Alpine Beer Company News – Crazy Hazel, Double Nelson and More

And, the cooler temperatures means the heavy beers are more appropriate for this time of year. So, we have “Odin’s Raven” available for your immediate consumption. This beer won a bronze medal at the 2012 “World Beer Cup” in the Chocolate Beer category. We do not currently bottle this beer but do offer growler fills in the brewery and on draught in the pub. Yes, it’s dark, strong at 11% abv, and yummy. Odin’s Raven float anyone?One last release to tell you about. We made a beer for a San Francisco landmark call The Toronado Pub to commemorate their 25th Anniversary. We called it “Toronado 25th Anniversary IPA” but found another brewery, Russian River, made a beer and called it that as well. So, we now call what some were calling “Double Nelson” “Keene Idea.” Dave Keene is the owner of The Toronado Pub in San Francisco. We will be releasing this special 9% abv Double IPA sometime late next week. A very limited amount of kegs will be made available for growler fills in the brewery, no bottles, and on draught in the pub. Some will make its way to San Francisco as well.

We will be constructing two Anniversary Beers in the near future. One with Tom Nickel of O’Brien’s Pub and Nickel Brewing in Julian and one for City Beer Store in San Francisco. O’Brien’s will be celebrating 19 years of existence and 10 years of ownership by the Nickels. The beer will be an all Columbus hopped 7.5% IPA brewed on December 20th, yum. The other Anniversary beer we’ve agreed to brew (they don’t know we’ve agreed yet), City Beer Store in San Francisco will be celebrating 7 years of bring great craft beer to the bay area with a special beer we make just for them for their May Anniversary.