A collaborative effort with Lowercase Brewing Co. to meet a challenge from our friend Aaron Blonden: brew a lager with entirely salmon-safe ingredients.

With the help of Mainstem and Indie Hops, we selected Vienna malt and Crystal hops, both grown at Goschie Farms—allowing us to meet our salmon-safe goal, and even better, to express the character of a single estate.

We single-decocted the mash and deployed multiple additions of that Goschie Farms Crystal in both the boil (for bittering) and whirlpool (for aroma). After a long and cold fermentation with a relatively-obscure strain of Bavarian lager yeast, End Grain was dry-hopped with more Crystal and then lagered for another 4 weeks.