Cascade Brewing Company (OR)

Commercial Brewery | Portland, OR, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Affiliated Venues

Art Larrance's Raccoon Lodge & Brew Pub (Portland, OR, United States of America)
Cascade Brewing Barrel House (Portland, OR, United States of America)

Beers

Overall average: 80 (logged 26 times)
Cascade Blackcap Raspberry: 67 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Blueberry: 75 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Brunch Line: 83 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Cerise Nouveau: 25 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Contemporary Fashion: 75 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Cranberry: 88 (logged 4 times)
Wild Ale
Cascade Elderberry: 83 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Encyclopedia Botanica: 75 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Figaro
Wild Ale
Cascade Framblanc: 92 (logged 2 times)
Wild Ale
Cascade Frostkiller: 75 (logged 1 time)
Winter Warmer
Cascade Happy Holidates: 83 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Honey Ginger Lime: 100 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Kriek: 83 (logged 1 time)
Flanders Red Ale / Oud Red
Cascade Noyaux: 89 (logged 3 times)
Wild Ale
Cascade Pay Czech IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Cascade Pistil Whipped: 92 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Red IPA: 58 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Cascade Sang Royal: 75 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Cascade Summer Gose: 67 (logged 1 time)
Göse

Limited Edition Single Releases

Cascade Midnight Diesel: 92 (logged 1 time)
Winter Warmer

Logs for beers from this brewery

Decently tart, with a bit of funk. Clear stone fruit and orange fruit flavors, with hints of ginger and anise. Not hard to imagine a Long Island iced tea here. And it's definitely quite strong, this little can just about did me in.
Can at Home
Quite tart but clean, totally unsurprising from Cascade. Cute, small can that takes some of the bite off of their normal pricing structure. Floral and slightly tropical in flavor.
Can at Home
Quite tart, dominating blueberry flavor. I've enjoyed the berry flavors from Cascade maybe less than their other sours, but it was still pretty good.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Mellow then sharply sour then mellow again. Stone fruit, hints of cinnamon, floral tea.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Bottle at Home
Sour and tasty
Bottle at A Friend's
Cascade Cranberry (unknown release)
Fruity slightly tart sour.
Cascade Happy Holidates (unknown release)
This was the least favorite of the flight, but still excellent, which shows you what today was like. Sour quad, plum and date with strong notes of rum. Finishes dry. There is a tart undercurrent that is somewhat masked by the sweetness of the alcohol. Very interesting and definitely tasty, although more mood-specific than the others.
Really, really delicious! Dry, clean, very tasty fruit flavor, like white berry wine. Mild, juice-like tartness. A slightly bitter, nutty overtone (from the noyaux?) lends a nice sophistication. I think I still liked the Honey Ginger Lime more, but this was also great.
Unspecific berry flavor, very refined and smooth. Drier finish - not as vibrant as the Honey Ginger Lime, but still quite tasty.
Complex, and absolutely delicious! Starts floral and sweet, almost like St. Germain - I'm guessing this is the wildflower honey? Opens tart, juicy through the body, with a sweet, wheat, cereal finish. My favorite from today's selections.
Deeply tart, thick with cherry and plum flavors.
Tart but not overbearing sour with a clear, ringing raspberry / cherry finish. Like a drinking vinegar, fruity with just enough carbonation to be pleasantly titillating. Very, very good.
Still very nice. I think this younger vintage showed more funk, which added a buttery balance as well as made it taste more like a beer. Still very enjoyable.
Salty on the nose, this smooths out to a delightful fruity beer.
Bottle
You could have fooled me into thinking this was a tart raspberry soda and not alcoholic at all. If you love raspberry you'll probably love this - it is raspberry through and through. I do not, though (but obviously, that's on me).
This beer is pretty much exactly what the name implies - somewhere halfway between a pils and an IPA, as odd as it sounds. The IPA part is of a light, fragrant citrus type. A strong, unsweet cereal backbone represents pils, and finishing bitterness is right in the middle of grassy and pithy. Somehow, it works. I couldn't tell whether I actually liked it or if the weirdness was just too intriguing, but I came down on "liked."
Light smell. Mild taste. Served particularly cold so that likely affected things.
Draft
All the goodness of a winter warmer cut to a lighter feel thanks to the sour.
Beer clearly made by someone that knows jack shit about wine. What sort of idiot has noticeable oak on something that's ostensibly styled like Beaujolais Nouveau?
Tart and fruity with a nice fizz, with alcohol very much on the back burner, this may just have been the best fruit soda I've ever had.