Laurelwood Brewing Company

Commercial Brewery | Portland, OR, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 65 (logged 25 times)
Laurelwood Dos Excellente
European-style Amber Lager
Laurelwood Free Range Red Ale
Amber / Red Ale (Organic)
Laurelwood Green Elephant IPA: 46 (logged 2 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Organic)
Laurelwood Green Mammoth Imperial IPA: 50 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Laurelwood Hugh Heifer Milk Stout: 67 (logged 2 times)
Stout
Laurelwood Ink Heart Cascadian Dark Ale
Black IPA / Cascadian Dark Ale / American Black Ale
Laurelwood Megafauna Imperial IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Laurelwood Moose & Squirrel Russian Imperial Stout
Stout (Imperial / Double, Organic)
Laurelwood Mother Lode Golden Ale
American Blonde Ale (Organic)
Laurelwood Pale Pony India Style Session Ale
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Laurelwood Piston Pale Ale
American Pale Ale
Laurelwood Portlandia Pils: 67 (logged 1 time)
American Pale Lager (Organic)
Laurelwood Pumpkin Ale: 48 (logged 5 times)
Pumpkin Ale (Organic)
Laurelwood Rando IPA: 67 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Laurelwood Space Stout: 67 (logged 1 time)
Stout (Organic)
Laurelwood Tree Hugger Porter: 75 (logged 3 times)
Porter (Organic)
Laurelwood Vinter Varmer: 78 (logged 3 times)
Winter Warmer (Organic)
Laurelwood Workhorse IPA: 75 (logged 4 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Organic)

Logs for beers from this brewery

Smells like a citrus IPA with some resin and an edge that almost smells on the verge of being skunked. However, the flavor is very good and much less pungent than the smell hinted at; light fruity hops and a totally unbitter, sweet cereal finish.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
I'd have called this an IPL; it's got quite a lot of piney dry-hopped character that frankly overwhelms any pilsner qualities this may have started with. It was still pretty good, I thought. Just misnamed.
Steely metallic element but it seems that could be the nitro. Milky finish.
Nitro Draft at Malt & Vine, Redmond
Unusually toasty flavor survives the nitro smoothing. More smooth than sweet, creamy mouthfeel. Tastes like an iced coffee drink rather than a beer until the toasted barley aftertaste reminds you.
Nitro Draft at Malt & Vine, Redmond
Not bad. Spicy and a bit malty for an IPA.
Bottle
A lot of winners at this year's stout fest! I wish I could tell you in more detail exactly what this tasted like, but my notes are basically: "Loved this. Cherry / tannic qualities really enhance this."
On cask, at room temperature, barely any carbonation. Lots of flavors coming out here, a kind of sweet roastiness and a bit of yeast funk that probably would have been lost on CO2. Interesting? Yes. It didn't exactly convert me to cask stouts, however.
Looks almost like an amber, tastes like a light porter. Usually weary of the organic angle but it was great with a clean finish
Lighter IPA, not as strong on the smell or finish. Good complexity to hops.
The weirdest thing about this beer was the acrid / musty / pine cleanser paradox of a fragrance it had. The flavor was just as bipolar: at once light but also resinous and bitter. Ick.
How do you screw up a pumpkin ale?!?!!
Bottle at Home
A nice, dry, somewhat forward-bitter amber ale, but other than a brief hit of sweetness I could barely detect anything I would call pumpkin or pumpkin spice in this beer.
This is unlike all other pumpkin beers. It's dry, not sweet, or overly pumpkin spiced. Has moderate hops.
A nice, caramel dark amber beer with a lot of roasty coffee notes and a surprisingly strong but appropriate bitter finish that doesn't linger. Nice for a too-chilly summer day.
Very refreshing
Bottle at Design Dev Lounge