Where to Find Urban Farmhouse Ale: Willamette Week’s 2013 Beer of the Year
March 22, 2013 By

Where to Find Urban Farmhouse Ale: Willamette Week’s 2013 Beer of the Year


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Urban Farmhouse Ale was named Beer of the Year in Willamette Week’s 2013 Beer Guide. For a small, new brewery this is quite exciting. We realize our small scale leaves a lot of uninitiated people, so below is a list of establishments, roughly organized by geography, that currently carry Urban Farmhouse Ale. Check out Willamette Week’s excellent write-up on Mike’s journey from clean-shaven cubicle dweller to sort-of bearded farmhouse ale crusader here.

Note: Many establishments rotate draft and bottles. Because of this, the list will continually be updated during the next few weeks.

SE Portland 

39th Mini Mart (Bottle)

Apex (Draft)

BeerMongers (Bottle)

Beer Bunker (Bottle)

Belmont Station (Bottle)

Cheese Bar (Bottle)

Fire on the Mountain (Bottle)

Green Dragon (Draft)

New Seasons Seven Corners (Bottle)

New Seasons Hawthorne (Bottle)

New Seasons Happy Valley (Bottle)

New Seasons Sellwood (Bottle)

Lauretta Jean’s Pie Shop (Bottle)

Le Pidgeon (Bottle)

Pacific Pie Co. (Draft)

Portland Bottle Shop (Bottle)

Zupan’s Market Belmont (Bottle)

North & Northeast Portland

1856 Bottle Shop (Bottle)

Barrique Barrel (Bottle)

Beaumont Market (Bottle)

Bridgetown Beerhouse (Bottle)

Hollywood Beverage (Bottle)

Hop & Vine (Bottle)

Ned Ludd (Draft)

New Seasons Arbor Lodge (Bottle)

New Seasons Concordia (Bottle)

Made in Oregon PDX Airport (Bottle)

Saraveza (Bottle & Draft)

Whole Foods Fremont (Bottle)

Whole Foods Hollywood (Bottle)

West Side Portland

Clyde Common (Draft)

Food Front Hillsdale (Bottle)

Food Front NW (Bottle)

Hot Lips Pizza – Jen Weld Field (Bottle)

Little Bird (Draft)

Market of Choice Terwilliger (Bottle)

Whole Foods Pearl (Bottle)

Zupan’s Market Burnside (Bottle)

Zupan’s Market Macadam (Bottle)

Greater Portland Metro Area

Barbur World Foods – Tigard (Bottle)

Market of Choice West Linn (Bottle)

Made in Oregon Washington Square Mall – Tigard (Bottle)

New Seasons Cedar Hills – Beaverton (Bottle)

New Seasons Mountain Park – Lake Oswego (Bottle)

New Seasons Progress Ridge – Beaverton (Bottle)

Scratch – Lake Oswego (Bottle)

Whole Foods Bridgeport Village – Tigard (Bottle)

Whole Foods Tanasbourne – Hillsboro (Bottle)

Zupan’s Market Lake Grove – Lake Oswego (Bottle)

Salem/Corvallis/Eugene

16 Tons – Eugene (Bottle)

Bier Stein – Eugene (Bottle)

Capital Market – Salem (Bottle)

Corvallis Brewing Supply (Bottle)

Venti’s – Salem (Bottle)

Market of Choice Corvallis (Bottle)

Market of Choice Willamette – Eugene (Bottle)

Vancouver, WA

By the Bottle (Bottle)

New Seasons Fisher’s Landing (Bottle)

 

 

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2013 Brotherly Love Release
February 18, 2013 By

2013 Brotherly Love Release

We’re releasing the third beer from the Beetje Series on Thursday, February, 21st at 5:00pm at the brewery.

Brotherly Love is our Belgian Dark Strong Ale, Little Brother, aged in second-use Bourbon barrels with Northwest grown sour cherries and Ecuadorian cacao nibs roasted by Woodblock Chocolate in SE Portland.

While just 150 bottles were released in 2012, production was increased this year to yield 50 cases. This year’s vintage has an enhanced chocolate note provided by the nibs selected during a tasting at Woodblock Chocolate.

Brotherly Love will be available in 750ml capped bottles for $15 per bottle and $160 a case. On the release day we will have both the 2012 and 2013 versions on tap, as well as chocolate from Woodblock using the same Ecuadorian cacao as the beer.

The Beetje Series is a celebration of The Commons Brewery’s nano roots. First brewed in 2010 on a one-barrel system in Mike Wright’s backyard garage, these small batch beers pay homage to the rustic brewery that continues to inspire us.

The tasting room is located at: 1810 SE 10th Avenue, Unit E (entrance on SE Stephens between 10th & 11th). Tasting room hours are Thursday 5-9pm, Friday 5-9pm, Saturday 2-9pm.

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November 20, 2012 By

One Year Anniversary

Beer Advocate Bottle ShareWith the garage a recent memory, here we are almost a year after opening the tasting room. We’d like to recognize our anniversary with a couple of events:

  1. Bottle Share and Potluck – Bourbon Little Brother Release
  2. One Year Anniversary Gathering

 

Potluck & Bottle Share & Bourbon Little Brother bottle Release
December 6th – 5-9 PM
Join us for the release of Bourbon Little Brother, our Heaven Hill Bourbon aged Belgian Dark Strong. We’ll have 750ml bottles for sale for $11 and $125 per case. To celebrate we are hosting a potluck & bottle share in our brewery. Just show up with a bottle of beer and/or food to share with friends.

Anniversary Gathering
December 7th – 5-9 PM
Come help us celebrate our first year as The Commons Brewery. We’ll be tapping a few special kegs, including the last bit of Plum Bretta, Gin Barrel Bruin and 2011 Sticke. We’ll have appetizers provided by Lardo, Pacific Pie, 2nd Story and Cheese Bar. Special toast at 7pm.  Facebook Event Page.

We really hope you can make it and celebrate with us.

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October 24, 2012 By

Wild Night

Starting this week we are going to open every Thursday from 5-9 PM. Tomorrow night, to celebrate our new Thursday hours, we’re filling our taps with various sour and wild beer projects.

All beers will be available in full glasses and sample sizes.

Thursday October, 25, 2012

5-9PM
Taplist

Berliner Weisse
Tart German Wheat
3.4%
Nectarine Berliner Weisse
Tart German Wheat with Nectarine puree
3.8%
Bene Tibi
100% Brettanomyces Lambicus fermentation with sour cherries and fresh apple cider
4.8%
Lambicus Amber
Amber ale fermented 100% with Brettanomyces Lambicus
4.9%
Plum Bretta
Farmhouse Ale aged in a Pinot Noir barrel with Brettanomyces finished with 80lbs of hand-cut Italian Plums
6.8%
Fantome Wit
Our Wit fermented 100% with microflora cultured from various Brasserie Fantôme bottles
6.5%
Wild Walnut
Belgian Porter fermented 100% with Brettanomyces Lambicus finished with fresh lime juice and dry hopped with fresh hop Cascades
6%
Sour Gin Bruin
Sour mashed Stout aged in wine barrels with Brettanomyces, blended with a 100% Brett. Lambicus Amber aged in a Ransom Old Tom Gin barrel
6.5%
Tasting Room Hours
Thursday 5-9PM
Friday 5-9PM
Saturday 2-9PM
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Eidolon Release
August 13, 2012 By

Eidolon Release

This Friday, August 17th at 5PM we’re releasing the second beer from the Beetje Series at the brewery.

Eidolon is a collaboration between our brewer, Sean Burke, and friend/brewer Sean White, who now brews for Jackie O’s in Athens, Ohio.

A sour, barrel aged amber farmhouse brewed with meyer lemon peel, jasmine green tea, jasmine flowers and New Zealand Hallertau hops, Eidolon was allowed to mature with two strains of brettanomyces in red wine barrels, then blended back together and conditioned in 750ml capped bottles. Available only in the bottle for $12 each or $135 for a case.

Below we have some photos Sean B. took of the brew day. We were really excited Sean White could come in a brew with us before his move to Ohio. In these photos you’ll see another friend of the brewery, Sam Pecoraro, who volunteered his time to significantly help zest lemons and brew the beer.

Eidolon is a bit of a departure from our core beers and we wanted the label to reflect the different approach. For those who have come into the tasting room you have hopefully noticed the wonderful chalkboard art by Sean Burke’s brother, Adam. The idea was to have something inspired by mystical folk art to hopefully correlate with the magical theme of the beer. In the end, we’re hoping that what’s inside the bottle is as great as the art Adam created.

When Mike left the garage and moved into our current facility he felt it important to pay homage to his nano-roots. We want to keep that spirit alive by releasing small batch beers several times a year. These beers will hopefully be more experimental, something that brings us out of our comfort zone, just as Mike did when he sent in a brewery application for his garage. For now, enjoy the photos and the beer and stay tuned.

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