Ecliptic Brewing

Commercial Brewery | Portland, OR, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 66 (logged 33 times)
Ecliptic / Cigar City Ellipsing the Sun: 58 (logged 1 time)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Ecliptic / Firestone Walker Five Years/Five Beers Hazy Double IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic Arcturus IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic Astro Fresh Hopped Italian Pilsner: 75 (logged 1 time)
European-style Pale Lager
Ecliptic Aurora Crimson Saison
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Ecliptic Canopus India Style Wheat Ale
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic Capella Porter: 71 (logged 2 times)
Porter
Ecliptic Carina Peach Sour Ale: 75 (logged 2 times)
Wild Ale
Ecliptic Coalsack CDA
Black IPA / Cascadian Dark Ale / American Black Ale
Ecliptic Cosmos Coconut & Vanilla IPA: 58 (logged 2 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic Filament Winter IPA: 50 (logged 2 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic Helix Hoppy Lager: 75 (logged 4 times)
American Pale Lager
Ecliptic Oort Imperial Stout: 58 (logged 1 time)
Stout
Ecliptic Orbiter IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic Pegasus ESB
English Pale Ale / Bitter
Ecliptic Phaser Hazy IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
Belgian India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic Procyon Pale Ale
American Pale Ale
Ecliptic Pyxis Pilsner: 67 (logged 1 time)
German Pilsner
Ecliptic Quasar Pale Ale
American Pale Ale
Ecliptic Rastaban Barrel-Aged Oud Bruin: 67 (logged 1 time)
Flanders Brown Ale / Oud Bruin
Ecliptic Sedna Tiramisu Stout: 67 (logged 1 time)
Stout
Ecliptic Spica Pilsner
Zwickelbier / Kellerbier
Also known as: Ecliptic Spica Hefepils
Ecliptic Star Party Lemon & Lavender Brut IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic Tenth Orbit Rice IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA

Collaborations

Ecliptic / Bell's Five Years/Five Beers Juicy IPA (collaboration): 25 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic / Reuben's Crimson Star Hazy Double IPA (collaboration): 67 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic / Stone White Asteroid Imperial Wit IPA (collaboration): 58 (logged 1 time)
Belgian India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double)
Ecliptic / Von Ebert Blackberry Meyer Lemon Ale (collaboration): 75 (logged 1 time)
Fruit Beer
Ecliptic / Wicked Weed / Stone Points Unknown IPA (collaboration): 54 (logged 2 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Ecliptic Sagittarius B2N (collaboration): 79 (logged 2 times)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale

Logs for beers from this brewery

Prickly and bitter but very crisp.
Can at Work
A light, fragrant, but very smooth IPA. Liked this quite a lot!
Forward-sweet, fragrant and hoppy. Slightly herbaceous. Dries pretty fast into a typically brackish Italian Pilsner finish but manages to stay sweet all the way through to the finish. Quite refreshing.
This has the unfortunate misfortune of following one of the best stouts I’ve had… but it is nice enough.
Nice flavor but somewhat watery, dry and nutty/sour on the finish. Hazelnut and lemon are the most noticeable flavors, if there is raspberry it's more in the smell than the flavor. I appreciate it's not syrupy, but it does seem slightly under-bodied.
Bottle
Not sure what makes this winter. Thick in appearance, like a mango nectar. A profound citrus IPA, orange/grapefruit and maybe a hint of passion fruit. Very bitter and woody to finish, though not as much as the Jolly Roger.
Very nice, berry lemonade overtone but rooted in a dry, uric, bitter quality that doesn't sound great but really makes this beer stand out as a much more interesting than your average fruit beer. Finishes super-clean.
Can at Home
Creamy, slightly sweet, dry, just on the border of over-roasted. Maybe just a hint of coffee but there’s no way that “tiramisu” is the primary flavor effect for me.
In larger quantity this was definitely more pithy, more resinous. The coconut and vanilla start off very obvious and then kind of fade into the background as the hops build up. Slightly buttery notes. I liked sipping this one more than I liked drinking it.
Very funky, only lightly sour. It tasted... brown. It was fine.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Sweet, buttery coconut and vanilla smoothness mask a very piney, resinous IPA. Pleasant to taste but can't mask the underlying hops for long. I don't think I could do a full glass of this.
Lemon and lavender are the "stars" here; it tastes a bit like someone made a squash with lavender lemonade, noticeably tart, floral, but then finishes like a beer though not especially brut). You could be fooled into thinking this was a Berliner Weisse.
Bottle at Work
Fantastic sour! Smells like fresh, ripe, real strawberries, which is a rare enough thing. Flavor is not sweet, but rather a complex, dry sour with not too much bite. A very nice beer.
Not too peachy not too sour. The way I like it.
Bottle at Addo, Seattle
This was amazingly smooth and unbitter for an IPA.
Bottle at Home
Juicy as you'd expect, but this tasted more like juice than beer. A bit of malt but otherwise a bit like grapefruit juice with a touch of roundness from pomegranate. I thought it was worse for the wear.
Nope. This was not a good look. Everything is recognizable in component parts - the passionfruit is very realistic and the smoky-side wit could have been a good base, but the flavors don't work together at all.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Just a sip. Intensely sweet, whiskey-date flavors open this beer, giving it more of a barreled quad or old ale character than a typical stout profile.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Medium-tart saison with round fruit at the beginning. A bit of funk and wine grape flavor leads into an unpleasantly lingering bitterness at the finish, which I'm going to give to the juniper. I do admit this tasted better when coming back after a couple IPAs.
Bottle at Xbeer One
Quite lovely! Lots of bright fruity flavors. Grapefruit, orange, flowers. Low bitterness.
Bottle at Xbeer One
Scent of a light IPA Taste is more or less the same. I guess it's fine?
About what I'd expect for a wit from Stone. Lots of white pepper and yeast and a prickly hop finish. These aren't bad flavors at all, but it is a little one-note and overwhelming.
Ecliptic Helix Hoppy Lager (unknown release)
Light thin watery body and taste. Light hops.
Ecliptic Helix Hoppy Lager (unknown release)
Fresh, crisp, slightly sweet with a well balanced hopiness.
Ecliptic Helix Hoppy Lager (unknown release)
The smell is fragrant and full of hops, and the flavor opens that way, but the lager half of this beer asserts itself quickly. Refreshingly, it wasn't a sweet lager, either, as seems common with IPLs. Toasted barley, an almost buttery smoothness, and some good, Pilsner bitterness finish off the flavor. I really liked this a lot.