Brewer's Blog
Our head brewer, Jonathan Reeves, imparts his knowledge on the world. Check here for insight into our brewing process, thoughts, and results.
Our head brewer, Jonathan Reeves, imparts his knowledge on the world. Check here for insight into our brewing process, thoughts, and results.
Beer and Rockets

The national Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) came to my hometown, Washington, D.C.!
We cleaned the brewery until it was spotless and welcomed visitors from all over the world. We completed our week's production work quickly ...
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Tartan Ale
We have just released our Spring seasonal, Tartan Ale, essentially an 80 Shilling Scottish ale. Scottish ales are a distinct style that come out of culture that has been celebrated for remaining fiercely insular from its English neighbors ...
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TWO!
We are happy to be celebrating our second anniversary. Year two was better than year one, and we are looking forward to our third year in business. Over the past 12 months, we've experienced a lot of growth ...
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Port City's Monumental India Pale Ale won a Great American Beer Festival Bronze Medal in October, 2012 in the English IPA category. We are beyond thrilled to have won a national medal at such a prestigious event!
This got ...
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We’ve been in business for a year now and we feel pretty blessed. No, it wasn’t perfect and certainly didn’t always go as planned. We only had one fire. In fact, almost everything broke at least once ...
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Tidings is our first bottled seasonal so this is pretty exciting for me. From this point on we will bottle four seasonals a year.I wanted to make sure this was a good batch for sure but I wanted it ...
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In my first blog post I will discuss hops, starting with my early experience drinking and brewing hoppy beers and how it changed my attitude about how beer should taste. Then I will discuss recipe formulation.
So let’s ...
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