August 19, 2008
Thanks for the kind words brewdad! I’m the brewer you spoke to, the names Dave, but everyone at the brew house generally calls me the Kid due to my age/ the abundance of other Daves. Anyone is always welcome to walk on in to the brewery for a full tour and plenty of generous samples not to mention hours of entertaining BS (beer shit of course). Passion is our game around here. The brewery may be old, and perhaps a bit antiquated, but the spirit is here, and then some. Once again, thanks and welcome to all future visitors, we can’t wait to tip one back with yah!

August 4, 2008
This is not the easiest place to find so you have to remind yourself that you’re looking for a deli and then you will find it. So look for the Old World Deli and you will have found the brewery. Tucked in the back of the deli wow what a interesting place to walk into the deli is like 4 businesses mixed up into one. They have this open court yard feel almost like you’re in old Mexico. So once there look into the windows that divide the deli from the brewery if they (The Brewers) are there you are in. The brewer said come on in and we bs’d for about an hour. Sampled beers and talked brewing got the full nickel tour. They brew with a 7 BBL system and on this day they where brewing their Wit beer. The brewer (Insert Name) he was studying fermentation sciences over at Oregon State University – Go Beavers, and was full of such great beer passion. I found the beers to be very good. Started with the Wit and wow it was so fresh the added orange peel I can attest to is go vast they for sure have a special beer here. I also loved the IPA it was also so fresh. The hops where balanced well with the malts making this a very easy to drink IPA. I also got to try the Brown ale and Beaver Tail these beers did not disappoint either. After a good hour of BS I had to leave and also make my next stop before they closed. This is a place to visit try to come when they are brewing so you get the whole feel. Kids are OK in the deli area but not in the brewery.

November 11, 2007
Interesting little hidden deli, we were there for the deli and it was like, oh, this is Oregon Trail?. The place feels like an outdoor market inside, little patios, plants, and weird stuff on the walls. I didn’t try the food, but they had some good looking sandwiches and some already prepared stuff that you could order and heat up. They only had 5 of their beers on tap and some Henry Weinhards stuff (probably to make their beer look better). Now reading MJ’s post I wish someone was around to give me the tour and let me try some of their other offerings.

January 7, 2006
This is a really neat kind of a hole in the wall in the back of the building behind the deli. Dave, is a great managing instigator as he puts it. Make sure you try the Black Wito and the Barleywine.

December 23, 2005 [ Updated November 23, 2009 ]
The brewery does not own the restaurant, but rents the space from the building owners - and don’t just sit in the deli and drink from their taps, you need to knock on the door and go talk to whoever is in the brewery - ask for the tour and some samples. They accomodated us very well, let us sample a number of their beers not offered out in the deli. Awesome setup that looks like a homebrewers idea gone mad. Three floors consisting of a cellar with their porter aging in bourbon barrels, their brew tank, which they said was the original Pyramid tank, and their nifty set of more modern fermentors. A fantastic tour with some great experimental and rare beer sampled right out of the kegs in the fridge. It’s just a shame that they don’t bottle anything, because they know what they’re doing at Oregon Trail. Solid beer all around. Highlights included the guy using a wine theif to draw off of the porter still aging in barrel, as well as let us sample their first batch of this beer than was unintentionally infected - the same batch they mixed with the wit to create the Black Wiido.

December 23, 2005
The brewery is located at the back of the Old World Deli and Pub, it appears to be a small room. Asked at the deli about sampling the beers and they directed us to go directly into the brewing room and talk to the brewer. The deli’s food is alright, but nothing that I couldn’t make at home. Went in to the brewery and talked the person brewing that day, he was a student at OSU in the fermentation science program. Said they had two part-time brewers (both students in fermentation science). He gave us a tour of their setup, which goes up three floors. We then tasted about nine beers, including a barley wine, still in the tank, and a bourbon barrel aged porter, still in the barrel (both were quite tasty). Besides these brought others out of their cooler, including a few that were somewhat rare (a summer seasonal, black widow, and blackberry widow). Said the brewery has been at the site since 1987. They are not affilated with the deli, who has been in operation since the 1970s, except for their rental of the space and distribution of their beers. The brewer was very friendly and informative; enjoyed visiting this brewery.

June 30, 2005
The brewery is located at the back of an establishment called the Olde World Deli. As you walk back to the deli counter the brewing equipment is visible to your left. Nice laid back atmosphere..the layout of the place is very spacious with tables scattered about what looks like a covered Bavarian alley..some other stores front into the alley. The beers I had were of above average for the regular brew pub. The only complaint was there were only 4 available plus two macros..one of which was Hamms of all things. Food was regular deli stuff..soup, sandwiches, salads and lasagne. Staff was very nice, friendly people. A nice place to take lunch in Corvallis.

March 11, 2005
Old deli with a new feel to it. Plaid vinyl tableclothes, bavarian decor. More of a lunch place than a brewery. Either way, they made some damn tasty sandwiches and had 4 beers of their own on tap. They don’t offer sampler trays but were willing to give us small opaque plastic cups to try them. Worth a stop if in the area. Wouldn’t take any credit/debit cards so we had to find a bank in an unknown town.