FirkFest – A Festival Of Firkins Full Cask List

Anaheim,CA – Why a cask ale festival? A cask is simply a vessel filled with liquid meant to be served within a day or so once opened. Brewers fill the cask with beer for conditioning and then can treat it like a blank canvas; adding fresh hops, blending beers, adding tea/coffee or other creative adjuncts, or whatever.  It’s a one time shot to try something new and fun.

Held at Farmers Park next to the Packing District on Anaheim BLVD and Santa Ana Blvd in downtown Anaheim, FirkFest is all about celebrating cask beer.

• Unlimited cask pours from 30 California Craft Breweries (Orange County, San Diego, LA and Northern California)
• Benefits Inspire Artistic Minds
• Small, classy setting with limited ticket availability

Location
Anaheim Farmers Park – 400 S Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim, CA 92805

OC

• Bottle Logic Brewing – “Anaheim, California”, Leche Mole on Bourbon Chips
• The Bruery Lemoncello Sour and Summers Eve
• Anaheim Brewery – 1888 Pre-prohibition style with extra centennial
• Noble Ale Works – English 101, Simcoe Showers DIPA and Man’s Milk Stout
• Phantom Ales – Dry Hopped Cider
• Cismontane Brewing – Smokin’ Santiago Scotch Ale w/ Chilies and French Oak
• Cismontane Brewing – The Citizen w/Apricots
• Bootleggers Brewery – TBD, TBD
• Tustin Brewing Co – Bogey’s Dry Irish Stout and Old Town IPA w/additions
• Valiant Brewing – Moschendo Mint Coconut Lager, Last Flight American Strong w/Grand Marinier, BBL, figs, cherries, vanilla and coffee (17%!!)
• Portola Coffee Labs – Natural processed Ethiopia Kochere Coffee in a used Hungarian oak Cab barrel (on Nitro)
• Pizza Port SC – TBD

LA/CC

• Firestone Walker – Velvet Merlin
• Beachwood BBQ & Brewing – Thrillseeker IPA
• Smog City – Lil Bo Pils + Amiarilla Gorilla IPA
• Eagle Rock Brewing – Populist IPA
• LA Ale Works – 2 casks of Karma Kolsch w/Jasmine Green and OCBeerBlog collab Chrysanthemum, Kumquat and Masala Chai tea
• Haven Brewing – TBD
• Golden Road – Wolf in Heat IPA, TBD
• El Segundo Brewing Co – Hyperion’s Vanilla Stout on Rum soaked oak
• Monkish – SPA-ISH Belgian Single, SHAOLIN KICK Dubbel, and SHE-IST Tripel with a varying mix of fruit, spice and herbs in each
• Bravery Brewing – Citra Ghost Rye Pale, Mocharova Milk Stout w/Coffee and Vanilla beans
• Strand Brewing – White Sand IIPA w/Simcoe
• Figueroa Mountain Brewing – Lizard’s Mouth IIPA w/dried fruits
• The Dudes Brewing – TBD
• Twisted Manzanita – Oh Nose Brett IPA and Chaotic DIPA w/Galaxy

SD/IE

• Belching Beaver – Beavers Milk w/Horchata + Me So Honey w/coffee and coconut
• Saint Archer Brewing – Red Ale w/Amarillo
• Karl Strauss – Red Trolly Irish Red w/Rose Hips
• Hangar24 – Palmero w/date sugar
• Ballast Point – Sculpin IPA w/Wai Iti hops
• Dale Bros Brewing – TBD
• Coachella Valley Brewing – Luke Rye walker Belgian Rye DIPA

Food 

• Adya – Fresh Indian Flavors – Indian Street Food – Sliders
• The Kroft – Gourmet Sandwiches –
• K&A – Taco, Nacho cart
• Wheat & Sons – Artisan butcher/pot pies,
• The Iron Press – Fried chicken waffle sandwich, tater effing tots, grilled cheese

From Greg Nagel @ OCBeerBlog: While standing in a 200 person line for a cask of Noble Ale Works Naughty Sauce at a beer festival this past summer, it dawned on me. Orange County needs a proper cask ale festival. I brought the idea up with Brad Kominek of Noble and either he was really excited about the idea or had to use the bathroom really bad, I still don’t know. We threw name ideas back and forth before finally landing on FirkFest. I think Brad named it, as he comes up with great names for everything.

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