Port Brewing Company
PICS: Repoterrior Brewday
Avery, Allagash, Dogfish Head, Lost Abbey, and Sierra Nevada have gotten together to make a super collaboration of sorts. The beer, Repoterroir features ingredients from each of the brewers home towns. Below is Sierra Nevada’s description of Repoterrior and pics from research & brew day.
A distinct 5.5% ABV session-lager brewed with elemental, native terroir from the following collective of brewers: Sierra Nevada (wild rice, beets, cucumber, mint and carrots), Avery (Colorado alfalfa honey), Allagash (Maine purple potatoes), Dogfish Head (free-range Atlantic Ocean “beach” wood), and Lost Abbey (cage-free Pacific Ocean “beach” wood).
Born out of a backroom conversation in a Boulder restaurant and blooming into a full-blown cornucopia of a collaboration, Repoterroir is a coming together of like-minded craft beer compatriots. Brewed at Sierra Nevada’s brewery in Chico, CA this sessionable lager beer reclaims the earthbound mantle of terroir from the grape-soaked, buttoned-down world of wine and re-purposes it in a new sudsy sense.
Featuring natural ingredients contributed by each of the five breweries, this unique and earthy beer is complex and layered but ultimately drinkable. Using the full repertoire of skills from more than 86 combined years of brewing knowledge and skill, this lager combines traditional (and not so traditional) ingredients into an ideal summertime brew
Bourbon Santa’s Little Helper Returns July 16th
Port Brewing’s Barrel aged edition of Santa’s Little Helper returns July 16th. This is the bourbon edition of the brewery’s festive Russian imperial stout released each winter.
Everyone knows that Santa delivers toys and gifts to little girls and boys each Christmas Eve. But what does he do with the sleigh the other 364 days a year? Well rumor has it he hitches up the reindeer each July testing driving to ensure it’s still in operating condition. At the North Pole they mark their calendars calling it Christmas in July. How do we know that?
Well, Virginia, each year Santa stops by Port Brewing to load up his sleigh with beer for his return trip to the North Pole. He’s a big fan of Santa’s Little Helper, and for the last nine months our brewers have been extra naughty aging some in bourbon barrels. Hopefully Santa won’t drink it all by himself, but we wouldn’t blame him if he did.
Style: Russian Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged)
Hops: Phoenix, Challenger and East Kent Goldings
Malts: Two Row, Wheat, Domestic and English Crystal, Roasted, Black and Chocolate Malts
Yeast: White Labs California Ale and Proprietary Yeast Strains
Port will post more on availability, price & quantity closer to release date…
Availability: 22oz bottles, seasonally.
Arrival: Late July, 2011
10.5% ABV
Also, Port Brewing’s “Road To Helles” returns June 27th. Draft only.
VID: Story Behind La Cruda
Port Brewing released La Cruda Porter last week for the National Home Brewers Conference in San Diego. The porter was brewed years ago (1997) by Cervecias La Cruda, a now defunct brewpub where Tomme Arthur got his professional start. In addition to bottles reappearing, Troy Hojel’s recipe has been released as a home brew recipe was also released. Port made a short video (about 8 mins) about this special beer.
Homebrewers: Here’s The La Cruda Recipe
In honor of the re brew of La Cruda Porter for The National Homebrewers Conference this week, Port Brewing has released the scaled down (batch size) for La Cruda. Tomme Arthur got his start at Cervecerias La Cruda (The Hangover Brewery) in San Diego California. La Cruda was a recipe from that era. Below is recipe for your brewing pleasure. Apparently this beer was one of the worst selling beer at the brewery, BUT a gold medal winner.
La Cruda Porter A ProMash Recipe Report Recipe Specifics ---------------- Batch Size (Gal): 5.00 Wort Size (Gal): 5.00 Total Grain (Lbs): 12.25 Anticipated OG: 1.065 Plato: 15.95 Anticipated SRM: 35.7 Anticipated IBU: 26.9 Brewhouse Efficiency: 75 % Wort Boil Time: 90 Minutes Grain/Extract/Sugar % Amount Name Origin Potential SRM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 81.6 10.00 lbs. Pale Malt(2-row) America 1.036 2 4.1 0.50 lbs. Crystal 75L Great Britian 1.034 75 8.2 1.00 lbs. Crystal 150L Great Britain 1.033 150 5.1 0.63 lbs. Chocolate Malt Great Britain 1.034 400 1.0 0.13 lbs. Roasted Barley America 1.028 450 Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon. Hops Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.71 oz. -Cascade - 2008 Pellet 5.40 15.5 90 min. 0.81 oz. -Mt. Hood Pellet 4.40 10.4 30 min. 1.34 oz. Tettnanger Pellet 4.50 1.0 1 min. Yeast ----- White Labs WLP028 Edinburgh Ale Mash Schedule ------------- Mash Type: Single Step Grain Lbs: 12.25 Water Qts: 16.00 - Before Additional Infusions Water Gal: 4.00 - Before Additional Infusions Qts Water Per Lbs Grain: 1.31 - Before Additional Infusions Saccharification Rest Temp : 152 Time: 60 Mash-out Rest Temp : 165 Time: 10 Sparge Temp : 170 Time: 0 Total Mash Volume Gal: 4.98 - Dough-In Infusion Only All temperature measurements are degrees Fahrenheit.
Port’s Anniversary Ale
Port Brewing celebrates their 5th anniversary with a hoppy pale ale – Anniversary Ale. Port was founded in 2006 by Vince and Gina Marsaglia with Tomme Arthur and Jim Comstock. Comstock acquired the old brewhouse from Stone Brewing Co. to take the 7 barrel brewhouse in Carlsbad to the larger brewery you see today. The larger brewhouse allowed Tomme Arthur to create The Lost Abbey.
Port talks about the flavor of Anniversary Ale:
Anniversary Ale is light gold to pale orange in color and offers a potent aroma of fresh pine and citrus with some warming alcohols present..The taste is a thick, chewy hop presence only barely contained by balancing malts. The finish is pure hop expression with a moderate warming alcohol sensation.
Style: Imperial IPA
Hops — Columbus, Amarillo and Simcoe; dry-hopped with Columbus and Amarillo
Availability — 22oz bombers, draft. Early Summer Release.
10% ABV
Not Your Dad’s 30 Weight
Barrel aged beer lovers, get your fix. Port Brewing’s Older Viscosity has arrived. You take Old Viscosity aka “Big Black Nasty” and throw it into bourbon barrels. The beer blurs the lines on strong ale/porter/stout/barleywine etc.
Before you even get to “Older” lets check out Old Viscosity. The big thick beer is a blend of 80% new Viscosity – a stainless steel fermented beer, and 20% from a previous batch that has been aging in bourbon barrels. Older Viscosity is just straight barrel aged beer.
An enormously rich but satisfying beer, Older Viscosity is 100% straight no chaser barrel-aged Old Viscosity – the beer we blend in the production of Old Viscosity. The color is black like asphalt and the aroma is an uncompromising malty nose with dark caramel and chocolate overtones.
Style: American Strong Ale (barrel aged)
Hops: German Magnum,
Malts — Two Row, Wheat, Domestic and English Crystal, Carafa III and Chocolate Malts
Yeast — White Labs California Ale and Proprietary Yeast Strains
Taste Expectations: Vanilla (bourbon), oak, chocolate, booze. Roasted malts.
Availability: 375ml bottles. No draft. Seasonal release, Spring. $14 retail.
12.5% ABV
Port Revives La Cruda Brewing Recipe
Tomme Arthur of Port Brewing got his start at Cervecerias La Cruda (The Hangover Brewery) in San Diego California. He was the assistant of Troy Hojel at the time, creating recipes that he still uses at Port Brewing. La Cruda closed it’s doors in March, 1997. After that, Arthur then went to work for White Labs, a leader in yeast creation/sales. By May of 1997 Tomme Arthur was hired by Port Brewing and the rest is history.
Tomme & Port got the band back together to brew a recipe from the Hangover era – Makanudo Porter, now bearing the closed brewery’s name – La Cruda. In the name of homebrewing, La Cruda pays homage to brewing suppliers like White Labs,
In 1996 a little brewpub named Cervecerias La Cruda opened in downtown San Diego. While open for less than a year, the beers were nothing short of remarkable, and that fall, brewer Troy Hojel and his assistant, Tomme Arthur, won the Gold Medal for Robust Porters at the Great American Beer Festival. The Makanudo Porter was only the third San Diego beer to ever to earn a GABF medal. 2011… San Diego is now the epicenter of Craft Brewing and our homebrewing community thrives like never before. This past April Troy Hojel, Skip Virgilio and Tomme Arthur, each a homebrewer who followed their dreams and turned pro, reunited for the first time in 15 years and recreated that legendary La Cruda Porter. Their hope was to send a message in a bottle out to homebrewers everywhere: Never stop daring, Never stop experimenting. An most of all, never stop imagining the places beer can take us.
In the name of homebrewing, La Cruda pays homage to brewing suppliers like White Labs, HopUnion, BrewCraftUSA, & The Country Malt Group.
Style: Porter
Availability: 22 oz bottles, draft. Brewed for American Homebrewer’s Conference in June. Draft potential in San Diego area.
6.7% ABV
