{"id":4564,"date":"2013-07-29T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T04:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:38:13","slug":"tap-beer-of-the-day-10-barrel-s1nist0r-black-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/golf\/lifestyle\/4564\/tap-beer-of-the-day-10-barrel-s1nist0r-black-ale","title":{"rendered":"TAP Beer of the Day: 10 Barrel S1nist0r Black Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sinistor<\/a>\u201cI actually have no idea how they came up with the name,\u201d said 10 Barrel\u2019s brewmaster Jimmy Seifrit. \u201cProbably just being a little devious by squeezing in a \u20181\u2019 instead of an \u2018i\u2019 and a zero instead of an \u2018e\u2019 I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s actually nothing devious or sinister about the beer, however. Seifrit said, \u201cThe way we look at the S1nist0r Black Ale is as a wonderful dark beer with training wheels on it. It\u2019s not a beer that will scare people away because of the color. Color drives a person\u2019s palate before they even try some beers, so when they see something dark they\u2019re expecting a heavily roasted, bitter, molasses-flavored beer. But this one\u2019s not really that way at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe use light malts, a biscuit malt and Carafa malt, which is a dehusked black malt that gives us all of the color but without the astringency associated with some darker beers. Plus we\u2019re using Perle and Sterling hops\u2014more herbal and spicy like German or Czech hops rather than the wildly fruity American hops we\u2019re used to out here. So that\u2019s a little mellower, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Terrebone<\/a>\"Terrebone<\/a>I first ran into the beer at Terrebone Depot, a great little bar and restaurant in a renovated train station originally built in 1911. The small town of Terrebone is the prime jumping off point for half a million rock climbers who scamper up Smith Rock in the nearby state park annually, and many often wind up at the Depot after the day\u2019s ups and downs.<\/p>\n

Christopher Smith, David Whyte and I were there after the ups and downs of 36 holes of golf, an effort which had done in our colleague Jeff Wallach, so we just had to deal with the beer samplers and menu all by ourselves. We managed. First, I had the sampler shown here (left to right): Hound\u2019s Tooth Amber from Silver Moon Brewing of Bend, K\u00f6lsch from Double Mountain Brewery of Hood River, the S1nist0r, and an IPA from Terminal Gravity Brewing in Enterprise.<\/p>\n\"IMG_1453<\/a>\n

I chose the 5.4% ABV S1nist0r to accompany the heart healthy meal shown here. The heart healthy part, under the egg and bacon and cheese, was the patty, made with bison meat.<\/p>\n\"IMG_1457<\/a>\n

A couple of days later I was talking about beer with Amanda Yankovich, working in the Crosswater Club pro shop at the Sunriver Resort. Amanda recommended we visit the 10 Barrel Brewing <\/a>pub in Bend and try a beer called Swill, which sounded like one of the greatest beer names I\u2019d ever heard. And she said we should visit the McMenamins Pub and Brewery–which is actually also a hotel and theater in the old St. Francis Catholic School.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went there, and down one of the hallways is a picture of the third grade class of 1999. I\u2019m in it,\u201d said Amanda. Well, here\u2019s a picture of a hallway at the rejiggered St. Francis with a class picture right in the middle. I can\u2019t vouch whether it\u2019s Amanda\u2019s or not, and unfortunately there just wasn\u2019t enough room on the dance card for a visit to McMenamins.<\/p>\n

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But after an evening at the Deschutes Brewery Pub we did make it over to 10 Barrel, and sure enough, there was Swill on tap. Well, there were a lot of beers on tap:<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/a>

Photo by David J Whyte \u00a9 Linksland.com<\/p><\/div>\n

There are more beers on tap in a 10 Barrel pub the company opened in Boise, Idaho in April. (The Bend pub opened in 2008, the brewery in 2006, originally as the Wildfire Brewery.)<\/p>\n

Swill is a summer seasonal, a 4.5% sour Berliner Weiss-style beer with grapefruit soda added. Unusual, and refreshing. The brewery\u2019s Apocalypse IPA does most of the heavy lifting, accounting for almost half of 10 Barrel\u2019s sales, but S1nist0r has carved out its own niche, notching a steady ten percent of total sales.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe figured S1nist0r would be a beer that everyone could love, and they do,\u201d said Seifrit. \u201cIt is probably our most talked about beer, with very loyal fans on Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pub was a lively and crowded place on a summer\u2019s Wednesday evening and we were on the move, barely enough time to sample a goblet of the DUB Double IPA, a 9.5% hop bomb. It exploded pleasingly in my mouth, and the rest of the evening is a bit of a blur.<\/p>\n

\"Hard<\/a>

Hard at work interviewing Dana Janus at 10 Barrel Brewing’s Bend pub. Dana could handle as many beers as a Munich waitress. Nice wave in the background.
Photo by David J Whyte \u00a9 Linksland.com<\/p><\/div>\n

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