Stillwater

Client Brewer in Grand Mound, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Of Love & Regret - Pub and Provisions

Established in 2010

Contact
19770 Sargent Rd SW, Grand Mound, WA, 98579, United States
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Description
Founded in 2010, Stillwater is an original nomadic beer project that utilizes the traditional brewery as if it were a studio - a place where beer becomes a canvas for creation, collaboration, and experimentation. For it’s founder Brian Strumke, nomadic brewing isn’t simply a job title. It’s a way to tell stories, engage with the world at large, and move through it on his terms.

In 2011, Strumke woke one morning to find himself anointed as one of the top new brewers in the world by Ratebeer.com - a proclamation that would change the trajectory of his life forever. Over the last 10 years, he built and scaled Stillwater® into an international business, capturing broad attention with it’s multidisciplinary approach and award-winning products crafted worldwide.

Formerly known as Stillwater Artisanal. Brian is from Baltimore, MD but has relocated to Seattle. Stillwater was tied to the Brooklyn, NY scene and importer / brewery Twelve Percent. Beers have been brewed at various breweries, but with many coming out of Twelve Percent's North Haven, CT brewery. Now Brian has brought Stillwater to the state of Washington and set down roots. Stillwater beers are brewed at Talking Cedar as of late 2023/early 2024.

A dozen years after pioneering the “nomadic brewing” model, Stillwater® has planted roots in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time, all production of its inventive and style-bending beers is concentrated at one location under founder Brian Strumke’s oversight and control: Grand Mound, Washington’s Talking Cedar. Opened by the Chehalis Tribal Enterprises in 2020, Talking Cedar is a 35,000-square-foot complex that houses a state-of-the-art brewery with a 60-barrel brew house, rows of 120-barrel fermenters, and multiple oak foedres.

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8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

12oz can. Pours black with almost no head. Tons of vanilla beans, gooey brown sugar, and a pleasant hint of whiskey on the nose. Flavour is wonderfully rich, lots of sweet sugars and vanilla beans up front, followed by a nice punch of whiskey barrels. This is excellent: rich and complex with great expression from the vanilla beans and rounded out by the whiskey barrels.

Tried from Can from Bottleworks on 27 Apr 2025 at 02:50


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Undated can drunk 3/26/25.
Clear maize-brass. Medium-sized, off-white head, steadily to partial cover.
Lime is bright and not-overdone, though somewhat prominent at first. Light earth, sugar and dough from the corn, with softening salinity and more bread-and-honey-like maltiness. Clean.
Light burst of lime followed by a very malty texture, no doubt aided by the corn. Soft and clean with good attenuation but, perhaps, lacking a bit of snappiness/crispness on the finish.

Tried from Can from Julio’s Liquors on 27 Mar 2025 at 13:14


7

Tried from Can on 26 Mar 2025 at 11:30


6

March 17, 2017
Bottle@yesprs - Golden yellow pour with white head. Sweet fruity and light malty with some nice tropical fruity notes of grapefruit and peach, some tangerine, hoppy medium bitter into the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Mar 2025 at 06:29


7.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6

Tap at FFB20, shared with the crew. I only took numerical notes while having this one.

Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:23


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can. Unclear golden body with a nice, fluffy white head. Aroma is acidic with passion fruit and citric fruit (yes I can read the labels says agave and lime). Flavor is also acidic with lemon, citric fruit and hint of salt. Medium body and fruity, mild acidic aftertaste. Another decent, fruity flavored Gose.

Tried from Can on 13 Mar 2025 at 05:28


6

Tried on 01 Mar 2025 at 12:06


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can from the lcbo. Slightly hazy orange pour, with a big off white head. Aroma is tart, soft plum, soft cherry, with some light lactic notes. Soft mouth feel, light carb. Finish is lightly tart, lots of light fruit, a bit dull, but pleasant.

Tried from Can on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:27


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can from the lcbo. Hazy orange pour with a large white head. Aroma is sour oranges, orange zest, and loads of green citrusy hop cones. Mouth feel is lively, and the carb is perfect. Finish is pithy, quite tart, bordering on sour, and it does take away from the IPA elements and just leave a strong sour orange.

Tried from Can on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:23


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Can from the lcbo online store. Pours a slightly Cloudy yellow, with a medium white head. Fruity Aroma, light citrus zest, juicy tropical fruit, light tang. Watery mouth feel, carb is very very low. Finish is tart, and tangy, light citrus, lots of passionfruit and soft mango. Good, not great.

Tried from Can on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:22