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Budge Brother Brewery is owned and operated by Bruce and Brad Budge. On the shoulder of these two brothers, and with support from Mr. Budge (their father) and the Budge family, you have a family effort that works very hard to produce a year-round lineup.
The mighty and powerful Bruce Budge about carries the entire brewery production, recipes, and quality on his capable shoulders. Bruce and Brad relates Bruce' lifetime interest in fermenting and curing.
The foremost Budge Brother offering is the Orangutan IPA. (I call it the Orange-U-Tan as it is a bright orange from the malted grain Bruce uses.) Bruce has evolved the recipe to a more an ever sophisticated blend of malted barley (this is a drier IPA with somewhat low final gravity) that uses finishing-only hops. I dunno if Bruce performs a boil of the mash only or if he performs a second boil of the wort, also. (I forget to ask.) Yet Bruce plies the flavoring hops late in the boil, so with gentle care you receive a strong hops scent and flavor with the fragile aromatics intact.
Orangutan IPA is the vanguard of the Budge Brothers lineup.
Hop Train is a stronger and more complex take on the Orangutan IPA, without the orange. A higher ABV and gravity that is well hopped.
Spokamber Ale is the gentle Amber Ale offering. A drier, low final gravity ale with seemingly little if any hops at all.
Extra Stout is dark and a little malty sweet, so a high final gravity.
My fave Orange-U-Tan.
The extra additional quality is the ever present popped corn that Brad pops using a very specific recipe in what looks like a 1970s or so-era popped corn popper. Brad uses specific brands of popped corn and sweet cream (salted) butter only. Nothing else. And the popped corn is excellent and smells inviting. Sometimes Brad will run a recipe of caramel popped corn, yet he has to clean the popcorn machine, he laments. (Just run a few regular popcorn runs that'll clean it out!)
It's a family business and privately owned by a nice family. (Hope Brad is back, helming the bar.)
I'd give five stars now. Here's my reservations, however. Spokane is the CIA-company town par none. Bunches of MK Ultra, Cointelpro, Air Force intelligence, the fraternal of you know, the same crap that defined Nazi Germany in the run up to Nazi German-committed genocide on Jews, Poles, Russians, Slavs, as well as Stalin's Communist Russia.
The Spokane region harbors some of the worst of American fascism and evil, and many regular patrons at Budge Brothers are part and parcel of what defines American evil and corruption. Some call them 'civilian perpetrators'. Even folks from Canada, such as Canadian Intelligence, show up and keep tabs on it, just to pay witness as to how dog-awful the USA remains. The evil worsens.
So, if you are a what is called 'violated citizen', what some may call a 'targeted individual' (The CIA-victim term), do not patron Budge Brothers and like breweries. These regulars, that are civilian perpetrators, will threaten and harass a contract, or target, with putting a 'roofie in your beer while you are in the bathroom' or with some suggestion violence against your person. A Spokane city police car usually waits outside someplace at odd-hours of the day.
In short, stay away from the Spokane region, N. Idaho, and Western Montana, yet it is across the USA.
Fight back, and demand the attention of your elected officials.
Else, some good beer here. Maybe go early in the day?
Or try Perry Street Brewing. No gang-stalking there, so far, that I can tell.
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