Little Beast Brewing to Release Merit Badge S’mores Imperial Stout

From Little Beast:

The beer represents the first in the brewery’s Maker Series, a food-based
collaboration series that highlights integrity in process and ingredients

Portland, OR — Little Beast Brewing announced today the upcoming release of Merit Badge S’mores
Imperial Stout, the first beer in the brewery’s Maker Series. In Oregon, the beer is available beginning
Saturday, October 26 at 12:00pm exclusively at the Little Beast Brewing Beer Garden in SE Portland. In
Seattle, Merit Badge will be served for on-site consumption at both Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery
restaurants during a November 1 beer release, and sold to-go exclusively at both Chuck’s Hop Shop
locations.

A full-bodied and luscious confection ale, Merit Badge is 11% ABV and is brewed with whole ingredients
including 1.5 pounds of Meridian Cacao Co.’s Tanzanian cacao nibs per barrel, graham flour, cinnamon,
vanilla, and organic dry-burned caramel syrup from Hot Cakes in Seattle for an extra layer of complexity.
The malt bill includes Briess cherrywood smoked malt and German beechwood smoked malt for extra
campfire flavor.

Merit Badge represents the first beer in Little Beast’s new food-based Maker Series, which aims to
highlight, through quarterly collaborations, the exquisite craftsmanship of specialty food artisans. The first
in the series is a collaboration with Hot Cakes, a Seattle dessert restaurant founded by confection maker
Autumn Martin, and is directly inspired by the organic s’mores molten hot cake served at Hot Cakes.
“Before starting Little Beast my career and passion was in specialty food. I worked directly with food
artisans that inspired me with their integrity of process and ingredients,” said Little Beast co-founder
Brenda Crow. “Autumn is one of those artisans, and she is one of the most creative people I know. She
was a chocolatier, she runs a plant-based ice cream shop called Frankie & Jo's, and she opened up Hot
Cakes, which serves extraordinary desserts, packaged confections, and other sweet things. When we
dreamed up the Maker Series, Autumn’s Hot Cakes was always going to be our first collaboration.”

Beer release information
Portland, OR – On October 26 at 12:00pm Little Beast will release Merit Badge to the public at their year-
round beer garden in SE Portland. The brewery produced only a couple kegs and 75 cases of the beer,
fourteen of which will be sent to Seattle. 4-packs cost $22 and are limited to six 4-packs per customer.
During the beer release, Little Beast will also serve Hot Cakes S’mores molten chocolate cake until sold
out. The dessert is made with smoked chocolate, marshmallow, and graham crumble. Alongside Merit

Badge, Little Beast will release the 2018 vintage of Radical Forces, a 10.7% adventuresome beer with
loads of 2018 whole cluster Pinot Noir grapes from Echo Hill Vineyard in North Plains, Oregon.
Seattle, WA – On Friday November 1, Little Beast will release Merit Badge for on-site drinking at both Hot
Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery locations in Seattle. Both restaurants will receive two cases and will
serve a specialty dessert to pair with the decadent S’mores beer. Little Beast co-founders, Brenda Crow
and Charles Porter, will be at the Capitol Hill location to say hi to sweet-toothed fans beginning at 4:00pm.
In Washington, to-go 4-packs of Merit Badge are available exclusively at Chuck’s Hop Shop beginning
November 1. Both Chuck’s Hop Shop locations will receive five cases of the beer.

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About Little Beast:
Founded by partners in life and work, Charles Porter and Brenda Crow, Little Beast is a family brewery
with a passion for making great beer and sharing it with others. We craft wild, wood-aged, and blended
beer naturally with diverse cultures, including Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, and wild
flora. By harnessing the little beasts that ferment our beer, we capture their untamed beauty and produce
farmhouse beers that are diverse in flavor and rare in character.

About Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery:
Founded in 2008 by Autumn Martin, Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery is two dessert restaurants in
Seattle, WA, and a line of organic retail desserts sold nationwide. Rooted in the PNW, we inspire and
nurture our community by creating beautiful, organic desserts. We are dedicated to our employees and
partnerships, and advocate for the preservation of wild and farm lands.