Hit up a bunch today.
From the left: Pilsner, Hoppy Pils, Schwarzbier, Sonoma Charity IPA. Eppig makes some great German style lager beer in general. The Schwarz has some good winter fruit notes on it. Not featured is their Festbier, which is their year-round Oktoberfest beer, which you can never go wrong with.
Pariah Brewing is next door, so had to give them a go, as they're both part of a Brewery incubator concept. From right to left: Uni Stout, Dorcha Extra Stout, Some Red Ale, and Some Chinook Hopped Stout from some local podcaster. Even though I say some Red Ale, that did give Ale Smit's Evil Dead Red a run for it's money. The Uni Stout was my favorite. It takes that Oyster Stout concept and actually adds that Umami favor and cream on top.
North Park Beer Co. always killing it. Bangers is an English Mild, who does that style nowadays? Not an IPA, Experimental IPA is a Collab with Mitch Steele the ex-head brewer from Stone that literally wrote
the book on IPAs. Chinopalito (Chinese Cactus???) Wet Hop delight. Hop-Fu classic IPA perfection. It is the
glory of science in action. Kelsey McNair would win an award then tweak the hops, win another and tweak the malts, win another and tweak the yeast, win another and tweak the water profile. Iteration and Trial and Error at it's best. A brilliant benchmark beer.
