{"id":16954,"date":"2017-04-27T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=16954"},"modified":"2017-04-27T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T16:57:25","slug":"battlemage-brewing-set-to-open-in-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/04\/27\/battlemage-brewing-set-to-open-in-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlemage Brewing set to open in Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can scarcely throw a 100-sided die in Vista without hitting a brewery, and come the weekend of May 6<\/strong>, two guys used to utilizing that role-playing game tool will debut the latest entrant into that sudsy community\u2014Battlemage Brewing Company <\/strong><\/a>(2870 Scott Street, Suite 102, Vista)<\/em>. Best friends and fermentationists Ryan Sather <\/strong>and Chris Barry <\/strong>named their interest after a hybrid class from a game they\u2019ve been playing for the past 20 years: D&D (Dungeons and Dragons, non-RPGers). Sather has spent the three years working at Home Brew Mart<\/strong>. Barry\u2019s Ballast Point Brewing <\/strong><\/a>experience is a bit shorter\u2014he\u2019s been there the past year after moving on from managing Mother Earth Brew Co.<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s homebrew shop. In opening Battlemage, they are going from advising people on brewing to doing it themselves on a professional scale.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As far as the beers they brew on their five-barrel system, they\u2019re not limiting themselves. Both have medaled in a plethora of categories as homebrewers\u2014IPAs and wide-ranging American, Belgian, English and German styles. The duo expects to offer traditional styles as well as classic styles given twists that make then \u201ctruly magical.\u201d A white ale that comes across as a light-hopped blonde ale with the drinkability of a lager will share beer-board space with a aromatically hoppy American amber and a variety of IPAs because, as Sather says, it wouldn\u2019t be San Diego without them. When Battlemage\u2019s doors open, 8 to 10 beers will be on tap. Initial kettle sours will give way to future barrel-aged sour ales, as well. They hope to have a bottle release or two at some point and can once they have the funds to do so, but for now, draft is the name of their game.<\/p>\n

The tasting room is designed so customers feel as if they are entering a medieval castle. Weapons and mystical creatures will grace the walls in the smallish space. Sather says he and Barry intend to embrace their nerdy side by putting on a variety of different gaming nights, ranging from fantasy to classic D&D. An event where the comic-book artist who developed Battlemage\u2019s logo teaches patrons how to draw dragons and other graphic delights is under development. Also in the works is a collaboration with the distillery two doors down, Henebery Spirits<\/strong><\/a>, where Battlemage will age beers in used barrels, while the distillers will age whiskey in those same barrels once the beer is drained from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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