hiddenwell7

  Private Pleasure for Special Friends

We use the same steps and process as the professional factory brewer, but on an intimate, handcrafted scale with creative freedom.
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SPECIALTY GRAINS & LIBRARY

Candidate for:
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Oregon Brewer's Guild 3

Small and local=good: In the late 1800s, thousands of breweries were making beer to satisfy their neighborhoods and small towns. By 1970, Prohibition,
post-war mass marketing and transcontinental transportation had whittled the number of breweries down to 40, with a handful accounting for 90 percent of the beer. This trend was anti-consumer, leaving the market with only a fizzy, bland product. The craft brewery movement of the past 25 years has reinvigorated the industry and once again provided a choice for discriminating drinkers.
We brew with fresh, primarily organic ingredients to hand craft our beer - ales and lagers made from scratch without any shortcuts.

Over 50 specialty grains and malts (mostly organic) on hand including:
  • Aromatic Malt
  • Flaked Barley
  • Biscuit Malt
  • Black Patent MaltCrystal 40
  • Crystal 60
  • Crystal 75
  • Crystal 120
  • Caramunich
  • Cara red
  • Carvienne
  • Chocolate Malt
  • Corn (Flaked maize)
  • Honey Malt
  • Melanoidan Malt
  • Munich Malt
  • Oats (flaked)
  • Pale Chocolate
  • Rice hulls
  • Cara-pils Dextrin
  • Caraffa II and III
  • Carafoam
  • Crystal 15
  • Pale DME
  • Pale Malt (U.S.)
  • Pale Malt (U.K.)
  • Pilsner Malt (Belgium)
  • Pilsner Malt (Germany)
  • Rauch Malt (Germany)
  • Roasted Barley
  • Rye Malt
  • Special B Malt
  • Special Roast
  • Victory Malt
  • Vienna Malt
  • Wheat Malt (red and white)
  • Wheat (flaked)

11 Liquid Yeast strains
 Frozen in glycerin at five degrees below zero for propagation in later brews

Ale Yeasts
  • Wyeast 1056 American Ale  (Sierra Nevada strain)
  • Wyeast 1272 American Ale II  (Anchor Liberty strain)
  • Wyeast 1338 Europeon Ale  (Munich Wisenschaftliche Station strain)
  • Wyeast 1968 London ESB Ale  (Fuller strain)

Lager Yeasts
  • WLP 820 Oktoberfest/Maerzan  (Weihenstephan 206 strain)
  • Wyeast 2124 Bohemian Lager  (Weihenstephan 34/70 strain)
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Hybrid Yeasts
  • Wyeast 1007 German Ale  (Altbier from Zum Uerige Pub in Dusseldorf)
  • Wyeast 2112 California Lager  (Anchor Steam strain)

Belgian Yeasts
  • WLP 568 Saison Blend
  • Wyeast 1388 Belgian Strong Ale  (Duvel - Moortgart, Belgium strain
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Wheat/Hefeweizen Yeasts
  • Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen

Dry Brewer’s Yeasts
  • Muntons Gold
  • Safale S-04 English Ale
  • Safale S-33
  • Safale US-56
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Hop Varieties on Hand
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  • Cascade
  • Centenniel
  • Fuggles
  • Glacier
  • Magnum
  • Mount Hood
  • Northern Brewer
  • Perle
  • Sterling
  • Target
  • Willamette

Currently Growing
Organic Hops
    • Cascade
    • Liberty
    • Sterling
    • Willamette

Water Salts, etc. to adjust pH, add calcium, impact flavor profile
  • Calcium sulfate
  • Calcium chloride
  • Calcium carbonate
  • Magnesium carbonate
  • Calcium hydroxide
  • Sodium carbonate
  • Lactic acid
  • Salt (uniodized)
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As you can see, the ingredients in a “simple” beer are vast and complex. We haven’t even mentioned isinglass, silica gel, polyvinylpolypyrollidone (PVPP, Polyclar), Irish Moss (carageenan), Biofoam and many of the wide variety of fruits and spices that can be included to create any of the over 80 major styles of beer from around the world. Time to go brew!
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Oakland, OR 97462
Email: hiddenwellbrewery@makewebs.com