Almanac Beer Co.
San Jose, California
Almanac Introduces Year Round IPA
Almanac Beer Co. (San Jose, CA) has introduced a brand new year round west coast style IPA – Almanac IPA. The new hoppy offering is touted as having intense aromas of grapefruit and tangerine peel, melon, pineapple and pine trees.
Almanac IPA will be available in 22oz bombers and draft
Style: IPA
Hops: Apollo, El Dorado, Simcoe, Mosaic
Malts: German Vienna, Crystal, Biscuit
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Year round.
7.5% ABV
Summer Wild: Almanac Cerise Sour Blond
Slated to come any now is Almanac Beer Co.’s Cerise Sour Blond. Meant for hot summers like the one in San Joaquin Valley of California, Cerise Sour Blond uses fresh cherries, then aged in wine barrels. An American wild ale built to beat the heat.
This beer is inspired by the long and hot summer days in the San Joaquin Valley—the fertile basin that yields much of California’s bountiful produce. This tart blond ale was brewed with Rainier and Bing cherries from Bella Viva Orchards and fermented with our house sour culture and aged for many months in used wine barrels to create a tart, cherry-kissed wild ale.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Cherries. Wine Aged.)
Availability: 375ml bottles, Limited Draft.
Arrival: Late July, 2014
7% ABV
Almanac Plans Second Pumpkin Offering
Almanac Beer Co has one pumpkin offering on the books, Heirloom Pumpkin. The ale is aged in a blend of rye and brandy barrels. To be bottled in August, is a new fall offering – Almanac Dark Pumpkin Sour.
This new offering features the same heirloom pumpkins from Cali based Bodega Bay, that have been caramelized for a sweet taste that is a departure from Heirloom Pumpkin.
Autumn in California means changing colors, cooler evenings and festive meals celebrating the bountiful fall harvest. Aged in used wine barrels, the dark sour pumpkin beer is inspired by the season, merging roasted dark malts with the sweet flavors of caramelized heirloom pumpkins from Bodega Bay and a touch of pumpkin pie spice. Serve this complex ale alongside Mom’s classic pumpkin pie.
Almanac Dark Pumpkin Sour is slated to be bottled in August.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Pumpkin)
Availability: 375ml Bottles
Arrival: Fall, 2014
7% ABV
Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Citrus Bottles Released
Citrus and wheat collide in Almanac Beer Company’s Farmers Reserve Citrus. Bottles of this refreshing summer offering have shipped from Northern California.
The brewery takes a sour blonde wheat beer, then adds zest of Buddha’s Hand, Bergamont oranges, and aged it in wine barrels. A great compliment to summer food, and summer temperatures.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Buddha’s Hand, Oranges. Wine Barrel Aged)
Availability: 375ml Bottles
7% ABV
Almanac To Ship To Colorado
Almanac Beer Company will begin distributing to Colorado starting in mid-June.
Distribution will be handled through Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project‘s distribution efforts.
Over the last year at SF Beer Week and GABF, our mutual love and respect for wild yeasts and funk brought us together and made us fast friends. We knew Crooked Stave would be the perfect distribution partner for bringing Almanac to the Mile High City, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, and everything in between!
Launch beers will include: Farmer’s Reserve Blackberry, Dogpatch Strawberry, Almanac IPA, Golden Gate Gose, and Ichibier.
Almanac Golden Gate Gose
Almanac Golden Gate Gose
