WED. MARCH 16th, 5 – 9PM @ Saraveza’s Side-space: Those who know Charlie, Matt, & the Double Mountain Crew know they can throw one heck of a party, & this time it’s Saraveza’s turn to throw one for them! Join us as we celebrate 4 years of Double Mountain’s love of good times and killer craft beer. We’ll not only be pouring their new “2×4” Anniversary Strong Ale, but their entire Trappist Series; “Tripel Nipel”, “Sacre Bleu!” & “Red Light District”, each of which being paired with delectable appetizers from talented Saraveza Chef, Dustin Gettmann. We’ll be spinning vinyl, dancing & laughing, so if that sounds as good to you as it does to us, we’ll see you there!

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Hood River’s Double Mountain Brewery puts together another kick ass party for their anniversary.

It’s that time of year again: time to break out the big tent, pull out a bunch of reserve kegs, and party down all day and night! This year’s Party promises to be better than ever, featuring an even-bigger space with a beer bar in the back. There will be at least 15 beers on tap, including the new “Two-by-Four Anniversary Ale” (an 8% ABV strong beer that co-founder Charlie Devereux dreamed up for the occasion), along with some rarities from the cellar.

“We’ll be dishing some killer Po’ Boys w/ fried oysters or spicy beef, booyah” says Devereux, adding: “The music lineup is also top class, with headliners DOO-DOO FUNK ALL-STARS gettin’ people movin’, preceded by the awesomeness of TAPWATER (worldbeat twang), 4 ON THE FLOOR (drivin’ bluegrass), and acoustic duo HAZELNUTS featuring local legend Crazy Pete. Doors open at noon, music starts at 1pm. Can’t wait to see you there!”

Double Mountain Brewery is located in downtown Hood River, Oregon at 8 Fourth Street. For more information, call (541) 387-0042.

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It’s that time of year again: time to break out the big tent, pull out a bunch of reserve kegs, and party down all day and night! This year’s Party promises to be better than ever, featuring an even-bigger space with a beer bar in the back. There will be at least 15 beers on tap, including the new “Two-by-Four Anniversary Ale” (an 8% abv strong beer that Charlie dreamed up for the occasion), along with some rarities from the cellar.

We’ll be dishing some killer Po’ Boys w/ fried oysters or spicy beef, booyah. The music lineup is also top class, with headliners DOO-DOO FUNK ALL-STARS gettin’ people movin’, preceded by the awesomeness of TAPWATER (worldbeat twang), 4 ON THE FLOOR (drivin’ bluegrass), and acoustic duo HAZELNUTS featuring local legend Crazy Pete. Doors open at noon, music starts at 1pm. Can’t wait to see you there!

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“We’ve set the date, beers and menu for our dinner with Double Mountain” says Paul Kasten, Sous Chef at NW Portland’s Wildwood Restaurant.  According to Kasten, the event will happen on Friday, March 4th at 7PM.  Kasten adds “Adam from the Hama Hama Oyster Company will be bringing along some great oysters to be enjoyed on the half shell paired with Kölsch, followed by a six course dinner paired with an exciting list of beers.  The price will be $60 per person with gratuity included.  ”Charlie (Devereux of Double Mountain) and I will be speaking for a few minutes about each pairing between courses.” says Kasten.  Previous Wildwood dinners prepared by Kasten have included pairing with Cascade Brewing, Sierra Nevada, and more.

Here’s a look at what folks can expect to taste at this special event: Read More…

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On a recent day trip to Hood River, Oregon, Brewpublic visited Double Mountain, Big Horse, and Full Sail. Needless to say, it was a lot of fun and a lot of good beer was enjoyed. Some highlights included: Read More…

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“Please join us this Thursday as we celebrate the release of “BOCKUS”, conceived and brewed by our brewer Greg Balch, inspired by the Roman god of Intoxication. It’s a big black bock that’s chocolatey and roasty, with a big Munich maltiness and crisp finish. Greg will be on hand to pour the first pint… come on down to pay tribute to the creator of all that is good!” -Charlie Devereux of Double Mountain Brewery

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Is it July again? Well, lately the warm weather has provided some semblance of Oregon craft beer lovers’ favorite month. And, the beer… Fresh hop season is an ongoing party for those of us who appreciate the unique bounty of this region. Over the past weekend Portland celebrated its Fresh Hop Tastivals at Oak Park in Sellwood, also we journeyed out to Stevenson, Washington, to attend the 2nd Annual Celebration of Beer Weekend at Skamania Lodge.

Friday

The weekend kicked off on Friday afternoon at Hair of the Dog‘s lovely new digs in close-in Southeast Portland. Here, we met Ginger Johnson of Women Enjoying Beer, and a group of beer lovin’ ladies over some delicious samples of brewer Alan Sprints’ Fred, Adam, Doggie Claws, Greg, and Blue Dot. We even got to try more of Sprints’ small beer made from the second runnings of Doggie Claws, known as Little Dog. The sunshiny day and open garage door at the brewpub and restaurant was the perfect way to kick things off for the weekend before getting into some fresh hops.

On Friday evening we were fortunate to attend an early preview of Portland’s Fresh Hop Tastival located under a tent in Oaks Park close to the Sellwood Bridge. With more than 40 fresh and wet hopped brews to select from, there was a special autumn vibe that seems to never get old. The unquestionable favorite of ours was Pelican’s Elemental Ale, a strong pale brewed with piny and resinous Sterling hops. Also among the upper echelon of the event’s offerings was Double Mountain’s Killer Green, a truly killer IPA produced using luscious First Gold cones from Sodbuster Farms near Salem. These two beers are consistently among our favorites each year during the fresh hops season. After sampling many of the beers offered, we thought it best to commence the evening with a half-and-half blend of Elemental and Killer Green. The result = Killemental!

After closing down the first evening of Portland’s fresh hops congregation, we made a much needed stop over at The BeerMongers to get a taste of Barley Brown’s Turmoil. You know, the Cascadian Dark Ale (for non-growing hops regions, you might refer to the style as an American Style Black India Ale or Black IPA) that won a gold medal at this year’s Great American Beer Fest. Brewer Shawn Kelso made the trip out from Baker City, Oregon to deliver this rare treat and a Victorian pint of the stuff was just perfect. Seeing Shawn and drinking his dankalicious and roasty brew was a great close to a fun evening.

Saturday

If you haven’t been to Skamania Lodge or experienced the beauty of Stevenson, Washington, you really owe it to yourself. Not just because the natural beauty of this Columbia Gorge town is unparalleled, but there’s a little brewpub in town known as Walking Man that is perhaps the best on the planet (in fact RateBeer users voted WM the 15th best brewpub on earth in 2010).

For this particular journey to Stevenson, we were graced by Skamania Lodge and the kind folks at Richmond PR to a night stay and two days of craft beer-related fun at one of the most pristine resorts in the Pacific Northwest. Offering some of the finest golfing links anywhere in the region and scenic forested hikes, at the heart of this stay was a tent erected on the front lawn housing more than a dozen brewery’s and nearly three dozen beers. Despite steadily falling rain throughout Saturday’s gathering, the temperature remained warm for mid-fall, and the beers were, across the board, decidedly refreshing. It was pleasing to see not just Portland favorites like Amnesia and New Old Lompoc offering up some barleypops, but also this celebration brought in some Washington brewers that, due to distribution laws, don’t find their way into Oregon. One such brewery is Read More…

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After a few years featuring some muculent, pluvial and literally wet hops fests, Hood River caught a break and was acquiesced a perfect early October day for soaking in the ever-anticipated lupulin harvest. Supplanting a notably cooler than usual summer, the region gave way to some magnificence in one of the most beautiful days of the year. And, on top of all this, the beers decidedly were choice.

We arrived at Hood River unrealistically hoping we would make both this might brew fest and that of Yakima (near where more than 3/4 of the nation’s hops grow and many breweries’ beer, unavailable in Oregon, pour). Upon arriving in the early afternoon to downtown Hood River, the backdrop of pastel colored hillsides across the expansive Columbia Gorge, highlighted by nearly cloudless blue skies, painted our day as welcomingly as possible. To top to this, the lively festival awaited in the partitioned parking lot space between 5th and 7th Streets and Cascade and Columbia Streets adjacent to the stalwart Full Sail Brewery & Taproom. Polka music emanated from the festival grounds as we approached and stepped into a line of people that extended southbound down the sidewalk more than a full block. The queue moved quickly and we found our way to the front where the typical ID check and wristband placement allowed us entry into a world on not just freshly hopped beer and music, but that of vendors and socially engaged community. After being given a mug and tokens by a kindly young lady named Tracy, we made a b-line for the back west side of the grounds to where the adults showing wristbands were allowed entry to the place we’d been anticipating all week.

Beneath the first tent, it seemed fitting that the reverse alphabetized arrangement of the breweries led me first to Walking Man and their Hop-Along Fresh Hop IPA. We were really excited to try this beer since it was going to be one of the featured beers at this year’s KillerBeerFest. Brewers Jacob Leonard and Dan Munch really do a nice job accentuating the hops profile in beers and this orange-bodied India Pale was no exception. Leonard describes the beer as:

Hop-Along is a fresh hop IPA using Cascades from Roy Farms in Yakima. It’s ABV is 6.9% and we aren’t sure about the IBU but we are guessing around 60. It has a wonderful peachy aroma mixed with some pine and a nice chewy hop flavor. A light and crisp malt backbone let’s the hops be the showcase.

Spot on description and from talking to other beer geeks throughout the day, the Hop-Along was a strong contender for people’s choice, or buzz beer, of the event.

Other highlights of the day included hometown favorite Big Horse‘s highly respected Vernon the Rabbit Slayer Double IPA. This year’s high octane beast was utterly smooth to the palate for such a hopped-up and maltily emboldened brew. Fresh hopped with the relatively modern Simcoe hop from Yakima Valley in Washington, Vernon was preceded with long lines and easily lived up to the hype. Big Horse brewer Jason Kahler said of the beer:

This is the burliest batch of Vernon yet at 9.7% ABV, consume with caution as it drinks more like a 6% beer. It’s made with the freshest Simcoe hops from Carpenter Farms, this Double India Pale Ale has huge hop flavor and aroma all while being very balanced. Due to the popularity of this beer it will be rationed out (at the pub).

We witnessed a few of our dedicated beer loving friends  finishing their day off with a full four-token pour of Vernon for their final brew of the day. We, on the other hand, marched up the hill to the source at Horse Feathers pub and treated ourselves to full pints of the stuff before calling it a day.

On these two beers, it appears John Foyston, writer for the Oregonian’s The Beer Here column agrees that these two were tops at the fest. All the beers that we tasted were quite good, and unfortunately we didn’t get to quaff them all. However, here’s a look at some other top hop picks from this year’s Hood River Hops Fest: Read More…

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Charlie Devereux says:

Come taste the first Portland kegs of Killer Green Fresh Hop IPA, our cult-like harvest-time offering made with Oregon hops delivered directly from the grower to the kettle on a sunny day in early September. Charlie will be on hand to chat people up and raffle off some KG t-shirts.

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Double Mountain co-founder Charlie Devereux says:

Come on down to the Taproom to celebrate the release of “Von Stuke’s Vienna”, a richly delicious amber lager. We’ll have some killer German-style snacks on hand to complement the brew, along with the musical stylings of Bob Kasnick and the High Fives Band starting at 5pm.

For more info about the beer itself, check out our blog at www.doublemountainbrewery.com. Hope to see you at the gig, should be a blast!

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