The Dark Ages Are Upon Us
TONIGHT! Monday March 15, 2010: OAKSHIRE O’DARK:30 Cascadian Dark Ale Release Party at Belmont Station from 5-8pm.
Join Brewmaster Matt Van Wyk and Founder Jeff Althouse and taste the new O’Dark:30 Cascadian Dark (Black IPA) brewed with dark malts, wheat malt, and a load of hops, now available in bottles. Also taste Watershed IPA and Overcast Espresso Stout. O’Dark:30 and a rare keg of Collaborative Evil’er (Belgian Golden Strong ale aged five months in Elijah Craig Bourbon barrel) on draft.
This past Friday, we attended an earlier release of O’Dark:30 at The Eastburn, where Van Wyk was also on hand. The new CDA is a stellar example of the emerging beer style marrying citrus and piny hops prevalent in Northwest IPAs with a robust mildly roasty malt character. Other prevalent styles of CDAs you can find around town include Hopworks Secession Black IPA and Widmer Brothers’ W ’10 Pitch Black IPA. Hopworks Ben Love was in attendance for the Eastburn release of O’Dark:30 where all proceeds from CDA purchases benefited the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Look for more more classic CDA styles to present themselves in the future.
Matt Van Wyk reminds us of the O’Dark:30: “Summer is fast approaching, so don’t put it off.”
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Belmont Station is located at 4500 SE Stark Street in Portland, Oregon. For more information call (503) 232-8538.
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Angelo
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
I have a bomber of this sitting in my fridge for some point this week – really looking forward to it.