Internal Brewsletter - April 2nd, 2025
General
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 Tivey! Swing by the Pub this Thursday for Cottage Pie!
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!
Deep Seek: Beer Pageant // West Coast IPA
Series: Perpetuals
Releases: April 11th
Format: Draft Only
Description: Deep Seek all dressed up for the big show. This version of Deep Seek had its dry hop cranked up to 11. With copious additions of Simcoe, Nectaron, and El Dorado added on top of our standard dry hopping regime, this version of Deep Seek will surely be a crowd-pleaser.
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.
We’re running this weekend’s sale Friday-Sunday!
This week’s beers are:
Illuminated and Rocky Shores
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 Happy Hour is Thursday, 4/3.
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.
Marketing Updates
By Holly Amlin, Marketing & Creative Manager
We Now Have Beer on Our Website
You can now learn about our beers, our beer series, and our beverage programs on our website. These pages are useful for fans looking to learn more about what we make, for our sales team to share information about our products easily, and for people who’ve never heard of us to find us when searching for local craft beer. Check out the pages when you have time! I gave you links for a couple of them to get you started.
April is Deep Seek Month!
Hi all, I hope you’re excited about Deep Seek :) I’m going to keep the information about the beer in here as the month goes on so that you have it available to you. If you haven’t picked up the Deep Seek shirt you pre-ordered, go get it! I dropped off a handful at the Pub for those who requested it. Otherwise, they’re at the Tap Room.
Beer Info
Deep Seek is our 6.50% year-round West Coast IPA brewed with mountains of pungent, resinous hops. It captures depths of dank pine and bright citrus to complement your next adventure.
Tasting Notes: Pine resin, tangerine, mango, pineapple, fruit candy, iris, spruce, lemon rind
Take a Deep Dive 🤿
We explored the modern West Coast IPA recipe with Deep Seek, continually developing it over time to drive intense, punchy hop flavor and aroma that complement a crisp, lighter-bodied beer with balanced bitterness.
As we evolved Deep Seek over the last year, we introduced a new hop product, HyperBoost, a concentrated hop oil extract intended to amplify hop aromatics and increase yield. We really like how the Simcoe variety added brightness and intense aroma without affecting the body or bitterness of the beer.
We made Deep Seek West Coast IPA with primarily West Coast ingredients. Our focus on NW-grown malts, in particular, provides balance and body to this beer without it feeling heavy or overwhelming. Deep Seek has classic West Coast hop characteristics of pine, tangerine, and lemon rind, which come from a recipe of NW hops, Simcoe HyperBoost, and the New Zealand variety Nectaron. It’s bitter but not astringent, hoppy but not palate-wrecking.
Drinkability is key, and Deep Seek has become a hallmark of the Pacific Northwest beer landscape. It delivers an iconic West Coast IPA experience that pairs with many occasions.
At Our Locations
Offer folks a small taste of Deep Seek! Please suggest this beer as an option to those you’ve verified are 21+ at either the table (Pub) or counter (TR). There’s a ton of good information above for you to use when talking to our guests about Deep Seek.
Deep Seek stickers are being handed out for free to the first 100 people who order Deep Seek at The Pub and Tap Room.
Our little diver helmet, Nemo, has been hidden for a fun scavenger hunt at the Tap Room. Check out Elise’s notes in the Tap Room section for more!
From the Executive Chef
By Sarah Farey, Executive Chef
April monthly specials go live today!!!
PUB
Pina-Pepper Burger-Caramelized pineapple, pepper jack cheese, gochujang mayo & jalapeno chimichurri $17.99
Potato & Green Chile Flautas-Creamy, spicy potato and green chili wrapped in flour tortillas and fried crispy. Served with salsa borracha, sour cream, queso fresco & fresh radishes $12.99
Chickpea & Avocado Salad-Tender greens & romaine blend, julienned watermelon radish, crispy chickpeas, avocado and mint-chevre vinaigrette. Finished with crumbled chevre goat cheese & fresh basil. $12.99
TAP ROOM
Toasted Italian Eggplant Sandwich Breaded and fried eggplant, melted fresh mozzarella, Mama Lils’ sweet & hot peppers and basil mayo on house-baked ciabatta. $15.99
Bay Shrimp Hushpuppies Oregon bay shrimp hushpuppies fried golden with our apricot pepper jelly. $11.99
Shaved Ham Replacing Turkey
Starting today at the pub along with our monthly specials, we will be switching our turkey to a NW sourced shaved ham that is a far superior option! It is the same delicious ham we use on our ham benedict at Caves! The rest of the sandwich will remain the same and sliced turkey will no longer be available.
Bakery
Notes from Lindsey Henricksen, Bakery Manager
Springtime brings us new desserts starting Friday, April 4th! Peanut butter pie will be replacing the cheesecake at both locations. Peanut butter mousse topped with our dark chocolate ganache and a sprinkle of peanuts around the edge. This is a fan fave, it’s basically a no-bake cheesecake that resembles a giant Reese’s!
Pub only: Carrot cake is on for April! Our same recipe in a new format (no more bells). Lightly spiced carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and a sprinkling of candied walnuts.
TR only: We will be starting a rotation of cookie flavors in addition to the chocolate chip. First up is a delightfully springy Lavender Lemon cookie.
Pub Updates
By Kira Sciarrotta, General Manager
We should be making our switch to our new Rose this Week! Once we finish our last bottle of Anne Amie, we will switch to Dunham Cellars Rose. This is a fairly similar offering - a very approachable Rose with subtle sweetness.
Block Water and Cosmic Coldbrew have been temporarily cellared to make space for last week’s beer releases. As we see the Selection Series fall off, expect those spots to be filled back in with those offerings. We should also be seeing Joy back on our tap list in the near future!
Tap Room Updates
By Elise Pietromonaco, General Manager
April is the month for Deep Seek! We will be featuring a fun little game called “Finding Nemo”, Nemo as you may know is the name of our cute little diver (helmet) that matches the Deep Seek logo. This guy has been apart of Block 15’s merch, the beers logo, and art around the restaurants for years. Every few weeks I will change the location of Nemo, for kids to find it within the restaurant (maybe outside at times once the weather is nicer) and as a reward for finding it, they will receive a piece of candy. Just good, silly fun! Nemo is currently hidden in plain sight, atop the Soup & Specials board. As time goes on I will make the hiding place more difficult, but we also want the kids to be able to find it. We will have a sign promoting this on top of the bar near the register, but feel free to promote it as you see families with kiddos!! 🥽
Block water has been temporarily cellared until there is tap space again, which should be in the next week or so. Stay tuned! 💧
Joy, our perpetual Hazy Pale Ale will return in draft and can format this Friday 4/4. You’ll see a lot of excitement around this, especially from some of our regular guests. 🥳Just to prevent confusion, 45 Below will not be out but moved to the second tap box, so Joy can live with the other standards in tap box 1.
For quality, sweet vermouth for things like a Manhattan cocktail should always be refrigerated. The Sweet vermouth now lives in the wine fridge on the bottom shelf with the open bottles 🍸
Every Thursday, Levi will be posting a physical copy of the Read and Sign document in the Taproom kitchen by the roster board. It will be a required read like the Brewsletter so please review this document at the beginning of your shift following the posting! Drop your initials clearly so you can get credit for staying up to date! This document will regard policy changes, upkeep of the restaurant, reminders, and more detailed feedback from managers. Should usually be pretty short! ✅
If you ever have any suggestions or questions, I would love to hear them! My email is elise@block15.com and I am (almost) always available for one on one conversations when in the office if you need support. 🍻 Cheers!
Caves Updates
By Aidan Welch, General Manager
High Fives
Whoever decided to bring back Peanut Butter Pie!!! - For obvious reasons! Our PBP is fire!!!!
Ben Lieberthal - Ben has been picking up a ton of shifts lately and always does a great job! Thanks for everything you do to help out. We appreciate you!
All of BOH - Thank you all for being so flexible and understanding when it comes to FOH needs, mistakes, and shenanigans! We love you and we see how hard you work!
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Human Resources
Staff Section
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Charitable Programs
People’s Pint Tap in April with Deep Seek
We’ll be supporting Grace Center for Adult Day Services this April by donating a portion of every pint and can purchased of Deep Seek to them. Please let people know about this during the month, so there’s awareness for who we’re supporting!
About Grace Center
They provide day services that optimize the cognitive and physical abilities of older adults and adults with a disability so they can remain as independent as possible and in their homes. The center specializes in both memory care and post-rehabilitation, serving adults with dementia, those recovering from strokes or brain injuries, and others. Grace Center’s services also provide vital respite to caregivers.
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.