Steffans Aldergrove Brewery

Remember them? Hell, I had never heard of them until now. Good luck with this.

 

I remember them, actually threw in a few bottles in a trade to someone around ten years ago (his review is likely still up too). I never realized that the brewery was on the rez, that's pretty cool, though I'm pretty sure they've long been defunct.

Doesn't the Tulalip casino have its own brewery now? Could swear I'd heard that.

As far as reservations with breweries, it's not in the NW, but Fort Peck in Montana has a brewery, Missouri Breaks. I've wanted to try stuff from there since I heard about that brewery.

 

I wish I could remember which ones I tried from them, the only one I'm 100 percent certain of is the stout, which was not a bad attempt. The person I sent it to in a trade loved it and gave it its highest review.

I'm positive I tried at least one other beer of theirs and hated it.

Be cool to find out more about that brewery though. I've long been curious about what happened.

 

Do you know that they were actually on the Tulalip reservation? There's a lot of private land through there, so it makes me wonder.

 

Many computers ago (and before cloud storage), I made a list of WA breweries with the intent of visiting them all. For the past few years, every time I would read about Selin's Grove brewery in PA, something would stick in the back of my brain, but I couldn't remember the name of the WA brewery and half-assed google searches came up empty. Thank you for helping my synapses finally connect to their intended destination!

 

Interestingly, I found a post on WA Beer Blog where someone mentioned trying to visit Steffan's back in 2012, and they said the place looked abandoned with empty kegs laying in the grass all strewn about.

 

Sorry to spam the thread, but I love unearthing info on Google:
When I took the pro-brewer plunge I ran out of capital after getting the building up. With no pub to support it and no one willing to take any risk with me I defaulted to making ten gallon batches. I bottle by hand, print my own labels on my PC and sell everything I make as fast as I make it to local grocery stores. I'm turning fermenters every two weeks. I pay myself five bucks for each case sold. Ain't much, but it is profitable, at least in pennies. Good thing the wife is working!

I wish I had a 3.5, 5, 7 or 10 bbl system. I just need some capital or to borrow someone's mothballed brewing system. Any idle equipment laying about out there?

Steffan
Steffan's Aldergrove Brewery

http://discussions.probrewer.com/archive/index.php/t-7364.html

Edit to add from the wayback machine:
Steffan's Aldergrove Brewery is quite possibly the smallest and most remote commercial brewery in the state of Washington. Steffan brews the Grove's classic beer styles on a cute little 1/3 barrel (10 gallon) brewing system. That's purty small. The brewery is nestled in (what else?) a grove of western red alder high in the hills of the Tulalip Tribes Indian Reservation. There's nothing remote about the Tulalip Casino or all the shopping along I-5 but the Grove is way up hill to the northwest. Come out for a visit sometime and see what's brewing.

That was from the website.

 

Next time I make it to Bottleworks I'll ask Shawn about this brewery. I feel like I

That's pretty cool! I actually had family there up until recently, and had a long line of relatives that lived there going back quite a long way (great grandparents and beyond).

Yeah, it's a very long drive, and that part of Montana is definitely far less interesting than the western half of the state, so I can't see visiting any time in the near future unfortunately. The other brewery I'd like to visit in that region is Triple Dog Brewing in Havre, which is actually my home town. A visit there is much more likely than Missouri Breaks.

 

Man, this reminds me of Gray Parrot out on the WA coast. I was never able to make it out there before they closed.

 

Never heard of them. Crazy how these breweries pop up and then quietly disappear. Also reminds me of a brewery down by Stevenson that was a farmhouse brewery (can't remember their name). Always wanted to visit and then heard they closed.