It's a bit short notice, but we're pouring beer in Redwood City at the peninsula Oktoberfest all day long. We'll also be down at the San Jose Biocenter for a special event this coming Wednesday. Check out the link for a special event discount. Dr. Charlie Bamforth, the UC Davis God of All Beer Knowledge will be speaking... and we'll be pouring our finest beers of course.
We were settling in for a nice quiet recovery from the Great American Beer Festival when the email server started going bonkers this morning. It was a quite pleasant surprise to find an article up on MSNBC's main page offering kind words about our Bacon Brown Ale. A lot of people have been in touch with us about the beer, asking where they can find it, and if we ship it out of state. We'll be doing our best to get back to everyone who wrote, but in the meantime:
1. Yes, it does exist. Our Bacon Brown Ale is a CCOF Certified Organic beer that's brewed with bacon and buckwheat.
2. For the near term the Bacon Brown is only available on draft at a few select locations in Santa Cruz, California. We'll be brewing another batch in the coming weeks. Assuming that all the labels get through the approval process smoothly, there will be 16oz cans of Bacon Brown Ale joining the rest of our lineup before the end of the year.
3. Keep an eye out for our beers, and definitely ask for them if you don't see them, in Whole Foods, BevMo, and other quality markets and liquor stores around the Bay Area. We'll be starting up distribution in the Sacramento and I-80 corridor in the coming weeks. Further afield, it's possible to find our beers in Oregon, Nevada, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. As soon as the Bacon Brown cans are finished we'll be doing a big push with our distributors in those states to get it out in draft and onto store shelves.
cheers, alec
Whoah, it's been four months since the last post? It does not seem like that much time has passed; though if you've been as busy as we have been this summer, the days tend to blur together. A quick update: We have expanded distribution through Virginia. Talk to the fine folks at Hop and Vine if you're looking for our beer outside of the Richmond area.
We're doing great throughout Ohio, and just added Nevada to the list as well.
Local vidoegrapher Keith Wells just posted a short interview featuring our Head Brewer up on Vimeo.
We're finishing up work on the new lineup of cans, featuring updated artwork for the current beers as well as adding three new labels to our retail selection. Yes, there will be Bacon Brown in cans coming soon.