North Fork Pils • German Pilsner 5.1% 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 Amber Lager 5.2% 16oz $7 / 8oz $5.5 / 4oz $3.5
2024 GABF Medal Winner
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 2024, we’ve chosen to support Rocky Mountain Conservancy, working to protect and conserve the Park and other public lands through education and philanthropy. 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
Tyndall Porter • English Porter 5.1% 16oz $7 / 8oz $5.5 / 4oz $3.5
Hike to the summit of Flattop, then cross the saddle to Hallett Peak and you will be at the top of Tyndall Glacier, one of the last remaining glaciers in Rocky Mountain National Park. There is a good chance that this glacier water is in this English Porter. Our take on a porter is dry and crisp with low bitterness and clean roasted coffee and chocolate aromas. • Featured ingredients: Maris Otter & Chocolate malts and EKG hops
Clove Hitch • Spiced Brown Ale 6.6% 12oz $7 / 8oz $6 / 4oz $3.5
Starting with a take on a big English style brown, we added a twist by including some of our favorite holiday spices. The creation: a rich brown ale with notes of hazelnut, toffee, raisins, and cherry – spiced with clove, cinnamon, and all-spice. This cozy beer is best suited for a bright, brisk day or a fireside evening with the family.
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
Interference IPA • American IPA 6.8% 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
Dihedral IPA #8 • Double IPA 9.0% 12oz $9 / 8oz $7 / 4oz $4
We brought back a classic: The Dihedral. This iteration of our double IPA is a throwback West Coast beer with toasted and caramel malts, a healthy dose of bitter, piney, and resinous hops, and for a new twist; Nelson Sauvin hops. This New Zealand hop ties together the finish with flavors of nectarine and apricot. • Featured ingredients: Chinook, Comet, Citra, and Nelson Sauvin hops. • Recommended adventure: Climbing the Great Dihedral in RMNP, Celebrating the West Coast by listening to Not Like Us
Goblin Forest • Black IPA 7.3% 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
Fir Forager #2 • Gruit – collab w/ Root Shoot Malting 7.0% 12oz $9 / 8oz $7 / 4oz $4
This year’s batch of Fir Forager is transformed by a totally new grain profile, utilizing all four grains (barley, wheat, oats, and rye) from local maltser Root Shoot Malting. Toast and caramel sweetness, cherry, and subtle spice from the grain is rounded out by the earthy and piney flavors picked up during the historic brewing technique of running wort through an aspen log filled with young spruce and fir tips. Thank you to Root Shoot Malting, Dustin Dyer of Kent Mountain Adventures Center for knowledge of the forest, and Nathan Weber for the aspen log.
Le Grand Citron • Gin Barrel-aged Cocktail Beer 12oz $10 / 8oz $8 / 4oz $4.5
The base beer for this barrel-aged delicacy is Le Petit Citron, our cocktail-inspired ale fashioned after a French 75 (traditionally made with gin, champagne, and lemon). We put Le Petit Citron in a Spirit Hound gin barrel for two months resulting in a stronger, spicier version of the beer with notes of lemon peel, juniper, and vanilla. • Featured ingredients: Cashmere hops and Juniper berries • Recommended adventure: Warm day patio hangs, floating the river.
Wooden Mayhem ‘24 • Barrel-aged Imperial Stout 8oz $10 / 4oz $6
2022 GABF Medal Winner
Combine our Russian Imperial Stout recipe with a six hour boil and sixteen months in Bourbon barrels, and what comes out is pure Wooden Mayhem. The aroma begins as rich molasses, light roast coffee, baker’s chocolate, and toffee, then shifts to raisins and dried dark cherries. The Root Shoot single malt barrel mellows the roast, adding vanilla, oak, and whisky. Plums, dates, and figs round out the palate with a smooth, lasting finish. • Featured ingredients: Molasses, roasted malts • Recommended adventure: Contemplating your life philosophy by a fire.
Ptapricot Ptarmigan • Apricot and Winegrape Sour 12oz $12 / 8oz $9 / 4oz $5
We created this variant of Ptart Ptarmigan by aging a wheat beer in wine barrels with a mixed sour culture, then adding a healthy dose of apricots and winegrapes to finish. The result is a moderate ptartness over a rounded sweet beer with a strong floral and rich ptapricot aromas. • Featured ingredients: Apricots & Winegrapes • Recommended adventure: Laying in a hammock, frolicking through the boulder field on Long’s Peak