#table beer

Field Bier

I’ve always been intrigued by Agrarian Ales. The brewery is located on a working hop farm in the Willamette Valley. I’ve never visited the tasting room, but it looks cozy. And the concept of farm to bottle beer is everything I’ve ever wanted. 

They’ve recently started self-distributing in Portland, so I picked up a bottle of their Field Bier. It’s a simple, tasty saison made with only Belgian pilsner malt, nugget hops grown on the farm, and classic French farmhouse yeast. It’s a balanced, gulpable beer. It reminds me of a certain brew I made a month back, but of course cleaner and properly carbonated.

The One for One Rule

I have a simple rule when it comes to buying beer: I can spend up to one dollar per ounce. That means: $12 for a single twelve ounce bottle and $24 for a 750 milliliter wine bottle. Of course, I’ll adjust that calculus when I really want something. Fifteen bucks for a single Cherry Adam? Yeah, okay. I’ll hide it in the back of the cart.

So how did I end up with not one but two bottles from Ale Apothecary each with a pricetag of $35.50? Answer: I didn’t pay for them. My birthday is on December Twenty-first. (Yes, it was hard growing up with a birthday so close to Christmas.) My beautiful wife Sarah went out and bought me two bottles from the Ale Apothecary because she knows I wouldn’t buy them myself. She’s a great gift giver.

The Beer Formerly Known as La Tache – another trademark dispute victim – is the Ale Apothecary’s seven percent alcohol “table sour.” If you’re looking for a puckering experience, this is the beer for you. La Tache is very similar to Sahalie in it’s creation – malted wheat, malted barley, Cascade hops – but it takes a detour to sour town. 

Table Beer | Away Days/nebuleus

There’s just something about table beers. Well, good table beers. While not the sexiest or most boundary pushing beer on the list, the table beer gets the job done. As I said on our Just Tables show, I typically drink water (or something not beer) rather than the beer in front of me with food. I recently visited Triptych with some food I picked up at Freddy’s before I arrived. I grabbed two…

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“Who-ever makes a poor beer is transferred to the dung hill.” — City of Danzig edict, 11th Century

Sierra Nevada's Beer Camp collaboration series is back and we're taking on the Sweet Sunny South Southern Table Beer.

In education we find out exactly what a table beer is.

More info on the beer and the brewery can be found here.

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