Situated 2.5 hours from Boise, in La Grande, OR Mt. Emily Alehouse is strategically positioned at just the right place for a cool beverage on my way west. In this case, Ellensberg, WA. It is a basic brew house with a small menu, but brewpubs are just cool no matter what, and this one is on the I-84 corridor that I travel a few times a year.
Stopping there this time, on the way to Ellensberg, WA, I timed it so that I would arrive right when they open at 11AM and it worked out just about right.
They had a Strawberry honey ale there that was the only one of theirs currently on tap that I hadn’t had yet. It was tasty but a bit of a girly beer. I was in a hurry and needed to get back on the road so I didn’t have any food
They had a oak aged barely wine there as well but it was their last 3 gallons and they weren’t giving out tasters of it. Since a pint was $8, and 11% ABV, I passed. Very strange that they didn’t offer a smaller serving for something that strong, that expensive and so low on supplies that they wouldn’t even let you taste it. Tactical error in my opinion.
