BEERS MADE BY WALKING TAPS 8 BEERS INSPIRED BY
THE SOUTHERN WILLAMETTE VALLEY IN EUGENE ON NOVEMBER 5
EUGENE, OR - Beers Made By Walking (BMBW) invites brewers to create place-based beers inspired by plants found on nature walks. Today, BMBW announces the first ever Eugene-focused BMBW beer tapping event featuring 8 beers/ciders that were inspired by natural areas in the Eugene/Springfield area. The event takes place on November 5, beginning at 6pm, at the Bier Stein in Eugene.
The hike-inspired beers and cider come directly from a collaboration with the McKenzie River Trust, which sent experts to lead public, summer hikes with brewers on three conservation areas in the southern Willamette Valley. Brewers learned about private land conservation and water resources in the area, in addition to native and invasive plants. The brewers have been challenged to create a beer or cider that represents the trails they walked.
The beers for the November 5 tapping will be revealed as the date gets closer. A number of the brewers have created beer for BMBW in year’s past and have chosen to use ingredients including rose hips, juniper, yarrow, lemon balm, chamomile, oxalis, spruce tips, porcini mushrooms (!!!), and many other wild ingredients. For Nov. 5, visitors can expect similarly experimental beers, brewed exclusively for the event at the Bier Stein.
Each brewery is donating their unique beer and cider for this event. The proceeds will support the McKenzie River Trust’s work to help people protect and care for the lands and rivers they cherish in western Oregon.
Beers Made By Walking - Eugene
November 5 • 5-8pm
The Bier Stein • 1591 Willamette St, Eugene, OR 97401
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November 5 • 5-8pm
The Bier Stein • 1591 Willamette St, Eugene, OR 97401
Join/Share the Facebook event page
The Beer List:
Yarrow centric with several other herbs that call the Willamette River floodplain home. Yarrow in the kettle, in the fermenter to inoculate culture, and in the keg. 8 IBU, 5% ABV
Claim 52 Brewing - Conservation Sour
Inspired by a walk through the Berggren Watershed Conservation Area. While enamored with all the property had to give we drew particular interest in the fresh scent of lemon balm, the taste and flavor of mustard seed to the natural habits plethora of pollinating plants. Which in the end drew us to concoct Conservation Sour incorporating lemon balm, mustard seed, honey, and hops. 5 IBU, 5.3% ABV
Elk Horn Brewery - Twisted Wood Belgian Saison
Orange colored Belgian Saison brewed with invasive fennel. 35 IBU, 7% ABV
Falling Sky Brewing
Official Melissa Lemon Balm Pale Ale. 40 IBU, 6.1% ABV
Oakshire Brewing - Down by The River
Brett fermented farmhouse ale with Chamomile and Lemon Balm. 29 IBU, 5% ABV
Plank Town Brewing - Foggy Scotsman Porter with Chocolate & Rosemary
Scottish-style porter with complex malty aromas of dark chocolate, honey, ripe figs, coffee and a hint of smokiness, with an extra chocolate backbone that dances lovely with rosemary. 25 IBU, 5.2%
Viking Braggot Co. - Panacea
Belgian Dubbel style braggot made with additions of elderberry, elder flower, blackberry honey and bee pollen. 25 IBU, 7.5% ABV
Wildcraft Cider Works - Confluence Stingo
A collaborative project with the Hagen family of Confluence Farms. Every ingredient used in its making was harvested from the property, by the family. Whole fermented Blueberries pressed and blended with a knapweed and pennyroyal wine added to a neutral oak barrel for a secondary fermentation with a juice pressed of Gravenstein and Macintosh apples. 6.7% ABV
