Canning Batch 15
Curious how the canning process works? Check out this short behind the scenes of the Batch 15 canning process!
Aslan + Outdoor Project
Post your favorite picture of Aslan 100% Organic Batch 15 IPA on your outdoor adventure on Instagram and use #AslanAdventure #OutdoorProject to be entered to win. If you don't have Instagram, you can post your photo in the comments section below. Don't forget to tag your trail, because whether you celebrate your path in the beginning, or at the end, it's always fun to keep track of your outdoor adventure. In need of adventure inspiration? Check out the featured adventures below.
- Contest ends November 30, 2015.
- Winner announced on Instagram on December 1, 2015.
- Participants must be 21 years of age or older.
Check out Outdoor Projects featured adventures HERE for your next Aslan Adventure!
NOW ON TAP! - 542 Winter Ale
Cascade, Centennial, Chinook
MALT:
2-Row Pale, C-120, Carahell, Chocolate, Munich, Rolled Oats
NOW ON TAP! - Barrel Aged Farmhouse Red
Ivanhoe, Simcoe
MALT:
2-Row Pale, C-120, Carafa, Munich, Oats, Wheat
Sunset Sail on the Schooner Zodiac
We are teaming up with the Schooner Zodiac to celebrate Bellingham Beer Week with a 2-hour beer tasting cruise! We will depart from Fairhaven dock and work together to raise the largest mainsail on the west coast and then open up the taps and enjoy our favorite 100% Organic Beer. During the voyage we will have a grand release of our Cucumber Lager! Schooner Zodiac’s onboard chef extraordinaire will be turning out delicious fare to pair with our beers as well. Get your boat-shoes and flippy-floppy’s!
Drink Local Tap Takeover
Look for your favorite local beer on tap at Aslan all day. $4.50 pints. Tap lineup: Chuckanut Brewery & Kitche Alt, Menace Brewing Gose, Kulshan Brewing Compan Sunnyland IPA, North Fork Brewery Deming Lager, Wander Brewing California Common, and Boundary Bay Brewer Scotch!
Merrell X Aslan Brewing Co.
We're partnering with Merrell to support the Adventure Disco Block Party + 5POINT Film on the Road this Sunday, August 30th!
Don’t miss your chance to win a FREE pair of Merrell kicks by showing up to watch Aslan Founders compete in the epic Bellinghamster Ball Race presented by Merrell Outside and Aslan Brewing Co.
Life of the Party
Official Downtown Sounds "After Sounds Party!" at Aslan Brewing Co.
Every Wednesday in July, Live Music following the Downtown Sounds Free Concert Series. This week we had Rivers to Roads.
July 4th, Yes, We CAN!
A big Thank You to RE Sources for Sustainable Communities who put on the Yes, We CAN! Canned Craft Beer Festival on July 4th and Elizabeth Station for hosting.
We are honored to receive 1st Place for our Batch 15 IPA and to be among the 2nd and 3rd place breweries as well as the 40+ breweries from all over The Northwest!
21st Amendment took home 2nd with their Hell or High Watermelon and Kulshan Brewing Company took home 3rd with their Full 90! Cheers to everyone who came out and supported!
LOVE WINS!
The Supreme Court is Truly Supreme
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”
2015 Washington Beer Awards
GOLD
Blueprint Session IPA
GOLD
Witbier
SILVER
FIFA
Bellingham Tap Trail Press
Tasting and Ranking The Top 11 American Berliner Weisse // Scott Pelton
Berliner Weisse is a very popular style this year along with Gose and the every present IPA. A Berliner Weisse is a white cloudy beer usually around 3% ABV that has a distinct taste of lactic acid, often making it taste sour.
Aslan Brewing Company brewed up Disco Lemonade, their version of a Berliner Weisse, and it has been very popular among Tap Trailers. It’s been so popular that people tell me they hope it’s the next beer Aslan puts in cans. Boundary Bay Brewing Company recently tapped their Citraweisse as well and it has received good reviews. Schweinhaus carries 10 Barrels
Nationally, Paste Magazine tasted 11 berliner weisse and ranked them. The rankings used the following rules.
Continue reading HERE.
The Canning Process
Step One // Define, Refine, and Re-Define the Can
In May 2013, we designed a can in 2 hours. Sent the design to Chazzam, printed can sticker labels, and drove kegs down to PDX to fill 16ouncers. We drove back and put stickers on the 50 cans by hand. In that time we learned that refining your idea involves refining it even more and then re-defining it. Go big or go big. Going home was not an option, so we researched and found a can company that fit our mission: Local. Simple. Elegant & Clean. As a team, we decided on Crown. Know what you like. Know what you don’t like.
Step Two // Decide on a Beer Style
You don’t get to choose the pivotal moment that changes everything, but when it happens you'll never forget. In December 2014, Head Brewer Frank Trosset brewed an IPA that stood out. The Batch 15 IPA came from trial and error and it seemed fitting to name it after the amount of batches brewed. It joined the ranks of our Flagship Series and as a team we all agreed that this would be the first beer to go into cans. We had the beer, now we needed the can.
Step Three // Can Proof Gauntlet
This is the most grueling and longest part of the process. Who knew? The Anatomy of the Can starts and ends with as much trial and error an Art Director can humanly take. After 64 can proofs, back-and-forth e-mails and a laundry list of minor to major adjustments, we all agreed it was perfect. We couldn’t have done it without the most talented Art Director in the world: Austin Martin. On May 4th we signed off on the final can proof and 11 days later 204,000 matte black and neon green Aslan Batch 15 IPA cans showed up!
Step Four // Brew the Beer
There are two types of brewing stories, tragedies & comedies. Whether it’s on a small-scale home brew system or large-scale brewery production line. Anything can happen. The process of brewing a double batch of beer that goes directly into cans for the first time was thankfully, not a tragedy. Everything went as planned with a team effort of milling, mashing, boiling and transferring. By 2PM friends and family started trickling in, loopy and a little tired we realized how far we’ve come with all the funny trials and errors that got us here. After making a double batch of IPA, we ordered 2 more 45bbl fermenters, grabbed a pint and reminisced. We are incredibly thankful to all our supporters, friends, and family that helped along the way.
Step Five // Can the Beer
We wanted to can our beer from the very beginning and it was a quest that started from the moment we opened the brewery. The desire of taking a can to-go, the ability to compete on a national level, and selling beer in far-to-reach places all had the same common denominator: Adventure. Over the past year we learned that the level of quality control in any craftwork comes down to strategy and preparation. And, like packing for a trip you always remain a little suspended in disbelief that this is really happening. The process of canning was mesmerizing, from empty cans to full, to capped, rinsed, packaged, stacked and counted. We packed over 500 cases and it was no coincidence that the first 15 cases went directly to our in-house cooler where they would start their adventure.
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One Year Anniversary
Come one, come all to Aslan Brewing Company's 1-Year Anniversary Party. It was one helluva year, and we wanted to say thanks to all of YOU by hosting the biggest party we've ever thrown!
We transformed our parking lot into a BEER GARDEN, complete with lawn games and outdoor bar. LIVE MUSIC played all day long outside acts included:
Sammy Eisen-Meyers Duo // Sam Chue // Baby Cakes // Major Strum & Friends // Rivers+Roads
To top it all off, we hosted a SUNSET CIRCUS SHOW from the Bellingham Circus Guild! Aerialist, variety acts in between, and a fire show on the patio.
Thank you all for supporting Aslan Brew these last 12 months! Cheers!
Brew Collaboration: Base Camp Brewing Company PART II - B'HAM
Base Camp Brewing Co. was in-house this last weekend to do the second batch of our collaboration beer. Our first collaboration happened down at Base Camp Brewing where we decided on an Imperial Steam Bock. So... Base Camp Brewing has a batch of Imperial Steam Bock and now we have a batch! In a couple weeks we will be releasing both batches with a name. We brewed beer, talked beer, drank beer and went on beer adventures.
Outside Patio OPEN this Saturday!
Mark your calendars, April 4th will be our first day with an open patio. We will have full service and hopefully sun. Puppies and children are welcome!
NOW ON TAP! - Witbier
Hallertau
MALT:
Oats, Pilsner, Wheat AWARDS:
[2015] Gold / Belgian Style Wits / Washington Beer Awards
Spring Cleaning Day!
Well, it's that time of year and we needed to take a day off and do some spring cleaning. We dedicated the whole day to dusting, painting, scraping, planting, sweeping, mopping, and re-arranging. It was by all means a success! And nothing tops a full day of cleaning like hanging out on our own patio, eating pizza and drinking beer. Cheers to a succesful spring cleaning day!
