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Full Sail Brewing Releases New Brewer’s Share Experimental Beer, Bello-Torres y Amigos Lager for American Craft Beer Week
To celebrate American Craft Beer Week (May 13-19th), Full Sail Brewing will release a new beer in their Brewer’s Share Experimental line up: “Bello-Torres y Amigos Lager” crafted by Maintenance Supervisor Eduardo Bello and Bottling Technician Leo Torres.
Sustainable Beer, Full Sail Brewing
To celebrate Earth Day KATU featured local Companies that are going above and beyond. Executive Brewmaster Jamie Emmerson how Full Sail manages to make great tasting beer while having one of the lowest water usage ratios in the industry.
Full Sail Brewing Co. Expanding Taste
A great sample of a brewery that has been built from a labour of love. These beers have been brewed with taste, quality and importantly fun in mind.
Full Sail Brewing Releases ESB for Spring in their New Rotating Pub Ales Series
Full Sail Brewing has just announced the release of the next beer in their new rotating line of classic ales called the Pub Series. The second beer in the series, Extra Special Bitter (ESB) is a medium-bodied ale with caramel complexity and a crisp hoppy finish. This new series features ales that had only previously been available at Full Sail’s Tasting Room & Pub.
Cheers to the Class of 88... and before
“On September 27, 1987 we opened our doors to living the dream,” says Full Sail founder and CEO Irene Firmat. “A dream to open a small brewery that focused on quality, creativity, and authenticity; a brewery that we would run with respect for our employees, the environment, and our community.”
Full Sail Brewing Earns Gold Level Recognition for Sustainability from Travel Oregon
Full Sail Brewing is among a select group to achieve Gold level recognition in Travel Oregon’s Sustainable Business Challenge! Through Travel Oregon’s Sustainable Business Challenge Full Sail Brewing has once again been recognized for their commitment to the environment.
Click here for more on our sustainable practices Click here to view the video Full Sail Brewing: Beer, Water & ResponsibilityHood River puts Portland to shame in number of breweries per capita
Could it be that little ol’ Hood River has a greater concentration of breweries for its population than any city in the world? That’s based on the presence of Full Sail, Double Mountain, Big Horse and Pfriem.
Full Sail Brewing Releases New Brewer’s Share Experimental Beer, Mathias’s Main Ingredient Oatmeal Stout
Full Sail will release a new beer in their Brewer’s Share Experimental lineup, "Mathias’s Main Ingredient Oatmeal Stout.” The beer was brewed by Chef Mathias Engblom to celebrate the brewing and culinary arts, and it just so happens that February is Stout Month.
For Northwest Brewer's, It's (Still) About the Water
So, with all the ingredients that go into beer — the hops, the grain, the yeast- does the water really matter?
“It definitely matters, what water you use. Water is 90-95 percent of the beer for most all beer, with the other percentage being alcohol."
Jon Hamm Stocks Up On Brewskis! Fill In The Blank!
Even though the Super Bowl parties are long over, that isn’t stopping foxy Jon Hamm from grabbing all the Session beer he can manage.
Zwickelmania! Local Craft Brewery Open House
Four local breweries, Full Sail Brewing, Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom, Pfriem Family Brewers and Logdsdon Farmhouse Ales will be opening their brewhouse doors for the event.
Lights go out, but Ravens power on, in thrilling Super Bowl XLVII
In the section "Ten Things I Think I Think" our Amber gets a shout out. "Beernerdness: ... the best beer I had here -- though it's not from here -- was the Full Sail Amber, from Hood River, Ore. Dark brown and flavorful, and lighter than it looks. Just a terrific taste."...
Hood River's Craft Beer Boom
In the 25 years since Full Sail Brewing Company crafted its first beers, the quaint mountain town of Hood River has amassed an impressive array of high-quality breweries and brewpubs. Full Sail’s success laid the groundwork for a large piece of Hood River’s future as a craft-beer-producing mecca.
Full Sail Brewing Releases Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
After over a year of aging deep in the cellar of their brewhouse, Full Sail Brewing will release their 2013 vintage Bourbon Barrel Aged offering, Full Sail Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout. This highly anticipated release from the Brewery’s vintage barrel series has been a Full Sail brewing tradition since 1998. Every year since, the Full Sail crew brews an imperial style dark ale and fills roughly sixty oak bourbon barrel casks, then waits patiently for a year.
Brewery Announces a New Video, Full Sail Brewing: Beer, Water & Responsibility
Full Sail Brewing has just announced the release of their latest video “Full Sail Brewing: Beer, Water & Responsibility. The video was filmed locally by Larvick Media features scenic footage of the Columbia River Gorge and the Hood River Valley. It is narrated by Full Sail Brewing’s Executive Brewmaster, Jamie Emmerson and shows the steps the Brewery takes to conserve this precious resource achieving one of the lowest water uses to beer ratios in the industry.
Full Sail Brewing Company Celebrates its Employee Owners with a New Brewer’s Share Beer Introducing Vendell Veizen Weizen Bock
Full Sail Brewing is proud to announce the release of a new beer in their Brewer’s Share Series – Vendell Veizen Weizen Bock, developed by Assistant Packaging Supervisor Wendell Bryant.
2012 The Year in Beer - Full Sail Turns 25
Their 25th anniversary beer --- 25 --- was a typically bold Full Sail beer, a “pale doppelbock” that shows off the brewery's growing rep as Oregon's best lager house. As they describe it, 25 is a complex, luxurious beer brewed with Vienna Malt and Saaz hops and extended lagering produces full bodied flavors of caramel and honey with a hoppy backbone of white pepper and lemon spice. As their anniversary present to us, 25 is available through 2013...
Czech Lagers in Hood River
Czech lagers produced in Oregon? Surprise! We've been brewing them for a while. Beervana's Jeff Alworth goes into detail about Czech styles with Executive Brewmaster Jamie Emmerson. Na zdraví!
Full Sail Brewing Announces a New Rotating Pub Ales Series
Full Sail Brewing has just announced the release of a new rotating line of classic ales called the Pub Series featuring classic ales previously enjoyed only by guests at the brewery
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