Alesong is releasing five new barrel-aged blends on November 4th just in time for the holidays and seasonal fireside indulgences. This release features two rich and chocolatey stouts, a massively decadent brown ale, the return of Touch of Brett and perhaps our best wine/beer hybrid to date. 

We’re proud to announce that Alesong was awarded a bronze medal at the 2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition. This year marks the seventh year in a row Alesong has received a medal at GABF, coinciding with each year we have released beer since our establishment in 2015. The seven year medal streak is the 5th longest active streak in the country. Alesong was one of only thirteen Oregon breweries to take home an award during this year’s ceremony.

For the month of September, we’re partnering with FOOD for Lane County, to whom we’ll donate 25% of proceeds from all sales of Gose Añejo toward supporting their organization as part of our monthly Engage with Alesong program.

We’re so excited to once again be participating in Firestone Walker’s multi-brewery collaboration Terroir Project, where each brewery makes a wine/beer hybrid beginning with the same base wort and co-ferments it with grapes grown within 100 miles of their brewery, using only the microflora naturally occurring on the grapes’ skin. We might win for the closest-proximity collaboration, as we used estate-grown, whole cluster Pinot Gris grapes from our neighbors at King Estate. We foot-stomped them in our cellar and fermented on the skins to yield an orange wine-inspired beer with an austere fruit profile and awesome peachy hue from the russet-colored grapes.

Say hello to our hoppiest beer yet: Silver Lining! This juicy farmhouse ale is a very Alesong take on the PNW’s favorite beer style and an evolution of what we’ve made with our previous oak-aged farmhouse ales. We took barrels of 18-month-old, brett-fermented saison from the cellar and blended them with younger, foeder-matured beer that was brewed with copious amounts of El Dorado hop extract. The final blend was then liberally dry-hopped and bursts with juicy, tropical flavors and aromas that meld perfectly with the complex yeast profile of the more mature beer. As Jerry would say, every Silver Lining’s got a Touch of Brett!

After taking the 2020 season off from harvesting wine grapes due to wildfires, we’re elated to have been able to make our next rendition of Raindrops on Roses with 2021 biodynamically-grown Pinot Noir grapes from our neighbors at King Estate. We decided to ferment this beautiful beer entirely on the skins for this go around, aging it briefly in stainless steel before letting it rest in French Oak puncheons we picked up last summer from our friends at Durant Vineyards. What we present to you today is a stunningly pink, rosé-inspired farmhouse ale with a medium tannin structure and wonderful jammy flavors and aromas.

Made in collaboration with the Hult Center for the Performing Arts to celebrate their 40th Anniversary, Showstopper lives up to its name! This newest Alesong imperial stout was formed to honor their vision of creating shared experiences that transform, engage, and unite. Showstopper is a rich and bold imperial stout that was barrel aged not once, but twice, to incorporate robust barrel characteristics from Elijah Craig bourbon and local Oregon distiller, Westward Whiskey. We gave the beer an encore on vanilla beans, and just like the upcoming 40th season at the Hult Center, this beer is stacked. It incorporates smooth notes of chocolate, caramel, and dark roasted malts.

For the month of July, our Engage with Alesong partner is Cascades Raptor Center! This month’s beer is Pacific Bliss, with 25% of sales from the entire month donated to their organization.

For the month of June, our Engage with Alesong partner is McKenzie River Trust! This month’s beer is Gose Añejo, with 25% of sales from the entire month donated to their organization.