Latest Brewer’s Reserve Releases Showcases Double Mountain’s Sour Program

From Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River, Oregon:

The Brewer’s Reserve Sour Program isn’t just a side project at Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery, it’s a passion. Small, intentional, and built on patience, these beers ferment slowly, age even slower (years on end), and offer something wild, expressive, and distinctly of place.


 Each year, Double Mountain crafts a small number of Belgian-Style Sour Ales using fruit (cherries & peaches) sourced exclusively from the Hood River Valley, with wild cultures and Brettanomyces that are as local as the fruit they thrive on. These beers are aged on the fruit until the brewers deem they are ready, which often takes 9 to 16 months of careful, quiet cellaring. After this process, some of the beers are bottled and kegged as Krieks, while the rest of the beer is transferred into oak barrels and aged even further to become Cuvées, which takes another year or two. The result is something rare, expressive, elegant…and worth the wait.


This year, Double Mountain is thrilled to release two extraordinary Brewer’s Reserve Sour Ales: 2024 Devil’s Kriek Belgian Style Sour Ale with Cherries and 2019 Tahoma Cuvée Belgian Style Sour Ale with Cherries Aged in Oak Barrels. While these beers may appear briefly on draft at the taprooms, they are primarily available in 375mL bottles and are ready for your cellar, your table, or your next celebration!


And when working with Brettanomyces, that care also includes a whole lot of cleaning. “We practically take the brewery apart and scrub it down,” says Head Brewer Greg Balch. “It’s exhausting and it takes days, but it is so worth it.” Although lovely, Brett. Claussenii (or any wild yeast or fungi for that matter), is not welcome in any of Double Mountain’s other beers.


Half of the 2024 Devil’s Kriek has already gone into oak barrels for a future Cuvée. While you wait, Double Mountain invites you to enjoy these limited, lovingly-made new sour releases, and encourages to check out their other Brewer Reserve Beers, available only while the bottles last!

2024 Devil’s Kriek
Belgian Style Sour Ale with Cherries
9.5% ABV | 11 BU


Sitting on a mountain of locally grown cherries, this sour ale rests for more than a year on the fruit. Our house yeasts and Brett. Claussenii provides complexity and depth to this ruby beauty, pushing aromas of bright cherry. 

2019 Tahoma Cuvée
Belgian Style Sour Ale with Cherries Aged In Oak Barrels
9% ABV | 11 BU


This brewer’s blend is a confluence of our favorite barrels of the ‘19 vintage of Tahoma. Racked off the Hood River Valley Rainier cherries and rested in barrels in our cellars, this sour ale is ripe with bright peach, smooth oak, and a tart finish
Both Devil’s Kriek and Tahoma Cuvée are available in 375mL bottles at all Double Mountain locations. Draft appearances are possible, but limited.

 

ABOUT DOUBLE MOUNTAIN BREWERY & CIDERY:

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Double Mountain is a Brewery & Cidery based in Hood River, Oregon that extends a warm welcome to all. Our brewery in Hood River boasts our original taproom where you can experience the heart of our craft. We have two additional taprooms in Portland, located in the Woodstock and Overlook neighborhoods, and a kitchen at the Aladdin theater, open during showtimes.  We strive to create a living room atmosphere, where we spin vinyl, offer weekly free live music, and host trivia nights. Our food philosophy revolves around sharing moments with friends. We offer various New Haven-style pizzas, sandwiches, salads, and an array of other dishes that proudly steer clear of the fryer.We take pride in our hop-forward beers, crisp unsweetened dry-ciders, and house-made n/a root beer and ginger ale. We hope you’ll stop by and share a pint with us!


Double Mountain may be found on tap and in refillable bottles throughout the Pacific Northwest.


Learn more at www.doublemountainbrewery.com