Meet-the-Class of 2023: New Oregon Breweries & Cidery
Every year since 2012 the New School has gathered new breweries and brands from across the state of Oregon to introduce themselves to the Portland craft beer industry at the New Breweries Showcase. Each and every year since we have featured 10 new breweries, but in 2023 that number has ballooned to 12 with the rise of spinoff brands that give existing breweries or brewers a chance to do something different. It’s sort of like Sting without the Police, or Beyonce post Destiny’s Child. The class of 2023 breweries (and one cidery) are
At the New Oregon Breweries & Cidery Showcase all 12 new brands will be pouring 2 beers or ciders each, a total of 24 new drafts on tap in pints, imperial pints, glasses, or taster flights at Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom. No cost to enter, beers individually priced, and each and every one of the new brands will be present in-person from 4-7pm to discuss their stories.
The TAPLIST:
Grand Fir Brewing
Compañeros
Clear, crisp, clean, and classic. Compañeros is a Mexican Lager brewed with 6-Row and Flaked Maize, then delicately hopped with Hallertauer Mittelfrüh. 5.5% ABV 18 IBU
Ember
Classic German Schwarzbier with clean, crisp notes of light roast, cocoa nibs, and a smooth malt profile. 5.3% 25 IBU
Obelisk Beer Co.
Sun Shrine Kolsch
A not so traditional Kolsch-inspired ale brewed with German malts, German Tettnanger hops, and Strata CGX™ hops. A measured amount of Strata CGX™️ dry hop lightly accents the beer with some elevated fruit flavor and aroma. This beer is super dry yet full of lemon zest, tangerine, peach, melon, crackery malt character, and a balanced bitterness that makes a crisp and refreshing beer. 4.3% abv.
Pharaoh's Horses Helles
German inspired Helles Lager with Linc Malt, Hersbrucker, and Perle hops. Bright and floral, notes of white grape and melon, with a dry cracker graininess and a balanced bitter finish. 4.5% abv
Time Travelers Brewing
Strong Scotch
Boiled for two hours to achieve a sweet caramel flavor, balanced bitterness and smooth. Time will disappear after having a few pints of this beer. Clocking in at 9.2% and drinking like a 5%. Caution, this beer will cause involuntary time traveling.
Planet Pucker Watermelon Sour
Light and refreshing, this beer is soured using 64oz of high cultured yogurt in the kettle. After fermentation, we added 35lbs of watermelon sour patch kids. The sweetness from the sour patch kids, balances out the tartness, making a super crushable sour. 5.18 % ABV 10 IBU.
Gold Dot Beer
Gold Dot Lager, 4.9%
The newest flagship Helles from lager-brewing power couple Lisa Allen and Kevin Davey. Made with a single varietal German pale barley, carefully mashed to for its full expression and coupled with a blend of our favorite low-alpha hops from the Hallertau region, Gold Dot Lager is extensively cold-conditioned for roundness and maturity.
Gold Dot Red Draught, 6.5%
Polotmavý 14° Czech Amber Lager
Because of its two-stage fermentation process, extended maturation, and use of dark floor-malted Czech barley, Red Draught is amber, rich, and malty, while its finish is slightly bitter and strong. Na zdraví!
Stray Cider
Title Track
All dessert fruit from the Yakima Valley, fermented completely dry with a farmhouse yeast, then infused very lightly with a tea blend for structure and aromatics. It’s available in 1/2bbl ($210), 1/6bbl ($75), and 16oz cans coming in August.
Song Within a Song
A blend of bittersweet and sharp apples fermented with marionberries, Dolcetto and Tannat. Dry, jammy, full bodied and scrubby. It’s available in 12/750ml ($140), and 1/6bbl ($130).
Oak Union Brewing
West Coast Pilsner
Our West Coast Pilsner uses North American malts along with Pacific Northwest hops to create a crisp and unique experience. Dry hopped with Strata terpenes, Green Idol produces red berry, honey, and lemon flavors that are rarely seen in such a combination.
Cascadius Cold IPA
Summertime herbal notes lead into a freshly harvested tropical bounty with this Cold IPA. Cascadius is fermented with Augustiner yeast and then dry hopped with Azacca and HBC 586 to help the Cascades meet the equator.
Cerveceria Norte
El Pato Pale Ale
El Pato is a unique take on the American Style Pale Ale. El Pato is a rice based Pale ale that has notes of tropical fruit, tangerine, melon,Pear and green tea. Light, crisp and refreshing ABV 5.2% 19 IBU
Gallo Mexican-Style Lager
Gallo refreshingly plumes with light, crisp and clean flavors. A traditional Mexican-Style Lager made with a high percentage of Non-GMO corn, North American malt and hops, Gallo will get your “quiquiriquí” on. 4.7% ABV 19 IBU
Hetty Alice
NZ PILS
Pours a platinum blonde with wooly white foam. Bright aromas of Sauvignon Blanc, lemongrass and melon bound before flavors of passionfruit, mochi and pineapple. The finish is bright, tropical and light. Dry Hopped with Nelson Sauvin and Riwaka. 4.8% ABV 36 IBU
West Coast IPA
Hetty Alice IPA pours a faxen blonde with a dense crown of white foam. Aromas of mandarin and white grape lead to robust notes of blueberry, mango and guava. The fnish is light, playful and crisp. 6.7% ABV 53 IBUS
Living Haus Beer Co.
Dolores Pilsner
Our Pilsner uses Hallertau Mittlefruh and Tettnang hops which give it a spicy and herbaceous aroma with a hint of lemon citrus underneath, Crisp, bright, and refreshing. Just the way we like it. 4.8% - 45 IBU
Winnie Cooper West Coast IPA
We wanted to highlight one of the first hops we fell in love with when we were young brewers, Mosaic. With a little help from her friends Simcoe and Vic Secret, this beer has captured all the things we wanted out of these hops. Peach, strawberries, white grape, and guava can be found throughout the aroma and finish of this one. 7% - 55 IBU
Further Beer
Further IPA
West Coast IPA with Azacca and Strata hops. Floral with a balanced bitterness. Notes of Melon and Tangerine. Vibe = Scenic Route. 6% ABV
NW Red
Spicy, toasted, caramel malt body with a dry finish. Herbal aroma from Tallis hops. Vibe = Mix Tape. 5.8% ABV
Drop Bear Brewery
Fair-dinkum Hazy IPA
A lightly hazy IPA, with Australian hops, Vic Secret, Eclipse, and a touch of Citra, it has a nice fruity and citrus overtones, Dry, easy drinking flavor with a hint of that IPA bitterness, the perceived bitterness is 28 IBU and 5.9% ABV.
Stand & Deliver Smokey Porter
Toasted notes of caramel and hint of smoke on the nose and has a nice smooth Peat smoke at the finish and perceived bitterness is 17 IBU and 7.2% ABV.
NEW OREGON BREWERIES & CIDERY SHOWCASE
Thursday, June 22nd 12 - 9 pm, Meet-the-Brewers from 4-7pm
Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom, 3090 SE Division St, Portland, OR 97202