{"id":16216,"date":"2017-01-13T13:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=16216"},"modified":"2017-01-13T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T23:49:56","slug":"beer-of-the-week-pizza-port-shark-bite-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/01\/13\/beer-of-the-week-pizza-port-shark-bite-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Pizza Port Shark Bite Red Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pizza Port has canned its iconic Shark Bite Red Ale in celebration of the company’s upcoming 30th anniversary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the Beer Writer:\u00a0<\/strong>When I first heard Pizza Port<\/strong><\/a> was about to hit the big three-oh(-where-did-all-the-time-go?), I could hardly believe it. Though brewing operations began at the family-owned SoCal chain’s flagship Solana Beach brewpub in 1992, it’s been slinging pies and Beer Buddies since 1987. Through it all, the concept\u00a0has stayed true to the humble vision of brother-and-sister team\u00a0Vince and Gina Marsaglia<\/strong>: provide a dependably fun and inviting place for people to enjoy themselves over pizza and house-made beers. Simple pleasure is the theme of the organization, which has grown to include\u00a0a formidable quintet of “Port Holes”\u00a0reaching from Ocean Beach to San Clemente, including a large-scale, production facility-equipped brewpub in Carlsbad’s Bressi Ranch community.\u00a0Along the way,\u00a0a boatload of awards have been lavished on the multifaceted interest’s beers, and numerous members of its brewing team have gone on to starring roles at breweries across\u00a0Southern California. Its an impressive evolution that, from a beer-perspective, all started with a hoppy offering that was far ahead of its time and helped define San Diego’s lupulin-driven brewing style:\u00a0Pizza Port Shark Bite Red Ale<\/strong>. When it came time\u00a0to can a beer in celebration of Pizza Port’s 30th anniversary, this mainstay of its\u00a0extensive and impressive\u00a0canon was a no-brainer. Piney in its hop profundity (especially for the time-frame in which it debuted) and nicely bolstered by a toffee-like\u00a0yet dry malt-body, this beer is\u00a0a piece of San Diego brewing history that has endured based on the tenets of good taste and craftsmanship.\u00a0Each of the company’s brewpubs will hold release parties for Shark Bite on\u00a0Tuesday, January 17<\/strong>,\u00a0where six-packs of the beer will be available for purchase. Additionally, Pizza Port\u00a0will hold festivities (details to be announced) to\u00a0celebrate 30 years in business at its Solana Beach location the last weekend of March, shortly after\u00a0its official anniversary on\u00a0March 23.<\/p>\n

From the Brewer:\u00a0<\/strong>“Shark Bite Red was the first beer we made. I wanted to do a red instead of an amber, probably because I had a red ale at Callahan’s Pub<\/strong><\/a> and I liked it more than amber ales. It has more crystal-malt flavor. Before making that first batch, I was so excited about the our seven-barrel system, that I decided to go inside the brew-kettle and have a couple of beers. I ended up just sitting there and falling asleep, then waking up and not knowing where I was. We actually had to throw away the first batch of Shark Bite\u00a0we brewed. Somebody hooked up the thermocouple backwards and we didn’t know,\u00a0so it cooled the yeast down and the beer\u00a0didn’t ferment. It tasted like motor oil. Other than that, there aren’t many weird or funny stories. I just made beer and people drank it. There were no guidelines, but even if there were, we didn’t read them. We were just making beer…beer we liked.”\u2014<\/em>Vince Marsaglia, Co-owner\/Brewmaster, Pizza Port<\/em><\/p>\n

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From the Beer Writer:\u00a0When I first heard Pizza Port was about to hit the big three-oh(-where-did-all-the-time-go?), I could hardly believe it. Though brewing operations began at the family-owned SoCal chain’s flagship Solana Beach brewpub in 1992, it’s been slinging pies and Beer Buddies since 1987. Through it all, the concept\u00a0has stayed true to the humble […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16220,"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":[367,368,369,371,1],"tags":[1353,3523,376,3129,1461,442,1596,668,391,1229,1982,1119,2483,1449,763,296,951,3522,1439,131,3524,1597,425,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-16216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beer-events","8":"category-beer-news","9":"category-beer-styles","10":"category-brewing-ingredients","11":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","12":"tag-sdbeer","13":"tag-30th-anniversary","14":"tag-beer","15":"tag-beer-buddies","16":"tag-beer-of-the-week","17":"tag-brandon-hernandez","18":"tag-bressi-ranch","19":"tag-carlsbad","20":"tag-craftbeer","21":"tag-gina-marsaglia","22":"tag-hop-concept","23":"tag-hops","24":"tag-indiebeer","25":"tag-lost-abbey","26":"tag-ocean-beach","27":"tag-pizza-port","28":"tag-port-brewing","29":"tag-san-clemente","30":"tag-san-diego","31":"tag-san-marcos","32":"tag-shark-bite-red","33":"tag-solana-beach","34":"tag-vince-marsaglia","35":"tag-west-coaster","36":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/botw_sharkbite-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C834&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-4dy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216","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=16216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}