Belmont Station Expanded Summer Hours, Lots of Events, Tons of Beer

Lots of amazingly tasty events happening at Belmont Station including expanded hours and some events (uh hem…Puckerfest!) and brews you ain’t gonna wanna miss! Read on…

NEW EXPANDED HOURS. Just in time for Summer we’ll keep the Beer store and Biercafe open later on Sundays and open the Biercafe on weekdays at 2PM instead of 3. (Food service begins at 3PM)

BEER STORE:
Monday – Saturday  10AM – 10PM
Sunday Noon – 10PM

BIERCAFE
Monday – Friday  2PM – 11PM
Saturday & Sunday Noon – 11PM

EVENTS:
Saturday June 25: The Southern Oregon Bike Crawl makes a stop at Belmont Station. If you want to join in meet at Metropolis Bikes at 1PM. SOB Na Zdravi Pils will be flowing here for only $3 per pint!

WEDNESDAY JUNE 29 TWO TOWNS CIDER TASTING . Aaron Sarnoff, cidermaker and co-owner of this new artisanal ciderhouse based in Corvallis, will provide tastes and information on his Semi-Sweet, Semi-Dry, and Serious Scrump (brand new) ciders. Bottles for sale of course!

WEDNESDAY JULY 13TH 5pm Until… WIDMER COLLABORATOR RELEASE. Sharon’s Golden ale was originally created by homebrewers James Neumeister and Katrina Jensen to celebrate Katrina’s mom Sharon’s 60th birthday.  By the time it was selected as a Collaborator winner Sharon was stricken by cancer. Now named in her memory, Sharon’s Golden Ale is a crisp, enjoyable golden ale with a mellow hop aroma, using only Tettnangers. Sharon always enjoyed giving people a reason to gather and celebrate so when you lift a pint we hope that you might do it alongside great friends and family.

MONDAY JULY 18 – SUNDAY JULY 24 PUCKERFEST. This year is our 5th annual celebration of Sour and Wild Yeast Beers, featuring up to 14 on tap at a time, with special meet the brewer nights:
Monday July 18  Flat Tail Meet the Brewer
Tuesday July 19  Double Mountain Devil’s Kriek Night featuring Devil’s Kriek 2011, vintage Devil’s Kriek, and Rainier           Kriek. And of course, Matt, Charlie, and fresh cherries from Matt’s Orchard (they should be ripe by then!)
Wednesday July 20  Upright Meet the Brewer and Belmont Station 14th Anniversary Beer Release
Thursday July 21  Block 15 Meet the Brewer
Satujrday July 23  Big Horse Meet the Brewer
Many beers and details coming soon!

Our Biercafe will be open from Noon until 11PM each day during Puckerfest week. The Biercafe will also be cash only for that week in order to facilitate efficient service for everyone. ATM on site.

SATURDAY JULY 25 OREGON CRAFT BREWERS FRINGE FEST.  Meet the Brewers and Tastings featuring small Oregon craft brewers who are not represented at the big daddy Festival downtown.

NEW BEER ARRIVALS

Russian River Salvation – This Belgian style Strong Dark Ale has a tawny brown color and aromas of banana and spice that dominate the initial bouquet of the beer. Lean malt flavors blend perfectly with fruit driven characteristics created by the classic Belgian yeast which fermented this ale.

Nøgne Ø Imperial IPA (#500) – Brewed to celebrate their 500th batch, this massive imperial IPA is brewed with barley, wheat, rye, oats, and 5 different hops.  At 10% abv it’ll have you celebrating along with them.

Fire Mountain Tan Line IPA – Here’s Henry’s (the owner/brewmaster) description: “Czech Saaz. What a great summer hop for our tan Line Summer india pale ale. Pilsner and two row malts give this ale a unique light refreshing flavor.”

21st Amendment Hop Crisis Imperial IPA – The name is a tribute to the hop shortage a few years ago. An imperial IPA aged on oak spirals and heavily hopped with Columbus, Centennial and Cascades for bittering and dry hopped with Simcoe, Ahtanum, Amarillo, and Cascades.

Oakshire Line Dry Rye – Line Dry Rye is a honey-orange colored pale ale. It is crafted with 10% rye malt and 10% flaked rye for a complex malt profile. American hops give Line Dry a crisp bitterness and a slight citrusy flavor. Clean and refreshing , it ends with just a small note of honey in the finish that brings all of the elements together.

Logsdon Seizon traditional saison style ale and Seizoen Bretta, a version with Brettanomyces.  Prior to April no one had even heard of this new brewery founded by David Logsdon (founder of Wyeast Labs and co-founder of Full Sail Brewing), but they roared out of the gate and won the People’s Choice Award at the 2011 Portland’s Cheers to Belgian Beers festival with Seizoen Bretta.

Boon (Belgium) Oude Gueuze Marriage Parfait – The best blend of lambics from one of the most respected blenders in Belgium.  Tart, dry, oaky, and sparking.
Mikkeller / To Ol (Denmark) First Frontier IPA – 7% “American-style” IPA, heavily hopped with Warrior, Simcoe, and Centennial for a west coast hop bite.
Mikkeller / To Ol Overall IPA – An imperial IPA so good that it’ll make you forget “your tax-payments, work and the dishes.”  Sounds like a winner!
Mikkeller Jackie Brown – “American-style Brown” or “India Brown Ale?”  Whatever it is, it’s full of chocolatey malt character and backed up by an assertive hopping schedule.
Dieu du Ciel! (Canada) Aphrodite – Imperial stout brewed with fair trade cocoa nibs and vanilla beans.  Perfect with (or for) dessert.
Xbeeriment (Denmark) Madraz IPA – Bittered with Chinook and finished with Nelson Sauvin for a deep clean bitterness and an array of tropical fruit flavors.
Xbeeriment Hoppenheimer Imperial IPA – An Imperial IPA made with Marris Otter pale malt, 3 different hop varieties from 3 different parts of the world, fermented fairly dry…. The result; a nuclear meltdown of hops!
Oppigards (Sweden) Well Hopped Lager – A perennial summer favorite here at the Station, this lager is dry, refreshing, and bursting with noble Czech hops.
3 Fonteinen Doesjel – Blend of 1, 2 and 3 year old lambic. Fermented and lagered in oak vessels. In this bottle the young yeast is brought to sleep (‘ingedoesjeld’) so the original lambic flavors are preserved.
3 Fonteinen Oude Gueuze – Funky, tart, citrusy, and aggressively sour blend of 1, 2, and 3 year old lambics, blended to perfection.
Mahr’s (Germany) Ungespundet Lager – This gorgeously hazy unfiltered lager is a taste of Bavarian summer in a glass.
Trois Dames (Switzerland) Grande Dame Oud Bruin – This homage to the classic reddish/brown sours of the Flanders region of Belgium marries carmelly malt flavors with a tart, dry, acidic finish.
BFM (Switzerland) Abbaye de Saint Bon Chien – We’ve had the 2010 vintage of this acclaimed sour ale in stock for a while now, but the brewery has recently released some of the 2006 and 2007 batches for your (and our) enjoyment.
Jolly Pumpkin (Michigan) Luciernaga – This barrel-aged Belgian-style pale ale takes your palate on an adventure from use of coriander, grains of paradise, and spicy hops.
Stone Imperial Russian Stout – After 8 years and over 2,000 reviews on Ratebeer, this intense brew has cemented it’s place as a classic in an ever more crowded field of imperial stouts.  As always, this is fairly limtied, so don’t delay or you’ll miss out until next year.
Stone Belgo Anise Imperial Russian Stout – What do you get when you take Stone’s classic stout and ferment it with a Belgian yeast strain and age it on star anise and oak chips? An new concoction that’s rich with chocolate, dark fruit, and the distinctive “licorice-y” bite of anise.
Dogfish Head Squall Imperial IPA – This is more of a revival than a new beer, and harkens back to the days when 90 Minute IPA (along with all DFH beer) was unfiltered and bottle conditioned.  Taste the glory of the beer as it was meant to taste before the filter started stripping away hoppy goodness.
Dogfish Head Festina Peche – A 4.5% sour ale brewed with peaches?  Who says “extreme” has to mean “high abv?”
Victoria Lager (Mexico) – Here is the brewery’s description (brewed by the Corona folks): Victoria , a pilsener-vienna type beer, is the most traditional out of Modelo´s brand portfolio. Unique for its bitterness and strong flavor which instantly pleases even the most demanding consumer. With more than 135 years of excellence, Victoria is one of the oldest beers produced in Mexico.

Rodenbach (Belgium) &  Rodenbach Grand Cru are back in!

New CIDER

Ross-on-Wye Dry Cider – (no link or description available)
Ross-on-Wye Medium Still Cider –
Ross-on-Wye Rum-barrel Cider – (no description available)

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