Our Wild Ride began when the idea of creating an awesome brewery came alive. A group of lifelong friends, who grew up in Redmond, started plotting the course. With no professional brewer on the team, priority one was finding the right team to create the brews. Through the ups and downs and twists and turns, we met many interesting and special people along the way. Our brewers have been brewing award-winning beers since the beginning and continue to craft innovative and fun styles!
Another important chapter to our story included finding the perfect location. In 2013, we found just that in an old lumber storage building in downtown Redmond. And that’s when this Wild Ride really took off! The building had four walls, concrete floors, garage doors and a tall ceiling, which was all we needed. We then created a plan to add everything else, beginning with running water (some of the best in the Pacific NW). We are thrilled to have found this location in our hometown, and there is no other place we would rather call home for our brewery.
This is the short story of our wild ride, and our story will keep on keeping on as we continue to make great brews for everyone to enjoy. So, what’s your Wild Ride? Whatever it may be, we raise a pint to you and the journey you’ll take to turn your wild ride into a reality.
Cheers!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, off-white and almost tan head that shows at about a single centimetre with some opaque body, close to 75 per cent or so. Aroma of roasted malt, light caramelised sugars and ton and tons of nuts, mostly peanuts, but some cashews and almonds are seemingly in the nose as well. Medium to almost Full-bodied; Very rich malty and viscous feel with a bunch of nuts and pure peanut butter flavours with a good emphasis on molasses and caramelised sugars and a deep body, but the nuttiness is super strong, but showing very nicely. Aftertaste is quite rich as well, with some of the earthier and caramelised sugar notes giving way to the peanuts and almond flavours that are still quite evident and pungent, in a good way. Overall, a very nice, almost perfectly balanced beer with sugars, earth, nuts and malts all coming together nicely and going down relatively easily, with full flavours and some nice complex notes towards the end. I think this might be a good beer even in the summer, but I'm sampling this on perhaps the last night that the temperatures go into the lower 50s (deg F) at night as summer approaches. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle, given to me by my coworker as part of his Beer Club Subscription (Beer of the Month) on 22-May-2020, sampled at my house here in Washington on 01-June-2020 - Thanks Pete!
Troopie (5756) reviewed Laughing Face from Wild Ride Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Black body with tan head. Coconut aroma. Taste is coconut and roast malt. Long malty finish. Definitely a dessert beer.
BoiseBrewBlog (9150) reviewed Hippy Haze from Wild Ride Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
From a can. Slightly foggy bright orange pour. Thin brief coarse off white head. Some light pale malts and a pungent grassy hop character. Quite dry and clean, and fairly bitter. More floral grassy bitterness at the end. Not bad
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
Pale golden cloudy pour white head. No aroma. A little vanilla and cream caramel in taste. Thin sweet finish. Is this an ale?
stevoj (18528) reviewed Traction from Wild Ride Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Taster at CopenRoss. Clear golden, persistent fine head, sheets of lacing. Throwback IPA, all caramel malts with some nice piney, juniper, woody hops. Not overly bitter, hint of spruce.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap pours out pale crisp clean topped with a white head. Nose is floral hops light grain. Taste is more of the nice crisp floral hops and light grain notes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the freshtival. Clear light golden with no head. Standard vey light pale malts subtle hop character not much of fresh hop here. Good kolsch though
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can at Bottles and Hops pours a slightly hazy pale golden. Thin trace of white head. Light fairly aeeet pale malts. A little toastwdneas or caramel. No hop presence.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Dark body with off white head. Malt and pean aroma. Peanut butter invaded the taste. Peansy finish. I have to admit that I detest peanut butter and never eat it. Good looking beer though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
From a can pours a rather deep dull orange with a thin white head. Fruity fairly sweet pale malts. Lingering soft wheat palate. Strange