{"id":17967,"date":"2017-08-29T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=17967"},"modified":"2017-08-23T11:17:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T18:17:47","slug":"oeuvre-artisan-ales-contracting-with-intergalactic-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/08\/29\/oeuvre-artisan-ales-contracting-with-intergalactic-brewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Oeuvre Artisan Ales contracting with Intergalactic Brewing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The status of\u00a0Intergalactic Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0remains uncertain at present, but one fact about its future is clear: its tasting room will soon pour beers of a new brand,\u00a0Oeuvre Artisan Ales<\/strong>. Intergalactic owner\u00a0Alex Van Horne\u00a0<\/strong>has entered into a licensing agreement with local tech professional, musician and amateur producer of beers, ciders and meads,\u00a0Ted Apollo<\/strong>, which will allow the latter to realize his vision for a line of beers fermented with Brettanomyces at the Miramar brewery.<\/p>\n

Apollo has been mulling the notion of brewing professionally for years, but felt it was important not to rush into anything. He has spent that contemplative period getting to know members of the brewing community, chief among them Van Horne, and owner of\u00a0The Homebrewer<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Home Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0George Thornton<\/strong>, both of whom have been generous with their time and advisement. Apollo signed on to contract-brew at Van Horne’s brewery before he announced he was putting his business up for sale.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Apollo would like to become a full-time brewer, but has no interest in becoming the next big thing from a production standpoint. Through conversations with Thornton (who also teaches the\u00a0Beer Styles I<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Basics of Brewing<\/em>\u00a0courses as part of\u00a0San Diego State University<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s Business of Craft Beer program), he believes breweries producing 1,000-barrels-per-year or less are in an ideal position for stability and success. His annual production goals contract brewing at Intergalactic sit at 100-to-200 barrels, but that barrelage will increase if he opens his own spot.<\/p>\n

Should Apollo and his wife-and-partner\u00a0Franchesca<\/strong>\u00a0take that next step, they are not interested in sufficiently serviced communities such as North Park. They would rather explore options on Chula Vista\u2019s suddenly sudsy Third Avenue or only-recently brewery-adorned Rancho Bernardo or Carmel Mountain Ranch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to keep things manageable and do what I do well; focus on certain beers and build some accounts early instead of making 16-plus beers to sustain my tasting room,\u201d says Apollo. He feels it\u2019s important not to overreach, and prefers to specialize in one area that he can build customers around and cater to on an intimate level.\u00a0\u201cI want to get a loyal fan base and then never do anything to disenfranchise them.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Intergalactic sells, all steps will be taken to ensure Apollo is still able to brew his beers at the Miramar facility, but in the immediate future, Oeuvre\u2019s first 100% Brett beer, Batch One, is set to debut in the next few weeks. It will be on-sale in four-packs and on-tap at Intergalactic\u2019s tasting room with limited distribution at off-site accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The status of\u00a0Intergalactic Brewing Company\u00a0remains uncertain at present, but one fact about its future is clear: its tasting room will soon pour beers of a new brand,\u00a0Oeuvre Artisan Ales. Intergalactic owner\u00a0Alex Van Horne\u00a0has entered into a licensing agreement with local tech professional, musician and amateur producer of beers, ciders and meads,\u00a0Ted Apollo, which will allow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17968,"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":[367,368,369,371,287,1],"tags":[1353,2745,4203,4205,376,4204,1436,442,4201,1602,2081,1918,1387,2115,390,591,3053,1899,2483,2675,2116,880,15,4198,4199,1093,1764,1439,4202,579,4200,600,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-17967","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-homebrewing","12":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","13":"tag-sdbeer","14":"tag-alex-van-horne","15":"tag-basics-of-brewing","16":"tag-batch-one","17":"tag-beer","18":"tag-beer-styles-i","19":"tag-beeramar","20":"tag-brandon-hernandez","21":"tag-brett-beer","22":"tag-brettanomyces","23":"tag-business-of-craft-beer","24":"tag-carmel-mountain","25":"tag-chula-vista","26":"tag-cider","27":"tag-craft-beer","28":"tag-george-thornton","29":"tag-home-brewing-company","30":"tag-homebrewing","31":"tag-indiebeer","32":"tag-intergalactic-brewing","33":"tag-mead","34":"tag-miramar","35":"tag-north-park","36":"tag-oeuvre","37":"tag-oeuvre-artisan-ales","38":"tag-rancho-bernardo","39":"tag-rb","40":"tag-san-diego","41":"tag-san-diego-state","42":"tag-sdsu","43":"tag-ted-apollo","44":"tag-the-homebrewer","45":"tag-west-coaster","46":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/logo_oeuvre.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-4FN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967","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=17967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}