Cascade Brewing Bottles 2009 Kriek
After three days of bottling, Cascade Brewing at the Raccoon Lodge have completed filling 675 cases of their Kriek. This sour cherry ale offers a rich, lush, fruity nose and lactic tart mildly creamy refreshing flavor to match. Brewmaster Ron Gansberg says of this oak barrel-aged and carefully blended brew “Much like the Apricot (Ale), the Kriek offers a lot more of the fruit essence than the previous year’s. I think we really did it with this one.” And he’s right. There isn’t anything to critique about this particular brew. Gansberg adds “It will be interesting to see how this beer develops with age.”
Since acquiring a twelve-head bottling machine from Wandering Aengus Ciders last year, Cascade has successfully placed three unique sour styles into 750 ml champagne bottles with cork and cage. In addition to the most recent Kriek, other resale bottles include the aforementioned ’09 Apricot and the brewery’s first release of Sang Rouge, a blend of tart red ales.
Cascade Brewing has been quite busy of late. In addition to bottling some specialty sours, the brewery is working hard to open their Southeast Portland Barrel Room. Here, not only will the public be able to enjoy a wide variety of Cascade’s highly sought after brews and guest taps, but several barrels of rare craft beers already begin maturation. Last week, the concrete floor was cut for plumbing. Soon enough, Portland will be home to another spectacular beer destination.
Read more on the wonderful sours of Cascade in this article by John Foyston in Mix Magazine.
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Angelo grew up in Maine and is proud to call New England his original home. Cascadia is now his home. He fell in love with great beer in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California. He has been a correspondent for the Portland Tribune's Guest on Tap column, LivePDX.com, and has been featured in publications such as Beer Northwest and PDX Magazine. Angelo also has a great interest in independent music, and has been a booker and organizer for shows around the Portland under the name Pop Tomorrow! Angelo garnered much knowledge regarding beer from his experiences homebrewing, working at Belmont Station, Pyramid Brewing, Upright Brewing, By the Bottle, Beer Revolution, Olde Depot Public House, Falling Sky Brewing, Cascade Brewing, and from many many knowledgeable, passionate, and loving people along the way. It is Angelo's mission to bring "infotainment" and "edumation" to the readers of this website. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to contribute, please contact me at angelo@brewpublic.com
This post is more than a coincidence. We need those bottles in Québec.
Super excited. Just had a Sang Rouge this week after drinking 2 bottles of Russian River Supplication and a bottle of Consecration…really getting into the sours. The Sang Rouge is a heavyweight! I am ecstatic for the barrel house to open and to try a bottle of this Kriek after the Zwickelmania tasting.