We’re a small brewery, which allows us to make many different beers, some regularly, while others are quick creative outbursts. Our rotating beers are brewed year round, but are not always in stock. Most of our beer is available on draft, but some are bottle conditioned in capped 750ml bottles.
Year Round
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Urban Farmhouse Ale
ABV: 5.3% || Traditionally, Farmhouse Ales were brewed on farms in the French and Flemish regions of Belgium. These beers were born out of necessity as most water was not potable and the farmers needed a refreshing beverage to offer the hardworking farmhands. Our rendition was developed in the spirit of that tradition. The beer pours golden with a floral nose and a soft underlying hop bitterness with a crisp finish.
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Pils
ABV: 5% || A Northern German style Pilsner, which translates to a dry, crisp beer with a strong floral bitterness.
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Myrtle
ABV: 5% || A tart farmhouse ale. Myrtle has a pleasant acidity from a Lactobacillus fermentation. Lemony Meridian hops grown in Silverton, Oregon enhances the citrus character of our house Lactobacillus culture and the fruity ester profile of our house farmhouse yeast.
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Flemish Kiss
ABV: 6.3% || A foudre aged American brett ale.
750ml Bottle
Summer Seasonals
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Fleur de Blanc
ABV: 5.2% || A white farmhouse with rose hips, rose pedals and elder flowers. The addition of spelt provides a foundation for the delicate floral characters to build on. A wonderful summer thirst quencher!
Winter Seasonals
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Fleur de Ferme
ABV: 6% || A dark farmhouse ale with hibiscus, lavender and chamomile added at the end of the boil. Malted Spelt provides a silky full body that supports the late-kettle flower additions.
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Bourbon Little Brother
ABV: 10% || A portion of Little Brother is added to Heaven Hill bourbon barrels after primary fermentation where it picks up a rich, bourbon flavor. After a few months this is then blended back with a non-barrel aged version that had been cold conditioning.
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Boysen
ABV: 10% || Brewed for the 2012 Holiday Ale Fest, this was a Imperial Belgian Porter fermented with our yeast from De Dolle Brouwers, then finished with Boysenberries in the brite tank.
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Cerise Noir
ABV: 6% || Cerise Noir is a tart, light bodied dark farmhouse ale with sweet and tart cherries added during fermentation.
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Biere de Garde
Beetje Series
Beetje, a Flemish word for ‘little bit’, the garage brewery lives on through these small batch, experimental, beers.
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Plum Bretta **ABV: 5.4% || Currently Unavailable – Plum Bretta is a farmhouse ale fermented with our house culture Brettanomyces blend before aging in wine barrels with 250 pounds of local plums from our friends at High Grove Farms in Helvetia, Oregon.
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Brotherly Love
ABV: 10% || Released Every February – 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.
[…] Grgas also shared with us some of the recent and noteworthy goings-on happening with this farmhouse-inspired microbrewery. Bottles – We’re keeping Urban Farmhouse and Flemish Kiss as year round bottle offerings, with the hope of consistently having a seasonal bottle and the occasional one-off specialty release. Currently Wit is our seasonal, but we’re hoping to have Fleur de Ferme, our dark farmhouse with hibiscus, lavender and chamomile, in the bottle for the first time sometime in October. Once winter has arrived we’ll have Little Brother, our Belgian Dark Strong, as well as the Bourbon aged version, Bourbon Little Brother, in bottles. The beer has already been brewed with the straight version conditioning in our cold tank to mellow and develop, while the Bourbon version is already sitting in some wet Heaven Hill barrels. Barrels – I just picked up a few White Wine barrels from Adelsheim today which we’re going to inoculate with a Brett strain cultured from Drie Fonteinen and hopefully launch a sister product to Flemish Kiss called B Side. This will hopefully be a golden farmhouse ale primary fermented with our house farmhouse strain, then racked into these wine barrels and allowed to ferment with the Drie strain for about 5-6 weeks before being packaged and bottle conditioned. We’re also expanding our stock of Eleanor, which is a sour farmhouse ale with magic. Originally a single barrel with some unique microflora, we’re hoping to carry over those organisms to other barrels and bottle this beer as a specialty release when it’s ready. Eleanor was originally released at this past Portland Cheers to Belgian Beers where it was one of the People’s choice finalists. We’re pretty excited about this beer and eager to have a bottle conditioned version to reach a wider audience. The release will coincide with a sour tap takeover of our tasting room taps. There are also few smaller one off projects in the works, like a brett farmhouse ale being aged on fresh Italian Plums and a Gin barrel aged Belgian Single with rye and malted spelt. In the meantime, Sean just brewed a really crisp, refreshing Golden Ale with homegrown Lemon Balm called Golden Harvest, we’ve got another batch of our Berliner Weisse in the tanks and on Friday we’re brewing our first 7bbl fresh hop beer, a sour farmhouse ale with fresh Meridian hops. Burke also informs us that the brewery will being brewing their Berliner Weiss next week as well. For more on The Commons ever expanding and developing menu of craft brew creations, check out their beers page here. […]