The Ale Apothecary
Microbrewery
in Bend,
Oregon,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: The Ale Apothecary Tasting Room
Established in 2011
Contact
Description
Origin beer, connected to nearby farms, artisans and the land surrounding the brewery. 100% made by us on our own equipment with our creative brains and hearts. Children welcome in our tasting room.
The Ale Apothecary is a very small artisanal brewery, located 10 miles west of Bend, Oregon in the middle of the Deschutes National Forest. Paul & Staci Arney built the brewery on their property in 2011 after Paul had decided that his career in industrial beer-brewing was officially over. Taking cues from historical breweries, Paul decided that he would take the very basic concepts of making beer and build a totally unique brewery out of them, relying on locally grown or foraged ingredients and using the most natural approach possible.
Before there were beer styles, there were just breweries making the best beer they could out of the raw materials nearby, the water from the ground, and the yeast in the air. Paul believes that the Process in making beer can be used as a primary ingredient, so The Ale Apothecary has its very own methodology that gives us our house character that cannot be reproduced anywhere.
We get our grain from Mecca Grade Estate Malt in Madras, Oregon. Our hops primarily come from Goschie Farms in Silverton. We naturally carbonate our beer in the bottle with Oregon wildflower honey and try to avoid any and all industrial processing aids or commodity ingredients. Instead of using exotic ingredients, we experiment with the process of making beer to find unique and inimitable flavors and experiences.
The Ale Apothecary is a very small artisanal brewery, located 10 miles west of Bend, Oregon in the middle of the Deschutes National Forest. Paul & Staci Arney built the brewery on their property in 2011 after Paul had decided that his career in industrial beer-brewing was officially over. Taking cues from historical breweries, Paul decided that he would take the very basic concepts of making beer and build a totally unique brewery out of them, relying on locally grown or foraged ingredients and using the most natural approach possible.
Before there were beer styles, there were just breweries making the best beer they could out of the raw materials nearby, the water from the ground, and the yeast in the air. Paul believes that the Process in making beer can be used as a primary ingredient, so The Ale Apothecary has its very own methodology that gives us our house character that cannot be reproduced anywhere.
We get our grain from Mecca Grade Estate Malt in Madras, Oregon. Our hops primarily come from Goschie Farms in Silverton. We naturally carbonate our beer in the bottle with Oregon wildflower honey and try to avoid any and all industrial processing aids or commodity ingredients. Instead of using exotic ingredients, we experiment with the process of making beer to find unique and inimitable flavors and experiences.
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
bottle from Tavour - shared. Nice funk - probably should have let this mature a bit - quite tart, good stuff
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2023
at 14:40
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
On tap at Brouwer's Cafe for Barrel Bash (Big Wood) 2023, pours a clear copper orange with a small white head. Aroma is full of peated whiskey upfront, with some generic acidity underneath. Flavour has a nice intensely peated whiskey character, but the acidity underneath is just not pleasant. Too acidic but nice peat. Not totally convinced by this.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Dec 2023
at 01:00
8/10
Tried
on 03 Dec 2023
at 15:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has light flora and citrus with a bit of light tart grape and some grains underlying. Flavor has tart light grape with some grass and a decent amount of flora underlying.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Nov 2023
at 01:11
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear light gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has dry citrus and light flora with a bit of peach and light grains underlying. Flavor has a slight lemony tartness with a bit of dry citrus, grass and a bit of flora in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Nov 2023
at 01:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a near light light gold with a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges and laces. Aroma has light flora with a bit of grass, sweet citrus and a light grain backbone. Flavor has light sweet fruits and grass with growing flora and some sweet grain in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Nov 2023
at 00:52
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle at the brewery. Pours a clear deep amber brown with a bubbly brown head that dissipates quickly and completely. Aroma has some sour dark cherry and stone fruit with light barrel and a bit of booze coming through. Flavor as a nice sour stone fruit with some slightly acidic cherry with a bit of whiskey and oak backing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2023
at 00:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sampled from the tap at Broken Top Bottle Shop. Pours a clear pale yellow with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma is grassy with a bit of flora, light fruits and a hint of wet pine underlying. Flavor has grass and flora throughout with light grain and a hint of light fruits backing.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2023
at 03:40
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750ml bottle shared by ippopotamo36 @Luppolo Station (Rome). Dorata carica, un filo torbida, schiuma leggera, virtualmente assente. Al naso note di legno, cantina, cuoio, origano, spezie, sottobosco, leggero citrico. In bocca è acida e speziata, vinosa, leggermente sapida, spettacolare. Corpo medio, carbonazione media. Un capolavoro di equilibrio e innovazione.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2023
at 23:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Amber colour, smalll white head. Aroma is tart berries, fruits, wood and some spiciness and yeast. Flavour is pretty much following the same as the aroma in a fresh way. Inspired by Sahti? Maybe if you had sour sahti yes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2023
at 18:18