There are glimmers of light at the end of 2010. Almost unbelievably there will definitely, absolutely, undoubtedly be cans of Golden State Ale and Baltic Porter hitting store shelves by the second week of December. The long wait is coming to an end for fans of the Porter.

It really is happening.

Meanwhile we are keeping production of everything else rolling as smoothly as possible amidst construction. More on that progress later. In the meantime, here's a nice video of our original canning line at work, shot by local brew enthusiast and brewer Mark Taylor. He may have caught video of the last run of Siamese Twin Ale to come off the original canning line.

We'll be up and around the Bay and beyond pouring beer in the coming weeks. First up is Taste of Santa Cruz, coming up this Thursday evening at the Coconut Grove.

On Sunday the 7th we'll be up in the crowds at Snowbomb San Francisco, which takes place at Fort Mason.

Fans of our beer out in Nevada (we know a few exist), can find us at the Brews Best Beer Fest, happening out at Lake Las Vegas on the 13th.

And then finally there will be a return to Fort Mason for the BevMo Holiday Beers Festival on Saturday the 20th. There may or may not be a sighting of our American Special Bitter at this event.

Insane that it's already eight months into the year, and eight months into our expansion project. The Great American Beer Festival, which seems like it happened a few weeks ago, is only one month away.

We're getting beer ready to send out to Colorado next month, but we have more events happening near and far in the next few weeks.

Fans on the East Coast may want to check out the Brouwerji Lane bottle shop and import house in New York this weekend, where the Siamese Twin Ale will be pouring.

Congrats to those of you who got your tickets to the annual Stumptown BBQ and Beer Revival already. The event is sold out, as usual. We'll have at least four or five of our current beers pouring up there, including the return of the renewed and revised Golden State Ale. The Golden had been a temperamental beer, prone to complications. We've been working on it for the last few months, and think that you all will be pleasantly surprised.

Further North and a week later, we'll also be at the annual Hops in Humbolt in beautiful Fortuna, CA.

Keep an eye out in your local BevMo stores for cans of the Twin. We've expanded into a few more as of today.

Also, don't despair if you're still waiting for the Baltic Porter in cans. We're down to working out the last color details on those labels, details common to all of the cans. Once the colors are set, we'll be pushing quickly on cans for the Baltic Porter, Golden State Ale, and Bacon Brown Ale. ETA... sooner than it was yesterday.

Reed and Dave are up in Portland this weekend at the North American Organic Brewers Festival. They hit the road with a van full of Siamese Twin Ale and Bacon Brown Ale. Hit them up early if you make it out to the festival, because they managed to snag some face time with the local news, and the word is out.