Internal Brewsletter - November 6th, 2024
General
Veterans Day
Monday, November 11th is Veteran’s Day and we will be offering a meal and beverage on the house at all locations (Pub, Tap Room, and Caves) to those who have served or are actively serving. We are not requiring proof or military ID. There are discount buttons at all locations that we will use for these discounts. We will send out a Sling message with more details/info, but that is something that we are offering.
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 Cody B.! Swing by the Pub this Thursday for The Mouthbreather!
We’re always looking for more submissions, so send in those ideas!
THIS WEEK’S RELEASES
No new releases this week
UPCOMING Releases
*This list is subject to change based on the production schedule, so please keep that in mind!
Hoppy Holidays // Imperial IPA with Citrus and Spruce Tips
Series: Orbital
Releases: November 15th
Format: Draft & Cans
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.
Fresh Pow // Hazy IPA
Series: Perennial
Releases: November 22nd
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: Joy, Flicker
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, November 14th, 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: Hop Pen Pals
Written by Garrison Schmidt, Head Brewer
This week, we brewed a really fun collaboration with our friends at Behemoth Brewing in Aukland, New Zealand. Their owners are Andrew and Hannah Childs, a husband and wife team. He’s from New Zealand, and she’s from Oregon. Her brother is a close friend of mine, and this is our second collaboration with them, the first being Something Big & Resinous West Coast IPA last October. The idea behind this collaboration was to trade recipes for beers that our respective regions are famous for. We wrote them a recipe for a West Coast IPA, and they wrote a New Zealand IPA recipe for us. We swapped and are excited for the release of Hop Pen Pals, which will be light in body and hop bitterness, lower ABV, and packed with exotic New Zealand hops like Motueka, Pacific Jade, Riwaka, Superdelic, and Nectaron. I’m hoping that this will be an IPA that is unlike many that you have tried before. Let me know what you think. I hope you like it.
From the Executive Chef
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
New Menu Designs
Our new and improved menu format dropped today! Holly and I would LOVE any feedback from you all, or that you receive from guests regarding them! Thank you Holly for making them look so snazzy!
New Seasonal Pub Items
Next week at the pub we will be bringing back our Meatloaf Sandwich (replacing Pimento BLT) and Magic Mushrooms (Replacing Hummus)
Magic Mushrooms-Local mushrooms stuffed with Pepper Tree Chicago style sausage, cream cheese, and a three cheese blend. Topped with toasted bread crumbs and parsley, served bubbling hot. $13.99
Meatloaf Sandwich-Scratch made pork & beef meatloaf, served with house pickles, melted Tillamook Swiss cheese, sweet glazed onions, and stone ground mustard aioli on toasted house-baked ciabatta bread. $17.99
Food Feedback
Don’t forget to share feedback on all our new menu items, including monthly specials!
PUB UPDATES
We have Mutantis back! In place of the Helles we have the Doom Loop Light Lager for something crisp and refreshing, and once the Hop Trifecta runs out, we will offer Hop Gloss which is a silky and well balanced hazy IPA.
TAP ROOM UPDATES
We have Flicker back on draft temporarily. Please push this product as we would like it to phase it out with Fresh POW!
Fluffhead draft is still out for another week or so. Please offer Joy or Story of the Ghost as alternative Hazy options. If neither of those options fit their needs you can always offer to open a Fluffhead can “In house.” Don’t forget the corkage fee of $1 please!
86 when kick: Fieldstone Farmhouse, Story of the Ghost & Cheers to the Land
Other than these 3 beers, everything has a back up keg or plenty of draft left in inventory to make it through the weekend!
Many edits have been made to the opening/ closing/ shift change and projects list. Closely review as you are on shift because expectations may have changed! We are very open to positive, constructive feedback so feel free to write notes on the side to let management know or email me directly if something could be added or improved 🙂
Caves Updates
We have a Dine-Out happening at Caves this Thursday where we will donate 25% of sales to Bryon, Nick and Steven, the three Corvallis business owners who recently lost their home to a fire. Come to Caves and support!
Events
HIGH FIVEs
Shelby Mosel - THANK YOU FOR BEING THE BEST HR WE COULD EVER HAVE ASKED FOR!!! I hope you know how much of a positive difference you have made in our lives. We will miss you so much! <3
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Human resources
STAFF SECTION
Please welcome the following folks to the team:
Ryan Lollar (TR BOH)
SAFETY TIPS
What to do if there is a fire: Sound verbal alarm and guide patrons calmly to the exits, call 9-1-1, if the fire is small and you are able to contain it safely, attempt to extinguish it, if the fire is large evacuate the building and close the doors behind you and go to the assigned meeting place.
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.
