Preview the beers to be poured:

• Roslyn Brewing Company
• Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
• Georgetown Brewing Company
• Yakima Craft Brewing Company
• Red Hook Ale Brewery
• big al brewing
• Whitstran Brewing Company
• Big Sky Brewing Company
• Alpine Brewing Company
• Kona Brewing Company
• Deschutes Brewery
• Snipes Mountain Brewing, Inc.
  

Roslyn Brewing Company

Roslyn, WA

Brewery Website: www.roslynbrewery.com

Get to know the brewer:

The Roslyn Brewing Company has been brewing hand-crafted and full-flavored beers in the old world tradition since 1990. Our beers are excellent, full-bodied, German-style lagers reminiscent of those brewed by the immigrant miners in our hometown of Roslyn, Washington at the turn of the century. We use only the finest ingredients, including malted barley grown in the Northwest, hops grown in the Yakima Valley, and ice cold snow-fed water from the heart of the Cascades, to produce a full-bodied brew with a flavor that some say has been missing in domestic beers since the enactment of Prohibition.

Roslyn Brewing Company Will be pouring:

1. Roslyn Dark Lager - Our original brew. It is a mild dark lager with a distinct character, and closely resembles the lager handcrafted by the German brewmeisters at the original Roslyn Brewery and Malting Company one hundred years ago. We use our own recipe of Roslyn water, fresh from the Cascade Mountains, four types of malted barley and three hop varieties to produce this smooth lager.
2. Brookside Pale Lager - A pale lager beer made without the darker malts that we use in Roslyn Beer. It is hopped primarily with Yakima Hallertau hops, and may remind you of a beer you might find at a small gasthaus in Germany. It is especially popular with people who like full-bodied, lighter beers with mild hopping, and is named for the Brookside neighborhood of Roslyn.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

Chico, CA

Brewery Website: www.sierranevada.com/

Get to know the brewer:

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. was founded with one purpose: to brew the finest ales and lagers. We follow traditional brewing methods, using only select malted barley, whole hop flowers, brewer’s yeast, and pure water. The quality of our ingredients and our devotion to the craft of brewing shows in the superior flavor, aroma, balance, and character of our ales and lagers. In 1979, Ken Grossman began building a small brewery in the town of Chico, California. Today, the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is considered the premier craft brewery in the United States. And the beer? Critics proclaim it “Among the best brewed anywhere in the world.”

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Will be pouring:

1. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale - Our most popular beer, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, is a delightful interpretation of a classic style. It has a deep amber color and an exceptionally full-bodied, complex character. Generous quantities of premium Cascade hops give the Pale Ale its fragrant bouquet and spicy flavor.

   “Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is the flagship beer, the one that made Chico famous. It is a flawless beer that opens with bright, perky high notes of maltiness and orange blossom and segues into a delectable hoppiness.”

   – Elaine Louie, Premier Beer—A Guide to America’s Best Bottled Microbrews

   GOLD MEDAL WINNER
   Great American Beer Festival (American Pale Ale: 1995, 1994, 1993;
   Classic English Pale Ale: 1992; Pale Ale: 1990, 1989, 1987)

2. Sierra Nevada Summerfest - Our Summerfest^® is a refreshing, pilsner-style lager. Its incredible smoothness comes from an extra-long lagering period. Lighter in body than our ales but just as complex in character, Summerfest^® quenches your thirst with big aroma and a tangy hop bite.

   GOLD MEDAL WINNER
   California State Fair (European Light Lagers: 1999)

Georgetown Brewing Company

Seattle, WA

Brewery Website: www.georgetownbeer.com/

Get to know the brewer:

Welcome to Georgetown Brewing Company, a Seattle microbrewery and brewer of Manny’s Pale Ale. We’re a draft beer only production brewery, which means that all we do is make beer and fill kegs. Sorry, no brewpub, but we do have a retail shop where you can pick up kegs to go, growlers, and perhaps get a taste of our newest beer before it’s released. Or you could be social and get out to your favorite local watering hole. If they don’t have our beer on tap, let us know and we’ll do our best to pester ‘em into submission. Do we bottle? Not yet but we never say never. Right now we’re focused on doing one thing right… draft beer. Cheers!

We’re Roger Bialous and Manny Chao… a couple of beer loving local boys who brewed up a pretty darn tasty beer in the garage (actually it was the back deck, but garage sounds better). We decided to chuck our jobs… all for beer. Yee-haw.

Georgetown Brewing Company Will be pouring:

1. Manny’s Pale Ale - For normal people: Darn tasty beer. For beer lovers: Manny’s Pale Ale: A careful selection of Northwest hops, premium barley, and our unique yeast give this ale a rich and complex malty middle with a snappy hop finish. It’s truly a micro that finishes crisp, clean, and smooth. For beer geeks: Two-row Pale, Crystal, and Cara-Pilsner Malt. Magnum and Cascade hops. IBU’s: 37. Original gravity 1.052 (13 Plato). Finishing gravity 1.010 (2.5 Plato). English Ale yeast. Alcohol by Volume: 5.5%.
2. Roger’s Pilsner - For normal people: Darn Tasty Pilsner. For beer lovers: Roger’s Pilsner: Yakima grown Czechoslovakian Saaz hops give this refreshing pilsner a spicy and earthy hop aroma. Malt character is accentuated by a German Lager Yeast that ferments dry but round and complex. For beer geeks: Two-row pale malt, Magnum and Saaz hops. IBU’s 26. Original gravity 1.048 (12 Plato). Finishing gravity 1.010 (2.5 Plato). German Lager Yeast. Alcohol by volume: 4.9%

Yakima Craft Brewing Company

Yakima, WA

Brewery Website: www.yakimacraftbrewing.com

Get to know the brewer:

Yakima Craft Brewing Company Will be pouring:

1. Pale Ale (Our Pale Ale features a clean finish and a low-hop bite. A light and very refreshing ale made for long-time or first-time craft beer drinkers.)
2. IPA (Our IPA features a substantial, well-balanced taste with an emphasis on the hop.)

Redhook Ale Brewery

Seattle, WA

Brewery Website: www.redhook.com

Get to know the brewer:

Paul Shipman and Gordon Bowker actually founded Redhook brewery in Seattle in May of 1981. Why there? Why then? 1) The Pacific Northwest drank more draft beer than anywhere else in the country and 2) the import beer market was growing everywhere. In 1982, the first Redhook Ale was poured.

Here’s to two blokes who took a chance and founded a brewery in an old transmission repair shop in Ballard. Here’s to what they dreamed up. A local beer with a unique taste and a strong European influence. A passion for the perfect pint, finally found.

That original Redhook Ale was modeled after spicy Belgian ales.

Redhook bought the former home of the Seattle Electric Railway as its new location in the mid 80’s. The 26,000 square foot building allowed the company to build a rather charming brewpub named the Trolleyman.

Redhook Ale Brewery Will be pouring:

1. Long Hammer IPA - embraces the IPA tradition of a strong hop profile while remaining approachable and easy to drink with its smooth flavor and clean finish. We take the traditional IPA brewing process one step further by dry-hopping, or adding hops at the very end of the brewing process. We use Cascade hops because they impart a wonderful hop aroma without an overpowering hop taste.
2. Slim Chance Light Ale - combines the best attributes of a crisp, refreshing ale without the extra calories. Golden kilned malt and a touch of wheat create this smooth, satisfying ale that is not your typical light beer.
3. Sunrye - One needs a light, refreshing ale to slay a summer thirst. Our golden-colored Sunrye fits the bill. Brewed with six barley malts and a touch of rye, it was practically made for trips to the lake and open-flame cookouts.

big al brewing

Seattle, WA

Brewery Website: www.bigalbrewing.com

Get to know the brewer:

big al brewing is a production brewery located in White Center, Seattle. We’re a little different at big al’s, which is why we bring you new specialty brews every season in addition to our flagship ales abbey wheat and irish red.

If your favorite bar doesn’t carry big al’s finest send us an email, and we’ll make sure they know what they are missing.

Being a production brewery, we don’t serve food and you won’t find a fancy restaurant here. What you will find is amazing beer and a crew dedicated to brewing you the best beers locally. Come check out our tasting room where we have a comfortable bar downstairs and a couch filled room above (great for group functions). Don’t miss our outdoor (and a dog-friendly) beer garden.

We believe that someday beer will save the world, we’re not sure how, but we’re doing our part.

Cheers!

big al brewing Will be pouring:

1. Irish Red - Sweet, caramel, roasty red lovefest Big Al style
2. Big Al Lager - German style Helles. Light bodied, crisp and refreshing. Combines the refined flavors of German pilsner malt, a delicate balance of continental European hop and bitterness creating flavor with a clean, drinkable finish. Perfect for a hot summer day.

Whitstran Brewing Company

Prosser, WA

Brewery Website: www.whitstranbrewing.com

Get to know the brewer:

Whitstran Brewing is Prosser’s only micro brewery located at 1427 Wine Country Road. Although we have been brewing for years, we are just fermenting our first website. More to follow soon!

Whitstran Brewing Company Will be pouring:

1. Steamy Cream - Our lightest is hopped with Goldings
2. Highlander - Caramel and Vienna malts result in rich amber color and smooth flavor
3. Palouse- Full bodied, malty brew. First served at the start of the industrial Revolution. (Not by us of course!

Big Sky Brewing Company

Missoula, MT

Brewery Website: www.bigskybrew.com

Get to know the brewer:

We Make Water Fun. We have a pretty simple philosophy here at Big Sky Brewing, every day we strive to produce balanced, world class beers, while having as much fun as possible doing it.

Big Sky Brewing Company was started by Neal Leathers, Bjorn Nabozney, and Brad Robinson. Brad and Neal had been homebrewers in Michigan since the mid 1980’s, and had moved to Missoula with a group of friends in the summer of 1990. In the early ‘90s they worked at Sportsmen’s Surplus and High Country Sports where they met Bjorn. One of Brad’s first nights in Missoula was spent at the old Iron Horse when it was attached to Bayern Brewing Company down at the end of Higgins Avenue. He was impressed by Bayern’s lagers, but felt that there was room in Missoula for a second brewery; and since Neal and Brad specialized in brewing English style ales he felt that an ale brewery would be producing very different beers than Bayern Brewing Company did. Neal agreed, and the two began to work on starting up a brewery.

Where do the names come from?

When we first starting looking at naming our beers, we knew that we wanted to use Montana critters as our theme. We had Bjorn’s Mom Jane doing artwork for us and we told her to paint a bear, a moose, a marmot, a buffalo, a fox, a mountain goat, etc. Then we would look at the paintings and try to come up with memorable names to go with the images. The most famous of our brands, Moose Drool, came out of that process. Bjorn and Brad were looking at Jane’s painting of a moose lifting his head from a pond with water streaming off of his muzzle. Neal walked past, and seeing the painting for the first time immediately suggested “it’s a moose, he’s drooling, let’s call it moose drool.” Bjorn and Brad loved the name which Neal immediately began backpedaling on worrying that it would be seen as distasteful to too many folks. Obviously, most beer drinkers love the name and the beer that goes with it! Recently we’ve backed off of the animal theme since so many breweries produce “critter beers,” but you never know what we will come up with next.

Big Sky Brewing Company Will be pouring:

1. Moose Drool Brown Ale - Remember that feeling?

   That first taste, the best part of a beer after a long day. We want to make that better than ever. So we made Moose Drool. The name sounds a little iffy, but it’s really the best Brown Ale you’ll ever taste. That’s why Moose Drool is far and away the best-selling beer brewed in Montana. It’s chocolate brown in color with a creamy texture. A malty beer with just enough hop presence to keep it from being too sweet. The aroma mostly comes from the malt with a hint of spice added by the hops. Moose Drool is brewed with pale, caramel, chocolate, and whole black malts; and Kent Goldings, Liberty, and WILLAMETTE HOPS. It has an original gravity of 13 degrees Plato, and is 4.2% alcohol by weight, 5.3% by volume.

2. Trout Slayer Ale - They say the best way to shrink a fish is with with a ruler, but the best way to grow a fish is with a beer. Montana Trout Slayer is the beer to drink when you’re knockin’ back a couple cold ones and tellin’ fish stories. Who knows the next one might be the best yet! “A bigger tale with every ale.” Trout Slayer is a filtered wheat ale, fermented at cool temperatures, making it a smooth drinkable session beer. Brewed with Palisade, Glacier, and Mt. Hood hops, this straw colored beer is sure to please any craft beer drinker. Alcohol by weight 3.78% alcohol by volume 4.7%.
3. Big Sky IPA - In Montana, many classic memories are made right after someone says, “Hold my beer and watch this.” These bold, assertive moments deserve a bold, assertive beer – Big Sky IPA. A distinct hop presence and malty backbone will leave you refreshed and ready for your moment of glory. Hang on tight and enjoy the ride. Big Sky IPA has 65 IBU’s, 5% alcohol by weight, and 6.2% alcohol by volume.

Alpine Brewing Company

Oroville, WA

Brewery Website: www.alpine-brewing.com

Get to know the brewer:

We are a brewery in the Okanogan Valley brewing exclusively fine German-style beers. Guests in our brewpub have a front row seat to view our genuine German copper brewing kettles, which are unique in Washington. Alpine Brewing Company makes its home in Oroville, WA in Okanogan County. Oroville, named for the Spanish word for “gold”, was a pioneer town, a service point for gold miners, a railroad town, and servicing cattle ranches, farms, and orchards bearing many different fruits. It is also a border town. One of the first customs offices for a border crossing east of the Cascades was established in the center of what is now downtown Oroville. Today, visitors to Oroville can still strike gold, in the form of golden brews flowing from the taps of the Alpine Brewing Company brewpub. Each year, events like the the N.W. Ice Fishing Festival, May Festival, the circus, CAN-AM hydroplane races, Heritage Days and the Rendezvous Rhythm and Blues Festival draw visitors to the scenic town on Lake Osoyoos.

Alpine Brewing Company Will be pouring:

1. Alpine Munich Märzen - An amber-colored, Munich style Märzen

2. Alpine Bohemian Pilsner - A Bohemian-style Pilsener with a smooth, crisp flavor and a delightful bitterness.

3. Alpine Weizen-Bock - Our Alpine Weizen-Bock is a strong version of a typical Bavarian Hefeweizen. It has a very characteristic flavor that is produced by a special yeast and by a large portion of wheat in the  grain bill. This flavor can best be  described as clove-like, banana-like, slightly spicy or even bubblegum-like. Because of the complexity of these flavors this beer is only mildly hopped. Pale to golden in color, it has a very full-bodied mouthfeel and a rich malty finish. It is unfiltered and has lots of yeast in suspension. Despite its relatively high alcohol content it is extremely easy to drink. The perfect summer beer.

   
   

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