Several large TVs add a sports-bar feel to the tasting room. The tasting room also offers a food menu with a nice range of dining selections. An electronic screen displays details for popular beers. The tasting room features twenty-five beers on tap, each listed with detailed information and plenty of opportunities to taste unique, one-time brews. Expansive outdoor seating is available for good weather days. The tasting room offers both indoor and expansive outdoor seating. A modern, 60-barrel brewery facility ensures efficient and safe brewing.
This old barn provided much of the wood for the tasting room. A wonderfully dry, bitter finish had me ready for another romp with my Citrus Mistress. Intoxicating citrus, peach, and tropical fruit aromas are accompanied with delicious flavors of grapefruit, pith, pine, and malt biscuit. This seasonal IPA (6.5% ABV / 80 IBU) is made with four different hop varieties and added grapefruit peel. The tour started with Hop Valley’s 2014 World Beer Cup Bronze Medal winning Citrus Mistress India Pale Ale (IPA). At the same time, every component of the brew house was handpicked to ensure the efficient use of energy and maximize worker safety.Ĭo-owner Ron Howard graciously gave us a tour of the facility. All of the furniture was hand made from re-purposed local fir and steel. For example, virtually every piece of an old barn (circa 1890 and donated by Silver Tail Farms) was used in Hop Valley’s Eugene tasting room and patio area to create a rustic and beautiful sitting area. Located on First Street in Eugene, the expansion facility was created from a 1950 building that was brought back to life and featured a combination of state-of-the-art equipment and sustainable construction. Left to right – Richie G, Ron Howard, and Firkin Ron get ready to tour the Hop Valley Brewing facilities. An expanded production brewery and tasting room opened in Eugene in 2013 (in addition to the Springfield location). Brewmaster Trevor Howard and his father, Ron Howard, are joined in Hop Valley’s ownership group by Jonas Kungys, Chuck Hare, and Jim Henslee. Initially started in 2009 in Springfield, Hop Valley Brewing has grown quickly. Thanks Richie G! Hop Valley Brewing Company My guide was Richie G – good friend and relative, excellent guitarist and musician of Richie G and Ma Beat, and leading citizen and business person in Eugene. However, during my recent Eugene visit I was directed to some brewery diamonds that deliver outstanding brews and are rapidly gaining international recognition in the brewing world – Hop Valley Brewing and Oakshire Brewing. Ninkasi Brewing is one of the better known breweries in Eugene. For example, Ninkasi Brewing and Steelhead Brewing are well-known, excellent breweries in Eugene and are certainly quality places to visit. Eugene Oregon is home to many excellent breweries.
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