Brew with a View
By Gary Corbin
Oregonians love the outdoors, and we are blessed with beaucoup opportunities to enjoy them in beautiful surroundings. Among our amazing natural gifts and just about an hour from downtown, the Columbia Gorge offers sporting opportunities for wind, water, and land.
These are fun but thirst-building activities. Fortunately for craft beer lovers, the Gorge offers some fine tap rooms in which to taste excellent local brews while admiring the terrific view.
The biggest, the employee-owned Full Sail in Hood River, is also one of Oregon's oldest. Founded in 1987 as "Hood River Brewing," Full Sail is nestled along the Columbia River in an old fruit cannery. Their "healthy pub grub" menu includes organic greens, free-range beef, salmon and even a delicious Tofurky Beerbrat produced right next door.
Nearly 90% of their annual output (85,000 barrels) is now bottled. Even so, on the day I last visited they poured eleven different beers in their Hood River tasting room. The selection included their famous Amber, several pale ales including Rip Curl, and the new Belgian-style Vesuvius (due out in bottles on August 15). On a hot day, try the Session lager, or the refreshing Wit. A range of bigger beers such as a very balanced IPA, the bolder Sunspot Imperial IPA, and the Imperial Porter comprise a meal in themselves.
Big Horse Brewing in downtown Hood River offers a more family-style experience and an equally compelling view. The old-style building overlooks the city, and windsurfers and kites are visible just behind them in the blue waters of the Columbia. Their four-barrel system is 50 times smaller than their cross-town colleagues, but they produce a diverse range of ales; on any given day their eight taps might pour an IPA, scotch ale, stout, smoked beer, and even a Dubbel, plus a range of seasonal beers. Theirs is a full menu which includes Tex-Mex, ribs, burgers, and pasta.
Just around the corner from Full Sail, Double Mountain Brewing has broken ground on their 20-barrel brew system. Former Full Sail brewers Matt Swihart and Charlie Devereaux hope to open their doors by Thanksgiving with a tap room, a simple but healthy menu, live music and in-house crafted beers and ciders from apples grown in their own orchard. In addition to the standard crowd-pleasers, Double Mountain hopes to follow in the footsteps of Hair of the Dog and Dogfish with unique, bigger-than-life beers and unusual styles. Look for their beers to land in boutique beer shops in champagne bottles late this year.
If skiing's more your bag, head inland to Parkdale's Elliott Glacier Brewpub for some great
brews, good comfort food, and a terrific view of Mt. Hood from the back window and beer garden. Their Pale Ale and Scottish Ale are top sellers, and the dry-hopped IPA is quite tasty. But I'd go there for the moist, buttery homemade corn bread alone. Monday and Tuesday are Taco nights; Friday the locals gather for all-you-can-eat spaghetti.
A great stop on your way out to the Gorge is Walking Man in Stevenson, WA. This 17-barrel brewery produces some "in-your-face beers," says owner and brewer Bob Craig, such as the Sasquatch, Homo Erectus and Knuckledragger. Walking Man pours ten taps of their own ales, plus their own root beer, cream soda, and ginger ale that "outsell Pepsi products ten to one." The menu features primarily pizza and snacks that you can munch in their comfy beer garden. Bring your dog if you like, but leave Fido tied up outside.
Brewery
Annual output
System
Seats*
Taps: own/guest
Menu
Best-selling beer
Hours
Notes
Big Horse
Hood River
250 BBL
4 BBL
100
8/1
Full menu - family
IPA
Su-Th 11:30-10
FS 11:30-11
Great view of the Gorge
Double Mountain
Hood River
Not yet open
20 BBL
35
TBD
Healthy, light, fresh
TBD
TBD
Big, unusual beers, live music
Elliott Glacier
Parkdale
120 BBL
7 BBL
80
7 / 0
Home-made pub grub. Spaghetti, Taco nights.
IPA
Su 11:30-8
MT 5-9
W,Th 11:30-8
F,S 11:30-9
Awesome corn bread and a great view of Mt Hood
Full Sail
Hood River
85,000 BBL
200 BBL
75
11 / 1
Healthy pub, free-range beef
Amber
Daily 12-9
Beer garden, view of the Gorge
Walking Man
1400 BBL
27 BBL
10 / 0
Pizza, snacks
IPA
W-F 4-9
Sa 3-9
Su 3-8
Beer Garden
Oregonians love the outdoors, and we are blessed with beaucoup opportunities to enjoy them in beautiful surroundings. Among our amazing natural gifts and just about an hour from downtown, the Columbia Gorge offers sporting opportunities for wind, water, and land.
These are fun but thirst-building activities. Fortunately for craft beer lovers, the Gorge offers some fine tap rooms in which to taste excellent local brews while admiring the terrific view.
The biggest, the employee-owned Full Sail in Hood River, is also one of Oregon's oldest. Founded in 1987 as "Hood River Brewing," Full Sail is nestled along the Columbia River in an old fruit cannery. Their "healthy pub grub" menu includes organic greens, free-range beef, salmon and even a delicious Tofurky Beerbrat produced right next door.
Nearly 90% of their annual output (85,000 barrels) is now bottled. Even so, on the day I last visited they poured eleven different beers in their Hood River tasting room. The selection included their famous Amber, several pale ales including Rip Curl, and the new Belgian-style Vesuvius (due out in bottles on August 15). On a hot day, try the Session lager, or the refreshing Wit. A range of bigger beers such as a very balanced IPA, the bolder Sunspot Imperial IPA, and the Imperial Porter comprise a meal in themselves.
Big Horse Brewing in downtown Hood River offers a more family-style experience and an equally compelling view. The old-style building overlooks the city, and windsurfers and kites are visible just behind them in the blue waters of the Columbia. Their four-barrel system is 50 times smaller than their cross-town colleagues, but they produce a diverse range of ales; on any given day their eight taps might pour an IPA, scotch ale, stout, smoked beer, and even a Dubbel, plus a range of seasonal beers. Theirs is a full menu which includes Tex-Mex, ribs, burgers, and pasta.Just around the corner from Full Sail, Double Mountain Brewing has broken ground on their 20-barrel brew system. Former Full Sail brewers Matt Swihart and Charlie Devereaux hope to open their doors by Thanksgiving with a tap room, a simple but healthy menu, live music and in-house crafted beers and ciders from apples grown in their own orchard. In addition to the standard crowd-pleasers, Double Mountain hopes to follow in the footsteps of Hair of the Dog and Dogfish with unique, bigger-than-life beers and unusual styles. Look for their beers to land in boutique beer shops in champagne bottles late this year.
If skiing's more your bag, head inland to Parkdale's Elliott Glacier Brewpub for some great
brews, good comfort food, and a terrific view of Mt. Hood from the back window and beer garden. Their Pale Ale and Scottish Ale are top sellers, and the dry-hopped IPA is quite tasty. But I'd go there for the moist, buttery homemade corn bread alone. Monday and Tuesday are Taco nights; Friday the locals gather for all-you-can-eat spaghetti.A great stop on your way out to the Gorge is Walking Man in Stevenson, WA. This 17-barrel brewery produces some "in-your-face beers," says owner and brewer Bob Craig, such as the Sasquatch, Homo Erectus and Knuckledragger. Walking Man pours ten taps of their own ales, plus their own root beer, cream soda, and ginger ale that "outsell Pepsi products ten to one." The menu features primarily pizza and snacks that you can munch in their comfy beer garden. Bring your dog if you like, but leave Fido tied up outside.
Brewery
Annual output
System
Seats*
Taps: own/guest
Menu
Best-selling beer
Hours
Notes
Big Horse
Hood River
250 BBL
4 BBL
100
8/1
Full menu - family
IPA
Su-Th 11:30-10
FS 11:30-11
Great view of the Gorge
Double Mountain
Hood River
Not yet open
20 BBL
35
TBD
Healthy, light, fresh
TBD
TBD
Big, unusual beers, live music
Elliott Glacier
Parkdale
120 BBL
7 BBL
80
7 / 0
Home-made pub grub. Spaghetti, Taco nights.
IPA
Su 11:30-8
MT 5-9
W,Th 11:30-8
F,S 11:30-9
Awesome corn bread and a great view of Mt Hood
Full Sail
Hood River
85,000 BBL
200 BBL
75
11 / 1
Healthy pub, free-range beef
Amber
Daily 12-9
Beer garden, view of the Gorge
Walking Man
1400 BBL
27 BBL
10 / 0
Pizza, snacks
IPA
W-F 4-9
Sa 3-9
Su 3-8
Beer Garden
posted by PDXBeer at 5:32 AM
2 Comments:
I always loved stopping at Hood River Brewing on my drive between Spokane and Portland, when I lived up there.
We only get their "middle of the road products" here, but I got to sample some of their edgier beers last month on my trip up there.
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