{"id":21788,"date":"2019-03-09T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=21788"},"modified":"2019-03-05T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:46:55","slug":"beer-of-the-week-pacific-crest-pale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2019\/03\/09\/beer-of-the-week-pacific-crest-pale\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Pacific Crest Pale"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Beer Writer:\u00a0<\/strong>La Mesa’s downtown Village area received an infusion of Scottish heritage when the\u00a0Fourpenny House <\/strong><\/a>opened last June. From a warm, homey interior design to a hearty Scottish-inspired menu and wide array of Scotch, it had a lot to offer. The only thing lacking for the brewpub was…beer. The opening-day brewer had trouble keeping it on the board, usually having only one or two ales on tap. All that changed when former\u00a0ChuckAlek Independent Brewers\u00a0<\/strong>fermentationist\u00a0Samantha Olson<\/strong> came on board. A recent visit to Fourpenny House turned up an octet of varied beers. Of them all,\u00a0Pacific Crest Pale <\/strong>best exemplifies what Olson brings to the table. A version brewed using the recipe that preceded her tenure was a little sweet, overbearingly herbaceous and low in hop allure, while Olson’s revised spin was crisp, dry, spicy, more gold than orange, brimming with hop aromatics and impressively balanced for a beer infused with numerous next-level ingredients (juniper berries, lemongrass, sage, rye). If this is a vision of Fourpenny House’s future, the horizon is bright, indeed.<\/p>\n

From the Brewer:\u00a0<\/strong>“Pacific Crest is a rye pale ale with juniper, sage and lemongrass. The original idea for the beer was to create a flavor profile that recreated the memory of waking up in the morning after camping along the Pacific Crest Trail. After drinking a few pints of our original version, I decided it tasted too much like our Beatrix Blonde, which is a blonde ale with chamomile and lemon verbena, and that Pacific Crest needed to be reimagined to diversify our core beer line-up.\u00a0In this new version, I took my PCT hiking experiences and imparted them into the beer. I usually have the full-impact hiking experience, which I wanted to come through in the beer. That would include being snapped by a pine-tree branch, so I dry-hopped the beer with Chinook and Simcoe hops in addition to the juniper berries. Lemongrass represents splashing down in a grass-rimmed pond. Wading through sage brush led to sage. And the crisp, refreshing finish on this beer reminds me of summiting Bishop Pass. For a taste of the PCT, drop by Fourpenny House and enjoy this beer!”\u2014<\/i>Samantha Olson<\/i>, Head Brewer, Fourpenny House<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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