $31.50

This 100% pure Kona coffee is my personal favorite. Smooth, tons of aroma and a bittersweet chocolate like flavor. Limited quantity.

Longbottom Sumatra Mandheling: $14.00

A rich flavor with a unique, deep-toned aroma and a very memorable and vibrant taste. .

From Longbottom Coffee 1lb

Longbottom Guatemalan Antigua: $9.65

A bright, distinctive, well rounded cup. Aromatic, medium-bodied, finely balanced with a lively flavor. .

From Longbottom Coffee 1lb

Manoir du Parc Pear: $9.27

This perry is the most complex, most well crafted perry I have ever had. Light in body with plenty of carbonation, its flavor is of succulent pear. It is dry and has a well placed but not over powering acidity. This causes the finish to be nice and tart. It also has a bit of tannin in it to give it a good texture. As much skill and craftsmanship goes into make this as any French wine. A unique refreshing treat not easily found here in the US.

Longbottom Turkish Blend: $12.00

Indonesian and African coffees are deep roasted for a dark, exotic taste…a superb Turkish brew (full-bodied).

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Wyder's Pear: $1.62

Wyder’s products are sweet and are packed with tons of flavor. This one is has an addition of pear for a juicy, more complex flavor.

Bulmers Strongbow Cider Can: $2.40

Tart crisp and appley. Fizzy and refreshing.

21st Amendment Watermelon: $1.80

This beer has quite a following and has won the “Most Popular” beer award at the Oregon Brewers Festival many times. The color is straw yellow with a yeast haze. The head has the appropriately large billowy character you expect from a good wheat beer. The aroma is grainy wheat and watermelon. The flavor has a crisp Weiss wheat flavor and a melon finish. There is NOTHING artificial tasting, they use only real watermelon and it shows. It is not fruity sweet rather it has a big wheat / malt flavor up front with a mellow watermelon underpinning. As it states on the can “Yeast inside, agitate before opening.” This is important (I did it after opening because I did not want to ware the beer) because putting the yeast in with the beer dramatically changes the flavor and mouth-feel. If you do not do this you lose the crispness in the flavor and have a thinner feel.

Rabbits Foot Apple Cyser: $15.37

Crisp, apple, and medium dry honey. Infinitely more complex then cider, not as sweet as most meads. It is the best of both worlds.

Samuel Smith Organic Cider: $5.29

This is an excellent English style cider that is medium yellow in color and effervescent. The aroma and flavor is ultra clean (no sulfurs or off flavors) and has a crisp fresh apple flavor that is not only very tasty but organic as well.

Viso Diet Energy Will: $22.53

Viso Will is my current caffeinated beverage of choice. The Viso goal seems to be to provide people with a beverage that has the flavor of a great soda, the vitamins, minerals and electrolytes of a sports drink and some even have a caffeine level that surpasses Jolt Cola. The great thing about the Viso products is that although they have 100% of 12 vitamins and 2 minerals along with 2 electrolytes, but it does not taste like it. It tastes like a fruit drink that’s all. Will is a diet energy drink flavored with natural cranberry and grapefruit essences. That along with the Splenda ™ (with none of the funny Splenda ™ aftertaste like some soft drinks) makes for a tart fruity drink that is light in body and I find myself drinking too fast. I don’t just drink Will because of the 100% of 12 vitamins and 300mg of caffeine. I drink it for the flavor AND the 100% of 12 vitamins and 300mg of caffeine. Sold in units of 12.

Alaskan Summer Pint Glass: $3.50

Alaskan Summer Ale pint glass