{"id":21875,"date":"2019-03-15T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=21875"},"modified":"2019-03-14T09:08:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T16:08:46","slug":"beer-of-the-week-respeto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2019\/03\/15\/beer-of-the-week-respeto\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Respeto"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Beer Writer: <\/strong>Though nearly a year ago, I remember it like it was yesterday, walking onto the grounds of the\u00a0Ensenada Beer Fest<\/strong><\/a> and seeing San Diego-based breweries sharing space with Baja craft operations. It was beautiful to behold and even more lovely to experience from a taste perspective. As I sampled through the beers, I was alerted to a rather impressive bit of news. Winners of the fest’s brewing-competition component had been announced and the top dog in the Mexican-style Lager category was none other than North San Diego County’s\u00a0Mason Ale Works<\/strong><\/a>, which was celebrating the launch of\u00a0Respeto<\/strong>, its\u00a0entry into that category that very weekend. Nailing a region’s most popular style in that region on the first try…talk about a fantastic coming-out party. As this year’s Ensenada Beer Fest rolls back around (it will take place\u00a0March 22 and 23<\/strong>, and is an epic event worth traveling for), this seemed a remarkable feat worth revisiting, especially as Mason shifts its packaging for this beer to 16-ounce cans and now offers specialty glassware just for this award-winner at its parent company’s (3 Local Brothers<\/strong>) family of\u00a0Urge Gastropub<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>restaurants.<\/p>\n

From the Brewer:\u00a0<\/strong>“As the Ensenada Beer Fest approaches, we are proud to have received gold last year and to participate in it again this year with Respeto, our Mexican-style lager. Respeto is a clean and refreshing lager that clocks in at 4.5% (alcohol-by-volume). Its well-balanced profile comes from a base of pilsner and Vienna malt with a unique hop presence from the use of Mt. Hood hops. Originally brewed as an experimental batch at our R&D brewery in Oceanside, this beer immediately demanded ‘mas respeto<\/em>.’ Therefore, we now have proper horizontal lagering tanks to support its growing demand, which includes four states and two countries. And more if you include where the brewers take it on vacation.\u00a0<\/span>In a world of absurd adjuncts, palate wreckers and murk monsters, this flagship offering from Mason Ale Works forges a path, demands respect and proves that sometimes less is more. After one sip it will be justified and have you asking \u201cdonde esta la cerveceria?<\/em>‘<\/span>“\u2014<\/i>Ben “Shaggy” Blaney<\/i><\/strong>, Director of Brewery Operations, Mason Ale Works<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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