Internal Brewsletter - April 9th, 2025
General
Employee 4-pack Sale
Hey all! We slightly overproduced cans of Rocky Shores American IPA and Liquid Opulence Hazy IPA. As such, we will have 4 packs of these available to employees only for $8 a 4 pack. The beer is still super fresh and tasting great, just trying to move a few extra cases.
You must buy them as a set, no single cans. These are available at both the Taproom and Pub for folks to purchase. No limit!
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 Holly! Swing by the Pub this Thursday for Goat Cheese & Jam Beef Sliders!
We’re always looking for more submissions, so send in those ideas!
This Week’s Releases
Releasing Friday, April 11th
Deep Seek: Beer Pageant // 6.50%
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.
Tasting Notes: Papaya • Orange Peel • Rosemary
Format: Draft Only
Series: Perpetual
Beer Style: West Coast IPA
Upcoming Releases
*This list is subject to change based on the production schedule, so please keep that in mind!
Sticky Hands: Joker’s Jest // Hop Experience Ale
Series: Sticky Hands
Releases: April 18th
Format: Draft & Cans
Description: Our hop experience ale dosed with a twist of trouble. Harlequin Hops adds mischievous notes of strawberry guava and sweet tarts to our resinous and punchy Sticky Hands base.
Alpine Ibex // Maibock
Series: Perennial
Releases: April 18th
Format: Draft & Cans
Description: Pairing delicate regional pilsner and robust Munich malts with floral and spicy hops from the PNW, this gold hued lager features notes of honey with a balanced bitterness.
Future Focus: Fonio // Hazy IPA
Series: Emerging
Releases: April 18th
Format: Draft Only
Description: Future Focus is an experimental IPA brewed with an eye on tomorrow, allowing us to trial new products and brewing methods. For this batch, we made a Hazy IPA with the new malt, Fonio, a highly sustainable and gluten-free unmalted grain that produces flavors and aromas of tropical fruit and white wine.
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:
TR: 45 Below and Rocky Shores
Pub: 45 Below and Cosmic Coldbrew
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, 4/17.
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: Deep Seek Month
By Garrison Schmidt, Head Brewer
As we all know, this month, we are making a real effort to push Deep Seek to its rightful level of recognition within our fanbase. Sticky Hands gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so! Sticky is a badass beer. However, Deep Seek is a much better choice as a daily drinker. It has less alcohol, fewer calories, and just as much flavor and character as its imperial friend. It’s packed with uber-modern and expressive hops and advanced hop products on the bleeding edge of development. It is current, yet classic, and is as exciting as it is easy to enjoy. It’s approachable but refined. We’ve all been versed in Deep Seek’s deep and complex yet easily accessed brilliance, but I think the most important part of getting to know Deep Seek is finding what is exciting about it to you personally.
One of my favorite things about Deep Seek is its place as the perpetual West Coast IPA of a West Coast brewery. As far as culinary destinations go, the West Coast is a relatively young one. Places that have existed for far longer have a much more established identity associated with their food and drink. Think New Orleans, and your mind is filled with Cajun, Creole, and Bourbon. Think of France, and you likely think of fine wines, delicate pastries, and Coq au Vin. When I say India, I think of curries, samosa, and chai. The West Coast doesn’t yet have that world recognition of our signature dishes and beverages because they’re honestly still being cemented. But, if I was asked to design a meal around that idea, a West Coast IPA would be the drink I would choose to represent us, and I think a lot of folks would agree.
It is a beer invented at the end of the Oregon Trail, where people take the lessons learned by those before us and try to make improvements. Hops grown here are danker and more aromatic because our soil is so rich, and it translates into a more flavorful beer. We never had any rules placed on us by preexisting tradition, and we wouldn’t care if we did. The West Coast is the home of the weirdest, boldest, and bravest Americans alive, and it shows in the beer we brew and drink.
So, next time you are asked for a recommendation on a beer, remember that West Coast IPA is a part of our regional identity. It’s part of who we are. It’s not for everybody, but neither is hiking, whitewater rafting, mountain climbing, or most of the other things that make West Coast people so damned cool. It's for the bold.
Marketing Updates
By Holly Amlin, Marketing & Creative Manager
Keep Highlighting Deep Seek
You all have done a great job highlighting the beer so far - keep it up! Beer Info will be here all month so you can find it easily.
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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.
From the Executive Chef
By Sarah Farey, Executive Chef
Bakery
Notes from Lindsey Henricksen, Bakery Manager
Pub Updates
By Kira Sciarrotta, General Manager
We’ve had some incredibly busy days this past week and you all killed it! Game days can be bustling and overwhelming, but remember to lean on one another, be proactive, and always keep your eyes open for ways to help out the team!
If you haven’t yet claimed your prize for being a consistent quiz completer, come see Kira as soon as possible! The next opportunity for a reward will come up fast, so do your best to keep up with your quizzes!
Tap Room Updates
By Elise Pietromonaco, General Manager
Hey friends! We are replacing our canned offering Spiced Apple Cosmic Crisp with a more springy option! Pineapple Cosmic Crisp. Same price point but it is 8% ABV
At the Tap Room only, we are offering OSU Grad Appreciation Week! Just like the prior discount, we'll offer a free beverage (Up to $8 in value) with the purchase of any food item. Must present student ID to redeem. One redemption per person between April 7th and 13th.
Caves Updates
By Aidan Welch, General Manager
High Fives
Maggie Speed - Maggie is always a joy to work with. She consistently has an amazing attitude and takes on every challenge with grace. The pub wouldn’t be the same without her!!
Autumn & Lindsey - For the amazing ongoing work in the bakery, the delicious cakes, cookies, and bread (and peanut butter pie, who are we kidding!), that keep people coming back to Block 15. Love you guys!
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Human Resources
Staff Section
Please welcome the following folks to the team:
Charlotte Basura - Host/Food runner
Sophia Solares - Host/Food runner
Frederick Leake - Taproom Server
Everett Kupillas - Caves cook
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.