Hellshire release question

Yes, Hellshire sees some distribution. I've seen it at several places around Portland the past few years, and not just specialty beer shops. I'm pretty sure the previous version of Hellshire is still available at my local Whole Foods.

 

Hellshire also sees distribution in Seattle, I've seen it at Chucks before.

 

I'm assuming this won't be showing up in stores until well after June 15th then? I'm in the area for a wedding that weekend and see that it's a nice coincidence that this is the same weekend. Thinking through it though I'm guessing I won't be able to actually buy a bottle somewhere, at least this year's version?

 

I'm wheels up out of PDX the following Monday mid-afternoon. I guess in my case well after equals about 36 hours!

 

Sorry, I'm still in my Minnesota mindset where you can't buy bottles and cans at a brewery. So can I interpret this as there will be bottles available at the Public House after the release party? Heading down the day of the release party is a no-go since that's the day of the wedding.

 

@BrewsoBrewco, any knowledge to drop?

 

It's always both a beer release and a festival.

The beer is available to the public in Hellshire Day, and they have a ton of it usually and I don't think it's in any danger of selling out.

The festival is kinda "out back" and you need a ticket for entry to it, but other than that it's easy for the general public to go grab a pour and a bottle or 3. Not even sure they impose limits. There's a little store inside the bar where you go to buy bottles.

Have no clue if they do any distro ahead of time, but you should have no trouble getting a bottle at the brewery the day after release.

 

Well hello! Been a while.

Hellshire goes on next Saturday at the fest. Unlike years past this years festival is closed off to festival attendees only. The pub is not open for normal pint sales. It will be available at 11am open on Sunday for purchase to go as well as on draft.

Three variants for the Experience night on Friday in bottles. The one that you receive with you Friday party ticket is a what we are calling Experience Green (Double Barrel Apple Brandy Vanilla Imperial Stout- Bourbon Imperial Stout transferred to a single Apple brandy Cask and conditioned on 1.5#/bbl of Madagascar and Tahitian vanilla beans).
Then we have Experience Red (Double Barrel Ruby Port Imperial Stout- Oatmeal imperial stout aged in bourbon and transferred to a ruby Port barrel) and 2019 Brunch in hell (Imperial Stout aged in Old Forester barrels and transferred to a Woodford Reserve Barrel, conditioned on cocoa nibs, vanilla beans, cinnamon, maple syrup and coffee).
The second two will be available to purchase for the Experience party attendees on top of Green.

Hellshire IX is back to a straight forward BBA Imperial Stout. Bourbon chocolate bomd right now. Reminds me a lot of the early stages of Hell VII. Going to age out very nice.

Some really rad brewers and beer this year including some awesome additions from some rad friends including 4 Hands, Rowley Farmhouse Ale, Funk Factory, MikkellerSD, Garden Path and E9. Everyone else is the usual awesome NW barrel-aged producers bringing their best.

Excited for another awesome year of this fest and another beer that we are very excited to share. Haven't kept up in a while but I'll monitor the boards over the next week if there are any other questions.

Cheers,
Dan

 

Ohh they do taste as good as they sound beyond excited for how all the beers have turned out this year.

Beer will hit be sent to our distributors the week following Hellshire and should be available in Oregon and Washington soon after the fest. Oregon will see the most, but Washington is getting a good deal of the beer. 300 cases this year so plenty to go around.

 

I know this is the first year for the Hellshire variants but any chance of variant bottles/tap still being available early next week? I've got an annoyingly short trip to Eugene planned and trying to figure out where to go on my two free nights and how much space I need to save in my luggage. That said, I've liked the few regular Hellshires I've had so it's not like I'll be sad just picking up a couple bottles of that.

 

They've done variants before but I don't believe they were ever available outside of the ticketed Experience. Maybe in the taproom if for some reason they didn't sell out?

 

Variants are only available at the Experience night as stated above. Each variant was a single oak cask. There are between 13 and 15 cases of each and two 1/6bbls. One 1/6bbl of each will go on at the Experience night. A bottle of the one variant (Green) will go to each attendee of the Experience night as part of there ticket (100ish bottles leaving about 4 remaining cases) and they have the ability to purchase one bottle each of the other two variants if they so choose (remaining bottle inventory TBD based on purchasing.) Remaining bottles and 1/6bbl will go into our library for future events such as special festival pourings such as the mentioned de Garde anni party; or a random Tuesday beer release when I'm feeling frisky. Otherwise I'm drinking them....

 

Just wanted to say thanks for the heads up on going straight to the source to grab bottles. Ended up with a free afternoon last Sunday and decided to drive down to grab some. I got a bit panicked when I didn't see any signage advertising Hellshire for sale but just a quick conversation at the register put me back at ease.

I didn't have enough time to sit and enjoy a pour of anything but was able to grab a few bottles for the road and make a quick pit stop over at The Bier Stein for a few other out-of-my-market treasures. Thanks again to @John_M for pointing me towards all my Eugene needs!

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