TPK brewing

 Beer poking (Bierstacheln )

Bierstacheln, the sugars in the dark beer caramelikze when exposed to heat — and the results are just as delicious as they are on the dessert.

After fermentation, beer still contains residual malt sugar. This is what the hot metal caramelizes, adding toasty flavor and toffee notes to the drink. Because malt sugar is needed to encourage the chemical reaction behind Bierstacheln, it’s best to use this technique with beers that have a high malt sugar content, such as stouts, barleywines, and porters.

So TPK is only brewer in Portland doing this . Once a month.

A small  contingent of the beer club made it out for the January event .

They rolled out a new bourbon barrel aged dubbel special 

So the group tried the dubbel, scotch ale, stout with the technique.

If you are close you can smell some great aromas from the poking.  And right after poking the beer foam was super tasty ( reminded me of marshmallow) and then the beer has a hot and cold layer 

The food was also good we had a cubano, Tampa style cubano and empanadas in the group.

Great vibe , good food, unique event

10 Barrell

 Wednesday March 20, 2024

Dont want to miss any breweries on the list, or to make it look like 2024 was devoid of beer club.

A long overdue visit to the Pearl location of 10 barrel brewing.

A long list of beers, a pizza centric menu.

unfortunately trying to make a recap 9 months later , well wont be much detail may not to return for that...

Binary brewing

 

In the middle of Beaverton at the former home of the infamous Beaverton Bakery, a brewer emerged.

In the modern style, the food is outsourced to indoor food cart a smashburger joint.

Todays beer club only had 3 but good company good beers and some intel tales.

I would say out beer club tastes our diverse, but binary had something for everyone.

They had a saison for those who liked that, some of the beers samples :  the arrakis ale (a spiced ale, a rare winter ale on tap), dunkel, coffee blonde, bitter, brown ale, milk stout, imperial stout.

The group found no duds, they truly did a good job across a wide variety of styles

And great names:

Motherboard, Manchester candidate, the aforementioned Arrakis, Dial Up, Night light , Spel Czech...

Nice outdoor space with fire, though even with that probably a little chilly in our dry cold oregon winter.

really not much to not like, other than if it werent a holiday parking may have been a little more dicey.

Smashburger was fine, though still not as good as my favorite at lardo..

but if I find myself in old town Beaverton this place is solidly on the map. I hope their beers make it to taphouses around town

Rob

Wayfinder brewing

 

Nestled into inner south east , Wayfinder has modern wood, brick feel. Great outside seating and inside . Beer club was a Sunday night, fairly light crowd , but that meant great service.

Only a 3 man group this week.

Beers tried 

HELL - HELLES LAGERBIER

HELLES FREEZES OVER > helles, with frozen lemonade on top ( a take on a radler)- will call this the end of summer drink , only Rob partaked on this one . Will say the creamy head looked just like the regular helles so well executed.

HIDDEN HAND - BLACK LAGER

TERRIFICA - ITALIAN-STYLE PILSNER

DEADSOMMAR - PALE AUTUMNAL LAGER

THRONE OF ASHES - SMOKED HELLES

FUNERAL BOCK - DOUBLE-DECOCTED BLACK BOCK

THE ORIGINAL - COLD IPA

FLOWER IN THE KETTLE - HAZY IPA

Nice variety of styles. While they have the Oregon requisite IPA selection, they also had multiple light beers (pilsners) and dark.

The smoked helles got a hearty thumbs up with multiple orders. Rob found the funeral bock to be his favorite of the dark.

Food- fine , we had schnitzel, mac and cheese and steak on fries . Would say good not great , but good enough for a brewpub.

Overall a pleasant vibe, good service, good beer selection. A fine brewpub to hang with friends

Steeplejack brewing

 Beer + church , why not.

New brewery in northeast Portland set in an old church.

Food and beer orders all done through an app. A little quirky but service was speedy.

But on to the beer and food.

We had Kolsch, table beer, ,Pilsner, 2 stouts , hazy ipa, west coast ipa .

Food- pork tacos (street style), potato croquettes , fries, and a Brookie. 

All were delicious except the brookie (brownie cookie) which was a little underwhelming.

Repeat beer orders- Pilsner , west coast ipa

Other than the early closing (10pm on Friday) place was packed. But speedy service and friendly servers the crowds were not an issue

Backwoods brewing

 First entry for 2023. Had a quorum of 4 (John, Ben, Rob, Todd)

A nice brewpub in the pearl. They have a large selection on their tap lists , 3+ IPAs, 3+ Stouts , a pale, pilsner, sour, ... 

Diverse food - The groups opted for sandwiches- reuben, cheesesteak , patty melt. Food was fine/adequate didn't blow the socks off but solid. Menus had typical salads, burgers, nachos, sings, etc... selection

Now back to beer:

they had a golden stout- it was indeed golden . However in 3 taster trays they all tasted different so not really sure what it tastes like.

The sour -same issue as the golden stout- different tastes for everyone.

dreamsickle - orange and vanilla flavored, it definitely had those flavors not bad a little wierd

As to darks

Pecan porter- flavorful

King size stout - rumored to taste like snickers - different people got this to mixed levels. Overall on the sweeter side of stouts

Coca nut stout- porter with some coconut overtones, 

Smores golden stout- the mystery golden stout, base don different tasters hard to know

Johns tasting rating

Exploration IPA (1), Off grid IPA (2), King size stout (3), Party Acres IPA (4_ Dreamsickle (5) , Rough current sour (6) 

Robs favorite- pilsner. To him stouts/porters tasty but better in snifter size (10 or 12oz)

overall pleasant place for a trip

Rob

Baerlic brewing

 Beer club is not dead...

Tonight's beer club was at SE branch if baerlic brewing. 

Sampled beers included 

Thunderbolt- oatmeal porter. -

Michael carrigan- esb 

Oat soda - bohemian pilsner 

Eastside- oatmeal pilsner 

Hellsner - German pilsner 

Sundowner- black lager 

Night howler - imperial stout 

All solid beers , no complaints 

Food from ranch pizza - no leftovers ...

This baerlic brewing is in the old blitz sports bar location. Very spacious , cool fire pit inside .

A cool venue good beer and food , worthy of repeat visits ...