Category: Brewery Tour

A concise brewery bio

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Let’s tour…Elk Mountain

Let’s tour around this extremely new brewery in Colorado. According to their website “Elk Mountain Brewing, Inc., was established in April of 2009, is owned and operated by Tom and Marcia Bell.”

As many breweries do (I assume due to cheap rent and easy highway access) Elk Mountain Brewing is located in an industrial area of Parker, Colorado. They are starting small and “serving truly unique handcrafted microbrews with award winning recipes.”

The spin is German style with an American twist. As is evidenced by their line-up

Rock Slide Amber Ale
A spin off from our Oktoberfest; this full flavored Amber Ale is well balanced with a hint of toasted malt; making it a smooth brew to enjoy.

Mine Shaft Kolsch
Brewed with our house yeast; our Kolch is a clean crisp light colored Ale. Made with a variety of 3 different German hops, this brew leaves you with a prominent but not extreme hoppiness flavor. Not one to abandon so tap into this brew and take pleasure.

Wild Wapiti Wheat
Our German Hefeweizen beer made with Wheat & Barley has a malty sweetness with a big banana and clove essences that comes from our special Hefeweizen yeast; making it heavenly on your palate.

Ghost Town Brown
Our American Brown Ale is crisp and clean. With a hint of roasted nuts and chocolate flavors this is a well balanced brew that will leave you begging for more. So don’t get left behind let the flavors lure you in!

Elk Horn Stout
Medium in body, dark in color; our Oatmeal Stout is brewed with flaked oats and barley along with 5 specialty malts; making it a very big beer that is smooth going down.

Ute Bill Pale Ale
Our American Pale Ale has big hints of hop flavor due to the variety of 3 different hops used in combination with the malted grains leaving a well balanced moderate floral flavor; not overwhelming but just right for the adventurous beer drinker in you.

Puma IPA
For the Hop head – Our India Pale Ale has 3 varieties of hops, complimented with caramel and honey specialty malts. Rich in flavor, Puma IPA is a big beer with a big hop finish.

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Blue and Red

I heard about this brewery and specifically the beer in the first Pete Brown video and thought I would delve in a little deeper.

Here are the specs on the luft-baboons
“An unusual combination of fruity hoppyness with a dark, malty side. This beer is distinctly difficult to categorise – is it sort of a porter or maybe a mild? You decide!”
ABV: 4.2%
Colour: Dark Ruby
Hops: Pilgrim, Celeia, Others

Some of the other beers in their range are the just as aptly named Guerilla and Evolution.

Follow this link to read why the monkey is blue…

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Alaska Brewery # 4

One of the new terms craft beer terms of 2010 is Nano-Brewery. And Baranof Island, fits that bill in my mind.

Here is their main list:
Silver Bay IPA
Lord Baranov’s Dark Ale
Baranof Brown Ale
Halibut Point Hefeweizen
Redoubt Red Ale
Peril Strait Pale Ale

They are based in Sitka and they brew with a 1 3/4 barrel system and handcraft their beer in 45 gallon batches. They sell growlers to go too!

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Rockmill Brewery

I would love to take a year and just visit brewery grand openings. Maybe somebody out there will pay me to do that.

In the meantime, how about organic and Ohio in the form of the recently opened Rockmill Brewery.

Along with a cool logo the brewers at Rockmill will be creating a witbier, saison, dubbel and tripel. Enjoy Ohio!

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Furthermore brewing

I am always surprised and delighted by brewery and beer names. And this Wisconsin brewery has both, Furthermore and a quirky attitude to boot. Of the beers listed on the website the triple play struck a chord with me.

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Make Weight: “Our triple pale is a bastardization of three regionally distinctive recipes that were stacked in unequal measure in order to make a beefy beer which highlights each recipe’s finer points: Esters from a dominant Flanders yeast are reigned-in by cleaner American and London strains; Kent Golding hops provide mild bitterness, giving English and Belgian specialty malts room to breath; Oregonian hops offer a fragrant nose; Belgian candy sugar boosts the strength of this mash-up to 8.5% ABV.”

Furthermore is known to those in the know for being the house beer at concerts called Shitty Barn Parties. Which are described as…“Audience and performer coexist in an intimate and integrated space with as little separating instruments and ears as possible. No stage. Stripped down. Pure music love. Like having the performance in your living room (except, in this case, a sh*tty barn). “

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Alaska Brewery # 3

Next on the tour of Alaskan beer is Gold Rush!

Based in Skagway they have a nice core set of beers to warm up the coldest of beer hearts.
Dewey Dark Lager
Gold Dredge Red
Honey Bear Blonde
Long Bay Lager
Smugglers Cove Red IPA
White Pass Pilsner

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Alaska Brewery # 2

Our second Alaskan stop is Skagway Brewing.

Here is their mining/historical named line-up:
Klondike Gold (5.7%)
A refreshing American wheat with more hops and less yeast flavor than its German counterpart, the Weisen.

Prospector Pale (5.7%)
A west coast pale ale with a medium to light body and a citric hop aroma.

Red Star Amber (6.6%)
A warm and rich ale with more body and a smooth malt finish.

Chilkoot Trail IPA (5.4%)
An American IPA, with a golden copper color and an earthy hop finish.

Spruce Tip Ale (5.5%)
A seasonal ale with a creamy rich head and young spruce tips adding crispness and vigor.

Boom Town Brown (5.6%)
A smooth and robust ale with a toasty flavor and a subtle hop aroma.

*This is my favorite*
Blue Top Porter (5.2%)
A creamy rich delight made especially to nourish and rejuvenate the
working class of Skagway.

Oosik stout (6.9%)
A full bodied oatmeal stout that’s roasty & smooth on the palette.

Scottish Wee Heavy (8.9%)
A Scottish barley wine with a smooth flavor.

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Mutiny Brewing

In tiny Joseph, Oregon you can get good food and some local beer from Mutiny. (insert your joke here about brewing up a mutiny)

And what is super great is that the brewer is Kari Gjerdingen a graduate of UC Davis and Terminal Gravity. Eastern Oregon is big on women brewers it seems.

She has started with a wheat beer and a porter. And from the blogs and websites I looked at, the food is tasty too.

Eastern Oregon pub crawl!

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Alaska Brewery # 1

Haines Brewing is based in historic Dalton City (which is part of Haines, Alaska).


Here is what I would order if I had their line-up in front of me….

Captain Cook’s Spruce Tip Ale – a seasonal ale made with, you guessed it, spruce tree tips.
DMMDI IPA – that is short for Devil made me do it. Pretty self-explanatory after that.