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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Tried from Bottle on 24 Dec 2020 at 09:06

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
16oz can thanks to Santa pours out hazy dark honey color topped with a long lasting sand head. Nose is crazy herbal lots of floral notes some pine spruce tons of stuff. Taste is more of the complex herbs spice flowers some sweet honey to cut the funky sour notes. Very interesting
Tried from Can on 23 Dec 2020 at 02:04

8/10
Barrel, funk, red wine, tart and sweet. Some honey and a dry finish. Excellent.
Tried on 11 Dec 2020 at 17:39

7/10
Tried on 10 Nov 2020 at 08:00

8/10
Lci. Nice honey apple, slight tannic front, slight brandy finish, real nice blend.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Nov 2020 at 21:29

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Bottle at WTF 6. Pours an orange gold with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is yeast, funk, earth, citrus. Medium body, yeast, barnyard, grape skin, earth, light dry finish, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Oct 2020 at 01:01

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle at WTF 6. Pours a hazy orange gold with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is yeast, honey, oak, citrus, funk. Medium body, similar flavors to nose, very sour, enjoyed this.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Oct 2020 at 00:57

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Bottle at share: pours brownish with fizzy head. Aroma is loads of spruce. Aroma is winy, loads of spruce. Taste is very acidic, spruce is not as well represented, but does make a nice appearance in the finish. Nice taste, but too acidic for me. Does not seem very similar to the real deal.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2020 at 17:45

8.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 6 Overall 9
Bottle, at share, thanks to me. Pours red. Forest floor, spruce needles, walking through a forest, raspberry, pear, barrel, sharp. Medium body. Really good.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2020 at 17:44

10/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 10 Flavor 10 Texture 10 Overall 10
Cork-top bottle, 0.75l, 3 years old, shared with M&L. Aroma of barnyard, wine, honey, caramel, wood and ripe fruit. Pours murky orange brown color with thin creamy off-white head and nice lacing. Taste starts medium sweet biscuity, honey-like and stone fruity, following is tart vinous, citrusy, woody and funky with smooth mouthfeel. Medium to full body, creamy texture and average carbonation in palate. Flawless gem...
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2020 at 20:25