Belgianfest Beer List Release
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Contact: Eric Radovich Washington Beer Commission Phone: (206) 795-5072 Email: [email protected] URL: www.washingtonbeer.com January 22, 2015 For immediate release The Washington Beer Commission announces Belgianfest Beer List! January 31, 2015 ! Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Pier 66 The Washington Beer Commission is proud to announce the beer list for the 6th Annual Belgianfest beer tasting festival at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center (Pier 66) on Seattle's waterfront. The event will feature 42 Washington Breweries pouring more than 100 unique, innovative and delicious Belgian style, Washington brewed beers. Belgianfest will have two sessions on Saturday, January 31, beginning with a Noon - 4:00pm session, and followed by 5:30pm - 9:30pm session on Saturday evening. The Bell Harbor International Conference Center is located at 2211 Alaskan Way, Pier 66, Seattle, WA 98121. Tickets are available now at washingtonbeer.com and are $35 in advance or $40 at the door (per session). This event has sold out the last five years and advance ticket sales are brisk. The afternoon session is already 75% sold! Belgian style beer is perhaps the most unique of all of the beer styles. As you look over the list of Washington Breweries and their Belgian style names imagine beers with flavors of orange zest, vanilla, toffee, cherries, chocolate, raspberries, citrus, apricot, or peppercorns, just to name a handful of the flavors infused in these amazing brews. This is a perfect way to get warmed up a day before the Seahawks take on New England in the Super Bowl on Sunday! Complete event info is available at: washingtonbeer.com 2015 Belgianfest Beer List American Brewing Edmonds 1) Saison Rouge This Saison is light, crisp and spicy with a slight reddish hue from the addition of pink peppercorns. Limited Release. 6% ABV 2) Stupid Sexy Flanders Deep red in color and more tart than sweet on the tongue, this sour is a playful wink at the traditional Belgian Style Flanders Brown Ale. Aged in red wine barrels with raspberries. 6.5% ABV Anacortes Brewery Anacortes 1) Raspberry Roulette Tart and dry, light bodied red ale with a nutty, toasted finish. Inoculated with lactobacillus and 21lb (per bbl) of local organic raspberries. 4.1% ABV 2) Broken Link Sour Made with oats, wheat, honey and black pepper. Brewed in collaboration with homebrew brothers, Nathaniel and Benjamin Porter. Soured in barrels for 9 months. 6.2% ABV 3) Imperial Flanders Imperial Red Ale hopped with Perle, Mt Hood and Cascade varieties aged with black cherries and blended from 4 different barrels. 9.5% ABV 4) Jaune Aigre (shoon ay'-gra) Sour blonde ale collaboration with North Sound Brewing. 6.2% ABV Big Al Brewing Seattle 1) Time Capsule August 2014 A hopped farmhouse ale fermented with 100% Brettanomyces. Generation additions of Apollo hops were added to the secondary. The subdued funk and deep tropical and citrus fruit flavors created through primary fermentation with our house Brettanomyces strain are complemented by the bright and citrusy Apollo hop varietal. 7.3% ABV 2) Time Capsule September 2014 This Saison is styled after the classic thirst quenching farmhouse beers produced in the French-speaking region of Belgium. Our house saison strain packs this beer with spice and citrus, leading to a dry finish with a subtle floral hop character. 6.8% ABV 3) Time Capsule October 2014 Dry-Hopped Sour. This mixed-culture sour ale was open-fermented and thereby inoculated with our breweries indigenous microflora. The funky aroma gives way to tart, complex fruit flavors and has enough residual sweetness to create a balanced sour ale. As a BelgianFest exclusive, Falconer’s Flight 7 C’s hops were added to the secondary introducing grassy, citrus notes to the already complex aroma. 7.8% ABV Black Raven Brewing Redmond 1) Raven de Garde This Northern France inspired strong pale hybrid has gone through a six month secondary fermentation with the “wild” yeast strain brettanomyces lambicus, then dry hopped in order to meld bright fresh hop aroma and accent with aged wild yeast character. Pear and citrus hops play with tropical fruit, smooth earth, and light hay flavors from the wild yeast. 7.4% ABV 2) Bourbon La Petite Mort This Belgian inspired strong abbey brown ale was brewed with a Belgian Ardennes yeast strain. Additional time and barrel aging has brought out flavors of dark fruit such as plums and raisins, deep caramel notes, bourbon and vanilla. 11% ABV Boundary Bay Brewery Bellingham 1) Dubbel Boundary Bay's Trappist-Style Dubbel is a gorgeous, golden-amber color with a light tan head. Aromas of Belgian candi sugar, toffee, and pretzel greet the fortunate imbiber. At first sip, there is a light spice and very present earthiness on the palate, with toasted pretzel and dried fig flavors present, filling all the surfaces of the tongue with a number of flavors. The complex, lingering finish is bitter and sweet at once, not quite a singular balance, but something much more dynamic. The yeast, of course, is the star of this beer's song, but the Belgian and German specialty malts are solid back-up singers! The assertive strength of this beer, will get you through these long NW nights, or any gloomy NW time for that matter, just be sure to let it warm in the glass a bit to experience the fullest flavors. 25 IBU 8% ABV Der Blokken Brewery Bremerton 1) Castover Belgian Style Ale This deep golden yellow Belgian has a sweet honey nose with subtle hints of green apple. It's combined with more fruitful notes and delicate malt flavor, balanced by light hop bitterness and completed with a floral finish. 8.5% ABV 2) Margaux Belgian Tripel This Belgian strong ale was special brewed for the Seattle Belgianfest. It has well-balanced notes of malts and hops with a pleasant spiciness and slight sweetness. 9% ABV Dick's Brewing Centralia 1) Dick's Silk Lady A light and refreshing Belgian-style ale, the mash includes a small quantity of Munich and caramel malts for a delicate body and pale color. A fair amount of top quality wheat malt gives this beer its crispness and drinkability. It is hopped sparingly for minimal bitterness and mellow hop flavor and aroma. We ferment with a classic Belgian yeast strain which gives this beer unique fruity esters. 15 IBU 5% ABV 2) Dick's Grand Cru Intensely fruity and complex Belgian-style ale. A full mash with a ton of malted barley is required to reach the high gravity required for this style, along with a special classic Belgian-style malt. Noble hops are added sparingly to the kettle. During the long boil kettle sugars are added in the Belgian Tradition which lends to unique flavors in the ferment which is monitored as the flavors develop. The beer is chilled and aged before being kegged & bottled. 25 IBU 9.9% ABV Elliott Bay Brewing Burien/Seattle 1) Organic Dry-hopped Hop Von Belgian-style IPA Inspired by some of the early renditions of IPAs coming out of Belgium, like Urthel Hop-It and Houblon Chouffe. Flavored with generous quantities of organic Chinook, Simcoe, and Cascade hops. 2) Saison Folle (aka Mad Season) Dry, light-bodied Belgian ale, showcasing the flavors of our Belgian yeast strain. Hints of tropical and citrus fruit meld with mild spice notes from the use of flaked rye. 3) Blended Sour Red Von A sturdy Belgian-style Red Ale blended with a measured amount of some sour beer from our Burien barrel program. 4) Mink the Mischief Maker The Belgian yeast and American hops make pleasant mischief on the tongue, a sleek and pretty animal. Grapefruit, faint grass and spice, medium-round body and dry finish. Elysian Brewing Seattle 1) Bête Blanche Bête Blanche is extremely drinkable, blonde and somewhat treacherous. Brewed entirely from Pale malt and augmented in the boil with clear Belgian candy sugar. Bittered with German Northern Brewer and finished with Styrian Goldings hops. Fermented with Belgian ale yeast. 36 IBU 7.4% ABV 2) Bitch In a Barrel Our Bête Blanche aged in oak for 10 weeks 3) Saison Gris 180 pounds of crushed Pinot Gris grapes were added to a light to medium-weight Saison built on pale and white wheat malts and Polaris and Equinox hops. The result is a really nice hybrid of saison yeastiness and grape, with perhaps a soupçon of pinkish color. 25 IBU 6.3% ABV 4) Sour Grapes Sour Grapes is a kettle-soured Berliner Weisse-style beer to which was added a hefty bucket of tart and tiny verjus grapes. 3% ABV 5) The Perfessser We suspect the Brewers, with plums and brettanomyces, pale, Cara Hell and wheat, and German Northern Brewer and Styrian Goldings to bitter and finish, at the Capitol Hill brewery. 6% ABV 6) Mr. Yuck Mr. Yuck Sour Pumpkin is a little mellower than usual. It was brewed with pale, Weyermann Munich, unmalted wheat and flaked barley, incidentally bittered with Fuggles, with pumpkin in the mash, kettle and fermenter. 5.9% ABV 7) Andre The Giant Double IPA This Imperial Belgian-style IPA is solidly built (not to say toned) on pale, caravienne and dextri-pils malts, bittered with Chinook and finished with Mosaic and experimental 366 hops. 74 IBU 8.3% ABV 8)Marché le Public Pro-Am Saison designed by homebrewer Collin of Vancouver BC and selected by us at a competition organized by Beer Thirst, our distro in those parts. Pale, Wheat, Honey Malt, Oats, Citra Hops. 6.3% ABV Fish Brewing Olympia 1) Reel Ales Monkfish Nectar color with a sweet malty flavor and subtle hop aroma.