{"id":14784,"date":"2016-09-09T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=14784"},"modified":"2016-09-03T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T20:06:02","slug":"beer-of-the-week-pizza-port-graveyards-pale-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2016\/09\/09\/beer-of-the-week-pizza-port-graveyards-pale-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Pizza Port Graveyard\u2019s Pale Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pizza Port Graveyard’s Pale Ale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the Beer Writer: <\/strong>There was a time when pretty much the only way I was going to get my hands on prime Pizza Port<\/strong><\/a> beers like Swami\u2019s, Chronic or Kook, was by going to one of that storied chain\u2019s brewpubs. Having lived my entire life in inland San Diego, that constituted a special (and always well-worth-it) trip. So, it was a good day, indeed, when Pizza Port\u2019s Bressi Ranch started canning those beers and distributing them all over San Diego County. More recently, the company has started developing new beers specifically for canning, and the latest is perhaps my new favorite canned offering\u2014Pizza Port<\/strong> Graveyard\u2019s Pale Ale<\/strong>. A \u201cstrong pale ale,\u201d it comes in at 6.2% alcohol-by-volume and comes on strong up-front fruitiness from Mosaic, Ella, Vic Secret, Super Pride and Amarillo hops. But for me, Graveyard\u2019s real beauty and differentiating factor is its balancing and complex maltiness, the product of a blend of Munich and CaraRed\u2014which presents itself courtesy of toasty, biscuit undertones. Each sip smacks not only of San Diego brewing sensibilities, but Pizza Port\u2019s specific and unmistakable trademark combination of flavor and drinkability. It\u2019s the kind of pale ale I could spend the day drinking pint after pint of at an indoor picnic bench while consuming a basket of Beer Buddies\u2026were I not gratefully able to do all that sipping from the comfort of my own (inland) backyard.<\/p>\n

\"label_graveyards\"<\/a>From the Brewer: <\/strong>\u201cGraveyard\u2019s is the first limited-release can to come out of our Bressi Ranch brewery. We decided to go with a stronger pale ale, a style that we all drink a lot of in the pubs and was currently missing from our portfolio. This year, we were lucky to get a healthy amount of Mosaic and Australian hops on contract, and those hops are a perfect fit with each other and for that style of beer. When fermenting it, we blended California Ale yeast with our house La Cruda straing. The Cal-Ale accentuates the hops, while La Cruda showcases the malt. We had also been talking with long-time regular and distinguished surf photographer Steve Sherman<\/strong> on using his photography on a can. All these things came together at the right time for Graveyard\u2019s to get done. The name and label comes from Steve\u2019s shot of the Oceanside break with the same name. It was an empty lot where surfers used to bury their broken boards in the ground, making it look like a graveyard. The photo is from October 2001, during a once-in-a-lifetime south swell.\u201d\u2014Sean Farrell, Director of Brewing, Pizza Port Brewing Company<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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