Internal Brewsletter - May 28th, 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 Maggie! Swing by the Pub this Thursday for a Mushroom & Pesto Melt!
We’re always looking for more submissions, so send in those ideas!
This Week’s Releases
Releasing Friday, May 30th
Summer Knights // 5.30%
Description: Brewed as the MVP for the season roster, celebrate the summer under stadium lights with this kölsch. Crisp hops and a smooth lager finish makes this brew a home run for any occasion.
Key Takeaway: Brewed to celebrate our partnership with the Corvallis Knights Baseball team, this Kolsch is brewed to be imminently drinkable, a perfect balance of malt sweetness, hops, and smooth lager character. Light, crisp, refreshing.
Tasting Notes: Biscuit • Crisp • Grand Slam
Format: Draft & Cans
Series: Perennial
Beer Style: Kölsch
Kolsch is a lager-like style named for the region in which it is traditionally brewed, Cologne, Germany. It is pale yellow in color and light in body, with crisp old world hop character. It is always a very refreshing beer, and finishes clean. It is lager-like in the fact that it is fermented warm with ale yeast, but conditioned cold like a lager. The brewing process is similar to altbier.
Cassidy // 8.40%
Description: Inspired by my daughter, Cassidy is matured in Sauternes wine barrels and conditioned on spring flowers and honey from her grandpa's hive. Blended every spring since 2015, each bottle contains a portion of all previous years' blends.
Key Takeaway: A lovely and robust Wild Farmhouse Ale, Cassidy finishes pleasantly dry with a floral kick. A unique staple in our wild lineup.
Tasting Notes: Floral • Rustic • Celebratory
Format: Draft & Bottles
Series: Cellars
Beer Style: Wild Ale with Honey, Hibiscus and Rose Petals
Upcoming Releases
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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 beer is: Green Truck
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, 5/29.
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: Collaborations
By Garrison Schmidt, Head Brewer
Collaborations are one of the curiosities of the brewing industry. Not uncommon among public institutions, educational institutions, or businesses in separate fields, it is almost unheard of for competing companies to work together in collaboration on a shared project. This, however, is a common occurrence in the brewing industry.
Part marketing opportunity, part information exchange; collaborations are a unique place where competitors come together and actively divulge their production practices with each other, this information exchange helps collaborators grow in technical knowledge and creates a tight social network among brewers.
Collaborations can arise in a number of ways, often brewers just like what other brewers are doing or already have friendships that give them the incentive to work together. Beers are conceptualized, recipes are written, and passed back and forth with notes for improvement. Beer naming and branding decisions are sometimes done collaboratively and sometimes the host brewery just takes that on as they would a regular beer.
Typically the collaborating brewery is there on brew day with the host brewery, but it’s not a matter of using their labor. Usually, you just hang out and exchange information, have a few beers and discuss how you make them, then take some photos. It’s hard to quantify, but everyone gets something out of it. It’s important to be a good host. Releasing a collaboration beer often comes with hype and increased demand from normal releases, it’s important for them to be both unique and high quality, they should represent the best of what both collaborators do well.
Another type of valuable collaboration is outside the industry. Today, we collaborated with Sugarpine Drive-In on a yuzu lemonade rice lager shandy called Shandy River. Their kitchen, bar managers, and entire company seemed to have constructive input that has made this a really promising concept. I love working on collaborative projects, as they open my eyes to new ideas, directions, and skillsets. Check out Sugarpine on the Sandy River next time you’re in the area, and keep an eye out for Shandy River, a 4% fruit-forward summer crusher!
Marketing Updates
By Holly Amlin, Marketing & Creative Manager
From the Executive Chef
By Sarah Farey, Executive Chef
A quick reminder that anytime you’re making food for yourself off the line, please be sure to account for and pay for all ingredients used. This helps us manage food costs and keep things fair for everyone.
If something you need isn’t already in the system or requires a button to be put in Toast, let me know and I’ll take care of it!
Bakery
Notes from Lindsey Henriksen, Bakery Manager
The Pub’s June dessert is dropping Friday 6/6: Pavlovas! Pavlovas are a baked meringue (egg whites and sugar) that have a crunchy shell and melt-in-your-mouth chewy center. We are serving ours this year with a sunny and tart passionfruit curd, fresh strawberries and whipped cream.
The meringues are very fragile and cannot be refrigerated! Please handle like you and smeagol and it is the one ring. Snarling and growling at anyone who comes near optional.
Pub Updates
By Kira Sciarrotta, General Manager
Nothing new to report! Keep up the good work and if you haven’t received your Quiz Completion Goody-Bag please check in with Kira next time you see her to claim your prize!
Tap Room Updates
By Elise Pietromonaco, General Manager
Beer updates:
While Nebula is taking a vacation (will be back mid- June on draft) we will have Cosmic Cold Brew on to support those Stout lovers!
We are on the last keg of Queens Head on Nitro (will also be replaced by Nitro version of Nebula mid- June)
Fluff’s Travels and Alpine cans are about out of stock, Board Shorts cans are officially gone and Caves 004 cans are going to stick around a while to create variety in the cooler.
We have gotten excellent feedback so far on the new BBQ menu (Thanks Sarah for working so hard to create all these new options!!!) remember to take opportunities to upsell when you have the chance. Whether that be an upgrade to a fun new side like Elote salad, beer to go or a dessert. You never know what someone is craving!
As we make minor tweaks to the Soft serve recipe, please deliver any feedback about this directly to Sarah through a sling message!
Caves Updates
By Aidan Welch, General Manager
High Fives
Taproom employees, you are all so fantastic in your own individual ways. Keep being your genuine selves. You could really make someone's day! Remember, grow when you have the opportunity; and always be kind, at the end of the day it’s just (delicious) burgers and (damn good) beers! <3
Kitchen Staff - Thanks for your hard work as always. It’s not an easy gig but you guys make it look that way! The Thursday night crew handled a massive party during dinner with positive attitudes and efficiency. You guys rock. I admire your ability to cook an over easy egg. That’s crazy. We <3 you all.
Kim S.- Thank you for all your hard work and great attitude! We appreciate you
Donlon - He covers shifts so often, helps everyone, & is a great server and trainer. We love and appreciate you. And being there on Monday opens. You’re so brave for that.
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