Enos Pils • German-style Pilsner • 5.2% • 16oz $7 / 8oz $5.5 / 4oz $3.5
This traditional North German Pilsner showcases a crisp, dry lager with a raw, grainy malt presence with just a hint of honey. The assertive noble hops display a subtle black pepper over green tea, perfect for a sunny summer day. • Featured ingredients: Pilsner malt and Hallertau Mittelfrueh & Saphir hops • Recommended adventure: soaking your legs in the North Fork of the Big Thompson River after running Crosier Mountain
Altruism • German-style Amber Lager • 5.7% • 16oz $7 / 8oz $5.5 / 4oz $3.5
2024 GABF Medal
Drink craft beer, spread a little love. Altruism, our German-style amber, is part of our Rock Cut Gives Back program: $1 of every pint purchase is donated to our selected non-profit for the quarter. For Q4 of 2025, we’ve chosen Salud Family Health, providing affordable health care services in the Estes Valley. Enjoy this lagered amber with toasted malt, floral German hops, and a crisp finish. • Featured ingredients: Pilsner & Munich malts and Hersbrucker & Hallertau Mittelfruh hops • Recommended adventure: riding the Aerial Tram, hiking Meadow Mountain, hugging trees
Subnivean Vanilla Porter • Vanilla Porter • 5.0% • 16oz $7 / 8oz $5.5 / 4oz $3.5
The subnivean ecosystem is the environment for life under the snowpack. Adding vanilla beans mid-fermentation brings a smooth texture to this rich porter base with notes of coffee and chocolate under a blanket of light vanilla sweetness. • Maris Otter & Chocolate malts and vanilla beans • Cross-country skiing to the Loch, biking Trail Ridge Road, building a snow cave
Interference IPA • American IPA • 6.5% • 16oz $7 / 8oz $5.5 / 4oz $3.5
Climbing the Interference boulder in RMNP requires strength and power. This Colorado IPA showcases a powerful array of hops, with citrus aromas and a pine forward finish. • Featured ingredients: Mosaic, Chinook, & Simcoe hops • Recommended adventure: hiking Black Lake, climbing the Twin Owls, skiing upper Hidden Valley
Palisade Peach Galactic Portal • Hazy IPA w/ Peaches • 6.7% • 12oz $10 / 8oz $8 / 4oz $4
We took our most popular beer and boosted the fruit flavor by adding Palisade peaches. A labor of love for a beer we know our Galactic fans will adore, Matt, Jason, and Kate hand pealed, blended, and added 150 pounds of fresh peaches to an adjusted hazy IPA recipe. The result is an extra flavorful and juicy version of the Galactic Portal that everyone knows and loves.
Stonecrop Wheat • American Wheat • 4.7% • 16oz $7 / 8oz $5.5 / 4oz $3.5
Originally brewed as the base beer for our sour program, we recently tried a batch before putting it into sour barrels and thought it was delicious on its own! This light, delicately flavored and medium bodied beer has flavors and aromas of orange, lemon, melon, and pear, florals, and is balanced by baguette and honey. This is a tasty and easy drinking beer we imagine will become a fast favorite. • Featured ingredients: Torrified and White wheat. • Recommended adventure: Appreciating foliage found above treeline, Bouldering in Wild Basin
Chaos Canyon • Russian Imperial Stout • 8.8% • 12oz $9 / 8oz $7 / 4oz $4
After bold moves in the mountains, sip on a bold brew like this Russian Imperial Stout. The roasted malt dominates this beer, opening with dark coffee, charcoal, and licorice followed with a background of toffee, and dark fruit. We recommend sipping this beer slowly, letting it warm up as you go. • Featured ingredients: Oats, Roasted Barley and Black and Chocolate malts • Recommended adventure: bouldering in Chaos Canyon, snowshoeing to Cub Lake, roasting marshmallows
Galactic Portal • Hazy IPA • 6.8% • 12oz $7 / 8oz $6 / 4oz $3.5
As water rushes from Grand Lake to the East Portal on its way to sustain Estes and the Front Range, we draw inspiration for this turbulent and hazy IPA. With a healthy dose of Australian Galaxy hops, known for notes of citrus, passion fruit and pineapple, this beer has a full palate roundness and soft mouthfeel. • Featured ingredients: Oats & Wheat and Galaxy, Mosaic, & Citra hops • Recommended adventure: kayaking Lake Estes, hiking Sky Pond and Lake of Glass, stargazing in Hermit Park
Goblin Forest • Black IPA • 6.5% • 12oz $7 / 8oz $6 / 4oz $3.5
Take the dark, gnarly path into the Goblin Forest, our black IPA and one of our favorite spots on the Longs Peak trail. A fusion of an IPA and a stout, this beer is roasty with notes of dark coffee and pine. • Featured ingredients: Biscuit & Debittered Chocolate malts and Simcoe, Chinook, & Northern Brewer hops • Recommended adventure: hiking Chasm Lake, sunset viewing in Moraine Park, building a snow cave
Winter Lodge ‘25 • Barrel-aged Winter Ale • 12oz $12 / 8oz $9 / 4oz $5
After stumbling on this blend somewhat by mistake in 2023, we liked it so much that it had to return. A blend of a spiced brown ale, a massive stout, a triple bock, and our barleywine combine to offer caramel, toffee, figs, almonds, and chocolate. The oak barrels and whisky aging meld with the winter spices for a slow warming, perfect for recuperating from a cold day of playing in the park. • Recommend adventure: Snowshoeing to Lawn Lake, telling stories of your best other cold weather adventure
Wooden Mayhem ‘25 • Barrel-aged Imperial Stout • 2022 GABF Medal • 8oz $12 / 4oz $6
Combine our Russian Imperial Stout recipe with a six hour boil and sixteen months in whisky barrels, and what follows is pure Wooden Mayhem. The aroma opens with rich fudge, molasses, black coffee and toffee, and finishes with raisins and dried dark cherries, balancing the roast and leading into the oak of the Spirit Hound single malt barrel adding vanilla and whisky. This is a strong, flavorful stout – crafted and blended to perfection. • Featured ingredients: Molasses, roasted malts • Recommended adventure: Contemplating your life philosophy by a fire
Passion Fruit Elixir ‘25 • Fruited Pale Sour • 12oz $14 / 8oz $10 / 4oz9 $6
A favorite from our cellar, this pale sour is a mixed culture fermentation aged in oak barrels before resting in steel on a massive dose of passion fruit. This great patio beer delivers aromas of tart orange zest and peach, balanced by white cracker and floral, all complemented by the tropical passion fruit. The result – a complex medley that is dry, sour, and perfect for summer drinking (or any other season, really). • Featured ingredients: Malted Wheat and Passion Fruit • Recommended adventure: Napping in a hammock, hiking the Long’s Peak boulder field
Bottle List
16.9 oz bottles served on site or to-go
Winter Lodge • 2024 • Single Malt Barrel-aged Winter Ale • $22
Notes: Semi-sweet, Toffee, Figs, Almonds, Chocolate, Cinnamon, & Oak
Wooden Mayhem • 2022 • Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout • GABF Winner • $26
Notes: Sweet, Chocolate, Caramel, Dried Cherries, Figs, Oak, & Whisky
Wooden Mayhem • 2024 • Barrel-aged Imperial Stout • $24
Notes: Semi-sweet, Chocolate, Toffee, Molasses, Raisins, Plums, Oak, & Whisky
Wooden Mayhem Grand Cru • 10th Anniversary • Barrel-aged Imperial Stout • $26
Notes: Semi-sweet, Baker’s Chocolate, Molasses, Dried Cherries, Walnuts, Cinnamon, Oak, & Whisky