Saturday marked our first hosted event. Without doubt it was a great success being able to not only make a batch of beer, but share some specialty stuff with some great people. A huge thank you to everyone who came out and had a beer or two with us throughout the day. It sucks we won’t be able to have a release party for the beer, but we’ll be sure to tell you how tasty it is
For your viewing pleasure, I give you pictures from the day.
*Here’s the link to the Flickr set. This is the first time I’m trying out the Flickr slideshow plugin. If it’s not working, let me know so we can go back to something that works.
It was a pleasure to see so many people come out to both the Double IPA fest this past Saturday, as well as the Winter Brew fest the Saturday before. What was even better, was seeing people come up to us out of the blue and tell us they were coming to our event on the 13th! It’s looking like we might actually have a decent turnout, even if it rains. That being said, we’re making the final preparations before the big day this Saturday.
The brew sculpture was built around 2000, which means it is pushing 70 in doggy years. So, we felt it was time to replace the hip and pop a viagra for Ol’ Betsy. Actually, we haven’t named our brewing sculpture. If you have a good name, give us some recommendations. We had to replace the gas regulator as well as upgrade the air hose from a 10 foot line with a rusty quick disconnect, to a 100 foot line with some shiny new stainless. The Super Bowl prevented us from giving it a test run, so that will have to wait for the night before the event. Hopefully it all works so we won’t be stuck without a brewing rig come Saturday morning. Knowing how things have turned out for us in the past, I’m wouldn’t be surprised if our kettle fell apart in transit.
All in all, we’re really excited to be hosting our first public event. We hope to see everyone who peruses this website to come stop by and have a few beers. Here’s what’s going to be on tap, in addition to the Jack’s regular lineup inside.
Beers On Tap
Dopplebock on oak
Double IPA on oak
Peppermint Porter
Orange Porter
Jack’s Regular Lineup
Boys of Summer Wheat
Hardwood Pale Ale
Grid Iron Amber Ale
Penalty Shot Porter
India Pale Ale
Apricot Mango
Hefeweizen
Red Ale
SF Beer Week has started releasing the list of events for the week. Here are the events that we plan on being at. If you will be at an event we haven’t listed, let us know which one and we will see about making time to get to it.
Feb 6th – Double IPA Festival
Where – The Bistro – 1001 B St. Hayward, CA 94541
When – TBD
Price – Free, but beers you gotta pay for
Feb 7th – Homebrew Demo
Where – Seven Bridges Cooperative – 325A River St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060
When – 12:00 – 2:00
Price – Free
Feb 9th – Meet the Brewer: Rob Tod, Allagash Brewing Co
Where – The Trappist – 460 8th St. Oakland, CA 94607
When – 6:00 – 8:00
Price – Free, but space will be limited
Feb 10th – Meet the Brewer: Vinnie Cilurzo, Russian River Brewing Co.
Where – The Trappist – 460 8th St. Oakland, CA 94607
When – 6:00 – 8:00
Price – Free, but space will be limited
Feb 13th – Homebrew Demonstration with 510 Brewing Co.
Where – Jack’s Brewing Co. – 39176 Argonaut Way Fremont, CA 94538
When – 12:00 – 5:00
Price – Free. Specialty beers will be available for purchase.
Posted on February 14th, 2010 by tsmith
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