fort george house stouts

FORT GEORGE HOUSE STOUTS
CAVATICA STOUT
An immense, bold, black as night, American stout beauty; Cavatica
is no dry Irish anything. One sip and you’ll surely take notice of
what you're drinking. The name honors this brewer's affinity with
arachnia. Be forewarned, this beer will stain your clothes. This is
Fort George’s house stout that has gained a reputation for being
mighty and contagious among the locals. 8.8% ABV
LONG DARK WINTER MILK STOUT
Not for the extremely lactose intolerant, but not extremely milky,
we used a light dose of lactose sugar in the boiling process to add
a delicate sweetness. Long Dark Winter is a roasty stout that is
lighter than most of the stouts in the Stout Month line-up, but
much bigger than a porter. The first recipe from our brewer, Packy
Coleman, for his “Sweet Virginia Series” beer, it was made with a
dash of oatmeal for earthy drinking during a long dark winter.
5.8% ABV
POLISH’S BLACK WALNUT STOUT
Our lead production brewer, Michal, aka Polish, put five pounds of
walnuts into a secondary fermenter to give the beer a lightly nutty,
woodsy taste. He then added one more pound of toasted walnuts in the
bright tank for a toasty and roasty aroma. The body of this beer is light
with a caramel smoothness that makes the savory walnuts come alive.
This is a beer that makes you want to smoke a pipe next to a warm
fireplace, wearing a velvet robe, while petting your black panther.
6.4% ABV
VIVA LA STOUT
What does a revolution taste like? Smooth, creamy, and with a kick of cinnamon! Our Mexican Chocolate Stout starts
off with a smooth chocolate taste and balanced body. The different chocolate malts give off not only a creamy dark
roasted chocolate flavor, but also a bit of bitterness to help prepare you for the wonderful spices that come at the end.
With cinnamon, vanilla, and almond spices blended into the chocolate that went into the kettle and the bright tank,
this potent brew is great to enjoy before or after the revolution. 7.6% ABV
SPANK STOUT
With plenty of caramel and honey malts fronting this beer, plus roast and black barley forming the
backbone, this brew is made to balance out the impending heat of four different types of peppers, namely
Anaheims, Pasillas, Habaneros, and Jalapenos. After they were pitted and roasted over open coals, we
threw the 20 lbs of peppers into a rolling boil to impart a well-balanced heat to this un-characteristic stout.
What starts off as a sweet heat on the tip of your tongue soon turns into a roasting revelation for the taste
buds. 5.1% ABV
SQUASHED STOUT
Vegetable lovers rejoice! Our veggie stout has two, count ‘em, TWO types of delicious squash in it! Both butternut
and acorn squash had their parts in creating a truly unique beer. The squash (squish?) imparts a rich, buttery taste
to soothe the taste buds into the creamy realization that “I want to be squashed out with this squash stout!” Honey
and caramel malts complement the squash by giving it a smooth and sweet body and pleasing mouth feel.
Challenger hops balance out the sweetness and impart a floral and spicy bitterness. 6.7% ABV
CAMPOUT STOUT
The Sweet Virginia series from Fort George has finally made it around to our wonderful sales team. From
the combined brain power of Brian Alsbury and Kory Knutinen comes a beer that the people of Clatsop
County were clamoring for. Inspired by their favorite camping friend, a goat named Steve, this stout gets
its s’more flavor from dark chocolate malt, caramel malt, and a boil of organic marshmallows and coconut
sugar crystals. We know that you will be asking for s’more. S’more what? Exactly. 7.0% ABV
FORT GEORGE HOUSE STOUTS
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MURKY PEARL
Right before we transferred this beer to the fermenter, we ran the
wort through two bushels of Willapa Bay Oysters. We let the
oysters sit in the wort until they started to pop open, infusing the
beer with the briny oyster juice. The oysters don’t impart an
overpowering flavor to this stout, but you can taste a hint of the
salty goodness that lingers. Drinking this beer is truly like kissing
the ocean. 6.9% ABV
COFFEE GIRL STOUT
This edition of Coffee Girl is conditioned with 10 lbs of Rwanda Huye
Mountain Coffee roasted by the Stumptown Coffee Roasters. The beans
have notes of black cherry, blackberry, and blood orange, and
characteristics of fudge, brown sugar, and salted caramel. This is a
perfect blend for our full-bodied Coffee Girl Stout, which has a strong
roasted chocolate taste with hints of hazelnut. The beans sat and aged
with the beer for a week and, in that time, grew to evolve into something
spectacular. A must try for coffee lovers.
8.7% ABV
BOURBON BBL CAVATICA STOUT
What could make our Cavatica Stout even better? Bourbon! We let our
house stout sit in Four Roses Bourbon Barrels for several months. There
in the dark, bourbon-enriched barrels, the beer soaked up as much
bourbon quality as it could before we sent it off to the bright tank. With
an up-front bourbon taste backed by our dark, malty stout, the Bourbon
Barrel Cavatica is a deliciously potent brew that demands a taste.
9.1% ABV
RYE WHISKEY CAVATICA STOUT
During a trip to the Hair of the Dog Brewery in Portland, we came across a bounty of Heaven Hills Rye
Whiskey barrels delivered straight from Kentucky. We couldn’t resist! A quick brewery tour soon morphed
into packing the van with as many of these barrels as we could. Cavatica ended up hanging out in these
barrels for six months in the Lovell Building Brewery. While people were playing shuffleboard and tossing
bean bags next to the barrels, the Cavatica was soaking up smooth, oak-aged, warming rye whiskey.
Available in Limited Edition 4 Packs of 16oz cans for the Festival of Dark Arts, February 16th! 9.2% ABV
KENTUCKY GIRL
This year’s Coffee Girl Stout was aged in Four Roses Bourbon Barrels, thus making her a “Kentucky Coffee
Girl”. Before adding our coffee, we aged an early brew in the barrels, allowing it to soak up as much of the
bourbon as possible. After that, we transferred the aged Coffee Girl base into another vessel, adding
Stumptown Coffee Roasters‘ Rwanda Huye Mountain blend. (See Coffee Girl description). It’s unnaturally
delicious. 9.2% ABV
MEEKER’S MARK
Meeker’s Mark is a collaboration between two Fort George legends, Shannon Meeker, an original Fort
George beertender, and Spencer Gotter, brewer at Fort George. Shannon is a big Maker’s fan, and
ironically has a partner named Mark. Having the itch to brew an Oatmeal Stout, and the freedom of our
“Sweet Virginia Series” of small-batch, brewer-created beers, Spencer and Shannon searched for flavor
inspirations from various oatmeal stouts, and even some oatmeal cookies. Meeker’s Mark has a light body
to better represent the smoothness of the oatmeal and the robust flavor of the four Maker’s Mark Barrels
that we let them age in. Hopped with German Hallertau hops, this beer is a great balance between bourbon
and smooth oatmeal. 8.0% ABV
THREE WISEMEN
You may know the Three Wisemen a different way, but we know them as Mr. Jack Daniels, Captain Morgan,
and Jose Cuervo. We couldn't get a hold of those guys so we called up the barrels respectively from Wild
Turkey, Appleton's Rum, and Cazadores Tequila. We strategically aged different portions of this Oatmeal
Stout in these barrels and allowed them to hang out for a while. The brewers then blended them by taste to
create a specifically boozy, yet light-bodied stout. 9.9% ABV