Hood River, Ore. July 23, 2024 — At the height of summer in the Columbia Gorge, Ferment Brewing announces four specialty beers that give a broad range of beer lovers exactly what they’re looking for during the hot season. The beers, which are available beginning today, include Queen of Persica peach sour ale, Downtime Pale Ale collaboration with Grasslands BBQ, and the latest releases from the brewery’s Top & Bottom Ferment series — Garden Lager and Longstep Mantis WCIPA.
Queen of Persica is a peach sour ale that spotlights Pacific Northwest golden peaches on a base beer that has a soft and approachable tartness. The brewery also added a dry hop charge of Hüll Melon hops complementing the stone fruit with melon undertones that pave the way for the complexities of the fruit to open up and shine through. At 5.6% ABV, Queen of Persica is decidedly a subtly nuanced crusher that quenches the drinker’s thirst rather than a slow sipping puckery beer.
Originally released as a one-off beer in the summer of 2023, Ferment’s collaboration with Grasslands BBQ is back by request and will be available the remainder of the food cart’s season. Downtime Pale Ale is an unfiltered American Pale Ale with Talus and Hallertau Blanc hops that, at 4.5% ABV, is perfect for washing down Grassland’s famous barbecue. Need to grab it quickly while in line at Grasslands? Ferment sells cans at the beer bike adjacent to the food truck on the lawn behind the brewery.
Longstep Mantis WCIPA and Garden Lager are the newest offerings in the brewery’s Top & Bottom Ferment series, which sees the simultaneous release of a bottom fermenting lager and a top fermenting ale. These two beers celebrate the height of the growing season in the Pacific Northwest and provide a look into what the brew teams want to drink while outside in the summer heat.
Like the good fortune of a visit from the praying mantis, Longstep Mantis WCIPA will delight your senses with zesty grapefruit and mango notes but won’t stick around for long. Longstep Mantis is a 6.5% ABV West Coast IPA brewed with Mosaic, Citra, Idaho 7 and Idaho Gem hops. Garden Lager is a crispy garden-hour, 5.2% ABV lager brewed with Hallertau Blanc, Tettnanger and Saphir hops, best enjoyed while watching tomatoes ripen. It has flavors similar to red clover, water cracker, and mild sage.
All four beers are available on draft and in 16oz 4-pack cans at Ferment’s Hood River brewpub, which has sweeping views over the beautiful Columbia River. Cans and draft are also available throughout Ferment’s distribution footprint across Oregon and throughout Seattle.
