After three years in the making, Hopworks Urban Brewery will be releasing their Piledriver in bottles this weekend at a special dock sale. Starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 19, according to the brewery, they will have about 30 cases of the 750 mL bottles available for $12 each.

Piledriver

Barrel-Aged Belgian Style Abbey Ale

Piledriver began as Hopworks Dubbel Supplex Abbey Ale in 2009. We then aged it in four different bourbon and Cabernet barrels with sixty pounds of sour cherries and brettanomyces for eighteen months.

8.5% ABV             17.5 Plato            18 IBU

Hopworks is located at 2944 SE Powell Blvd. in sunny Portland, Oregon.

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After three years in the making, Hopworks Urban Brewery will be releasing their Piledriver in bottles this weekend at a special dock sale. Starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 19, according to the brewery, they will have about 30 cases of the 750 mL bottles available for $12 each.

Piledriver

Barrel-Aged Belgian Style Abbey Ale

Piledriver began as Hopworks Dubbel Supplex Abbey Ale in 2009. We then aged it in four different bourbon and Cabernet barrels with sixty pounds of sour cherries and brettanomyces for eighteen months.

8.5% ABV             17.5 Plato            18 IBU

Hopworks is located at 2944 SE Powell Blvd. in sunny Portland, Oregon.

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Join us for the opening of the Gigantic Brewing Taproom and Champagne Lounge. Doors at 3pm, open til 9ish. Gigantic IPA & The City Never Sleeps on tap along with our collaboration brews and guest taps. Come celebrate!

Gigantic is located at 5224 SE 26th Avenue (at Steele) in Portland, OR. For more on Gigantic, check out their site: www.giganticbrewing.com

Gigantic Brewing Taproom and Champagne Lounge is beer and champagne only, and thus you must be 21+ years of age.

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Likely Oregon’s most anticipated new brewery opening of 2012 is Gigantic Brewing. Headed by two regional craft beer all-stars, Van Havig, who spent 16 years brewing at Portland’s Rock Bottom, and Ben Love, who held down posts at Pelican Brewing in Pacific City and Hopworks Urban Brewery in Portland. Together, the two look to produce a year round IPA and a wide variety of rotating seasonals, specialties, and one-offs. On Wednesday May 9, 2012, Gigantic celebrates the fruits of their labors by kicking off what promises to be one hell of a non-stop party. Here’s the good word from the brewery: Read More…

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Eugene, Oregon hosts its 2nd annual Beer Week May 7-13, 2012. Eugene Beer Week is a celebration of craft beer culture in the Willamette Valley.

Venues and Breweries include Ninkasi, Oakshire, Hop Valley, Falling Sky, 16 Tons, The Bier Stein, Izakaya Meiji, Rogue, Cornucopia, Hot Mama’s Wings, the Eugene Hilton, Cascade Brewers Society, Boneyard Beer, Brewpublic, Sasquatch Brew Fest, Deschutes, Hopworks, and others.

Beer week will feature beer tastings, brewer’s dinners, special bottle releases, a home brew competition, and other events celebrating craft beer. Breweries, retailers, bars, restaurants, and beer writers join together helping bring Read More…

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Hopworks Urbans Brewery to release new Belgian-style Abbey Ale

Debuting on draught at Portland’s Cheers to Belgian Beers on April 21, 2012 this new series of bottle conditioned beers features classic European styles through our own Northwest perspective. The first in this series is an Abbey Ale. The second in the series is a Belgian Pale Ale, launching in July.

Hopworks Organic Belgian-Style Abbey Ale

Made with this year’s PCTBB yeast, Abbey is made with five different organic malts and organic dark brown sugar, resulting in a complex multi-layered aroma.  The flavor is equally rich with a caramel malty sweet, fruity flavor finished with effervescent carbonation and a smooth, warming alcohol finish.

ABV: 6.5%           IBU: 18                  Plato: 20

Bottles available May through June 2012.

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On April 21, 2012, the Bay Area’s finest craft beer bar and bottleshop, Beer Revolution of Oakland, CA, is throwing an party for Earth Month featuring a great lineup of organic beer. from across the West Coast. Some of these beers will include specialties from Oregon never before featured in the region, including Astoria’s Fort George Brewery and Portland’s The Commons. Oregon’s only 100% certified organic brewery, Hopworks will also have beer showcased on this occasion. Here’s the complete details from an email just sent out. Read More…

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There are a lot more new beers making their way down the pipeline here in the Pacific Northwest. Deschutes Conflux No. 1 Release, a collaboration with  Hair of the Dog called “Collage” is soon to be released in bottles. This 11% ABV beer is a malt beverage aged in distilled spirit and wine oak barrels and has been highly anticipated for more than a year. The label refers to this blend of several sought after brews as an “artistic expression.”

Widmer Brothers continues to wear their collective creative cap and lead the way with more experimental India Pale Ales. Next up, X-443. They’ve also got an oyster stout dubbed “Cloyster”, an 8%ABV draught only selection. The brewhouse continues to impress not only with imagination but with execution. Look for their Rotator Shaddock IPA (brewed with grapefruit), Hibiscus Gose, Raspberry Imperial Stout, and Old Embalmer ’12 Barleywine Ale (featuring Bravo hops) from their Alchemy Project.

Looks like Hopworks Urban Brewery will be kegging up a new series of single hop IPAs known as the IPX India Pale Ale series. Further in the hoppy realm, Pike is not only releasing draught of a new 4.9% Hop Session Ale, their gearing up for their 25th Anniversary with a special bottle release of their Space Needle Golden Anniversary 2012 Vintage IPA, a 6.5% ABV 58 IBU brew with an array of Yakima Valley Hops. Elysian Brewing also  of Seattle is gearing up to release the next brew from their Read More…

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Hopworks Urban Brewery releases their Galactic Imperial Red for your drinking pleasure.

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The folks at Roscoe’s Pub (8105 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR) are doing a meet the Brewer with Hopworks this Friday (March 2nd) 5pm til 8pm.   Jeremy Lewis of Roscoe’s says “We will be featuring the ‘Army of Darkness’ Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, The New Hopworks Single-Hop IPA called ‘IPX’ aka ‘Ahtanumus Prime’, and ‘Dark Helmet’ Schwartzbier’.”

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