BEER, WINE & MORE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2021 • THE BULLETIN
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drink directory
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• 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-
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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
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