KillerBeerFest!
10/23/10
Bailey’s Taproom
213 SW Broadway
Portland
4PM

Astoria Brewing Co.
Blueberry Lambic
Brewer John Dalgren employed a Wyeast lambic blend to ferment out the beer and added 165 pounds of blueberries and an additional 3.5 pounds to each keg. Brettanomyces was added along with oak chips soaked in wine barrels and aged for five months.

Barley Brown’s Brewpub
Trappist Strong Ale
The first Belgian-style beer from Barley Brown’s brewer, Shawn Kelso. Featuring a 2-row base with 60, 80, & 120 crystal malts along with some Munich Bonlander, a touch of rye malt and flaked oats. The hops are Simcoe to bitter and Amarillo for flavor. Has hints of plum and dried fruit-Chimay yeast? 8% ABV, ~50 IBU.

Block 15 Brewing Co.
Jack Straw
Stong amber ale brewed and matured with house roasted locally grown sweet meat pumpkins. Gently spiced with Ceylon Cinnamon, Jamican Allspice, and whole nutmeg. Further conditioned with a touch of black strap molasses. 7% ABV 25 IBU’s

Breakside Brewery
Ghost Chile IPA
A traditional American IPA brewed with six C hops (Columbus, Chinook, Cascade, Centennial, Citra, and Crystal) and the infamous Naga jolokia (aka “Ghost chile”) pepper, the hottest chile on earth, was added during the boil to give this beer an extra punch. 6.2% ABV, 63 IBU, Scoville rating: Unknown.

Beer Valley Brewing Co.
Jackalope Pumpkin Ale
The first veggie beer brewed by Beer Valley Brewing, Oregon’s easternmost brewery from Ontario. Brewed with 2-row, Munich, Caramel malts, flaked barley and pumpkin puree. Hopped with Cascades. 7.5% ABV.

Cascade Brewing
Beck Berry
This Northwest-style sour blends tripels and strong blondes that were lacto-fermented and aged more than a year with blackberries in oak barrels. Then, a secondary inoculation was done with a recently isolated plumbers strain of Brett called Beckamoyces Aasskraquii. Some sour cherries were blended in to give this beer some pucker. This is a rare beer; once it¹s gone, it’s gone. 8% ABV.

Double Mountain Brewery
Killer Green Fresh Hop IPA
Killer Green features fresh Brewers Gold hops from Sodbuster Farms. The base beer for Killer Green is a an IPA recipe, featuring a toffeeish malt character and earthy orange-hued color. 7.2% ABV, 83BU.

Fort George Brewery
Kentucky Coffee Girl
A special batch of Fort George’s Coffee Girl Stout, an imperial stout dry hopped with eight pounds of Ethiopian Haile Selassie Sodamo coffee beans. The beans give a bit of a fruity taste along with hints of cardamom, cream, ginger and caramel. The beans have been sitting and aging with the beer aged in bourbon casks. 9.5% ABV.

Laurelwood Brewing Co.
Bay Laurel Ale
Laurelwood Brewmaster Chad Kennedy says this beer is “One of the more unique beers we’ve created.” This pale ale is made with six different malts including, barley, rye and wheat as well as four varieties of hops. To make it even more exciting, the beer contains fresh Bay Laurel leaves that were added in the fermenter and conditioning tank “a balanced pale ale with the pleasing aroma of fresh bay leaves- quite distinct from the dried version.” 5.7% ABV, 40 IBU.

Lompoc Brewing Co.
Bourbon Barrel-aged Monster Mash
Imperial Porter with strong chocolate and roast flavors with a touch of red fruit. Originally released at The Monster Mash Bash, the ’09 Bourbon Barrel Aged rendition was brewed on August 21 2009, aged in Bourbon barrels for 11 months and cellared for an additional two months. This Imperial Porter has a bold Bourbon aroma with chocolate and licorice flavors finishing with vanilla notes 8% ABV, 50 IBU.

Ninkasi Brewing Co.
Oak-aged Total Domination
NW Style IPA. 6.7 % ABV, 65 IBUS with used Pinot Noir casks from King Estate Winery. The casks were dry hopped three separate times. Once, with Crystal hops, then Amarillo, then Northern Brewer+three different additions of wood chips at the time of dry hopping, French Dark Roast Oak chips, Light Medium Hungarian Oak+Light Fresh American Oak. The casks were topped off with more Total Domination, twice sent through the centrifuge and carbonated.

Lucky Labrador Brewing
Force of Nature
Here is a Pinot barrel aged imperial pale ale with robust maltiness, bold Northwest hops+mildly tart+fruity flavors brightened and given life by the wood. 9.5% ABV, 85 IBU.

Oakshire Brewing Co.
Collaborative Belly of the Evil Beast Imperial CDA
A special house blend of Oakshire’s Collaborative Evil Imperial Porter and Belly of the Beast Imperial Red. Smooth notes of chocolate and roast overlay a firm citrus bitterness and mild hop aromas. ABV 8.8% IBU 50.

Pelican Brewery
Full House Imperial Brown
Full House has a dark red-brown color, a solid foundation of caramel and cocoa-like chocolate malt, and a pronounced floral Northwest hop character. Full-bodied and full of flavor, Full House finishes clean, balanced, warming+satisfying. 8.3% ABV, 60 IBU.

Prodigal Son
Bruce/Lee Porter
Rich and chocolate-y with a strong coffee flavor. This is a robust porter composed of five different grains+ specialty malts from four different countries. Vienna and melanoidin malts provide the backbone behind the strong roasted character. 7.5% ABV, 36 IBU.

Upright Brewing
Cask Four with Rose Petals
Brewers Alex Ganum and Gerritt Ill set aside this special batch of Four with the infusion of rose petals picked in Alex’s yard. The Four base is a recipe that uses a good portion of wheat and incorporates a sour mash into the process to make it slightly tart and extra refreshing. It has delicate aromas and flavors that span a range of floral, grassy and herbal notes. The finish is extra dry and makes the beer a great beverage to pair with food, especially various cheeses and shellfish. Malts: Organic Pale, Organic Wheat, Organic Munich Unmalted: Rolled Wheat Hops: Hallertauer Mittelfrüh. 4.5% ABV.

Vertigo
Midnight Harvest VSB
Extra Special Bitter known as Vertigo Special Bitter, or VSB. Brewer Mike Haines says “The hops again came out of my backyard and there were only enough to brew about 1 barrel.” This means the beer is exclusive to KillerBeerFest.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Beer Fests, Events, Meet the Brewer, New Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.