I do not care if I bore you with Hopworks beers. Because I think they are great and can’t get enough of them.
Stone Media Day – Liberty Station
To whet your appetite for the upcoming Stone World Bistro and Gardens in San Diego, here are a couple renderings of what it will look like.
Stone Media Day – the photos
Part two of the Stone blitz is purely photos. Enjoy!
Review – New Planet – 3R Raspberry
We here at Beer Search Party central return to the world of gluten-free beer thanks to a special set of beers supplied by New Planet of Colorado.
Indiana Brewery # 2 – People’s Brewing Company
Our second Indiana stop is People’s Brewing of Lafayette. Like most medium to large cities. Lafayette had a thriving beer scene and it looks ready to revive thanks to beers like these….
Layflatter Lager
German Lager beer… Light and refreshing lager made for ball games and yard work. We used our Midwest malted Harrington malt and Centennial hops. This beer is brewed for the people of Lafayette, also known as “LayFlatters”.
Aberrant Amber
American Style Amber with an twist. We started with a classic American Amber, 22% Caramalt giving it an Amber hue. Then added a large addition of Amarillo and Centennial hops for the bittering and dry hoped with Amarillo, giving it notes of grapefruit and tangerine. The complexity of the malts and hops in this beer make it a great ale for anyone who loves flavor.
Stone Media Day – quick recap
The Stone Brewing that you know now will be so much bigger and cooler in 2013 than 2011. As you may have seen in the Twitter-sphere and on Facebook, Stone is expanding and in typical Stone fashion, boldly.
I was among the lucky people that got to experience the news in one day straight from the source, Greg Koch and Steve Wagner. We traveled from the Stone World Bistro in Escondido, to Liberty Station near the San Diego airport to a lovely little farm in North San Diego county. And it was jam packed with news. So here goes…..
1. A new Stone store will be opening in the South Park area of San Diego. Similar to the store at the World Bistro. You can get a growler fill, buy a bottle and get a shirt. It will be tremendous for those in San Diego who now don’t have to trek north to get their beer.
2. A new World Bistro will open at Liberty Station. In the old Navy mess hall! And you can play bocce! (OK, I have never played bocce, so I don’t know why I put the exclamation point there) And their will be a brewery on site that might make some interesting one-off beers.
3. And they bought a farm! Yes, a real working farm that supplies part of the food for the restaurant. It may end up hosting educational events that reinforces the Stone locavore ethos and might be the site for beer dinners. It already has an outdoor oven and a great little lake. Combine that with the great San Diego weather and you have a winner.
4. The headquarters is expanding and not by a little. This will be HUGE! A new production facility about the size of what they currently have right next door. An expanded kitchen, more parking, electric vehicle charging spots near the front door. Then across the parkway will be a 50 seat boutique hotel, a barrel aged and sour beer facility and another garden.
5. There will be a lottery for the Barrel aged Macadamia collaboration porter in the new fancy caged and corked bottles because they will not hit the regular distribution chain. Why? There are only 672 of them.
6. Today is the brew day for the charity Green Tea IPA collaboration. A big 9% beer with loads of tea and literally a world of hops in it.
7. The Belgo Anise Imperial Stout is excellent. Big anise and coffee aromas. Not heavy and viscous at all. It is lively and fun to drink. Unless you do not like black licorice. It will be available along with the regular Imperial Stout in a couple of weeks.
Oh and there is something about a brewery in Europe too.
In a couple days, I will talk about what I believe the future holds for these Stone ventures.
for S.I.L.
When you sign up for the Brookston Beer Bulletin e-mail, one of the features is beer birthdays. Every day it seems some mover and shaker in the beer realm gets a birthday shout-out.
Well, today, I am doing my own much more anonymous version.
Happy Birthday to one of my beer tasters. Hopefully I won’t make you taste anything worse than I did last year. Either way, thanks for the help in identifying mystery flavors and providing a sounding board .
BeerBelly
It is great to see on the Beer Belly Facebook page all of the progress to their opening. I just wish it would come sooner.
I have met Jimmy Han who is behind the venture and he is truly passionate about craft beer and he is bringing it to a part of town that doesn’t have a lot of options but is growing.
UPDATE: I visited on day 2 of Beer Belly being open and can report that the beer list is great. Bootlegger’s Plum Riot and Craftsman Citrus Saison and the food is not boring pub grub. Plus you can get a Fried Twinkie.
I heartily recommend visiting.
Craft Beer Week in America
It starts today. And you know there will be events aplenty. That is why I am here to guide you with this handy three step plan of action.
First, make sure to sign up to get the L.A. Beer Blast first.
Then go HERE for more event listings.
Lastly, for you FaceBook fans, go HERE
News and Brews blog
New angles onto the craft beer world are hard to come by in this blogging world but this is a novel twist. Matching the news of the world with the great beer of the world.
News and Brews is a nice site that you can learn about something in addition to beer!
So check it out and let me know what you think!