{"id":11165,"date":"2015-07-03T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=11165"},"modified":"2015-07-06T08:33:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:33:24","slug":"booze-brothers-lights-out-lupus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2015\/07\/03\/booze-brothers-lights-out-lupus\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Booze Brothers Lights Out, Lupus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Booze Brothers Lights Out Lupus (LOL) Black Biere de Garde<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the Beer Writer: <\/strong>Much like saisons, I enjoy biere de garde because there\u2019s a good amount of leeway, stylistically, meaning few taste exactly alike. The unpredictability of this more free-form French beer style is what gets me excited whenever I see one available at a local brewery. Unfortunately, that doesn\u2019t happen all that often, so when Booze Brothers Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a> (2545 Progress Street, Vista)<\/em> asked what type of beer I might like to see them brew for my Beer to the Rescue<\/strong><\/a> charity campaign, I not only went in this direction, but took a detour, asking if they might be able to create a version that was deep brown or black in color, yet not overly roasty. This was what they came up with. Given its dark appearance and the fact a portion of proceeds will go toward fighting lupus, I felt the name Lights Out, Lupus was appropriate. Ditto the fact it produces the acronym, LOL, as I like the thought of guffawing at this auto-immune disease as I help to hopefully put a nail in its eventual coffin.<\/p>\n

From the Brewer: <\/strong>\u201cAll of us at Booze Brothers think lupus is pretty lame, so we thought we\u2019d brew a beer to combat it. Lights Out Lupus is a 7.7% alcohol-by-volume, funky, black biere de garde spiked with Brettanomyces. The idea was to brew a dark but not roasty, tart but not sour, fruity and malty yet dry, French-style ale without the douchery. We used dark roasted wheat late in the mash to make it dark, and the Brett with a touch of acidulated malt for acidity and complexity. We\u2019re quite happy with the result. In the light, the beer shines a deep, ruby red from its variety of dark, caramelized malts; otherwise the beer looks black. The esters from the yeast remind me of raisins, blackberries, dried plums, guava and perhaps a touch of banana. The beer has a wine-like consistency and the flavor flows uninterrupted from start to finish in a way where the malt and fruit are almost indistinguishable from one another.\u201d\u2014Donny Firth, Co-owner & Brewer, Booze Brothers Brewing Company<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Beer Writer: Much like saisons, I enjoy biere de garde because there\u2019s a good amount of leeway, stylistically, meaning few taste exactly alike. The unpredictability of this more free-form French beer style is what gets me excited whenever I see one available at a local brewery. Unfortunately, that doesn\u2019t happen all that often, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[368,1],"tags":[1353,376,1456,1662,1660,1661,1603,1602,1452,390,391,1664,1663,1665,1457,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-11165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-beer-news","7":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","8":"tag-sdbeer","9":"tag-beer","10":"tag-beer-to-the-rescue","11":"tag-biere-de-garde","12":"tag-booze-bros","13":"tag-booze-brothers","14":"tag-brett","15":"tag-brettanomyces","16":"tag-brewery","17":"tag-craft-beer","18":"tag-craftbeer","19":"tag-donny-firth","20":"tag-french","21":"tag-lights-out","22":"tag-lupus","23":"tag-vista","24":"entry","25":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-2U5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}