Current Tap List
April 16, 2024
Hops
DOPO
Modern L IPA 5%
Our House Hoppy Beer. A blend of our favorite hops from the Pacific Northwest and Southern Hemisphere brings out modern fruit forward flavors and aromas with a touch of that classic resin that only Columbus can provide. This beer exemplifies our dedication to hops and pushing the boundaries of what you thought a 5% hoppy beer could smell and taste like
Hops: Nelson, Mosaic, Simcoe
HBC1019
Single Hop Pale Ale 5%
HBC 1019 is a brand new hop variety from the Hop Breeding Company that was just released in small quantities this past fall. Part of it’s lineage comes from a genetically unique hop species called Neomexicanus. Neomexicanus hops originated in the mountains of New Mexico and have recently been brought to the Pacific Northwest to be grown and crossed with other varieties. HBC 1019 is probably our favorite of the Neomexicanus varieties. We’ve used it in small quantities in Divi and Divi Divi but never by itself. It’s incredibly potent and offers a mind blowing range of fruit character from honeydew melon and peaches to indistinct tropical fruit but then it also delivers a unique character that some people describe as coconut, rum barrel, or even caramelized banana. It’s truly unique and tastes nothing like any hop out there. We used nothing but 1019 in this Pale Ale in the boil, whirlpool, and dry hop.
Hops: HBC 1019
NO PANIC
Modern West Coast IPA 7%
No Panic is brewed in collaboration with our good friends at Cellarmaker Brewing. It’s an homage to our favorite local ski area where you’ll find almost no Powder Panic on a pow day. There’s nothing worse than the anxiety of waiting in traffic, waiting in line, worrying if your favorite spot is gonna be skied out before you get there, worrying when this lift or that lift is gonna open. No Panic is what we like to call a modern WC IPA. It’s crystal clear, bright, dry, refreshing, and incredibly easy to drink with a nice palate cleansing bitterness. It’s brewed with a blend of 2row and Pilsner malt and dry hopped with a blend of each breweries favorite hops right now. Noes of Pineapple and mango, lemon zest, and even a bit of mixed berry. Look for more WC IPAs from us in the future.
Hops: HBC586, New Zealand Cascade, Centennial, Mosaic
FEELING SINGLE, SEEING TRIPLE
Modern WC Triple IPA 10%
Feeling Single Seeing Triple is brewed in collaboration with New Image Brewing of Arvada, CO. A few weeks back Brandon from New Image joined us for a weekend of skiing, both uphill and down, and talking beer. We brew one Triple IPA a year and it was time to brew it so we decided to brew one together. We don’t brew many high ABV beers but Brandon on the other hand has brewed probably hundreds. He was super helpful in helping us craft a recipe and approach to such a high alcohol beer. We used an incredibly light malt base of just pilsner malt and rice, American Ale yeast, and a combo of our favorite new hops. HBC 586 and Strata were used on the hotside then we hit the dry hop with a staggering amount of Nectaron, Citra, and Strata. This is the most hops we’ve ever added to a beer at just over 8 lbs/bbl total. It’s a once a year treat and due to all the dry hopping we didn’t yield that many cans so it’ll be gone before you know it.
Hops: HBC 586, Strata, Citra, Nectaron
Lager
Pale Lager
South German Pils 5%
Pils from Southern Germany tends to balance malt and hops a little more than the much drier and more bitter Pils brewed in Northern Germany. It features traditional German malt, German noble hops, a multistage step mash, cold fermentation with a traditional Lager yeast and long extended cold conditioning. This batch was lagered longer than any batch to date at 7 weeks and is tasting great.
Hops: Hersbrucker, Saphir, Tettnang
Helles
German Light Lager 5%
Helles is the definition of Bier Flavored Bier. It is consumed is mass quantities all over southern Germany and is arguably the hardest bier to brew as there is no where for any flaws to hide. Our Helles is brewed as traditionally as we can. A multi step mash with nothing but German Pilsner Malt, nothing but traditional German Noble hops are added to the boil which is followed by a long cold fermentation, natural carbonation, and a extended lagering period of 5 weeks at 32 degrees. The result is a bier that’s incredibly refreshing and easy to consume that highlights the quality ingredients it’s brewed with and the attention to detail all throughout the brewing process.
Hops: Tradition, Hallertau Mittlefruh
Dark
DRAWN TO THE DARK
Bourbon Barrel Aged Baltic Porter 13%
This Triple Mashed Baltic Porter was brewed in May of 2022 and after an extended lagering time in stainless was laid to rest in 6 year Bourbon barrels from a local “western” themed distillery. After 13 months in barrels it was blended back into stainless for additional lagering and eventually packaged in 375ml bottles. Notes of chocolate covered cherries, toffee, vanilla, and bourbon. Dangerously smooth for 13% due to its slow cold fermentation and extended lagering.
Sour
EXTROVERSA
Fruited Quick Sour 5%
Extroversa is our series of heavily fruited quick sours that features a unique fruit combo every time we brew it. We use a bacteria that creates a tropical character and a unique yeast that produces tons of citrus on it’s own so we tend to lean on more tropical fruits as they really complement the base beer. For this round we chose to use fruits found in the very first recipe for Hawaiian Punch from all the way back in 1934, before all the Red no. 3 and Yellow No. 5 food coloring. That combo of Pineapple, Passion Fruit, Papaya, Orange, and Guava will transport you to a much warmer location and maybe even bring back some familiar flavors and aromas from your childhood.
Fruit: Pineapple, Passion Fruit, Papaya, Guava, Orange
Hard Seltzers
GRID CITY BUBBLEWORKS
Hoppy 5%
Cucumber Lime 5%
Wine
Old Town Cellars
Townie Rosé
Park City, UT.
Pomegranate, strawberry and melon on the nose. The palate is laced with notes of rose petal and red plum with a crisp and bright finish.
Field Recordings
Skins
Orange Wine. Central Coast
35% Chenin Blanc, 35% Pinot Gris, 12% Riesling, 12% Albariño, 4% Tocai Friulano, 2% Verdelho
Fresh Apricot, White Peach, Haitian Orange, Honeysuckle, Marzipan
FOLK MACHINE
Light White
2022 Harvest ... Northern California
42% Tocai Friulano from Mendocino, 18% Riesling from Arroyo Seco, 17% Verdelho from Suisun Valley, 15% Albariño from Borden Ranch, and 8% Sauvignon Blanc from Potter Valley
“Our goals have stayed the same - bottle something fresh with acid and some mineral and retain that sort of salty, briny character that the Tocai Friulano has, but tone it down with the fruit and aromatics of Riesling and Verdelho. “.
FIELD RECORDINGS
FICTION
2022 Harvest ... Paso Robles
32% Zinfandel, 22% Cabernet Franc, 15% Alicante Bouschet, 10% Charbono, 7% Syrah, 6% Lagrein, 4% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Grenache
Pours the color of darkest night. Heady aromas of bleuberry pie, luxurious suede couches, ham paninis, unlit menthol cigarettes and roquefort tarts. Firm tannins anchor flavors of grilled meats, cherry cola, sweet carob and black licorice chews, all cased up together conveniently in a cigar humidifier