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If you do not look at the above list (get past the mustard colored background) and want to head to San Pedro, well then you truly have worse festival fatigue than me.
Brouwerij West has gathered quite the assortment including two breweries with creature in the name. They will also be releasing a brand new beer the day of for fest goers. The location is fantastic and you can get your tickets right HERE.
So with a recent tasting of Saison Dupont still on my mind, I picked up a local version from Brouwerij West, Saison Extra to compare and contrast.
This is farmhouse for sure. Filled with hints. Tiny touch of Brett character here. Tiny bit of Hefeweizen character over here. Surprisingly this is a really wet beer. Mineral notes fill the end notes. The Saison pours a slightly hazy yellow color.
Compared to the Dupont, this is more restrained in many respects and touches on some of the strong suits of the Belgian beer but that wetness makes it it’s own creation.
Admit it, you saw the Brouwerij West name and thought IPA. But this new beer, Bears Ears, is a Märzen lager bier. Per the brewery, “German malts are the driving force behind this wonderfully delicious seasonal offering, with a slight sweetness quickly giving way to rich, toasty-bread crust qualities.”
Brouwerij West has been quietly notching some impressive collaboration partners like Great Notion most recently and now a new (closer) brewery in Pizza Port. Hotel Zebra is filled with Idaho 7, Comet, Simcoe and Citra to meld that dank San Diego Pizza Port profile to the softer and hazier Brouwerij West.
I have been wondering when Brouwerij West was going to take their inventive can label art and push it one step further to interactive….
…get your Scrabble skills ready and a 4-pack of a perfect for summer, super light Rice Lager.
You might have seen this beautiful label and thought that Brouwerij West has another NE IPA ready for you but no, this is a watermelon, lime and cucumber Berliner Weisse and it is just in time for the summer and sounds like a great flavor mix if they have hit the tartness level just right.
Well, this one is probably going to go fast due to two words, Great and Notion…
I will look for it because of the wicked cool design and because I love how Brouwerij West uses the good malt from Mecca Grade.
If you need an excuse to visit the food section of Banc of California stadium then sour beers provides it on Friday April 26th @ 5pm.
Sour selections pouring from Hill Farmstead, Evil Twin, (our own) Brouwerij West, BFM, Crooked Stave, (again, our own) Homage, OEC Brewing, and a Sour IPA from Modern Times and Upright Brewing.
Brouwerij West has awesome can designs. Multiple stickers creating a collage effect on the shiny silver cans. For their new IPA, they have given the artist one full sticker to render a happy (and toothy) cat who is either named Bounce or is filled with bounce.
Just when I think that Brouwerij West has made too difficult a label, well, they go and top themselves. This time mauve, pink and blue clouds grace their latest IPA, Hitchhiking Ghosts. Oh and I bet the liquid inside it just as artistic.