Cardinal Craft Brewing

English Summer Ale is a sessionable, and highly refreshing beer style. Designed to combat the heat, it typically pours straw-to-gold, features a crisp, biscuity malt profile, and showcases bright, floral, or gently citrusy hops.

Vienna Lager ranges from copper to reddish brown in color. The beer is characterized by malty aroma and slight malt sweetness. The malt aroma and flavor should have a notable degree of toasted and/or slightly roasted malt character. Hop bitterness is low to medium-low.

The California common is brewed with lager yeast but fermented at ale fermentation temperatures. There is a noticeable degree of toasted malt and/or caramel-like malt character in flavor and often in aroma. Often referred to as “steam beer". Woody and mint flavor are classic notes from the Northern Brewer hops.

The addition of oatmeal adds a smooth, rich body to the oatmeal stout. This beer style is dark brown to black in color. Roasted malt character is caramel-like and chocolate-like, and should be smooth and not bitter. Coffee-like roasted barley and malt aromas are prominent. Cold brew coffee was added to the conditioning tank to give this beer a rich aroma and coffee flavor profile.

German-style Kolsch is a beer hybrid, meaning that its production and subsequent beer drinking experience saddles qualities of both lager beers and ale beers. These light and refreshing ale-lager hybrids are perfect for warm summer days and have become a favored style by American craft brewers and beer lovers.

Emphasizing hop aroma and flavor without bracing bitterness, the Hazy IPA leans heavily on late and dry hopping techniques to deliver a bursting juicy, tropical hop experience. The skillful balance of technique and ingredient selection, often including the addition of wheat or oats, lends an alluring haze to this popular take on the American IPA.

Skagit Valley College turns 100 in 2026! To celebrate we created a Red Ale featuring Skagit Valley Malting Pilot Pale Malt and Centennial Hops from the Yakima Valley. A red ale lends to the perception of medium hop bitterness, flavor and aroma. Coupled with a solid malt profile, this should be a beer with balance between hop bitterness and malt sweetness.

Dole-Licious IPA is a Hazy IPA that has been infused with 100% Dole Pineapple Juice for a tropical flavor and aroma. Made with Skagit Valley Malt and hopped with Chinook and Azacca.

The Robust Porter features more bitter and roasted malt flavor than a brown porter, but not quite as much as a stout. Robust porters have a roast malt flavor, often reminiscent of cocoa, but no roast barley flavor. Their caramel and malty sweetness is in harmony with the sharp bitterness of black malt.

Malt and caramel are part of the flavor and aroma profile of the English-style mild and Hop bitterness is very low to low. These beers are very low in alcohol, yet often are still medium-bodied due to increased dextrin malts. This is a two time International Beer Awards Medal Winner 2026 Gold and 2025 Bronze!!

PNW IPA brewed with 2 Row and Munich malts for a light golden color. This refreshing IPA has Chinook and Cascade hops throughout the boil for the traditional hop bitterness and pleasant aromas.

Skagit Valley College turns 100 in 2026! To celebrate we created a Blonde Ale featuring Skagit Valley Malting Pilot Pale Malt and Centennial Hops from the Yakima Valley. Blonde ale is an easy-drinking beer that is visually appealing, rounded and smooth