2014 World Beer Cup SD Winners

2014 World Beer Cup winners

Local winners from the Olympics of brewing

By Brandon Hernández, April 14, 2014 – 

The Olympics of beer, the World Beer Cup, went down last Friday, and while San Diego’s brewers didn’t get to parade into the event in matching jumpsuits to the cheers of their countrymen, they left a great deal of community pride in their wake. Not only did San Diego County brewing companies combine for an impressive 11 medals overall, one —Coronado Brewing Company — came back with the title of world’s Best Medium-sized Brewing Company.

Back in January, I commented on how the improved beers at Coronado’s Tecolote Canyon tasting room seemed to signal they were hitting a groove. The certified, industry-professional judges agreed, awarding CBC a gold for its flagship Islander IPA as well as a silver in the barley wine category for a newer creation, Old Scallywag, a barrel-aged version of which debuted earlier this year. This was the first “Best” win for a local brewing company since Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits (then Ballast Point Brewing Company) nabbed Best Small Brewing Company on the planet in 2010.

Speaking of Ballast Point, they came very close to beating out CBC for the Best Medium-sized crown. The company’s Sculpin IPA earned a gold medal and Barrel-Aged Navigator Doppelbock merited a bronze. Other local beers that garnered gold were Old Ale 2013, a strong beer wisely reissued byAleSmith last year, and Habitus, a rye IPA that Mike Hess Brewing Company recently began canning. It was Hess’ first World Beer Cup medal. Another operation to get win number one was Societe Brewing Company, a cult favorite known for IPAs and Belgian-inspired ales that, surprisingly, medaled with an Irish-style dry stout called The Pugilist.

As they have historically, the Pizza Port family of brewing operations did well. Both of its packaged beer factions, Port Brewing Company and The Lost Abbey medaled, with the latter earning silver for its raspberry sour ale, Framboise de Amarosa, and the former for its mega-hopped Hop 15 double IPA. Meanwhile, Pizza Port’s newest brewpub in Carlsbad’s Bressi Ranch development took silver for Shark Bite Red, and May the Port Be With You, an imperial porter from its original Solana Beach brewhouse (that scored extremely high with me ina review earlier this year), struck bronze.

Beers produced elsewhere with local ties also did well. The beers of Oggi’s Pizza & Brewing are brewed in San Clemente at Left Coast Brewing Company, so they’re considered part of America’s finest sudscape to some extent. The brewpub chain’s first-ever oaked offering, Barrel-Aged McGarvey’s Scottish Ale (a former San Diego Beer News Beer of the Week) took silver in the Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer category. And grabbing silver in the American-style Amber Lager category was Coedo Brewery, a Japanese operation that, in the past two years, has collaborated with both CBC and Ballast Point.

Held every two years, the World Beer Cup is the largest brewing competition on Earth. The full list of local winners is as follows.

  • Champion Mid-Size Brewing Company & Brewmaster — Coronado Brewing Company, Coronado
  • American-style Strong Pale Ale — Gold: Islander IPA; Coronado Brewing Company, Coronado
  • Australasian-style Pale Ale / International-style Pale Ale — Gold: Sculpin IPA; *Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits, Scripps Ranch*
  • Old Ale / Strong Ale — Gold: Old Ale 2013; AleSmith, Miramar
  • Rye Beer—Gold: Habitus; Mike Hess Brewing Company, North Park
  • American-style Amber / Red Ale — Silver: Shark Bite Red, Pizza Port Bressi Ranch, Carlsbad
  • American-style Sour Ale — Silver: Framboise de Amarosa; The Lost Abbey, San Marcos
  • Barley-Wine Style Ale — Silver: Oldy Scallywag; Coronado Brewing Company, Coronado
  • Classic Irish-style Dry Stout — Silver: The Pugilist; Societe Brewing Company, Kearny Mesa
  • Aged Beer — Bronze: Barrel-Aged Navigator Doppelbock; *Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits, Linda Vista*
  • Imperial India Pale Ale — Bronze: Hop 15; Port Brewing Company, San Marcos
  • Other Strong Beer — Bronze: May the Port Be With You; Pizza Port, Solana Beach

 

Origional article from SD Reader

Happy Birthday Michael Jackson!

“Take a moment today to raise a glass of your finest homebrew, preferably something Belgian-inspired, to honor a man who changed the world’s perception of beer and the course of American beer culture: Michael Jackson.

Here is what American Homebrewers Association founder and Brewers Association President Charlie Papazian had to share about Michael (as written in the forward to Michael Jackson’s Great Beers of Belgium):

“When Michael came into our lives he single-handedly changed the paradigm of beer. His quintessential The World Guide to Beer appeared in 1978 and revealed to us a world of beer made by real people with pride, history and culture. Michael cultivated a respect for beer and we were eager to learn. In the pages of his early work we discovered the fascinating, kaleidoscopic world of the great beers of Belgium. Little did we know in those early days the impact Michael would bring to American beer culture.”

For a more in-depth look at Michael Jackson’s influential career, please see this post.”

Via: American Homebrewers Association – 3/27/14

 

Savor San Diego – Craft Beer: Boldly Brewing What No Man Has Brewed Before.

Aired: 2/27/2014

San Diego’s recent emergence as the center of the craft brewing universe is the yeasty topic of this exciting episode. Explore the evolution of the beer industry in San Diego with Chef Su-Mei Yu as she visits key local producer and industry forerunner Ballast Point to learn about the art of brewing craft beer and then the fascinating White Labs in Mira Mesa to learn about brewer’s yeast.

SAVOR SAN DIEGO © 2014

Everything you need to know about cans.

“Delivery trucks could carry twice as many lightweight, stackable cans as bottles and distribute them much further”.

Check out the details: CanCentral.com

About Mobile West Canning:
Mobile West Canning provides mobile canning and packaging services for brewers in San Diego, Arizona and southern Nevada. Mobile West Canning offers brewers several options allowing them to can their beer in their brewery when the beer is freshest and ready to package.

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A time line of notable events.  8 Decades of Canned Beer.

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79 years ago the first American canned beer hit shelves in Richmond, Virginia. They came from a Newark, New Jersey brewery called Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company and sparked an almost immediate shift in the way that many of the nation’s breweries packaged their beer. In the almost eight decades that have followed the beer can has gone through many changes but also remained much the same. Above is a timeline of some of the notable events that have made the beer can what it is today. Happy 79th Birthday Beer Can!  – Craftcans.com

Manzanita Cans Chaotic Double IPA – With Mobile West Canning

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This Christmas Eve the Manzanita crew teamed up with Mobile West Canning to produce 379 cases of Chaotic Double IPA at a rate of up to 40 cans per minute.

Click here for a 13-second video of the canning process.

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Mobile West Canning is an affiliate of Mobile Canning Systems providing mobile canning and packaging services for brewers in San Diego. Mobile West Canning offers brewers several options allowing them to can their beer in their brewery when the beer is freshest and ready to package. This opens new opportunities for craft brewers to distribute their product beyond the tap room and make productive, profitable use of brewing capacity. We are dedicated to quality, service and preserving the integrity of your beer from the brewery to your customer. The Canning line is 100% mobile and ready to visit your brewery.

We are live in San Diego! The Canning Line has been delivered, the truck is ready, the crew is trained – full operations are underway!

Locally owned and operated in beautiful San Diego, our goal is to build long term relationships with local breweries to help them expand into new markets, increase sales and allow them to offer their customers the option of purchasing their beers in canned packages.

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TTB “Grand Re-Opening” Special!

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TTB “Grand Re-Opening” Special!

Now that the TTB has decided to Re-open their doors, Mobile West is celebrating with a Grand Re-opening special offer. For every can or label order received now through December 15th, we will fill the first 50 cases FREE! Remember, the label or can artwork needs to be approved by the TTB. Once the artwork is approved by the TTB the order can be submitted to the label or can vendor for processing.

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