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Review – Share This OC from The Bruery

Thanks to the generosity of The Bruery (shout out to Cambria), I got to sample the latest Share This offering: OC.

For the third iteration of this charitable series, Food Forward is the beneficiary to help with their aim of getting overabundant food off of neighborhood trees and to people who can use it.

OC has orange zest, TCHO cacao nibs and vanilla beans and it pours nearly black/dark brown. Of the three added flavors, the vanilla comes through the strongest, the cacao is strong too but there is much more of a lactose, smooth almost milkshake flavor to this beer. I wish that the orange zest was more present to add another layer to the vanilla and chocolate.

Recent Bruery beers have been tongue tingling sweet but OC steers clear of that trap without losing the strong flavors. This perfect as an Easter beer.

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Share 2

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The Bruery layered double meaning into their first Share This beer. Not only was it decidedly high alcohol and super rich and made for sharing with other beer geeks. But $1 from each bottle of Share This: Coffee went to the Free Wheelchair Mission and raised $50,000 or 550 wheelchairs!

For round two “The Bruery looked to the culinary world to provide inspiration for the second installment of their collaborative and charitable Share This® series. Being based in Southern California, we are very fortunate to have some of the best Mexican cuisine in the world. By channeling that local influence and considering all of the high-quality ingredients they could find, Mexico was an easy choice to be the next region. To help The Bruery develop an authentic flavor profile they worked with Chef Anne Conness, herself a Certified Cicerone®. After a lot of hard work (and some delicious tamale pie), Share This®: Mole was born; an Imperial Stout with ancho chilies, chipotle peppers, cinnamon, vanilla and cacao nibs.”

The beer will be available on November 11th

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In the Tap Lines for November 2016

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We now begin the holiday season. Of course, we still have to get past the election but then we can be merry with holiday ales and big beers by the fireside. So be thankful for our bounty of beer.

~ e-visits to three breweries from the Southern Oregon coast – Defeat River in Reedsport then to Devils Brewing in Coos Bay and finally Chetco Brewing in Brookings.
~ special featured reviews of beers that can pair well with Thanksgiving meals.
~ 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 Inside the Apple
~ I will tap the Firkin and give my no holds barred opinion on the craft beer world.

Here are two events to get your November started in the Los Angeles craft beer world:
1) November 16th – Bruery Share This Dinner at Sausal in El Segundo
2) November 20th – Lutefisk & Lefse Dinner at Brouwerij West

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Share-able

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Beers from The Bruery come in a bottle size and (sometimes) ABV that promotes sharing and now the Orange County brewery has announced a new bi-annual beer series, Share This.

The basics are that each release of Share This will both “spotlight unique ingredients and an important cause in a specific region.” The only constant being that the base beer will be an 11.9% ABV imperial stout.

ST:1 is an “imperial stout with Bourbon & Catimor variety coffee beans from the Cagat family farm of the highlands of Mindanao island in the Philippines.” The coffee coming to The Bruery via Mostra Coffee.

More importantly, each bottle of Share This™: Coffee produced, one dollar is donated to Free Wheelchair Mission’s efforts in the Philippines. Free Wheelchair Mission (FWM) is a nonprofit organization that provides wheelchairs at no cost to people with disabilities living in developing nations.