End Grain
Mirage Beer Company

End Grain is a collaborative effort with Lowercase Brewing Co. to meet a challenge from our friend Aaron Blonden (Three Magnets, Mainstem Malt, South Puget Sound CC Craft Brewing & Distilling program, etc.): brew a lager with entirely salmon-safe ingredients.⁣
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With the help of Mainstem and Indie Hops, we selected Vienna malt and Crystal hops, both grown at Goschie Farms—allowing us to meet our salmon-safe goal, and even better, to express the character of a single estate.⁣
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We single-decocted the mash and deployed multiple additions of that Goschie Farms Crystal in both the boil (for bittering) and whirlpool (for aroma). After a long and cold fermentation with a relatively-obscure strain of Bavarian lager yeast, End Grain was dry-hopped with more Crystal, and then lagered for another 4 weeks.