What’s new -Part 4

Just saw that Five Threads in Westlake Village did their grand opening recently.

http://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/five-threads-brewing-company/24979/
http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cc58a59281a99779f1228c7a4&id=6723af3941

Also spotted this on the list of pending ABC applications

Dragons Tale in Montclair
http://www.dragonstalebrewery.com/

Just saw this as one of the spam/advertisements ("sponsored post") on my facebook feed, a new startup in the IE:

Double Blaze Brewing in Temecula
https://www.facebook.com/dbbrewing/
http://www.dbbrews.com/

They’re doing a kickstarter but they are a couple years behind on that, no one is raising 100k for a brewery that way anymore. We’ll see what they come up with. Certainly they’re advertising some neat styles (peach "lambic", oaked saison, "wild" IPA)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1525545841/double-blaze-brewing-co-is-going-pro?ref=project_link

Finally made it up to Big Bear and Arrowhead after 13 years in southern California. Beautiful area but all the beer is disappointing. Surprisingly the original, Big Bear Mountain, was the best. Big Bear Mountain is a divey pub. I was told by someone at the bar to avoid the food, so I did. The tasters were served in plastic and the "pale ale" (at 8.6% abv) was super sludgy.

A mile further up the road is the new Big Bear Lake, which opened last year and took the equipment from the string of failed breweries in Rancho Cucamonga (Cucamonga Brewing, Omaha Jacks, Compass Creek, etc) but they haven’t figured out how to use it yet. The honey blonde was heavy on the green apple, black IPA was ashy, the hefe was buttery, and the sage session IPA, we’ll just say that sage is not a good flavor for an IPA.

LouEddie’s ran out of their one house beer before we got there (a porter) and the guest beers were old as hell (at least the Strand 24th St Pale was. The pizza was really good though.

Also finally added the San Bernardino location of Brew Rebellion. Hard to find, literally on the airport grounds. There is an 8.5x11 sheet of paper banner next to a dark driveway. Tasting room is in the far back of the parking lot. Beer is worse than the Yucaipa beer. Now that they’ve graduated from the 5 gallon buckets in a fridge they need to learn to brew on a real system. Also, they only serve the 10.2% peanut butter chocolate stout in full pint servings.

So it looks like Julian Brewing is actually brewing their own beers now.

blipp, or anyone else, do you have any pictures of the tap list from your visit to Ballast Point? Tons of R&D beers and variations of regular beers that are unverified

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-blood-orange-sculpin/374208/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-red-velvet-cake/373132/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-homework-series-batch-6--robust-porter/372728/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-sculpin--strawberry/368983/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-pale-ale--tart-cranberry-pomegranate-and-lime/368313/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-victory-at-sea--orange-and-milk-chocolate/368311/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-black-marlin-porter--tart-cherry/368310/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-calico-amber-ale--blueberry-puree/368066/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-sour-wench--boysenberry/368064/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-sculpin-ipa--mango-and-dragonfruit/368060/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-boats-n-gose/367418/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-nice-melons/367417/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-signal-flag/366959/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-old-pros-hoppy-kolsch/366173/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-bird-rock-coffee-scottish-ale/366172/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-james-coffee-english-standard-bitter/366171/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-piper-down-scottish-ale--persimmon-and-cinnamon/366170/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-polish-champagne/366169/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-funky-hammerhead/366168/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-grunion-pale-ale--strawberry-passion-fruit/363876/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-sour-wench--sour-patch-kids/361308/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-the-root-of-all-bee-vil/360370/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-ripple--rye-ipa/360369/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-splash-zone-wet-hopped-ipa/360368/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-black-marlin-porter--cocoa-nibs-and-long-peppers/357685/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-double-jockey/357684/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-gose-down-with-the-ship/355960/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rye-sing-currant/354675/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-pumpkin-down--chai-spice/354014/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-sculpin-ipa--blueberry-and-strawberry/354013/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-sculpin-ipa--blueberry-and-mango/354012/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-sculpin-ipa--tangerine/353385/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-pog-grunion/352438/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-longfin-lager--margarita/350174/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-george-ous/348204/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-bockness-monster/348203/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-rd-fleet-admiral/348202/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ballast-point-red-eared-slider/345739/

Originally posted by t0rin0
blipp, or anyone else, do you have any pictures of the tap list from your visit to Ballast Point? Tons of R&D beers and variations of regular beers that are unverified

Yeah, lot’s of those are me. I should have pictures of the menu for the majority of the ones I added.

http://imgur.com/gnfHK7n
http://imgur.com/HDgvvg4
http://imgur.com/a/w5kHU
http://imgur.com/tJEIH9m

Bonus Pic:
OE 3.2 - http://imgur.com/VCISjqg

Thanks bros. Looks like bytmesis already got to some of those pictures. Will check the rest this weekend.

Also, I saw on failbook that a friend checked into Brewyard Beer Company in Glendale. Only 4 or 5 beers on tap so far. A couple blocks south of the Gordon Biersch in Glendale and a couple blocks north of Golden Road.

http://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/brewyard-beer-company/25087/
http://www.brewyardbeercompany.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BrewyardBeerCo/

Not sure if this belongs in northern or southern ca metro but the new Libertine brewery is much bigger than the one in morro bay (which is no longer brewing anything).

and what’s with the new logo? I drove right by this place and didn’t notice because it’s illegible