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Ever since the Blendery side of Beachwood Brewing started, the clock has been running for the three-year mark. That is when they could produce their Long Beach version of a traditional Belgian-style Gueuze with a blend of 1,2 and 3 year old beer.
And on September 8th, will herald their first ever 3-year blend, Funk Yeah! Keep tabs on their website for the pricing details.
The collaborations of 2018 continue at what I think is a blistering pace with one that just by hearing the participants names, I know I will look for it. Beachwood Blendery + Garage Project. Need I say more? Well, OK it is a Belgian style beer with buckwheat aged in oak barrels with strawberry and rhubarb.
This month will be a recovery of sorts from Firestone Walker and L.A. Beer Week. But that doesn’t mean the posts will be any less fun. For July Roadhouse Brewing sent me a “care package” introduction to their beers that will be talked about all month.
~ e-visits to three breweries from Wyoming
~ special featured reviews of Jackson, Wyoming’s Roadhouse
~ Heads-Up on Los Angeles Beer Events
~ Three suggested beers to buy this month. One light, one medium and one dark
~ A Book & A Beer reads I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
~ I will tap the Firkin and give my no holds barred opinion on the craft beer world.
Here are two events to get your July started in the Los Angeles craft beer world:
1) July 11 – Summer Fermantality Dinner at Beachwood Blendery
2) July 22 – DTLA United Festival 4.0
For those that have not visited the north of Glendale (my hood) and We’re Pouring, well here is an L.A. Beer Week excuse for you….
For us Valley folk, it is a great chance to get some Beachwood gems without a long drive.
As much as I like the few “Be Careful Eugene” fruited sours from the Beachwood Blendery, I like their forays into dry hopped and oak aged tartness more. And the chosen hop for Floating in Space, Mandarina Bavaria should add some nice citrus to the mix.
Herbs and beer is an under-explored segment. No Double Dry Herbed beers to be seen. But this new lambic-style offering from the Beachwood Blendery is a good start. The sugar of the strawberry should be well undercut by the herbs.
The Beachwood Blendery has taken a measured and well-planned out approach to creating their wild and sours and lambic beers. And the next step is for them to release their first 100% spontaneously fermented lambic inspired ale.
Coolship Chaos 2017 is a blend of the best barrels from our 2015-2016 coolship season. Why a season? Because due to weather and temperature, there are only small windows from which to let the “wild air” in and have it hit the wort just right.
And the hard work didn’t stop at meteorology. BB put together “a traditional grain bill of pilsner and unmalted wheat, a multi-step mash, long boil with aged hops…” Then they had to find which barrels should be used for this batch, which would get fruit added to them and which wouldn’t.
Then….”No bottle conditioning yeast was added to the bottles on this run, only priming sugar, to achieve a natural refermentation in the bottle. The beer then sat in our warm conditioning room for five months until fully carbonated and up to our standards of taste, completely ready for your drinking pleasure.”
Coolship Chaos is both event and bottle sale and will only be available through this ticket site on Friday, May 12th at 12pm.
Starting tonight, those of us in the valley can get a taste of Beachwood Blendery without making the drive or long Blue Line ride to Long Beach.
Check the graphic above and plan your sour schedule accordingly.
It has taken 18 months of brewing, aging and blending but we all knew the time would come when the Beachwood Blendery and The Propagation Series started making way for lambics and that time is starting with Fortune Favors the Funk, a ‘Lambic inspired’ ale which will drop on Friday, June 24th during L.A. Beer Week.
Working with Sierra Nevada in the tasting and blending phase + the Ex-598 hop from Sierra Nevada experimental team has led to….
“Fortune Favors the Funk was brewed with traditional lambic ingredients; pilsner malt, unmalted wheat and aged hops boiled for three hours. The base beer was fermented in neutral oak barrels and aged for almost a year. After blending, the beer was dry hopped with ex-598 hops, bottled with wine yeast, and allowed to condition for over two months. Fortune Favors the Funk has a classic rustic profile balanced with solid acidity, full body, and clean finish.”
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Looks like the beer fan on your Christmas list will get an early gift. Beachwood Blendery will open up for a couple days next month on December 12th from 2:00pm-10:00pm and then on December 13th from 12:00pm-6:00pm
The Tasting Room Tap list will include + for sale bottles include:
Propagation Series 004 – Ale with Rye, Lactobacillus, and Brettanomyces
Propagation Series 008 – Ale with Spelt, Brettanomyces, and Hallertau Blanc hops
Propagation Series 016 – Ale aged in oak barrels with Brettanomyces
Propagation Series 032 – Ale with Brettanomyces aged in Oak Barrels with Pluots