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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7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Taster on Weathered. Appearance: a bit hazy golden with a white head. Aroma: some herbal character, candy like, a bit sour. Taste: along the same lines, very candy like, some watermelon and nail polisher notes. Overall: it is strange, but not bad.
Tried from Can on 26 Jan 2020 at 04:40

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle @ Home. Pours hazy burnt orange with a small offwhite head. Aroma of malt, light sourness, spices, herbs, spruce, lemon. Flavor is light sour, malt, yeast, herbal, spices, spruce, little lemon, little wood. Thin to medium body, soft to average carbonation, dry and light acidic finish. 120120
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2020 at 15:00

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Frothy white fair mostly diminishing head. Amber colour. Light malty and hoppy rosemary aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average light bitter finish. Oily palate.
Tried on 11 Jan 2020 at 17:05

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle @Højbjerg Tasting. Cloudy amber, offwhite head. Sour berry aroma, light solvent. Sour flavour, berries, spruce, a little solvent. Ok sour.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2020 at 17:03

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle, 9.11% Unclear amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, herbs, spices and lemon. Flavour is malt, caramel, herbs, spices, lemon, citric, little sour, pine, medium sweet and a little dry.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2020 at 17:00

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle @ Saxo tasting. Unclear orange with a small white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, heavy spruce, herbal and tart. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate acdic. Dry and moderate acidic finish. Has absolutely nothing to do with a Finnish Sahti. 110120
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2020 at 17:00

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Højbjerg tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are rich sour lactose acid, fruits, malt and has a nice long sour finish. Doesn't taste like a traditional sahti, more like a sour/wild.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2020 at 16:58

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Tried from Bottle on 04 Jan 2020 at 21:21

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
750ml bottle. Smooth, slightly tart and sourish with some peaches, cherries and funky farmyardy notes. Pretty good.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Jan 2020 at 19:20

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Sample from 11/21/13 bottle during the Pretend It’s Oregon: A De Garde Tasting Extravaganza on 07/27/2019. Cloudy orange-gold color with a medium eggshell white head that recedes steadily to an outer ring. Strings of lace. Fruity and botanical aroma with yeast and malt notes. Medium body with flavors of herbal yeast, pine, citrus and malt. The finish is woody and herbal with a fruity yeast aftertaste. Good beer overall.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2019 at 15:14