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Stone Brewing has two options for you if you want to got to their 28th Anniversary party in November. One, you can get Main Festival tickets and sample dozens of amazing beers from Stone and our friends in the industry. Or two, get the Rare Beer ticket so that you can access your own special private festival area on the Stone campus in Escondido.
Head HERE to choose.
Our last Pennsylvania stop in our Seen Through a Glass podcast tour is New Trail Brewing Co. in Williamsport.
Let’s get a taster flight going….
Crisp Lager – “Crisp Lager is handmade for easy drinking using only 4 craft ingredients. We only use the finest malts, American Noble hops, Pennsylvania mountain water, and lager yeast in perfect balance for a brilliant golden beer that’s full-flavored, refreshing, and above all, Crisp Lager.”
Lazy River Dry-Hopped Pils – “Lazy River Pils is brewed as a traditional German Pilsner, then dry-hopped with hand-selected Citra hops from the Pacific Northwest. We started with German Pilsner and German Munich malts for a highly crisp and refreshing, light and flavorful Pilsner. Our Citra then adds bright orange citrus aroma that will be essential to your adventures.”
S.O.B. Hill IPA – “S.O.B. Hill is named in honor of The Hyner View Trail Challenge. We’ve been sponsoring this 50 kilometer trail race since we opened, and the course culminates with the final rise – S.O.B. Hill. This American IPA is clear, floral, fruity and slightly bitter.”
Double Broken Heels DIPA – “Double Broken Heels is our Hazy IPA, Broken Heels, with more malt and hops to make it a Hazy Double IPA. Brewed with oats and hopped with a mix of our favorite American hops including Citra & Mosaic.”
Highland Park Brewery has an on again, off again dark lager with the funny name of Bortz, that they now refer to as a “Dark Gnome Wizard Lager” described as “a beautiful dark mahogany appearance & roasty aromas of dark chocolate, bread crust, while remaining extra refreshing & crisp.”
Now Indianal’s Tulip Tree Creamery, is using Bortz in their latest For their Hops cheese series where they collaborate with different breweries. The Bortz cheese is a semi-soft double-cream cheese infused with Bortz.
Each year the Orange County Brewers Guild scare up the Brewers Mash in October for local beers and frights.
The frightful fest is on October 26th this year at the Heritage Museum of Orange County. So get your costumes ready for some trick-or-treating and maybe some spooky special releases.
Just down the coastline, Brouwerij West has a late summer Pilsner out now that they brewed up with Altamont Brew works, the resulting light beer is Live Animals and is a 5.5% West Coast Pils.
San Pedro has some big waterfront plans in the pipeline in what is called the West Harbor Development ( see one of the proposed renderings below ) and some possible tenants are either onboard or linked to it at this point.
From the craft beer perspective, San Diego based Mike Hess Brewing is one of these tenants which means that you might be able to hit up both Brouwerij West and Mike Hess in a day down by ocean.
Your Beer Friend which has themed beer packages to buy throughout the year is now debuting their craft beer trailer. A 1955 trailer is now a rolling bar with six taps in it.
They are now accepting reservations for the trailer for events in Los Angeles and Orange County.
Every once in a while, I like to give some flowers to label designs that show extra effort, are fun and just flat out rise above the cut.
Burgeon Beer Co. takes a diner ticket approach to Order Up.
There are loads of little details. The color is spot on and there is even a binder clip as well. All with enough space and room for the hop bill and the charitable causes logos too. Works on all levels.
In my reviews of N/A beer, I often lament that an IPA should be easy. Just throw all the hops at it. That often does not work. I currently hold the position that an N/A bourbon should be straightforward as well. Get some oak notes, get some vanilla.
Let’s see what Spiritless and their distilled non-alcoholic spirit for Bourbon cocktails, Kentucky 74 does…
I can smell a load of spice coming off of this. Is it Fireball? There is also a strange secondary aroma as well. Granted, before I get too far. I am not cocktailing, just tasting straight. Very thin and more spiced like a rum. How this applies to a traditional Bourbon cocktail eludes me. Glad I didn’t spend the $35 bucks for a bottle.
You go around the sun enough times and you run into everything. Even a biegarten in Munich that serves only alcohol free beer.
Click the Facebook link HERE for a short video.
Personally, one spot in an entire large city should not worry German brewers and instead should make them look at their offerings to see what they can do better.