Skyline Tour

While in Klamath Falls, the group had a chance to tour Skyline Brewing. It was the last stop of the day and we were scheduled to have a  group barbecue dinner during the tour. I had expectations of a brew/pub type experience, it seemed to be an obvious fact that we would visit some trendy facility that caters to the mobile yupsters (young hipsters or affluent followers of trends). I was dead wrong. We ended up on a farm/ranch that produces beef cattle with two brothers Ty and Ry Kliewer, and not only that, my family has a connection to this outfit.

I quickly found out that Ty and Ry have been in the cattle business a long time and that they had been known to show their critters not only in Klamath Falls but around the state and beyond. Mike and Marilyn had shown animals all over Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Colorado and had many opportunities to visit with mostly Ty, but Ry also, throughout their fair attendance. Since I was the one who stayed home to babysit the rest of the herd, I had never met the brothers before.

But this was a brewing tour, so we went inside one of the barns that from the outside looked like it was an old milking parlor for a dairy. The story unfolded that the brothers had an idea that someday they would like to try their hand at brewing beer. The opportunity came to them while vacationing in Hawaii.

By sheer chance, they happened to see some 1000 gallon brewing tanks gathering dust in a corner (the corner being very large because each tank is nearly the size of a VW bug and there were three of them) as they were going around sightseeing. When inquiring about the equipment, the owner said he had a goal of brewing craft beer but it wasn’t for him and was going to scrap the metal. Ty and Ry talked him out of sending them to recycle, figured out how to ship them from Hawaii to Oregon, and set them up in the barn on the farm.

Now, between family and farm duties, brewing, kegging and delivering their beer is on the list of things to be done. Local pubs in the area are clamoring for the varieties of small scale craft beers to be sold on tap in their facilities and Skyline Brewing fits the bill. The cattle and farming business will continue to be an on-going objective for this hard working family along with their passion for brewing. The tour was a big hit.

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