Get your hands on Hellbent Brewing's Moon Tower Stout, while you wait for one of 3 fresh hopped beers later this month.
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Like so many breweries in the region, Hellbent Brewing Company remains dedicated to beer into your hands, even if that means you have to get it to go. Your options are voluminous, including their DANG! Citra IPA and Big Island Toasted Coconut Stout, the brewery is here to support you.
But every once in a while, the brewers make something special, as a thank you to all.
Brewed as a cup of coffee in a pint glass, and a favorite of the #LakeCityDrinkingTeam, the brewers of Hellbent invite you to stop in for a four-pack of Moon Tower Stout. Sharing their thoughts, this is how they described Moon Tower Stout.
A summer stout, medium bodied and smooth with a mild roasted coffee and toasted caramel notes and a dry finish. A perfect dark beer for a warm summer day.
Available for order online at biermi.com/brewery/hellbent, in person at the Hellbent Brewing Company taproom, or select locations throughout Seattle, get your hands on this 6.4% ABV (alcohol by volume) and 28 IBU (international bittering units) treat.
And the brewery didn’t stop there.
Recognizing that without the farmers and growers of hops, in nearby Yakima and their next-door neighbors in the Willamette Valley, Hellbent Brewing Company is releasing a series of fresh hop beers. Brewed with hops, cut right of the vine, before being preserved, these beers are truly unique. Developing every week, as the resins and character develops, a fresh hop beer is a once a year treat.
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Starting with Fresh Hop Strata, a West Coast IPA, the brewers headed south to Goschie Farms in the Willamette Valley before stopping by the nearby Yakima Valley for hops from Virgil Gamache.
These late-addition hops are used the same day they are picked. Once the beer has nearly fermented, it is then transferred to a “bright” tank where it is dry hopped with fresh Amarillo hops from Virgil Gamache Farms in Washington's Yakima Valley, near Toppenish. The beer itself is a lighter style IPA, brewed with pale two row malt, Dextrin and Vienna malt, plus a small addition of flaked oats. In addition to the dank, tropical citrus and floral hop characteristics, there are grassy, herbaceous notes from the use of the fresh hops. It has 6.5% alcohol by volume.
Available September 14th, at noon, get your hands on Fresh Hop Strata [West Coast] IPA.
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Released soon after Fresh Hop Strata, the brewery heads to Virgil Gamache, once again before heading East along the highway to Carpenter Ranches.
Fresh Hop Amarillo Hazy IPA is brewed with fresh Yakima Valley Amarillo from Virgil Gamache Farms in Toppenish, WA added late in the brewing process. This beer is later dry-hopped with pelletized Simcoe, Cryo-Citra and fresh Citra hops from Carpenter Ranches, also in the Yakima Valley. This IPA is brewed with Pale Malt, Carapils, malted white wheat, flaked oats and corn and fermented with Imperial Yeast’s Juice Yeast strain (A38).
With a targeted release of September 21st, at noon, look for Fresh Hop Amarillo Hazy IPA at the brewery.
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Finally, the brewery releases a West Coast style, fresh hop, India Pale Ale, brewed with Citra hops. Brewed with hops from Carpenter Ranches and B.T. Loftus Ranches, this beer is another one-off that’s not to be missed.
Fresh Hop Citra IPA is a West Coast -style IPA brewed with Pale Malt and a small amount of Cara 20 malt. It is late-hopped with fresh Citra hops from Yakima’s Carpenter Ranches and then dry-hopped with fresh Mosaic hops from B.T. Loftus Ranches in the Yakima Valley.
Look for Fresh Hop Citra IPA to appear first at Hellbent Brewing Company, this September 28th.
For more information on these and other beers from Hellbent Brewing Company, visit http://hellbentbrewingcompany.com
About Hellbent Brewing Company
Hellbent started with three of us – Jack Guinn, Chris Giles and Randy Embernate – longtime friends and restaurant industry veterans. For us, starting Hellbent was the natural (and the coolest) thing to do, growing directly out of our experience and our love of beer. For years we home-brewed and toiled over our business plan. Then, we met Brian Young – award winning brewer, co-owner and fast friend – who turned out to be the missing link. Within a couple months, we were on the hunt for the perfect location.
We wanted our brewery in Lake City, where Chris and Jack already called home, to contribute to the growing beer scene here. When we stepped into the old CM Hopkins building for the first time, we knew we had found our venue. Starting right away, we gutted it and began the transformation, building with reclaimed wood, steel, good humor, and a fair amount of muscle
Finally, after years of fierce determination and hard work (including seven months of construction), we opened our doors in the thick of microbrew country. We didn’t do this alone. We are humbled by the support and kindness of our friends and family that helped us along the way. So, to our beer-loving brothers and sisters of the Pacific Northwest, cheers and welcome to Hellbent!
