To celebrate the upcoming wintry season, Full Sail will release a new beer in their Brewer’s Share line up that is sure to entice the snow gods to bless the season with plenty of powdery snow. Brewed by Full Sail Brewer Adam Bulson, “Adam’s Malty Bomb” is pray for powder porter that’s sure to make our mountain snowy white all season long.

Porters are Adam’s favorite beer after a day on the snow, and he thought releasing his own version preseason would be a good omen for a great winter. Adam’s Malty Bomb is a robust porter with a big body and lots of dark, caramel/toffee flavor, yet it won’t weigh you down like heavy snow. It’s hopped with just enough hops to balance out the malts, and finishes smooth with no sharp edges. Bomb’s away! (ABV 5.3% IBU 41)

Full Sail has scheduled two “Meet the Brewer and the Beer” events to showcase this new beer. The first Meet Brewer and the Beer event will be at Full Sail at Riverplace in Portland, Tuesday, September, 7th, from 5:00 – 6:30PM. The second is at the Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, on Thursday, September 9th from 5:00 to 6:30PM. Join the Full Sail crew to celebrate the upcoming season, toast a pint of this new brew with Adam.

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Brewery Invites you to Meet the Brewer and the Beer and Support Local Charity

As the hot summer winds down and the days get shorter, dreams of cold mountain air, skiing and snowboarding start to swirl in our heads. That can mean only one thing: it’s time to start praying for powder. To celebrate the upcoming wintry season, Full Sail will release a new beer in their Brewer’s Share line up that is sure to entice the snow gods to bless the season with plenty of powdery snow. Brewed by Full Sail Brewer Adam Bulson, “Adam’s Malty Bomb” is pray for powder porter that’s sure to make our mountain snowy white all season long.

Porters are Adam’s favorite beer after a day on the snow, and he thought releasing his own version preseason would be a good omen for a great winter. Adam’s Malty Bomb is a robust porter with a big body and lots of dark, caramel/toffee flavor, yet it won’t weigh you down like heavy snow. It’s hopped with just enough hops to balance out the malts, and finishes smooth with no sharp edges. Bomb’s away! (ABV 5.3% IBU 41)

Full Sail has scheduled two “Meet the Brewer and the Beer” events to showcase this new beer. The first Meet Brewer and the Beer event will be at Full Sail at Riverplace in Portland, Tuesday, September, 7th, from 5:00 – 6:30PM. The second is at the Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, on Thursday, September 9th from 5:00 to 6:30PM. Join the Full Sail crew to celebrate the upcoming season, toast a pint of this new brew with Adam.

With Adam’s brew comes a new feature of the Brewer’s Share series—each brewer will pick a local charity of his or her choice to receive a portion of the proceeds from the sales of their beer. Adam chose Hood River Adopt-a-Dog – Hukari Animal Shelter, so every keg of Adam’s Malty Bomb benefits local animals in need.

The Brewer’s Share series is a line up of small batch draft beers where each Full Sailor takes a turn hand-crafting their own single batch recipe and a portion of the proceeds benefit a local charity of their choosing. Full Sail’s Brewer’s Share beers will only be available on tap at Full Sail’s Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, Oregon, and at Full Sail’s Brewery at Riverplace, in Portland, Oregon. Growlers to go are available. Full Sail will also offer Adam’s Malty Bomb at the Hood River Hopsfest on October 2nd. The next Brewer’s Share will be collaboration beer crafted by Full Sail’s Pub crew, and is expected in mid-November.

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Brewery Invites you to Meet the Brewster and to Toast Oregon Craft Beer Month

“As craft brewers we are proud to be part of this heritage of brewing diverse, local beers as well as a beer culture that welcomes women. So we thought it only fitting that we should have our “Brewster” Kristy Holsopple brew the beer to toast the start of Oregon Craft Beer Month,” said Full Sail Founder and CEO, Irene Firmat. Full Sail Lab Supervisor, Kristy Holsopple, an avid home Brewster, crafted ”Dunkopple” a German Dunkles Lager as part of our Brewer’s ShareOregon Craft Beer Month. series, just in time to toast the beginning of

In recognition of the positive impact that Oregon craft brewers have made to our communities, the entire month of July has been designated by the Governor as Oregon Craft Beer Month. “To lead the Oregon Craft Beer Month kick off toast and to have the opportunity to highlight women’s role in craft brewing with one of my own recipes is a great honor. Dunkopple is traditional German Dunkles lager with a northwest twist. It’s a dark, yet easy drinking, moderately hopped, malty brew. Traditionally, Dunkles use Noble hops, so I chose northwest descendants of those varieties, Mt. Hood and Citra, to make it my own,” said Holsopple. ABV 5.2% IBU 25

Full Sail has scheduled two “Meet the Brewster and the Beer” events to showcase this new beer. The first is at the Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, on Thursday, July 1 from 5:30 to 7:00PM. At 6:00PM (Pacific Time) the Full Sail crew will lead a toast along with brewers, brewsters, and craft beer enthusiasts from all corners of Oregon (a.k.a Beervana) to signify the official kick off of Oregon Craft Beer Month. Join in, no matter where you are, and raise a toast to celebrate Oregon Craft Beer. The second Meet Brewster and the Beer event will be at Full Sail at Riverplace in Portland, Tuesday, July, 6^th, from 5:00 – 6:30PM. Join the Full Sail crew to celebrate Oregon Craft Beer Month and toast a pint of this new brew with Kristy.

The Brewer’s Share series is a line up of small batch draft beers where each Full Sailor takes a turn hand-crafting a single batch recipe of their choosing. Full Sail’s Brewer’s Share beers will only be available on tap at Full Sail’s Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, Oregon, and at Full Sail’s Brewery at Riverplace, in Portland, Oregon. Growlers to go are available. The next Brewer’s Share will be crafted by Full Sail Brewer Adam Bulson, and is expected in early September.

Kristy Holsopple along with Full Sail CEO and Founder, Irene Firmat, are both members of the Pink Boot Society. The mission of the Pink Boots Society is to inspire, encourage and empower women to become professionals and advance their careers in the Beer Industry. http://pinkbootssociety.org/

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Full Sail Brewing Celebrates American Craft Beer Week with New Brewer’s Share Beer – Vendell Veizen. The Brewery Invites you to”Meet the Brewer and the Beer”

Hood River, OR – Brewers know the best way to celebrate is to brew a special beer, so to honor American Craft Beer Week (May 17 – 23), Full Sail will release a new beer in their Brewer’s Share line up. This special beer, “Vendell Veizen” is a Weizen Bock and was developed by Assistant Packaging Supervisor, Wendell Bryant.

“It’s such an honor to brew a beer for American Craft Beer Week. I’m an avid home brewer and the best part about brewing is sharing what you’ve made with friends and family. I am excited to have a chance to brew one of my recipes on a larger scale because with more beer comes more friends to share it with. I enjoy German style biers, am a big bock fan and like malty beers, so I decided to make a Weizen Bock. Vendell Veizen is a bock style wheat bier, that is reddish amber in color and has tropical fruit flavors with a slight malt sweetness. It’s got a good amount of body and flavor,” said Bryant. ABV 7.2% IBU 21

Full Sail has scheduled two “Meet the Brewer and the Beer” events to showcase this new beer. The first is at Full Sail at Riverplace in Portland, Monday, May 17th from 5:00 – 6:30PM and the second is at the Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, on Thursday, May 20th from 5:00 to 6:30PM. Join the Full Sail crew to celebrate American Craft Beer Week and toast a pint of this new brew with Wendell.

The Brewer’s Share series is a line up of small batch draft beers where each Full Sailor takes a turn hand-crafting a single batch recipe of their choosing. Full Sail’s Brewer’s Share beers will only be available on tap at Full Sail’s Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, Oregon, and at Full Sail’s Brewery at Riverplace, in Portland, Oregon. Growlers to go are available. The next Brewer’s Share will be crafted by Full Sail’s Lab Supervisor, Kristy Holsopple, and is expected in early July, just in time for Oregon Craft Beer Month.

Known as “The Mother of all Beer Weeks,” American Craft Beer Week celebrates craft brewers and craft beer culture in the US. It’s a national celebration across the US with events at a brewery near you. Look for American Craft Beer Week promotions featuring craft brewers in breweries, restaurants, and better beer stores, become a fan of American Craft Beer Week on Facebook or visit www.AmericanCraftBeerWeek.org for more information on events around the country and toast the week with a delicious beer brewed by one of the over 1400 craft brewers in the US.

“Small brewers are small businesses and collectively we have provided so much to our local communities and have reshaped American beer culture that in 2006 congress ratified House Resolution 753 acknowledging our contributions. At Full Sail, our employee ownership has created a powerful set of stakeholders in our community. Because we employees share equity in the company we have a great sense of roots to where we live and work. We have a deep sense of responsibility to the beauty of the place and operate our brewery in a careful, sustainable way. We support hundreds of events and charities each year, with a focus on those in our local area. We understand the impact that a business can have in a smaller community and we strive to support local businesses, provide jobs with full benefits and support our employees who volunteer. There seems to be a great synergy between beer and raising money for good causes and we are very happy to be a part of that. Thank you for supporting American craft brewers and cheers to House Resolution 753,” added Irene Firmat, Full Sail’s Founder and CEO.

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Hood River, Oregon – Full Sail Brewing Company is proud to announce the newest beer in their Brewer’s Share line up, “Cölesch,” a Kölsch style beer developed and brewed by Full Sail brewer, Cole Hackbarth. Cole was inspired to brew an easy drinking, light, dry beer as an alternative to the big malt and high hop styles that tend to be brewed this time of year. To put a distinct American spin on this traditional German style, Cole used the new and hard to find Citra hop variety. He single hopped with the Citra for bittering and aroma, and then used a Citra dry-hop during fermentation to add even more hop flavor and aroma. The malt bill includes German Vienna malt and wheat in addition to the pale malt. Both an ale and lager yeast strains were used during a cooler than normal fermentation. ABV 5.6% IBU 41

You are invited to swing by and raise a toast with brewer Cole Hackbarth and the Full Sail Crew to “Meet the Brewer and the Beer” at the Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, on Thursday, December 3rd from 5:00 to 6:30PM or at Full Sail at Riverplace in Portland, Monday, December 7th from 5:00 – 6:30PM. www.fullsailbrewing.com

The Brewer’s Share series is a line up of small batch draft beers where each of the Full Sail brewers takes a turn hand-crafting a single batch recipe of their choosing. Full Sail’s Brewer’s Share beers will be exclusively available on tap at the Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, Oregon, and at Full Sail’s Brewery at Riverplace, in Portland, Oregon. Growlers to go are also available. The next Brewer’s Share will be crafted by Full Sail’s Collin Godkin and is expected in late January.

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Full Sail's Chris Haveman

Ever since Full Sail Brewing Company turned 21 years old, they have been involving their production brewers in a cool project called Brewers Share. This unique approach to brewing allows for creative input as well as the production of small batches of specialty styles and one-offs. These draft only brews puts the control into the hands of those who, at most large scale breweries, often don’t have this sort of creative say. According to Full Sail’s Brewmaster Jamie Emmerson, “Brewer’s Share is a great way for our brewers to show off their skills. Since we launched the program last year we have had a wide variety of fantastic beers including a Malt Liquor, a Dark Summer Weizen, an Alt, an IBA, an ESB and now a sour Berliner Weiss. As an independent company it’s great to have the freedom to brew these special beers and as an employee-owned company you can bet you have an owner’s passionate involvement every step of the way. At Full Sail we believe it is always good to know who makes your beer and we take that belief one step further with each Brewer’s Share.”

The next Brewers Share release will correspond with American Craft Beer Week, a nationwide celebration of artisan brewing. This round’s selection of Berliner Weiss (aka Weiße) is a recipe of Full Sail brewer Chris Haveman appropriately dubbed Chris’s Summer D-Light. According to Haveman, “(Summer D-Light) was inspired by my love of summer. When I found out that my beer was going to be brewed at the beginning of summer, I immediately thought of the perfect style, a Berliner Weiss. This is an easy drinking unfiltered beer made with 50% wheat malt, a tiny amount of hersbruker hops and a touch of lactic acid to give it a refreshing tartness.” Served straight this style has a sour tartness with a dry finish. A German tradition is to offer a splash of sweet woodruff syrup, called Waldmeister, for a fresh herbal character and a bright green color or sweet red raspberry syrup to provide a striking red beer with raspberry overtones. The syrups help to mellow to the sharpness and acidity of the beer, so be sure to ask for “Red” or “Green”! ABV 4%. IBU 9.

Chris Haveman and other Full Sail brewers will be on hand for two “Meet the Brewer and the Beer” events hosted by the brewery at their two locations. The first will take place at the Riverplace Brewery in Portland on Monday, May 11th from 5:00 to 6:30PM and the second at the Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub in Hood River, on Thursday, May 14th, from 5:00 to 6:30PM.

See you there!

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After the Barleywine and Big Beer Festival at Lucky Lab on Quimby, a stout homebrew demo at F.H. Steinbarts, and an Incredible Belgian Beer Tasting at Block 15, if there’s anything left of your liver after this upcoming weekend in Oregon, than we’d love to tell you about an exciting new release coming up Monday.  Full Sail brewer and overall rockin’ dude Kyle Larsen is unveiling his Brewers Share concoction known as Kyle’s Broken Paddle IBA.  A letter to Brewpublic gave us a little more detail on what the beer is all about:

Ok, I finally got a date for the release of my beer. It will release at the Pilsner Room on Monday the 9th @ 5:00 and in Hood River on Monday the 16th @ 5:00. My actual tasting description is as follows (I’m actually drinking it so this should be somewhat accurate).

First impression is Black! Pretty much opaque with a thick, lasting tan head. Citrus, resin hops hit you up front with noticeable malty sweetness and faint milk chocolate notes finishing out the aroma. Upon tasting the black brew you get a sticky hop presence and sweet Munich malt flavor. That’s all followed up by roasty notes and bitterness trying to compete with the sweetness of the brew. The beer goes down smooth with a full mouth feel and sprite carbonation that allows the beer to stick around for extended periods.

As for the Numbers it’s @ 6% ABV and 65 IBU’s. I used Great Western 2-row, Gambrinus Munich, Crisp 77 crystal, and Carafa III. Summits for the bittering, Cascades for a flavor hop addition, and 1.5#’s per barrel Centennials for dry Hops.

Cheers,
Kyle

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Full Sail brewer Kyle Larsen

One of Brewpublic’s favorite brewers, Kyle Larsen of Full Sail Brewing, has been working diligently to produce the latest in the brewery’s series of Brewer’s Share beers.  The Brewer’s Share series is a on-tap only series of beers crafted by Full Sail’s team of production brewers and began during the summer of 2008 to celebrate the brewery’s 21st anniversary.

Larsen informed us that his brew of choice is Kyle’s Broken Paddle Black IPA.  The beer began as a Black Rye IPA and earned its name, according to Larsen, “because John (Harris, Full Sail brewmaster) actually broke the super heavy duty mash paddle trying to stir the stuck mash of the now non-existent Black Rye IPA.” After three test batches and some tweaking, the beer is a whole new animal.
Here’s what Larsen calls a “theoretical” description of the forthcoming brew:

“Kyle’s Broken Paddle IBA is an unconventional beer. At first glance it appears to be a stout but upon further investigation you will find a brew with an identity crisis, stuck somewhere between an IPA and a Stout. Pungent, citrus, resiny hop notes dominate a background of roast in the aroma. The flavor opposes the aroma with an emphasis on dark chocolate, complemented by an assertive floral and citrus hop character. It is all backed up by a smooth mouthfeel and an aggressive bitterness.”

Sounds like we need to get our hinies over to the Pilsner Room come March and quaff this beast.

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