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Inside Silverton's HighGrain Brewing Co., a Sustainable Brew Hub with a Top-Notch Menu

By CityBeat Staff on Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:41 pm

Located in the former Silverton Memorial Municipal Building, HighGrain Brewing features old-world style beers with a modern twist, like a their Outram hefeweizen and Regen zwickelbier. The food menu from their in-house chef includes options for vegetarians, meat-eaters and kids. With a focus on sustainability, the brewery’s electricity is also 100-percent powered by wind, and at least one beer is carbon neutral. For a full feature on the brewery, click here. 6860 Plainfield Road, Silverton, highgrainbrewing.com.

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Exterior of the brewery, located in Silverton's 1950s Memorial Municipal Building.

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A flight of beers from HighGrain Brewing Co. HighGrain offers a wide range of styles, brewed by Matthew Utter, a former head brewer for Christian Moerlein. Utter, who lived in Germany for a decade, takes notable inspiration from the country’s beers and, where applicable, sticks very closely to the Reinheitsgebot purity laws, 500-year-old regulations that dictate the ingredients allowed to produce beer (water, barley, hops).

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Interior of the space. Utter and his partners, Brian Liscano and Josh Jansen, knew that wherever they opened the brewery, they wanted to run it as environmentally friendly as possible. This resulted in interior design choices that utilize reclaimed wood, seating made from recycled material and geothermal tunnels, which aid in HVAC control.

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There’s a wide selection of beer inspired by recipes from all over the world on the HighGrain taps including American sours, Lithuanian farmhouse ales and IPAs.

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Spread of tacos . The food menu at HighGrain ranges from tofu tenders with maple mustard and watermelon panzanella to barramundi with plantain salsa, a bologna sandwich with fried egg and biscuits made with spent grain from the brewery.

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Vegan farro stir-fry and a beer . “Having a chef in house and the way that we’re building our food menu, I want to create a beer menu that respects that. Not just pairs, but respects that in the sustainability aspect,” Utter says.

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Spread of sliders

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A variety of dishes and drinks. HighGrain’s focus on the environment also extends to where ingredients are sourced for beer.

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Walk through the brewery’s front doors and you’ll enter a wide-open dining area illuminated by natural light and complemented by LED orbs hanging from the ceiling. The bar is to your left and behind it the brewing area, which was where Silverton’s fire trucks and ambulances were previously housed. There’s more dining space in the back, elegant in its rustic modernity.

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