Internal Brewsletter - October 30th, 2024
General
Downtown Trick or Treating
Downtown Trick or Treating is happening this Halloween! From 2-5pm, kiddos will be out and about trick or treating at local businesses. We’ll have plenty of candy on deck here at the Pub, and will have some available from 4-5pm when Caves opens. Feel free to dress up in your family-friendly costumes!
Employee Provision
A weekly special served at the Pub, the idea of which comes primarily from Block 15 employees.
This week’s Employee Provision will be brought to you by Ian H.! Swing by the Pub this Thursday for a Pork Belly Reuben!
We’re always looking for more submissions, so send in those ideas!
THIS WEEK’S RELEASES
Releasing Friday 11/1
Sticky Hands: Solar Flare //
Description: Inspired by the star of our system, Solar Flare was designed to capture the radiance of a supermassive burst from the sun. Launch into explosive aroma from heaps of Strata, Nectaron, and Eclipse hops. // 8.10%
Key Takeaway: Brewed using an ultra-modern hop load of Strata, Nectaron, and Eclipse, this beer was brewed to capture the essence and energy of our star. Brimming with bright, sunny tropical citrus, pear, pineapple, and pine flavors, this beer is our newest addition to the famous Sticky Hands legacy.
Tasting Notes: Pineapple • Mandarin • Radiance
Format: Draft & Cans
Series: Sticky Hands
Beer Style: Imperial IPA
Imperial IPAs (often called Double IPAs) feature a more robust profile of malts and hops. Significant factors that set Imperial IPAs apart from regular IPAs are their alcohol content and bitterness levels. An Imperial IPA can range from 7.5%-10% ABV. Due to the increased malt load it takes to create the additional alcohol, more hops are required to balance out the beer and keep the malt in check. An Imperial IPA should be intensely hoppy, medium-light to medium-bodied, and have balanced hop characteristics. There can be Imperial versions of virtually any IPA style or sub-style.
Releasing on Draft 11/1, Bottles available 11/2
Imagine //
Description: A blend of Belgian-inspired imperial stouts matured for one and two years in freshly-emptied Willett bourbon barrels. Deep, dark, and decadent, our strongest offering blended once a year. // 14.00%
Key Takeaway: Belgian style stout that each year is matured in a different bourbon distillery barrels. Made with a trappist yeast that has high attenuating power, this allows us to really push that starting gravity and make this one big-big-big beer.
Tasting Notes: Chocolate • Coffee • Roasty
Format: Draft & Bottles
Series: Cellars
Beer Style: Belgian-Style Imperial Stout Matured in Bourbon Barrels
Imagine: Stroopwafel //
Description: A limited blend of Belgian-inspired imperial Stouts aged in Willett Bourbon Barrels and conditioned on stroopwafels from our bakery, adding decadent caramel, waffle cone, and cinnamon notes. // 14.00%
Key Takeaway: A variation on our BBA Imagine, the Stroopwafel variant has been conditioned on house made Stroopwafels to add depth and complexity, introducing flavors of caramel, sugar cones, and cinnamon to the already complex palate of Imagine.
Tasting Notes: Waffle Cone • Salted Caramel • Lavish
Format: Draft & Bottles
Series: Cellars
Beer Style: Belgian-Style Imperial Stout Matured in Bourbon Barrels with Stroopwafels
Figgy Pudding //
Description: Our yearly holiday offering is brewed with specialty malts and brown sugar, steeped with cloves, nutmeg, and fig, and matured in freshly emptied brandy barrels. The perfect beer to share with friends and family around a cozy fireplace. // 13.10%
Key Takeaway: One of our oldest BA offerings, Figgy pudding is a unique Barleywine offering, gently spiced with just enough cognac character to balance it's complex malt sweetness
Tasting Notes: Spice • Molasses • Warm
Format: Draft & Bottles
Series: Cellars
Beer Style: English-style Barleywine ale matured in Brandy Barrels with Spice
Willa //
Description: Blended each year in celebration of our found brewers' daughters' birth. A solera-style blending of red wine barrel matured farmhouse ales each year contains a portion of prior vintages dating back to 2017. Lively, bright, and complex, this beer is almost as unique as Willa herself. // 8.00%
Key Takeaway: Willa is a complex dark sour that contains a portion of all prior vintages, and is conditioned in Willamette valley ex-Pinot Noir barrels.
Tasting Notes: Mild Acidity • Orchard Fruit • Tart • Honey
Format: Draft & Bottles
Series: Cellars
Beer Style: Red Farmhouse Ale Matured in Red Wine Barrels
UPCOMING Releases
*This list is subject to change based on the production schedule, so please keep that in mind!
Check back next week! No new releases for the week of November 8th.
CROWLER/PACKAGE SALE for Sippin’ Sunday
20% off all packaged beer to-go, $5 Crowlers, and $10 Growler fills all-day Sunday of a specific beer.
This week’s beer is: Green Truck
BEER EDUCATION
2:30 pm Tuesdays @ the Tap Room
Join us at the Tap Room every week for an educational session where you can taste and learn about the week’s releases. All are welcome!
4:00 pm every other Thursday @ the Pub
The next tasting is Thursday, October 31st, at 4 pm!
Join us every other Thursday in the Game Room at the Pub to taste through beers, discuss our beers, brewing, or any other related topics you have questions about. This is a casual session, and anyone is welcome to attend. If you have an interesting bottle of beer you would like to taste/share with the group, bring it in. Your first beer is on us if you attend.
Beer 101: Sticky Hands Variants
Written by Garrison Schmidt, Head Brewer
Sticky Hands is (obviously) the most popular beer we’ve ever made. Because of this, we like to give fans of the beer (and ourselves) glimpses into what could be in parallel sticky universes. What would Sticky Hands be like if we brewed it while shipwrecked on a desert island? Boom, turn up the palm trees, Sticky Hands Tropical Slam.
What would Sticky be like if we brewed it while listening to Slightly Stoopid and watching Up in Smoke? Sticky Hands: The Kine is born. Roll up another one.
Recently, our brew team asked ourselves, what would Sticky Hands be like if we were, for some reason, influenced by a supermassive lick of flame from the sun? Throw on your sunnies, here comes Sticky Hands: Solar Flare.
Brewed to honor the star of our system, Solar Flare is designed to capture the essence and energy of our girl in the sky. Radiating with citrus and fruit-forward hops like Citra and Nectaron, this variant also features a lot of our current favorite space-themed hops, like Eclipse, Apollo, and Strata. We are releasing this beer during a period when we are experiencing more solar storms than at any point in recent history: a solar maximum. We’re taking that as a sign that the sun is pumped about this release, and you should too. Give it a try, it's one of my favorite Sticky variants we’ve made in a while, and let me know what you think.
From the Executive Chef
Hello! Here are our upcoming menu updates for both locations! Please take the time to look over them and begin to get guests excited about some old favorites coming back! Remember as folks are disappointed when we remove a menu item, to be positive about highlighting the new item as well as assuring them that these are seasonal items and our fan favorites will make a comeback in the future! Make sure to check in every week to be in the know of what is changing!
PUB Changes Wednesday 10/30
The Forager Burger (Replaces the caprese burger) - NW beef patty, butter sauteed mixed mushrooms, melted Swiss cheese, lettuce, sweet onion, pickle, and garlic aioli on a toasted Bread Stop brioche pub bun 18.99
Tempeh & Peanut Rice Bowl (Replaces berry salad) - Crispy lemongrass tempeh, over coconut basmati rice with edamame, carrots, avocado & shaved cabbage. Topped with our ginger-peanut sauce, cilantro, green onion and crushed peanuts. 15.99 (Vegan and gluten free entree option)
TAP ROOM Changes Friday 11/1
Krab Rangoon Dip (Replaces clam dip) - Hot and savory Krab & cream cheese dip with green onion and served with fried wonton chips. 10.99
Sweet & Smoky Nuts (Replaces jerk hazelnuts) - Mix of Freddy Guys’ hazelnuts, peanuts & pecans in our sweet and smoky spice blend 5.99
November Monthly Specials!
PUB
Seafood Arancini - Breaded and fried parmesan risotto, filled with gulf shrimp and pacific cod. Served with spiced pumpkin mole sauce $14.99
The Gobbler - Our juicy turkey burger topped with cornbread-sage stuffing & turkey gravy, with orange-cranberry relish on a toasted brioche bun. $17.99
Autumn Harvest Salad - Fresh greens, Tillamook smoked cheddar, fresh apples, toasted pumpkin seeds, and maple dijon vinaigrette. $11.99
Bacon Suggested add on!
TAP ROOM
Toasted Pumpkin & Asiago Ravioli - Ravioli filled with creamy pumpkin & asiago cheese, lightly breaded and fried to perfection. Served with house marinara $10.99
Smoked Beet Reuben - Pastrami style cured and lightly smoked beets, sauerkraut, melted Swiss cheese and house Reuben sauce on our house baked toasted pumpernickel. $16.99
PUB UPDATES
The Game Room is getting a name change! Once upon a time, we had darts and a shuffleboard in that space, though through a remodel and the pandemic we removed those aspects to allow minors and more seating space. Now we have a room called the Game Room that is without any games. With this in mind, we are changing the name of the space to the Brewer’s Lounge. We recognize that this will be something we need to relearn and change how we think about sections as tables 11 and 12 are in the “Brewer’s Lounge”. Changes are being made on the back end of things, and we will come up with a fluid and intuitive naming convention, but the tables in each section will not change. We’ll send out an update via Sling noting how we will refer to sections in the future.
We’re switching up our lemonade flavor this Friday to a Marionberry lemonade for the fall season. We will run through passionfruit lemonade and have the Passionfruit Marg on the menu until the last batch is gone.
The folks at Mutantis are between batches and have phased out the Helles, so we will be switching to Hop Gloss IPA and Doom Loop Light Lager next week once we swing by PDX when the order is ready. We have a number in for the Hop Trifecta, and we may be out for a day or two.
3 Fools Tempranillo will be back this week!
TAP ROOM UPDATES
Caves Updates
Events
Late Fall Bottle Release - November 1st - 3rd
This weekend we’re releasing four beers as part of our Late Fall Bottle Release: Imagine, Imagine: Stroopwafel, Figgy Pudding, and Willa. These limited-run beers are something special we look forward to each year. To celebrate, we host a few events:
SOLD OUT! Brewers Dinner - November 1st at 6 pm
Learn how the beers were made directly from our brewers over a 4-course Pairing Dinner curated by our Executive Chef, Sarah. Ticket includes an allotment of bottles.
TICKETS CLOSED: Guided Pairings - November 2nd from 11 am - 2 pm
Guided tasting with our with our staff alongside small-bite pairings by our Executive Chef, Sarah, at our Southtown Taproom and Production Facility. Public bottle pre-order opportunity included with ticket purchase.
General Bottle Sale - Begins November 2nd
Bottles will be available for sale on a first-come, first-serve basis. Limits will be in effect.
HIGH FIVEs
The whole team for doing a great job while I was on PTO. Thanks for the new kitchen! - Ian COO (not anonymous 🤷)
Spencer Gunn - He is a great trainer and an even better friend to have.
If you have kudos or kind words to share anonymously in the Brewsletter, use the button below!
Human resources
STAFF SECTION
Please welcome the following folks to the team:
Emma Albright
Ryan Lollar
Salem Magdaleno
Wiley Kavanaugh
Aubrey Sciarrotta
SAFETY TIPS
Make sure your emergency contact list is updated - if you think your emergency contact has changed from when you would have originally started please give your manager your updated emergency contact information to be added to your employee folder.
Office Hours
Pub: Monday: 1-4 pm, Wednesday: 10 am - 1 pm
Tap Room: Monday: 9:30 am-12:30 pm, Tuesday: 1 - 4 pm
THE PEOPLE’S PINT / CHEERS FOR CHARITY / DINE OUT
The People’s Pint - All November
This November, we’re partnering with Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit by donating a portion of sales of Gloria!
Each pint or can purchased helps them offer assistance, without charge, for search and rescue (SAR) in difficult areas and high-angle terrain. Skilled CMRU volunteers with mountaineering experience, trained in the many facets of technical alpine search and rescue, are available around the clock.
