2008 San Diego Brewers Guild Festival

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Saturday Nov. 8th
Balboa Park San Diego

http://www.sandiegobrewersguild.org/

This is a great event. All the San Diego Breweries will be there. Some of the breweries do a food and beer pairing. Great music and just a good vibe. Plus you can talk to all the Brewer's. If you get a hotel downtown it's a $5 cab to the festival. You can walk anywhere in the gaslamp or if you're more adventerous you can hope on the trolley and head south. If you go, wear your BN gear and let's party!

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Here are some notes on the beers from this event.

They're mostly in the order that I drank them in:


Alesmith Decadence 07 Firkin
Imperial Porter
ABV not given 10%?
Theres a hot sweet alchohol aroma right up front
and same flavor hits your tongue
smooth creamy chocolatey flavors quickly follow
velvety mouthfeel
with a roasty coffee finish


Coronado Brewing
Neptunes Nectar 8.5% ABV
Belgian Strong w/3 yeasts
This beers has many flavors and aromas swirling and mixing around
Strong Citrus aromas and flavors greet you first
follwed by a nice barnyard in the middle
ending with an ale crispness kinda mixed with a belgian spicyness
went back for seconds

Brewer's Notes:
This Beer was 2 batches blended together. One batch was fermented with 001 the other with Duvel.
Then the beer was finished with a champagne yeast.
Dam Fine Beer!

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Here are the rest of the notes (I was distracted while writing this last night nudge nudge wink wink):

Karl Strauss
Red Sour blend No ABV 6%?
Grapelike aromas
Slight sour flavor
With a sweet finish
Light mouthfeel
Finished dry right off the tongue –Very Interesting

Brewers Notes:
Brett and Lactic acid used to ferment
No yeast was used
Red Trolley Wert
Hopped with Nelson Sauvign


Stone/Mikkeller Colaboration
Belgian Style Tripple 9.5%
Aroma is fantastic Sweet earthy flavors
Very smooth well balanced Big Beer

Brewers note:
Mikkelller is a traveling Brewer from Denmark

Lost Abbey
10 Commandments 9% ABV
Belgian Dark Farmhouse Ale w/Brett
Sweet raisiny, plum, and fig aromas and flovors
Strong beer with a dry finnish


Green Flash La Freak from the bottle 9%
Belgian Yeast with American Hops
Slightly earthy with barnyard notes
Very Unique flavor
Bitter dry hoppy finish

Brewers notes:
Convergance of Tripel and Dubbel

At this point my notes are getting hard to read

Ballast Point Scottish Ale
Barrel Aged Pipper Down 5.5%
Scottish Ale
Cherry boubony flavor with a sweet malt backbone
Nice balance

Alpine Brewery
Bourbon Barrel
Ichabod Bavarian Spiced Dunkelweizen 6%
Smooth Smoked Coffee flavors
Like smoked salmon with a honey mustard crust flavor

Coronado Brewing
Islander IPA
Great Fruitloop aroma
Good balance
Not too bitter not too sweet
A Great IPA