Tag: Rob Vallance

Brian McMenamin and brewery general manager Rob Vallance in the Hillsdale Pub brewery with the new copper kettle (master Portland metalsmith Curtis Patience made the copper dome for the new kettle.) When the McMenamins first built the brewery -- Captain Neon's FGermentation Chamber -- they found a Portland company to build them a copper brew kettle, but it was an idiosyncratic piece of work, Vallance says, because nobody -- niether brewers nor fabricators -- knew what small brewers really needed. For year, craft breweries were cobbled together with old dairy and kitchen equipment and even tanks from the mothballed WPPSS nuclear power plant. Modern craft brewers have an easier time of it today, with great craftsmen and fabricators such as JV Northwest, Metalcraft, Portland Kettle Works, Practical Fusion and more catering to their needs. also bad pic of first brewsheet and Jeff Cooley " Jeff Cooley, who formulated the recipe for the reborn Hillsdale Ale, which clocks in at 38 IBU and 4.5 percent ABV. He was a brewer before he became a brewery district manager and yes, you could safely say that he likes his hops...

Oregon’s first brewpub-brewed beer was made 30 years ago today: October 25, 1985

John Foyston | October 25, 2015

…and all McMenamins properties are serving pints of the reborn Hillsdale Ale at special prices today… The brew sheet looks nothing like a modern brew sheet, with spaces

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McMenamins Celebrates Oregon Craft Beer Month

D.J. | July 21, 2014

With Oregon Craft Beer Month chugging along Oregon’s brewpub pioneers, McMenamins, has just completed a video that showcases their brewing philosophy. This video features many of their brewers