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These notable brews from Beers Made By Walking feature creative ingredients like spruce tips, sumac berries, Scotch broom and plum varietals.
MICROB | Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales
"This was another absolute favorite. It was a nice, citrusy, minerally Brett saison made with 40 yeasts collected from all around the country! This beer was a great reminder that yeast is not just a cultured thing from a lab but an organism that thrives in nature all around us."
November topic: Beers made by walking
Despite the cold, we are still on tonight!
November 13th 5-7pm 1515 SE Water Ave. 3rd Floor Mt. Hood Room
BEERS MADE BY WALKING
Please join us for a very special EcoUnite! where we will get to sample some beer made by wild yeast and wild ingredients and discuss the role creative brewing can have in conservation. We will ask for $5 to cover the cost of beer sampling and cups (but you can BYO cup!)
Eric Steen and Matt Wagoner will be presenting on Beers Made by Walking and the recent collaboration with Forest Park Conservancy. Eric is an artist, organizer, teacher, and homebrewer. He will be presenting on the BMBW program and a range of ways in which creative endeavor and conservation complement each other. Matt is the Program Manager for the Forest Park Conservancy and his background includes a degree in art. He acted as naturalist and guide on the project and will be lending perspective from the conservation side. There will also be the opportunity to taste several beers created for the BMBW project. Beers Made By Walking is a program created by Eric Steen that invites brewers to go on nature hikes and make new beer inspired by the edible and medicinal plants from the trail. The initial BMBW program took place in Colorado Springs in 2011. Since then they have worked with over 45 breweries to create over 55 unique beers that give drinkers a sense of place. The hope in the initial program was to simply get people outdoors, do something creative, and think about our local landscapes in new ways. In collaboration with Beers Made By Walking, Forest Park Conservancy developed a series of public educational hikes in 2014 that also engaged local craft brewers. Matt Wagoner led group hikes while highlighting edible and medicinal plants that could have applications in brewing. The results were place-based beers produced by a professional brewer inspired by the experience of hiking in or around Forest Park. The most popular of this series was the hike through the Ancient Forest Preserve, a parcel of remnant old growth forest owned by FPC. This experience is enchanting on its own, but we added the extra layer of harvesting strains of wild yeast from the forest and using it to brew the beer inspired by the hike. On subsequent hikes the participants sampled the wild yeast beers and were challenged to contemplate how beer might capture the essence of that specific time and place. The 2014 hike series culminated in a tasting event that featured 16 unique beers, 8 of which were inspired by hikes in and around Forest Park. The event was held at three different venues in southeast Portland and we invited members of the public to walk between locations - mirroring the process that inspired the beers - to taste all of the selections. OPB story 1859 magazine NPR food blog
We will follow tasting with a discussion. Can beer inspire conservation?
