Internal Brewsletter - November 12th, 2025
General
Employee Provision - Submissions Needed!
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 Lily! Swing by the Pub this Thursday for Sweet Chili N Fritos!
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
Hoppy Holidays // 9.20%
Description: This yuletide IPA is brewed with a sleighful of hops, orange zest, and foraged spruce tips. Our gift of pine and citrus is wrapped in a warm malt backbone that is sure to bring holiday cheer.
Key Takeaway: 250 Pounds of Spruce tips went into the beer, which were hand-foraged by our staff at Starker Forests in the Coast Range. 100 pounds of orange zest add the perfect amount of fruity flavor.
Tasting Notes: Jolly Rancher • Orange Peel • Festive
Format: Draft & Cans
Series: Orbital
Beer Style: Imperial IPA with Citrus and Spruce Tips
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.
Upcoming Releases
*This list is subject to change based on the production schedule. Please keep that in mind!
Fresh Pow // Hazy IPA
Series: Perennial
Releases: November 21st
Format: Draft & Cans
Description: Amplified for the winter season, we have piled on the pow, doubling one of our favorite NZ hops. Slide into a resinous, citrusy, and tropical hop avalanche with a pillowy, soft body. Powabunga!
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: Flicker
Beer Education
NEW: Barrel Room Roundtable - Thursdays 4 pm
This weeks barrel room round table: TBD
Marketing Updates
By Holly Amlin, Marketing & Creative Manager
Events
Block Friday Sale - November 28th - 30th
50% off select merch + Vintage Bottle Sale at the Tap Room only. Our Sunday 20% package beer discount DOES NOT apply on top of the sale price.
👕 Merch Sale 🧢 - Out with the old and in with the new - we're clearing space for new items and are offering a deal on some t-shirts, long sleeve plaid shirts, beanies, and hats.
🍾 Vintage Bottle Sale 🍾 - We're opening the vault and releasing a limited collection of vintage bottles that have been aging in our cellar. Quantities are limited and vary by beer. Bottle discount % and list of offerings are still being finalized.
Here are a few examples of what beers we’re offering:
2018 Turbulent Consequence, The 5th
Designed to celebrate the fifth anniversary of our friends at de Garde Brewing, Turbulent Consequence, The 5th features a blend of spontaneously fermented stock out of our Turbulent Consequence program that was matured for two years in neutral oak, conditioned on Cara Cara orange peel and cognac staves, and bottle conditioned with local honey for natural carbonation.
2019 Summer Amusement
Block 15 and De Garde’s Amusement series was a rotating seasonal project that blended friendship, technique, and beer from both breweries. Summer Amusement features a young table saison from Block 15, blended with one-year-old spontaneously fermented and oak-aged wild ale from de Garde, producing a crisp blend that is bright and zippy when enjoyed fresh and has gained beautiful complexity upon cellaring.
2021 Golden Canary
This foeder-conditioned blend of Golden Wild Ales combines a bready malt base with bright acidity, earthy funk, and just a touch of barrel character. Enjoy fresh notes of stone fruit, green apple, and citrus zest. As it aged in the bottle, the wild character has developed complexity over time.
From the Executive Chef
By Sarah Farey, Executive Chef
Next Wednesday 11/19 we will be replacing the Oregon pesto pasta with our bucatini parma rosa at the pub!
BUCATINI & MEATBALL PARMA ROSA Bucatini pasta, house-made creamy fontina-tomato sauce, parmesan, basil and a jumbo beef & pork meatball. 17.99
Also on the 19th both locations will be getting a NEW fry seasoning option! We are adding French Curry, or “Vadouvan” which is the actual name.
Vadouvan is a French-inspired, dry curry spice blend that combines traditional Indian spices like cumin, coriander, and turmeric with aromatics such as shallots, garlic, and onion
When it goes live I would LOVE folks at both locations to try them and report back with their favorite dipping sauce to pair with them! Let’s find French Curry’s honey mustard :) IYKYK.
While soft serve is on hold for the winter at the tap room, we will be running the same monthly dessert as the pub as our second plated dessert option!
Bakery
Notes from Lindsey Henriksen, Bakery Manager
Next week we will start running the monthly desserts at both locations! This means the taproom will carry figgy pudding, and in December we will switch to a creme brulee. Dessert switches happen the Friday after monthly menu changes.
Pub Updates
By Kira Sciarrotta, General Manager
Tap Room Updates
Caves Updates
By Aidan Welch, General Manager
High Fives
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Staff Section
Check back next week!