Athletic Brewing is my personal choice for N/A beers and now they are nodding towards their second home of California with a West Coast IPA using malt from Admiral and hops from Crosby.
Hometown CA
Which Door
Cactus honey is the first ingredient that my eyes locked on when I saw this new label from Cellador Ales. But this “rustic Saison” also has some malt cred with grains from Admiral Maltings. The third piece of note is that ABV, this might need to be a shareable beer.
Not for Leaves
If the idea of creating a local, smaller-scale malt house was both crazy and cool. Then the next step in Admiral Maltings evolution builds on that idea to take malt education a step further. Opening on (or near) January 26th is The Rake named for the tool used to turn germinating barley. There will be 20 beers on tap of examples made with Admiral’s malt plus cheese, charcuterie, and sandwiches. Even better, you will be able to look into the malthouse while sipping a Bay Area beer made with that malt.
And if you needed an excuse to head there, Almanac Beer Co. is moving into that same building with a taproom and beer garden.
AM is the combo of Ron Silberstein, brewer at Sand Fracnsisco’s ThirstyBear and Magnolia Brewpub founder Dave McLean.
Malty
Infrastructure isn’t the most sexy of topics but when it comes to craft beer, (as in highway potholes) it is very important. Which is why the upcoming opening of Admiral Maltings in the Bay Area is so noteworthy.
It is California’s first modern floor-malting facility and Admiral Maltings “will produce premium malt at their new facility for select craft breweries and distilleries with 100% sustainably grown barley procured from California family farms.”
You can check out their IndieGoGo campaign HERE which will also help them establish a pub onsite much in the same manner that White Labs has brewing at their yeast facilities.
Now we just need a hop farm with pub like Bale Breaker.