Firestone Walker has a new R&D brewer in Venice, Evan Partridge. And if you would like to meet him and see the brewhouse, well, your chance is coming soon….
New Reuben
Two big pieces of news from the “other” brewery in El Segundo. Rob Rubens Distilling and Brewing has hired a new brewer in Shawn Manriquez formerly of The Homebrewer in San Diego. Manriquez collaborated with breweries and distilleries such as Modern Times, Mason Aleworks, 32 North, SD Distillery, and more.
This will allow their starting brewer Jeremy to focus on the distilling side of the world.
The second item is that their 1st “Beerversary” is coming up on June 3rd where they will have a selection of limited release brews.
New for Abigaile
When Brian Brewer left for the soon-to-arrive Hop Saint, The Brewery at Abigaile needed a new brewer in Hermosa Beach and now they have appointed Paul Papantonio as head brewer Papantonio is formerly of Oskar Blues Brewery and Saint Archer Brewing and will be meeting and greeting the public on Friday, October 9th for a “Meet the Brewer” Tap Takeover. In a twist, the night will feature a selection of his favorite beers including Uinta Oak Jacked Imperial Pumpkin and Firestone Wookey Jack.
Dry River Brewing UPDATE
It looks like for all you Dry River backers and craft beer fans that happenings are afoot! Here is the latest Kickstarter update from the (hopefully) soon to come brewery!
“We’ve been busy-busy-busy since our last update, pursuing locations, working with lawyers and accountants, preparing to raise money for the build-out, all the fun parts of opening a brewery… And we’ve hit a major milestone and we wanted you to be the first ones to hear – we hired our brew-master!
Naga Reshi comes to us from Wynwood Brewing in Miami, but he’s been brewing professionally all over the world since 2007. Brazil, Holland, you name it – he’s probably brewed there. And he brings tons of Green brewing cred to the table. He designed, built, managed and sold a production brewery in Brazil that ran entirely off of solar power! Plus his recipes are super creative and he’s awesome at using local ingredients, like he did with his barrel-aged jungle-fruit Lambic series in Brazil…
We have a proposal in on a great space, right on the river, so we hope we’ll have a positive update there soon as well.