Internal Brewsletter - October 22nd, 2025
General
Employee Provision - Submissions Needed!
A weekly special served at the Pub, the idea of which comes primarily from Block 15 employees.
We’re always looking for more submissions, so send in those ideas! Remember, if your provision gets selected, you can order one for free!
This Week’s Releases
Ol’ Saint Nick // 9.00%
Description: Ol' St. Nick is a generously malt-forward winter ale - artfully constructed with a base of selected malts and hops, offering notes of toffee, cocoa, plum, and caramel with citrusy hops and a pleasant lingering finish.
Key Takeaway: A turn-of-the-season winter warmer. It's a delicate balancing act of sweet malt and hop bitterness that creates an incredibly drinkable seasonal taster. Very complex malt bill leads to a nuanced, malt-forward winter ale.
Tasting Notes: Candied Plums • Roasted Malt • Fireside
Format: Draft & Cans
Series: Orbital
Beer Style: Winter Ale
Winter ale is more of a brewing tradition than a specific style. Usually brewed strong, dark, rich, and warming, these beers utilize darker malts, spices, sugars, and higher ABV to create a beer that is perfect for cold winter months. Different breweries and regions use the phrase to mean different things, but most of them are big, bold, dark, and strong.
Upcoming Releases
*This list is subject to change based on the production schedule. Please keep that in mind!
Imagine // Belgian Imperial Stout Matured in Bourbon Barrels
Series: Cellars
Releases: October 31st
Format: Draft & Bottles
Description: A blend of Belgian-inspired Imperial Stouts matured for one and two years in freshly emptied Heaven Hill bourbon barrels. Deep, dark, and decadent, our strongest offering blended once a year.
Imagine: Speculoos // Belgian Imperial Stout, Matured in Bourbon Barrels and Conditioned on Speculoos Cookies
Series: Cellars
Releases: October 31st
Format: Draft & Bottles
Description: A limited blend of Belgian Imperial Stouts aged in Heaven Hill Bourbon Barrels and conditioned on speculoos cookies from our bakery, adding decadent notes of cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom.
Figgy Pudding // English Barleywine ale matured in Brandy Barrels with Spice
Series: Cellars
Releases: October 31st
Format: Draft & Bottles
Description: Our yearly holiday offering is brewed with specialty malts, figs, cloves, and nutmeg, and matured in freshly emptied brandy barrels—the perfect beer to share with friends and family around a cozy fireplace.
Willa // Red Farmhouse Ale Matured in Red Wine Barrels
Series: Cellars
Releases: October 31st
Format: Draft & Bottles
Description: Blended each year in celebration of our founding 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.
Sticky Hands: [CLASSIFIED] // Hop Experience Ale
Series: Sticky Hands
Releases: October 31st
Format: Draft & Cans
Description:
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 beers are:
Pub: Black Gold
Tap Room: Discovery and Loyal to the Block
Beer Education
NEW: Barrel Room Roundtable - Thursdays 4 pm
This weeks barrel room round table: Thursday 4PM - TBD
Beer 101:
By Garrison Schmidt, Head Brewer
Marketing Updates
By Holly Amlin, Marketing & Creative Manager
Late Fall Bottle Release
The Brewer’s Dinner is SOLD OUT, and we’ve sold a little over half of the tickets for the Guided Pairing event - please try to encourage folks to join us for this! It’s a more casual pairing experience and a fun walkthrough of our production space. I handed out table tents and posters to both locations to help build awareness, which have QR codes to our webpage that explains the program as a whole.
Events
Late Fall Bottle Release - November 1st
Pre-orders close on October 27th!
General Bottle Release
Bottles will be available for sale at both locations during regular business hours starting November 1st. Limits will be in effect, and bottles will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. These bottles are excluded from our 20% off packaged beer deal on Sundays, until you hear otherwise.
Guided Pairings with Bottle Pre-Order Opportunity
November 1st, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm • Southtown Tap Room
During this guided experience, folks will learn how the beers were made from our Brewery staff while enjoying thoughtful pairings by our Executive Chef, Sarah, to enhance the tasting notes of each beer. Tickets are sold for time slots of 11:30, 12, 12:30, and 1 pm, and include a bottle pre-order opportunity.
Brewer's Dinner
November 1st, 6 - 8 pm • Downtown Pub *SOLD OUT*
Enjoy an evening learning about how our barrel-aged beers were made from Garrison, over a six-course pairing experience by our Executive Chef, Sarah. Ticket includes an allotment of bottles.
From the Executive Chef
By Sarah Farey, Executive Chef
Pub November Monthly Specials set to come out on Wednesday 11/5!
Seafood Arancini-Breaded and fried parmesan risotto, filled with gulf shrimp and pacific cod. Served with spiced pumpkin mole sauce $11.99
The Gobbler-Our juicy turkey burger topped with cornbread-sage stuffing & turkey gravy, with orange-cranberry relish on a toasted brioche bun. $18.99
Autumn Harvest Salad-Fresh greens, Tillamook smoked cheddar, Peoria Road Farm Market apples, toasted pumpkin seeds, crisp bacon and maple-Dijon vinaigrette. $13.99-Suggested add-on of smoked chicken!
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
Bakery
Notes from Lindsey Henriksen, Bakery Manager
Pub Updates
By Kira Sciarrotta, General Manager
You all KILLED Bloktoberfest. I had so much fun working with everyone and I’m so proud of our team! If you worked the fest, give yourself a pat on the back. If you kept the Pub running while the rest of us were occupied, give yourself a DOUBLE pat on the back!
Keep an eye out on Sling for new cocktails as we sell out of Whiskey-A-Goji and Painkiller here soon.
Tap Room Updates
Caves Updates
By Aidan Welch, General Manager
High Fives
Everyone who helped with Bloktoberfest - Thank you! You all rocked it. From set up to tear down, the event went smoothly. There are too many to name, but know you’re appreciated.
Sophia and Megan - Absolutely crushed it Saturday lunch through dinner. Supported each other as host and food runner, kept kitchen up to date with numbers, helped pre-bus! Couldn't have asked for more.
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Staff Section
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Charitable Programs
People’s Pint Tap for Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit in October - Last Week!
Over the years, we’ve continued to support CMRU because of the valuable work they do. This October, we’re highlighting them again with Fluffhead. Learn more about Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit (CMRU). Our menus will feature the People’s Pint icon again to help guests recognize the program. Please familiarize yourself with CMRU and understand what our donation will be used for, so you can be prepared to share this information with our guests. There are stickers and brochures about CMRU at both locations now.
Each pint or can purchased helps support CMRU, which offers assistance, at no charge, for search and rescue (SAR) operations in challenging 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.
What’s Our Donation Going Toward?
Our donation will help to support CMRU in providing resources to train skilled search-and-rescue volunteers and mountaineers, as well as education and equipment maintenance.
What is The People's Pint?
We strive to make a positive impact on the community by supporting local non-profit groups focusing on issues such as health and wellness, education, and environmental sustainability. The People's Pint program allows us to contribute to the overall well-being of our community.