{"id":20669,"date":"2018-07-06T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=20669"},"modified":"2018-07-06T07:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:58:39","slug":"beer-of-the-week-althing-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2018\/07\/06\/beer-of-the-week-althing-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Althing 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Beer Writer:\u00a0<\/strong>The spirit of craft-brewing innovation is alive in tandem with Viking pride at Mira Mesa’s\u00a0Longship Brewery<\/strong><\/a>, where owner and head brewer\u00a0Dan Jachimowicz<\/strong> is about to celebrate two years in the beer biz. In doing so, he’s pulling out all the stops, releasing a quartet of wide-ranging small batch beers, including an altbier, a lingonberry-infused saison brewed in collaboration with Beeramar’s\u00a0Thunderhawk Alements,<\/strong><\/a> and a heather ale made in concert with local yeast-production company\u00a0White Labs<\/strong><\/a>. The latter is the first beer ever made using White Labs’ New Nordic Yeast Blend, which is fitting given Longship’s overriding thematic. With credentials like that, one might figure it would be the Beer of the Week, but those honors go to\u00a0Althing 2018<\/strong>, a nine-ish percent alcohol-by-volume Scotch ale ripped from the pages of Jachimowicz’s homebrew journal. The beer pours a rich brown foretelling of its caramely flavors. That mildly sweet base is given impressive depth by undertones of dried fruit (plums, dates, maybe even some figginess) and spikes of bright, berry-like tartness (blueberry or elderberry in nature). Bourbon brings on a thread of earthy vanilla that ties everything together and makes for a well-made celebratory quaff that can be had at Longship’s anniversary event,\u00a0tomorrow at 1 p.m., <\/strong>where all of the aforementioned beers will be on tap.<\/p>\n

From the Brewer:\u00a0<\/strong>“We named our beer after the historical Althing (pronounced All-ting<\/em>), which was an annual gathering of\u00a0Norse clans from across the land to discuss, collaborate and, of course, celebrate. In order to create\u00a0Longship\u2019s second-anniversary beer, ‘Althing 2018,’ we flipped through the archives for a\u00a0strong beer from my early homebrew days and dusted off an old recipe. The original version of this\u00a0Scotch ale was last brewed in 2009 for a friend\u2019s wedding and hasn\u2019t been tested on the big system until\u00a0now. We like the idea of our anniversary beers being higher in alcohol with rich, complex flavors, which we\u00a0accomplished this year by using a combination of two yeast strains and bourbon-soaked oak chips. The\u00a0results were amazing. This beer has an intense caramel and strong alcohol aroma with a hint of vanilla.\u00a0A medium-bodied beer, it is sweet and balanced with a slight boozy kick at the end. We had a lot of fun\u00a0making Althing 2018 and will have even more fun sharing it with guests at our second-anniversary\u00a0party. There may even be a barrel-aged version to enjoy at our third anniversary! We are proud to add\u00a0this to our list of annual Althings and will hopefully have many more to come. Sk\u00e5l!”\u2013Dan Jachimowicz, Owner & Head Brewer, Longship Brewery<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Beer Writer:\u00a0The spirit of craft-brewing innovation is alive in tandem with Viking pride at Mira Mesa’s\u00a0Longship Brewery, where owner and head brewer\u00a0Dan Jachimowicz is about to celebrate two years in the beer biz. In doing so, he’s pulling out all the stops, releasing a quartet of wide-ranging small batch beers, including an altbier, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20678,"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":[4904,1],"tags":[1353,4704,5133,5134,376,1461,2067,442,391,2725,5136,5137,2483,2723,2724,61,5135,5132,1439,5131,2923,1637,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-20669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beer-of-the-week","8":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","9":"tag-sdbeer","10":"tag-4704","11":"tag-althing","12":"tag-anniversary-beer","13":"tag-beer","14":"tag-beer-of-the-week","15":"tag-bourbon","16":"tag-brandon-hernandez","17":"tag-craftbeer","18":"tag-dan-jachimowicz","19":"tag-drinking-horn","20":"tag-heather","21":"tag-indiebeer","22":"tag-longship-brewery","23":"tag-longship-brewing","24":"tag-mira-mesa","25":"tag-norse","26":"tag-oak-chips","27":"tag-san-diego","28":"tag-scotch-ale","29":"tag-thunderhawk-alements","30":"tag-west-coaster","31":"tag-white-labs","32":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/botw_la2018.jpg?fit=1024%2C637&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-5nn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669","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=20669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}