Sometimes people forget that we’ve got two breweries, the production facility at 51st and Sandy and the original brewhouse at Pizza Co.  Though much of the beer line up is the same between all of our locations, Pizza Co has a few unique styles of their own like 40th Ave Amber and Wry Pale Ale. Brewer Paul Bergeman leads the effort to bring some very cool new beers to the Portland brewing scene. Last week Paul and fellow brewer Hans Gauger spent the day brewing Altenburg smoked lager. The two were also bottling a Framboise that has been fermenting in oak barrels for the last two years. Chad and Paul filled those same oak barrels with a new beer  which will be ready sometime in early 2012. On top of all that Paul has just released Organic Deranger Imperial Red, with Himmelbrau Helles coming out this Wednesday. Sounds good to me.

Micah Bell

Zwickelmania is this Saturday! That’s free samples, snacks and good times at over 40 breweries around the state. Free shuttles in Portland, Bend and Eugene.

Laurelwood’s brewery at 51st and Sandy will be open from 11 to 4 PM on Saturday Feb, 13th. We’ll have some special beers and chocolates. We hope you’ll join us for this fun event.

Here’s a map and shuttle schedule for Portland.

Those of you that have visited our new restaurant in Battle Ground have probably noticed the empty space in the corner. That’s the future home of our “pilot brewery”- a custom built 2 barrel (4 keg) brewhouse. We hope to have this installed in the next couple of weeks. Thought you might like a sneak peak though.- Chad