On Saturday, September twenty fourth, Eugene’s Alesong Brewing and Mixing will likely be internet hosting an unique record of breweries and winemakers from everywhere in the United States at its countryside brewery (80848 Territorial Hwy) for an intimate competition celebrating beer, wine, and terroir. The fest will likely be headlined by the discharge of beers made as a part of Firestone Walker’s multi-brewery collaboration Terroir Undertaking, wherein every collaborating brewery makes a beer starting with the identical base wort recipe and co-ferments it with grapes grown inside 100 miles of their brewery, utilizing solely the naturally occurring yeast on the grape skins to drive the fermentation.
Alongside fellow collaborating breweries from the Terroir Undertaking, Alesong has hand-selected brewery and vineyard buddies from across the nation that share a fascination with beer and wine, distinctive fermentations, and harnessing terroir by creating drinks with a particular element of time and place. Every featured brewery will likely be pouring one wine/beer hybrid and one distinctive beer of their selecting, which can absolutely end in a beer record in contrast to something earlier than seen at an Oregon beer competition. Past beer, the occasion will characteristic a handful of wineries, cooks, musicians, and artists for what’s certain to be a surprising afternoon within the Willamette Valley.
Alesong co-founder and manufacturing supervisor, Brian Coombs gushes with pleasure as he describes the competition. “I’ve personally at all times been fascinated by wine and co-ferments, and we’ve after all performed greater than a bit experimentation with wine beers right here at Alesong! We’re honored to be the primary hosts outdoors of Firestone Walker because the Terroir Undertaking turns into a roving occasion with a brand new host every year and couldn’t be extra excited to showcase Oregon wine nation alongside this who’s who of breweries pushing the bounds with these beers.”
The Terroir Competition will happen on the afternoon of September twenty fourth at Alesong’s Countryside Brewery. Tickets will likely be restricted and go on sale at 10am on July twentieth on Alesong’s web site.
ABOUT ALESONG BREWING AND BLENDING
Alesong Brewing and Mixing is a small artisan brewery based mostly within the coronary heart of Southern Willamette Valley wine nation with a second tasting room in downtown Eugene. The all-barrel-aged brewery crafts distinctive and small-batch beers, brewing each wild and non-wild kinds that span the flavour spectrum. As soon as the beer in barrels has matured, the group samples and selects every barrel individually to mix. Paying homage to old-world Lambic blenders and artisan winemakers, Alesong believes that the ultimate, balanced mix of a barrel-aged beer is way more complicated and satisfying than the sum of its components or every particular person barrel by itself. For extra data, go to alesongbrewing.com.
ABOUT FIRESTONE WALKER’S TERROIR PROJECT
Conceived in its collaborative type starting in 2017, the Terroir Undertaking was began by Firestone Walker as a multi-brewery collaboration devoted to blurring the genres of beer and wine to discover how ‘terroir’—or sense of place—drives what we style. Every collaborating brewery is invited to provide its personal distinct beer-wine hybrid, however with just a few binding stipulations: all of them have to make use of the identical grain invoice; the identical methodology of dealing with the grapes (when potential); and the identical co-fermented proportion of wort (51%) and wine grapes (49%) fermented with wild flora. All grapes have to be grown inside 100 miles of every brewery.
For Extra Data:
https://www.alesongbrewing.com/terroir-festival
