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For the Love of Beer: Spend This Valentine’s Day at the Arizona Strong Beer Festival

 With the 15th annual Arizona Strong Beer Festival set for this Saturday, Feb. 14, craft beer connoisseurs and the people who love them have exactly three days to score passes for Arizona’s biggest and best beer festival. VIP passes are all tapped out, but there are still General Admission and Designated Driver passes available for those who don’t want to miss this unforgettable celebration of the state’s signature suds. Score Strong Beer Festival tickets here, and don’t forget to check out ArizonaBeerWeek.com for a complete list of events scheduled for Arizona’s nine-day nod to our state’s explosive craft beer culture.

15th Annual Celebration of Craft Beer with over 150 breweries and over 400 craft beers on tap. 

Although strong beers (those with high alcohol content) are the focus at the festival, a huge variety of craft beers — as well as specialty styles and unique, just-for-this-event brews — are made available to festival-goers, who will receive a commemorative flute style tasting glass.

Dozens of games to play and food truck grub to pair with your brews.

General Admission Tickets – $45

Includes:

  • 40 tasting tickets
  • commemorative 2oz glass

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MicroBrewr 048: Package your beer cheap and easy with mobile canning

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You pinched every penny. You begged, borrowed, and stole to start your brewery. People are enjoying your beer at the taproom, and now you want to expand your reach. You still don’t have capital to buy a dedicated canning or bottling line. Matt Woempner, from Mobile West Canning, in San Diego, California, explains how mobile canning can work for you.

Mobile Canning West serves San Diego, Arizona and Southern Nevada. Mobile Canning Systems provides training and guidance to all of their affiliates. So if you’re outside of

Mobile West Canning’s area, you can likely find another affiliate who will come to you.

The system is pretty similar throughout.

Contact the mobile canners when you start a new batch of beer. So they’ll have enough time to schedule your job.

This might be the first time that you’re beer in being packaged, so attention short be given to the label. “Artwork, artwork, artwork,” says Matt. TTB has requirements for your label design, and many state alcohol control boards have additional requirements. The mobile canner will help make sure your labels are in compliance.

When the canners arrive, they’ll wheel the machine into your brewery, within several feet of the fermenter or bright tank. They will bring one or 2 people, and they’ll need the help of a few people from your brewery.

At the end of the day, your beer is in 12 oz. or 16 oz. cans, and ready to be sold!

There is a ton of detailed information in this episode—too much to recap here. So listen to the whole episode and see if mobile canning can help you achieve the goals for your brewery.

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Listener question:

From Lester Foldi: Is the Craft Brewers Conference worth the price for a nanobrewery still in the planning phase?

Book recommendation:

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Mobile Canning is on the move… Another successful solution.

Brothers in #MobileCanning at Land Of The Sky Mobile Canning ( @LOTScans ) are helping their partners in brewing with the right packaging solutions with #CraftCans.   Please check this awesome piece on some doing it right, service and great people, doing great things.

Prost!

By Daniel Hartis

Borderlands Brewing in CANs!

Borderlands Brewing Co. will start canning its signature Noche Dulce Moonlight Vanilla Porter beer.

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On Sept. 21, owners Mike Mallozzi and Myles Stone will oversee the tall order of filling 10,000 cans. They are working with Mobile West Canning out of San Diego, which will bring in the equipment. Mobile West works with craft brewers around the West Coast to get their beers to bigger markets… [FULL ARTICLE]

 

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Here are the winners of the 2014 California State Fair Commercial Craft Beer Competition.

Congratulations to Winners and Honorable Mentions in the 2014 California State Fair Competition! @lightningbrew | @BPbrewing | @LegacyBrewingCo | @BarrelHarbor | @Karl_Strauss | @GarageBrewCo | @MonkeyPawPub | @StumbleFootBrew | @manzanitabrew —> http://ow.ly/ywGtv

Best of Show
1st Track 7 Brewing Co. Panic IPA
2nd Ol’ Republic Brewery California Common
3rd San Pedro Brewing Company Bruin Blonde

Category 1: Light Lagers
1st Solvang Brewing Company Blue Eyed Blonde
2nd Hangar 24 Craft Brewery Helles Lager
3rd Loomis Basin Brewing Co. Buxom Blonde Pilsner

Category 2: Pilsner
1st Rubicon Brewing Company Czech Pilsner
2nd Sudwerk Brewing Co. Northern Pilsner
3rd Lightning Brewery ELEMENTAL PILSNER

Category 3: European Amber Lager
1st Sudwerk Brewing Co. Zen Amber Lager
2nd Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits Oktoberfest
3rd Left Coast Brewing Company Una Mas

Category 4: Dark Lagers
1st San Pedro Brewing Co. Terminal Island Black Lager
2nd Ol’ Republic Brewery Black Lager
3rd Ol’ Republic Brewery Dunkel Bock

Category 5: Bocks
1st Feather Falls Brewing Company Doppel Down Doppelbock
2nd Feather Falls Brewing Company Wild Bill Winter Bock
3rd Sudwerk Brewing Co. Ultimator Doppelbock

Category 6: Light Hybrids
1st San Pedro Brewing Co. Bruin Blonde
2nd Santa Cruz Ale Works Castle Beach Kolsch
3rd Schooner’s Grille and Brewery American

Category 7: Amber Hybrids
1st Ol’ Republic Brewery California Common
2nd Anaheim Brewery Anaheim 1888
3rd Dust Bowl Brewing Company Sticke Alt

Category 8: English Pale Ales
1st Firestone Walker Brewing Co. DBA
2nd Ol’ Republic Brewery E.S.B.
3rd Anacapa Brewing Company What the Fuggle ESB

Category 9: Scottish & Irish Ales
1st Schooner’s Grille & Brewery Marauder
2nd Hermitage Brewing Company Maltopia
3rd Legacy Brewing Company Clan Ross Scotch Ale

Category 10: Amercian Ales
1st River City Brewing Company Woodenhead Amber Ale
2nd Track 7 Brewing Company Hoppy Palm Pale Ale
3rd Drake’s Brewing 1500

Category 11: English Brown Ales
1st Tied House Microbrewery Ironwood Dark
2nd Barrel Harbor Brewing Barrel Harbor Brown Ale
3rd Lost Coast Brewery Downtown Brown Ale

Category 12: Porters
1st Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co. Brown Bear Porter
2nd Drake’s Brewery Black Robusto Porter
3rd Lazy Daze Brewery at Mary’s Pizza Shack Party Foul Porter

Category 13: Stouts
1st Hermitage Brewing Company Ale of The 2 Tun
2nd Mendocino Brewing Ale House Imperial Stout
3rd Bear Republic Brewing Co. Big Black Bear Stout

Category 14: IPA’s
1st Track 7 Brewing Co. Panic IPA
2nd Heretic Brewing Company Evil Twin
3rd Bison Organic Beer Kermit the Hop
HM Bear Republic Brewing Co. Hop Rod Rye

Category 15: German Wheat & Rye Beer
1st Faultline Brewing Company Hefeweizen
2nd American River Brewing Co. Riverbend Hefeweizen
3rd Karl Strauss Brewing Company Windansea Wheat

Category 16: Belgian & French Ales
1st Telegraph Brewing Company Rhinoceros
2nd Karl Strauss Brewing Co. Fullsuit Belgian Brown Ale
3rd Telegraph Brewing Co. Silent Partner Saison

Category 17: Sour Ale
1st Mraz Brewing Company Flanders Red
2nd Woodfour Brewing Co. Sour Farmhouse
3rd Boulder Creek Brewery and Cafe Cuvee

Category 18: Belgian Strong Ale
1st Mraz Brewing Company Window of Opportunity
2nd Valiant Brewing Axiom
3rd North Coast Brewing Company Brother Thelonius

Category 19: Strong Ales
1st Schooner’s Grille & Brewery Old Diablo
2nd Valiant Brewing Company Stentorian
3rd North Coast Brewing Old Stock Ale

Category 20: Fruit Beers
1st Six Rivers Brewery Rosie’s Strawberry Wheat
2nd Garage Brewing Company Flatbed Blueberry Cream
3rd Lost Coast Brewery Tangerine Wheat

Category 21: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
1st Hangar 24 Brewery Gourdgeous
2nd Karl Strauss Brewing Company Wreck Alley Imperial Stout
3rd 21st Amendment Brewery Mo’ Tcho Risin’

Category 22: Smoke-Flavored & Wood-Aged Beer
1st Dust Bowl Brewing Company Barrel-aged Great Impression
2nd Discretion Brewing Barrel-aged Good Faith
3rd Loomis Bason Brewing Co. Jacked Again
HM Karl Strauss Brewing Co. Barrel-aged Wreck Alley Stout

Category 23: Specialty Beers
1st High Water Brewing Campfire Stout
2nd Lagunitas Brewing Co NightTime Ale
3rd Sudwerk Brewing Co. 3 Best Friends
HM Monkey Paw Pub & Brewery Great Ape Nectar

Category 27/28: Standard/Specialty Cider & Perry
1st Common Cider Company Blood Orange Tangerine
2nd Cider Brothers Pacific Coast Cider
3rd Common Cider Company Hibiscus Saison

Category 32: Chili Beer
1st Highway 1 Brewing Company French Mexican War
2nd Stumblefoot Brewing Co. Imperial Dragon Kiss
3rd Twisted Manzanita Ales Where There’s Smoke

Category 33: Session Beers
1st Karl Strauss Brewing Co. Mosaic Session Ale
2nd 21st-Amendment Brewery MCA Stout
3rd Firestone Walker Brewing Co. Easy Jack

Craft Beer Tasters, LLC – Spotlight: Mobile West Canning

Dr. Q, “Thanks for the spot on your blog.” – Matt, Jim and Ryan!

Craft Beer in cans. A year ago people were looking at it as a niche market, or a novelty. Many beer snobs turned their noses up to the prospect of drinking craft beer from a can. Many brewers, however, and specifically those concerned with quality control, looked to cans as the way of the future. There are many benefits to canning… Read the whole spot…

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CRAFT BEER TASTERS IS YOUR MULTIMEDIA CRAFT BEER DISCUSSION

“Craft Beer is many different things to many different people” (Brewer’s Association, 2012) …but it is up to you to define what Craft Beer means to you. Craft Beer Tasters, LLC Est. 2012 was started with these thoughts in mind. Website: http://craftbeertasters.wordpress.com

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

 

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