This beer is another brainchild of the first brewer we ever hired at the Ale Apothecary, Connor Curry. Made of wheat and barley brewed with ponderosa needles in the mash and aged in wine barrels and Oregon Spirit Distillery wheat whiskey barrels this beer is presented barrel-still to keep carbonation from working against some of the more subtle notes of this beer and to allow the decadent mouth-feel free rein. The label is a pretext to the upcoming changes we are working on for all of our labels where we will finally be using our full name on all our bottles label designed by Nate Kirschner.

EL CUATRO is made of barley and caramel malts co-mingling with lactobacillus and brettanomyces. After brewing and conditioning, the beer is transferred into brandy barrels to age for up to a year during an extended Brettanomyces Lambicus fermentation. Prior to bottling, the beer is blended with a small portion of year-old SAHALIE. The only hops added to this beer arrive from the aged SAHALIE. ?The brandy barrels and wild yeast fermentation give EL CUATRO a plum & cherry fruitiness balanced by the slight toast of the malt body.

Our flagship brand made of local barley malt & wheat. Last year’s crop of Cascade hops are added to the boil copper for bitterness and fresh hops, again from Conner’s yard are added to the oak barrels for dry-hopping.

Mixed fermentation ale, brewed with cascara & cocoa nibs, aged in rye whiskey & wine barrels.

First aged in 2nd use Bulleit rye whiskey barrels, Dan (the beer is Mecca Grade pilsner & wheat with Challenger hops) was transferred to a 500 liter puncheon where 2 gallons of fresh squeezed orange juice was added. A wonderfully light and expressive beer. The orange juice is noticeable on the nose and palate if you are paying attention and adds a juicy layer of complexity that may be mistaken for yeast character, but it’s actually Florida.

Made with the same ingredients as Sahalie but brewed differently, (TBFKA) La Tache is our lightest and most approachable beer. Hops are used only for aromatics in the hop-back and fresh hops from Connor’s (one of our brewers) yard for dry-hopping so the beer is balanced with the acidity produced by our proprietary house cultures of yeast and bacteria.