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BEER, WINE & MORE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2021 • THE BULLETIN GO! MAGAZINE • PAGE 11 drink directory enandbrewery.com • Crux Fermentation Project: 50 SW Division St., Bend; 541-385-3333 or cruxfermentation.com • Deschutes Brewery and Public House: 1044 NW Bond St., Bend; 541-382-9242 or deschutes- brewery.com • Deschutes Brewery and Taproom: 901 SW Simpson Ave., Bend; 541-385-8606 or deschutes- brewery.com • GoodLife Brewing Company: 70 SW Century Drive, Bend; 541-728-0749 or goodlifebrewing. com • Kobold Brewing: 245 SW Sixth St., Redmond; 541-504-9373 or koboldbrewing.com • Immersion Brewing: 550 SW Industrial Way, Suite 185, Bend; 541-633-7821 or imbrewing.com • Initiative Brewing: 424 NW Fifth St., Redmond; initiativebrew.com • Madras Brewing: 212 SW Fourth St., Suite 104, Madras; 541-475-4546 or madrasbrewing.com • McMenamins Old St. Francis School: 700 NW Bond St., Bend; 541-382-5174 or mcmenamins. com • Monkless Belgian Ales: 803 SW Industrial Way, Bend; 541-797-6760 or monkless.com • Oblivion Brewing Company: 63027 Plateau Drive, Suite 4, Bend; 541-241-2733 or oblivion- brewingco.com BREWERIES • 10 Barrel Brewing Company — Eastside: 62950 NE 18th St., Bend; 541-241-7733 or 10bar- rel.com • 10 Barrel Brewing Company — Westside: 1135 NW Galveston Ave., Bend; 541-678-5228 or 10barrel.com • The Ale Apothecary Tasting Room: 30 SW Century Drive, Suite 140, Bend; 541-797-6265 or thealeapothecary.com • Bend Brewing Company: 1019 NW Brooks St., Bend; 541-383-1599 or bendbrewingco.com • Bevel Craft Brewing: 911 SE Armour Road, Suite B, Bend; 541-972-3835 or bevelbeer.com • Boneyard Beer Company: 1955 NE Division St., Bend; 541-241-7184 or boneyardbeer.com • Boss Rambler Beer Club: 1009 NW Galveston Ave., Bend; bossrambler.com • Bridge 99 Brewery: 63063 Layton Ave., Bend; 541-280-1690 or bridge99brewery.com • Cascade Lakes Brewing Company: 1441 SW Chandler Ave., Bend; 541-388-4998 or cascad- elakes.com • Cascade Lakes Brewing Company — 7th Street Brew House: 855 SW Seventh St., Red- mond; 541-923-1795 or cascadelakes.com • Craft Kitchen and Brewery: 62988 Layton Ave.,Suite 103, Bend; 541-668-1766 or craftkitch- Continued from previous page 10%. Naturally, more hops are needed to balance the higher strength and malt body. Stylistically, there isn’t much to distinguish triple IPA from barleywine. Both feature large amounts of malt, hops and alcohol. Barleywine focuses on rich malt character and full body with an emphasis on hop bal- ance. Triple IPA aims for full hop saturation to extreme levels; the malt body is lighter and drier, serving to support the hops. GoodLife Brewing Company recently released its own take on the style, Lava Cave Triple IPA. A behemoth of a beer at 11% ABV and 100 IBUs, Lava Cave is available on draft and in cans for a limited time. I picked some up recently to try it and reached out to head brewer Tyler West about his approach to and the challenges of brewing such a beer. “I do like to utilize the framework of a bar- leywine, like yeast pitch rates, oxygen added for aerobic fermentation and overall longer fermentation times,” he said via email. The addition of simple sugars boosts alcohol pro- duction and helps give the beer a lighter fin- ish. “There are practices we use for all high gravity brewing, but the Triple IPA gets three dry hops, shortly after fermentation.” According to West, they used roughly five pounds of hops per barrel of finished beer. He noted also the challenge of achiev- ing higher alcohol while still maintaining a great flavor profile. “When we get up past 9% alcohol by volume, we are stressing our yeast, producing different alcohol flavors, and other by-products which can muddle the flavors.” I found Lava Cave to be fully saturated with hop character, from start to finish. The aromatics are full of earthy, fruity, intense notes that settle into bitter herbal tea with a touch of sweet alcohol. It’s massive in flavor, with all elements amped up in intensity — big malt body that exudes caramel, dark colored stone fruit, burnt honey, followed by a bittering hop load that I find tilts so far into “bitter” that it blends with the alcohol to become al- most cotton candy sweet and fruity. For its strength, it has a restrained touch of heat and avoids being cloyingly sweet. It finishes with more impressions of caramel, apple skin, pine and pine needles and tree bark. I asked if there was any particular inspi- ration behind the beer. “I guess our inspi- ration lies in the challenge,” West said. “We like to make beers that really get you think- ing, and challenge us to rely on our experi- ence of the science behind beer and fermen- tation. Also we just like to have fun with our brewing!” GoodLife rose to the challenge with Lava Cave, and the 16-ounce can is a perfect size (and strength) to share. And if you miss this year’s seasonal release, West tells me it will be brewed again in 2022. Jon Abernathy is a beer writer and blogger and launched The Brew Site (www.thebrewsite.com) in 2004. He can be reached at jon@thebrewsite.com. • Porter Brewing Company: 611 NE Jackpine Court, Suite 2, Redmond; 541-504-7959 or porter- brewingco.com • Silver Moon Brewing: 24 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-388-8331 or silvermoonbrewing.com • Spider City Brewing Tap Room: 1177 SE Ninth St., Bend; spidercitybrewing.com • Spider City Brewing Tasting Room: 55 NW Minnesota Ave., Bend; spidercitybrewing.com • Sunriver Brewing Company: 57100 Beaver Drive, Sunriver; 541-593-3007 or sunriverbrewing. com • Sunriver Brewing Company – Galveston Pub: 1005 NW Galveston Ave., Bend; 541-408- 9377 or sunriverbrewing.com • Three Creeks Brewing: 721 Desperado Court, Sisters; 541-549-1963 or threecreeksbrewing.com • Wild Ride Brewing: 332 SW Fifth St., Redmond; 541-516-8544 or wildridebrew.com • Worthy Brewing: 495 NE Bellevue Drive, Bend; 541-639-4776 or worthybrewing.com CIDERIES • AVID Cider Company: 550 SW Industrial Way, Suite 190, Bend; 541-633-7757 or avidcider.com • Bend Cider Co.: 64649 Wharton Ave., Tumalo; 541-410-0639 or bendcider.com • Legend Cider Company: 52670 U.S. Highway 97, La Pine; 503-893-5853 legendcider.com • Tumalo Cider Company: 64654 Cook Ave., Bend; 541-797-0308 or tumalocider.com DISTILLERIES • BackDrop Distilling: 70 SW Century Drive, Bend; 541-728-0860 or backdropdistilling.com • Badlands Artisan Distillery: 16868 Finley Butte Road, La Pine; badistillery.com. • Bendistillery Inc.(Crater Lake Spirits): 19330 Pinehurst Road, Bend; 541-318-0200 or crater- lakespirits.com • Bendistillery Inc.(Crater Lake Spirits) – Downtown: 1024 NW Bond St., Suite 102, Bend; craterlakespirits.com • Cascade Alchemy Distillery: 20585 Brinson Blvd., No. 5, Bend; 541-647-4363 or cascadeal- chemy.com • Cascade Street Distillery: 261 W. Cascade Ave., Sisters; 541-549-1082 or cascadestreetdistillery. com • Foundry Four Spirits: 129 NW Fourth St., Prineville; foundry-four.com • Gompers Distillery: 611 NE Jackpine Court, Redmond; 541-588-2825 or gompersdistillery.com • New Basin Distilling Company: 2063 NW An- drews Drive, Madras; 541-980-4595 or newbasin. com • Oregon Spirit Distillers: 740 NE First St., Bend; 541-382-0002 or oregonspiritdistillers.com FILSON TIN CLOTH JACKET LES NEWMAN’S QUALITY OUTDOOR WEAR On NE Franklin Avenue across from Les Schwab 541-318-4868
