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The beer represents the first in the brewery\u2019s Maker Series, a food-based <\/span>collaboration series that highlights integrity in process and ingredients<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Portland, OR — Little Beast Brewing announced today the upcoming release of Merit Badge S\u2019mores Imperial Stout, the first beer in the brewery\u2019s Maker Series. In Oregon, the beer is available beginning Saturday, October 26 at 12:00pm exclusively at the Little Beast Brewing Beer Garden in SE Portland. In Seattle, Merit Badge will be served for on-site consumption at both Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery restaurants during a November 1 beer release, and sold to-go exclusively at both Chuck\u2019s Hop Shop locations.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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A full-bodied and luscious confection ale, Merit Badge is 11% ABV and is brewed with whole ingredients including 1.5 pounds of Meridian Cacao Co.\u2019s Tanzanian cacao nibs per barrel, graham flour, cinnamon, vanilla, and organic dry-burned caramel syrup from Hot Cakes in Seattle for an extra layer of complexity. The malt bill includes Briess cherrywood smoked malt and German beechwood smoked malt for extra campfire flavor. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Merit Badge represents the first beer in Little Beast\u2019s new food-based Maker Series, which aims to highlight, through quarterly collaborations, the exquisite craftsmanship of specialty food artisans. The first in the series is a collaboration with Hot Cakes, a Seattle dessert restaurant founded by confection maker Autumn Martin, and is directly inspired by the organic s\u2019mores molten hot cake served at Hot Cakes. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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\u201cBefore starting Little Beast my career and passion was in specialty food. I worked directly with food artisans that inspired me with their integrity of process and ingredients,\u201d said Little Beast co-founder Brenda Crow. \u201cAutumn is one of those artisans, and she is one of the most creative people I know. She was a chocolatier, she runs a plant-based ice cream shop called Frankie & Jo’s, and she opened up Hot Cakes, which serves extraordinary desserts, packaged confections, and other sweet things. When we dreamed up the Maker Series, Autumn\u2019s Hot Cakes was always going to be our first collaboration.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Beer release information<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Portland, OR – On October 26 at 12:00pm Little Beast will release Merit Badge to the public at their year-round beer garden in SE Portland. The brewery produced only a couple kegs and 75 cases of the beer, fourteen of which will be sent to Seattle. 4-packs cost $22 and are limited to six 4-packs per customer. During the beer release, Little Beast will also serve Hot Cakes S\u2019mores molten chocolate cake until sold out. The dessert is made with smoked chocolate, marshmallow, and graham crumble. Alongside Merit Badge, Little Beast will release the 2018 vintage of Radical Forces, a 10.7% adventuresome beer with loads of 2018 whole cluster Pinot Noir grapes from Echo Hill Vineyard in North Plains, Oregon.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Seattle, WA – On Friday November 1, Little Beast will release Merit Badge for on-site drinking at both Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery locations in Seattle. Both restaurants will receive two cases and will serve a specialty dessert to pair with the decadent S\u2019mores beer. Little Beast co-founders, Brenda Crow and Charles Porter, will be at the Capitol Hill location to say hi to sweet-toothed fans beginning at 4:00pm. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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In Washington, to-go 4-packs of Merit Badge are available exclusively at Chuck\u2019s Hop Shop beginning November 1. Both Chuck\u2019s Hop Shop locations will receive five cases of the beer.<\/span><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n
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About Little Beast:<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n\n
Founded by partners in life and work, Charles Porter and Brenda Crow, Little Beast is a family brewery with a passion for making great beer and sharing it with others. We craft wild, wood-aged, and blended beer naturally with diverse cultures, including Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, and wild flora. By harnessing the little beasts that ferment our beer, we capture their untamed beauty and produce farmhouse beers that are diverse in flavor and rare in character.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Founded in 2008 by Autumn Martin, Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery is two dessert restaurants in Seattle, WA, and a line of organic retail desserts sold nationwide. Rooted in the PNW, we inspire and nurture our community by creating beautiful, organic desserts. We are dedicated to our employees and partnerships, and advocate for the preservation of wild and farm lands.<\/span>
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