Reuben and Friends Invitational – Tapping Times & Beer Descriptions

We are tapping 40 special beers over the course of the festival on Saturday, May 18th. Here is a complete listing of the beers that will be pouring as part of the festival and their descriptions.

Tapping times will be posted here and on social media on Saturday morning! Things are a bit different than Invitationals past, as we will have FIVE pouring stations including the main bar. At any given time, two festival beers will be pouring at each station.

All beers, unless noted, will be available exclusively in 4oz taster-size pours.

• Funkwerks/Reuben’s Cherry in the Dark (7%)

  • This chestnut-hued dark ale was aged in Oregonian red wine barrels with brettanomyces for four months and was then re-fermented with cherries

• Aslan Ashes in the Fall (12.8%)

  • Stout aged in both rye whiskey and red wine barrels and aged for 10 months with brettanomyces

• Structures Fuzz (6.3%)

  • Hazy IPA

• pFriem Nectarine Golden (6.9%)

  • Golden Ale in fresh Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc barrels with nectarines

• Chuckanut Rauch Helles (4.7%)

  • Smoked Helles lager

• Ecliptic Vega IPA (6.5%)

  • American IPA

• Seapine Golden Sour ()

  • (Description to come)

• Grains of Wrath / Chuckanut Wrath of Chuck (5%)

  • Nelson Sauvin hopped lager

• Wander Raspberry Champagne Toast (5%)

  • Raspberry Berlinerweiss

• Cloudburst Slap Bag (7.5%)

  • Hazy IPA

• Reuben’s Brews Dark, Strong, and Proper (10.5%)

  • Belgian Dark Strong / Quadrupel aged in red wine barrels

• Horus Eagle’s Exclusivity – 2oz Bottle Pour (15.7%)

  • Imperial Stout with Almonds, Chocolate, Coffee, and Pecans

• Cloudburst No Mistakes (5.3%)

  • Schwarzbeer

• Moonraker Bone Frog NE Pale Ale (5.8%)

  • NE Pale Ale

• Fort George Cathedral Tree (4.8%)

  • Foudre-fermented Pilsner

• Structures Biere de Miel (5.9%)

  • Fireweed Honey Saison

• Grains of Wrath Mots Fantaisie (12.2%)

  • Belgian Quad aged in Pinot Noir with cranberries and Brett

• Ecliptic Cosmos Hazy (8%)

  • Firestone Walker collaboration hazy IPA

• Matchless Wildflower Moon (4.9%)

  • Biere de Mars-style beer aged in foudre.

• Seapine Ur-Pilsner (5.5%)

  • Pilsner

• Aslan Frances Farmer (5.6%)

  • Rustic saison aged in foudres

• Reuben’s Brews Coconut BBIS (11.9%)

  • Coconut Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout

• Bruery Black Tuesday (19.2%)

  • Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout

• Chuckanut Skagit Harvest Ale (5.5%)

  • All Skagit Valley malt

• pFriem Cerveza Negra (4.7%)

  • Dark Mexican lager

• Alvarado Street Mango Mai Tai (6.5%)

  • Mai Tai PA with Mangoes

• Funkwerks Passionfruit Provincial (4.2%)

  • Belgian sour with passionfruit

• Old Town Borneo Hazy (6.6%)

  • Hazy IPA

• Urban Family Vernal Bloom (6.5%)

  • Oak-aged sour ale with nectarines

• Matchless The Window (4.7%)

  • Dry-hopped table beer

• Alvarado Street Mai Tai (6.5%)

  • 100% Mosaic Pale Ale

• Great Notion Juice Invader (7.2%)

  • Southern Hemisphere IPA with Galaxy hops

• Moonraker Strange Magic NE IPA (6.5%)

  • NE IPA

• Fort George Don’t Believe The Hype (6.4%)

  • American IPA

• Old Town Nectar de Oro (4.8%)

  • Pale ale brewed with agave nectar

• Wander Mango Antlers (6.6%)

  • Hazy IPA brewed with mangoes

• Bruery Oude Tart (7.5%)

  • Flemish-Style Red Ale aged in red wine barrels for 18 months

• Horus Proper Dose – 2oz Bottle Pour (13.9%)

  • Imperial Stout with Chocolate, Coffee, Hazelnuts, and Vanilla

• Urban Family Forbidden Sorcery (7%)

  • Passionfruit Black Sour Ale

• Great Notion Double Stack (11%)

  • Imperial Breakfast Stout with maple syrup and coffee