Double Mountain Opens This Weekend

Deep in the Gorge, in the shadow of the mighty crew of 47, a tiny new brewery has been growing (fermenting?) quietly for close to a year, and they're finally ready to open the taps. The local beer geeks have been salivating at the thought of all the new breweries (at least 4) scheduled to open this year, and it seems as though Double Mountain is going to be the first one to see the light. Like the first big blockbuster of the season, all eyes are focused on them. Will the beer be great? Will the place be comfortable? Will it give me another reason to drive to Hood River?

According to Charlie Devereux, you can find out this weekend:

Hi everyone,

Just want to give you the official heads up that Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom is indeed opening this weekend! Sorry for the late notice -- we had to keep things on the down low in advance of final inspections and whatnot. But now we’re in the clear and ready to roll.

Here are the basics: we’ll be open this weekend from 12-10pm on Saturday and 12-9pm on Sunday, then catch our breath for a few days. Our regular hours will start as Thursday and Friday 4-10pm, Sat 12-10pm and Sun 12-9pm for a few weeks, at which point we’ll add a weekday evening or two. Our location is 8 Fourth Street, between Cascade and Columbia in downtown HR and about a block-and-a-half from Full Sail. The pub is cozy at 40 seats, and will feature sandwiches, salads, sausages and some good pizza. Local musicians Scott Sparks and Brian McGeeney will be playing at 7pm on Saturday, so be forewarned it might be really packed that night. Phone number is 541-387-0042 in case you need more info.

As for beers…we’ll have our very first two batches on tap. The first is a brown ale featuring Gambrinus organic pils malt and specialties from Simpson and Crisp. The second effort, codenamed “India Red Ale” (aka “The I.R.A.”) combines a ruby red color with a generous charge of whole flower Simcoe and Brewers’ Gold in the hopback. Both ales were fermented with a versatile ale strain from Belgium supplied by our friends up the valley at Wyeast Labs, and will be served unfiltered.

Basically we're looking to stretch the norm a bit and make some beers that true craft beer fanatics, i.e. you guys, will hopefully find interesting and unique. Hope you enjoy our 'work-in-progress'.

There’s a lot more to share but I’ve already babbled long enough...I'm really looking forward to meeting some of you soon, either at our place or at a local Portland establishment in the very near future.

Thanks,

Charlie Devereux

Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom

www.doublemountainbrewery.com

Organic malts? Unfiltered, Belgian-style ales? I'm liking the sounds of that. We'll have to send one of our crack reporters out there this weekend to see what's happening.