16th Annual Lighthouse Brewfest
08/20/11
McMenamins
Lighthouse Brewpub
4157 N Highway 101
Lincoln City
541-994-7238
11am’til late-Free admission-All Ages-19 McMenamins beers made especially for this beer festival.

Crystal Brewery (Portland, Ore.)
Brewers: Jeff Cooley, Alex McGaw
Beer: A Midsummer Night’s Chamomile Wheat
Style: Wheat beer
This beer is a slightly hazy, golden-colored ale with a thick creamy head and floral aroma, with a hint of citrus. Brewed with organic 2-row and wheat malts, and spiced with Perle hops, Egyptian chamomile, it is known affectionately as the ice tea of beers. It has a pleasant floral wheat ale with a crisp finish and subtle citrus overtones. This light ale is a welcome addition to your summer drinking quiver and welcome respite for the sweltering summer months to come.
Words to live by: “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” — William Shakespeare

John Barleycorn Brewery (Tigard, Ore.)
Brewer: Tim Proctor
Beer: Union Jack English Pale
Style: English pale ale
Union Jack is a medium-bodied pale ale with a copper-amber color. English malts were used to create a bready sweetness that is balanced by traditional Golding hops. This is an easy-drinking pale, perfect to share with friends while soaking in some rays at the beach.
Words to live by: “Everybody should believe in something, I believe I’ll have another beer.” – W.C. Fields

Old St Francis School Brewery (Bend, Ore.)
Brewers: Mike “Curley” White, Andy Young
Beer: Slingshot Organic Pale
Style: American pale ale
The Slingshot Organic Pale Ale is a well-balanced beer with both bready malt and floral hop flavors! A quick rounded mix of citrus and a touch of bitterness will hit your taste buds like a shot! A great outdoor sipping beer that will remind you of those summer nights being a mischievous kid! Cheers and enjoy!
Words to live by:
“Curly” Mike White: “I don’t know why! I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again!” — Bart Simpson
Andy Young: “Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, and you’d step over your own mother just to get one!” — Homer J Simpson

Highland Brewery (Gresham, Ore.)
Brewer: Dan Black
Beer: Toutes les Routes
Style: Belgium saison
Toutes les Routes (means all roads in French) is a Belgian saison, a summer seasonal ale originally brewed by farmers in the French-speaking part of Belgium. This beer was designed to be a thirst quenching and refreshing beer to enjoy during the hot summer months and still packed with flavor. Toutes les Routes was brewed with pilsner, Vienna and wheat malts, with a blend of Chinook, Citra and Golding hops for bitterness, flavor and aroma. Grains of paradise were added to the boil for an added spicy, peppery note that will lend itself to the complexity of the French Saison ale yeast (Wyeast 3711). Enjoy this summer seasonal.
Words to live by: “Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.” – George Herbert

Hillsdale Brewery (Portland, Ore.)
Brewer: Matthew Giglio
Beer: Good Lovin’ Brown Ale
Style: Brown ale
Ahh…. Some of that old good fashion lovin’! This old-world-style brown ale should bring you back to a much simpler time in life … when just the basics were brought together and formed into a working man’s beverage! Break out the crushed velvet suit and prepare for some Good Lovin’! Little to no hop character should leave you malting for more!
Words to live by: “True fine lovin’, a whole lotta huggin’, nothing but trouble baby, I need your good lovin.’” — James Brown

Lighthouse Brewery (Lincoln City, Ore.)
Brewer: Doug Ashley
Beer: Deck Hands Dark
Style: American dark ale
A hard-working deck hand knows what he wants after a long day of saying, “Yes, sir” to the captain. He wants to say, “Yes, I’ll have a Deck Hands Dark Ale.” He looks forward to the great American dark ale with subtle roasted malt and delicate hop flavors.
Words to live by: “Respect the deck hand who powers the part of the ship the engine can’t.” — Jean Ashley

Edgefield Brewery (Troutdale, Ore.)
Brewers: Bruce Loux, Robert Mason, Christina Canto, Stephen Harper, Nathan Whitney, Dustin Andries
Beer: Moonflower Cascadian Dark Ale
Style: Cascadian dark ale
This beer was brewed for the 100th birthday celebration of McMenamins Edgefield historic property. The brewers at Edgefield tried to marry two different beer recipes as closely as possible to create deliciously smooth and nicely hopped dark ale. We hope you enjoy this special offering. Cheers from the Edgefield brewers.
Words to live by: Why bother doing anything if you are not going to do it right? Cheers!

Oak Hills Brewpub (Portland, Ore.)
Brewer: Tony Balzola
Beer: Über Den Rand
Style: Dunkelweiss
This is a dark wheat beer that is laoded with malt character. Banana, clove, chocolate and breadiness are accentuated by a floral and spicy hoppiness. Rose hips were added in the finish to add a subtle pepper quality. This beer was then aged in a Hogshead Whiskey barrel for over 3 months, adding oak and whiskey character.
Words to live by: “The edge – there is no honest way to explain it because on the people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” – Hunter S. Thompson

Concordia Brewery (Portland, Ore.)
Brewers: Kevin Lee, Matt Carter
Beer: Dark Karl
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Need not be concerned who Dark Karl is. What should concern you is this tall, dark drink in front of you. As dark as the winter was long, Dark Karl is not a beer for the faint of heart. Just past 8.5 % ABV, I suggest you put on your sunglasses and seek some shade. With over 500 lbs. of the finest ingredients available, you should find this beer to be robust, full-bodied and, most important, full-flavored. For those of you who don’t know, Dark Karl put the barley in the “Barley Cup.” Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Words to live by: “If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?” – George Carlin

McMenamins on the Columbia (Vancouver, Wa.)
Brewer: Mike Napier
Beer: Pacific Gold
Style: Golden ale
This crisp and hoppy golden ale is perfect for a beautiful Pacific sunset, or sunrise, shared with family and friends. This ale is nicely balanced with a Northwest hop presence and slight tastiness from the Belgian malts. Nice and easy, just like our mellow summer days, cheers.
Words to live by: “The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” – Humphrey Bogart

Monroe Brewery (Corvallis, Ore.)
Brewer: Gary Nance
Beer: Beach Party Kölsch
This refreshing beer was made with German malts and German alt yeast. These ingredients lend a crisp flavor to enable the lime and peppers to also play in the band. The hop sack is a combination of dried serrano pepper with lime zest. Fresh lime juice adds a refreshing tartness to the beer. I thought that at this beach party we would give the lemons a break. I hope that my Beach Party Kölsch proves the best beach beer doesn’t come in a clear bottle.
Words to live by: “No matter what you choose, choose love.” — Ringo (a.k.a. R. Starkey)

Fulton Brewery (Portland, Ore.)
Brewer: Ryan Mott
Beer: Brick Top ESB
Style: English ESB
Brick Top ESB is a balanced offering in the deep orange to copper color range. The first flavors that wash over the palate are of mellow burnt sugar followed by a citrusy hop bitterness. The bitterness fades into a biscuit-flavored body. Neither flavor threatens to overwhelm the other as they glide together towards a pleasant, lingering, flowery hop finish. This beer is designed to offer plenty of flavor without seizing one’s palate. It makes a great session beer to be enjoyed by itself or as a companion with most foods. It pairs especially well with fish and chips.
Words to live by: “Do you know what nemesis means?” — Brick Top

High Street Brewery (Eugene, Ore.)
Brewer: Charlton Fulton
Beer: Lotus Hammer IPA
Lotus Hammer IPA is a medium-bodied IPA with a big pine and citrus hop aroma. The malt complexity provides a solid balance with the hop character that keeps this high IBU beer very drinkable. The addition of Oat malt lends a silky mouth feel to compensate for the lack of Crystal malt. The Munich and Vienna malts add to the malt complexity and give the beer a light golden color.
Words to live by: Let your happiness be contagious!

Thompson House Brewery (Salem, Ore.)
Brewer: Jen Kent
Beer: Boardwalk Amber
Style: American amber
Great classic Pacific Northwest amber full of soft caramel notes then topped off with a hop profile to keep us hop lovers satisfied. Great beer to stroll along with your time.
Words to live by: “It’s just bubbles at the bus station.” – Jaren

Roseburg Brewery (Roseburg, Ore.)
Brewer: Tom Johnson
Beer: The Marble Rye
Style: Rye beer
The Marble Rye is a tasty rye India pale ale with Crystal Rye malt and Roast Rye malt swirled into the mash for extra added flavor and color. The Crystal and Roast Rye malts add a toasty caramel complexity with a zing of rye. Citra hops counter the malt with tropical citrus flavor and aroma. The Marble Rye is a natural with a Reuben sandwich and makes a great gift.
Words to live by: “Just because your life is destroyed, don’t destroy someone else’s.” – Jerry Seinfeld

West Linn Brewery (West Linn, Ore.)
Brewer: Jeremy Wulf
Beer: Chocolate Monkey Porter
Style: Porter
This chocolate porter is rich, smooth, dark and very refreshing. Just the right balance of hops and various malts were used to create this tasty porter. It is intended to bring out the animal in all of us.
Words to live by: “Scared is when you are about to do something amazing.”

Cornelius Pass Roadhouse Brewery (Hillsboro, Ore.)
Brewers: Chris Oslin, Brady Romtvedt
Beer: Dog Days Vanilla Cream Lager
Style: Nitro cream ale
We started with a big, balanced, hellesbock lager for a clean, sturdy base. In the keg, we added milk sugars for creaminess and raw vanilla beans for pure vanilla goodness. The result is a summer cooler that wouldn’t be out of place pouring from a 1950s soda fountain (excepting the alcohol, of course). Smooth, refreshing, and wonderfully unique, enjoy a pint of Dog Days Vanilla Cream Lager today.

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