E-Malt.com News article: USA, OR: Hammer & Stitch Brewing to open in Portland on October 10

From the creative mind of brewer Ben Dobler, Hammer & Stitch Brewing opens in northwest Portland this Saturday, October 10th at 11am. Focusing on clean looks, and old school simplicity, Hammer & Stitch will deliver on classic clean lagers and ales for people that still appreciate more malt driven beers, newschoolbeer.com reported.

After 25 years at Widmer Brothers Brewing, and following those up with stints as the brewmaster for Laurelwood Brewing and Mt. Tabor Brewing, Ben Dobler knows a few things about crafting balanced recipes. H&S’s lead brewer Cameron Murphy worked with Dobler at Laurelwood, and went on to brew at Von Ebert Brewing. Along with marketing manager Madison Moody and kitchen partners Grand Cru Hospitality, they make up the small team that will run and operate the taproom and it’s elevated views and pub grub.

On opening, H&S will have five beers of their own brewed in-house. The brew crew opted not to take the collaboration route in brewing up beers at friends breweries in order to fill the taps. Instead these will be the first five beers out of the gate and make up the standard year-round lineup H&S would like to see become the mainstays.

The H&S brewing philosophy is to love all styles of beer, they even have a neon sign hanging in the taproom to remind either themselves of the public of this mantra. While the standard lineup beers all only call out a generic broad style of beer and feature the same naming convention that takes inspiration from Seinfeld episode titles, ie “The” lager, the rest of the taplist will be filled in with beers that throw out those rules. Dobler expresses plans to brew a Hazy IPA next, and would like to make even more classics like Kolsch and Altbier, and more experimental stuff like light fruit beers that blend the lines between beer and seltzer.

The H&S taproom is off of NW Vaughn in an industrial area near the busy NW 23rd strip. The side street has lots of parking and the elevated deck at the taproom has a view to the west of the iconic Montgomery Park building. People watching, outdoor drinking, roll-up doors and an elevated pub fare menu that is family friendly. Patrons will scan a QR code at their table or from a waiting area out front, once seated it’s order service from the bar where you will receive a number and your food and drink delivered to the table.


06 October, 2020