The Ale Apothecary

Microbrewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: The Ale Apothecary Tasting Room

Established in 2011

Contact
61517 River Road, Bend, OR, 97703, United States
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.

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8/10
This is very heavy, earthy. All brandy barrel at first, plum and dark atone fruit a bit as it warms slightly. Maybe a bit of spice at the end
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jan 2022 at 22:54

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
12.7 oz corked and caged. Aroma has notes of flowers, herbal hops, funk, vanilla, wood. Pours hazy orange with a one finger bone-white head that falls into a ring quickly. Taste is highly sour (9/10) and a little sweet with flavors like the aroma. Interesting and tasty.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2022 at 05:08

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
750ml bottle. Intensely sour, funky and tart with some honey, fir notes, spruces, earthiness and woody oakiness. Interesting.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jan 2022 at 16:13

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
2016 bottle thanks to Steve. Pours a cloudy orange with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is strong funk earth oak. Light body, funky, oak, cheese, wheat, light tartness, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2021 at 06:27

8.5/10
Somehow this is my first beer from this brewery. I freaking love it. I've had a few beers with similar taste and I want a thousand more. Quite complex. Surprisingly, the Gose is the one of 7 bases that stands out the most for me. Salty, funky, lovely.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Dec 2021 at 22:14

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Bottle thanks to Kevin. Pours a cloudy brown with small beige head. The aroma is dark fruit and oak. Slick body, raisin, oak tannin, licorice, light tartness, enjoyed this.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Dec 2021 at 00:52

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
750ml bottle pours out straw color topped with a small fizzy head. Nose is tart funky grapes and wood. Taste is more of the nice grape forward notes some musty basement notes and wood.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2021 at 21:14

8/10
Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2021 at 18:43

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
750ml bottle. 10.1% ABV. Batch 8/2019. Tart, sweetish and funky with some honey, oak and toffee. Okay.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2021 at 16:42

8.4/10
This is really good, soft fruit, acidic, but not overly dominant.vinous, barrel notes of vanilla, oak.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Nov 2021 at 22:16