{"id":22138,"date":"2019-04-17T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=22138"},"modified":"2019-04-17T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:56:58","slug":"hopcondido-ipa-tops-at-brew-down-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2019\/04\/17\/hopcondido-ipa-tops-at-brew-down-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopcondido IPA tops at Brew Down Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Escondido Brewing<\/a> <\/strong>head brewer Ketchen Smith <\/strong>has been winning awards with his IPA for years. Even though that recipe garnered him a National Homebrewers Conference<\/a> <\/strong>medal\u2014not to mention Beer of the Week status here in West Coaster<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u2014the first-place finish it earned last weekend might just be its most meaningful accomplishment to-date. That win came at Green Flash Brewing<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s first annual Brew Down Beer Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event, which was held at Green Flash\u2019s Mira Mesa headquarters and benefited the San Diego Brewers Guild<\/a><\/strong>, included a competition aspect where attendees sampled beers from 22 breweries and cast votes for their favorites. In the end, there was no need for intense tabulating; Escondido Brewing\u2019s Hopcondido IPA won by a landslide. But there was more to the victory than bragging rights, and that\u2019s what has Smith so amped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis was the first beer festival we ever participated in, and we chose it because it was for a good cause. The winning brewery received $5,000 toward the charity of their choice, which is awesome and not common for festivals,\u201d says Smith. Escondido Brewing selected Wounded Warrior Homes<\/a> <\/strong>as its beneficiary, and will be presenting the organization with a check on live TV in the near future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe how much we won by, especially with so many of\nthe big guys in the mix,\u201d says Smith. \u201cI was working hard and didn\u2019t really see\nwhat was going on at the other booths, so I was caught off guard when the head\nbrewers at Green Flash and Alpine told me to stop pouring and be around for the\nceremony. Truly surreal!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking to taste and take home some of this award-winning beer? Escondido Brewing will release the beer in a limited run of cans at its tasting room at 649 Rock Springs Road<\/strong> in Escondido this Saturday, April 20<\/strong>. Previous sales of this canned small-batch creation have sold out same-day each time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Escondido Brewing head brewer Ketchen Smith has been winning awards with his IPA for years. Even though that recipe garnered him a National Homebrewers Conference medal\u2014not to mention Beer of the Week status here in West Coaster\u2014the first-place finish it earned last weekend might just be its most meaningful accomplishment to-date. That win came at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[368,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beer-news","8":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","9":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_8433.jpg?fit=1024%2C1019&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"Escondido Brewing nabs win and charity donation at Green Flash event","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-5L4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138","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=22138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}