YOU OUGHTA KNOW!
OREGON BEER AWARDS
Drumroll please….
Block 15 won Mid-Size Brewery at this year’s Oregon Beer Awards! This award was from a vote of their Voting Academy made of of “hundreds of industry insiders.”
Go team!
PAKTECH 4-PACK HOLDER RECYCLING
The PakTech 4-pack recycling program is still going to happen, we’re just waiting on some final logistics before officially rolling it out.
In the meantime, though, did you know PakTech manufactures (and therefore can recycle) more than just our 4-pack holders?! Have you ever refilled our hand soap and had to wrestle off the 2-pack holder? Guess what?! That’s PakTech too!
WHAT’S NEW ON INSTA
CAVES HAPPENINGS
NEW MENU ITEMS / CHANGES
The procedure for the chicken tagine can be found here!
Look at these sexy board options available right now (ingredients/more details can be found on Caves’ Facebook):
WHAT’S GOING ON TAP SOON?
Dates are subject to change based on tap availability.
TAP ROOM
Fri 3/1: Spellbound (replacing Pyrus), Emerging Sunshine (replacing Fresh Pow)
Tues 3/5: Billy Breathes (replacing The DAB Lab, Juice Joint)
Fri 3/8: Illuminated (replacing The Prophecies)
Tues 3/12: The Wild Cimmerian (replacing Crescendo)
PUB
Fri 3/1: Spellbound (replacing Kriek), Emerging Sunshine (replacing Fresh Pow)
Tues 3/5: Billy Breathes (replacing Winter Amusement)
Fri 3/8: Illuminated (replacing The Prophecies)
Tues 3/12: The Wild Cimmerian (replacing Super Nebula)
UPCOMING BOTTLE / CAN RELEASES
Fri 3/1: Emerging Sunshine (Golden IPA) in 16oz cans (through end of May)
*This will be available in both draft and cans on Friday, at both locations!
Fri 3/8: Illuminated (Tripel) in 500mL bottles (through end of May)
*This is being release as just a standard ninja release.
UPCOMING / IN PROCESS BEERS
Direct Flight - Tart Strawberry & Guava IPA
Flanders Red
Vienna Lager - Crisp, dry lager
EVENTS
BLOCKOUT = tap takeover
**Be sure to share/like the Facebook events to spread the word to your friends!
Fri-Sun 3/1-3/3 - Volksfest @ Mt. Angel
*We brewed a special batch of Bloktoberfest for this event, and our crew will be slinging beer on Saturday!
THE PEOPLE’S PINT / DINE OUTS
We are currently partnering with Oregon Brewshed Alliance (an initiative of Oregon Wild) for The People’s Pint tap. The designated beer is The DAB Lab, Juice Joint at the Pub and Fresh Pow at the Tap Room.
Starting March 1, The People’s Pint partner will change to AFRANA (Alliance for Recreation and Natural Areas).
NEXT PUB DINE OUT
Tues 3/5
Wonders Early Learning Center
NEXT TAP ROOM DINE OUT
Tues 3/12
Ducks Unlimited
PUB SPECIALS / MENU UPDATES
MARCH MONTHLY SPECIALS
Brewer’s Board
Irish Stout soaked Face Rock cheese curds, house pickled Brussel sprouts, sour cherry chutney, thinly sliced bresaola, Queen Bee honey and house baked soda bread. $13.99
Italian Scotch Egg
A soft-boiled farm fresh egg wrapped in Peppertree Sausage House Chicago style Italian sausage, then breaded and fried golden. Served with our house mustard. Two for $9.99
Whiskey & Bacon Steamer Clams
Pacific NW manila clams steamed with garlic, chives, Whiskey, smoky bacon and cream. Served with house baked ale bread and lemon. $15.99
Paddy Burger
Oregon Natural beef mixed with our Nebula Stout, onions, garlic, and pepper. Topped with melted Face Rock cheese curds and caramelized onions, on a toasted house baked bun with red pepper & parsley mayo, lettuce, and tomato. Served with your choice of side. $15.49
*Procedures for these can be found here.
*Photos will be available next week!
BREWER’S PROVISION
Thurs 2/28
Matt Williams’ Kaju Pakoda, paired with The Cold Front
BEHIND THE BAR UPDATES
We are making a few changes to our Guest Beverage and Wine menu that will go into effect on Tuesday, March 5th!
Here is a quick rundown of the changes:
We will be bringing in a second Nectar Creek mead offering in addition to the Waggle. Right now Nectar Creek has two seasonal offerings - Top Bar (coffee session mead) and the Nectarade (lemon-lime session mead) which we will rotate between, starting with Top Bar.
Second, we are dropping the Ground Breaker Ollalie and will instead add SeekOut's Raspberry + Meyer Lemon Hard Seltzer to our line-up. SeekOut Real Hard Seltzer was started by the same wonderful folks over at 2Towns and is crafted using just fruit and water (the alcohol in the seltzer also comes from real fruit). No artificial flavors or refined sugars - just real fruit! This is also another great gluten-free offering! (We will still carry Ground Breaker's IPA No. 5 for a GF beer offering.)
Last but not least, we are changing up our white wine offering by dropping the Riesling and replacing it with a sparkling white wine! Yay for bubbles! These new cans of sparkling wine are very exciting because we will have less waste as each can is a single serving - plus they are quite delicious.
Details on each of these new beverages can be found here!
The Spring cocktail menu will be unveiled in next week’s newsletter!