{"id":8301,"date":"2013-07-12T14:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=8301"},"modified":"2013-07-12T14:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T21:18:53","slug":"the-friday-five-5q-w-dan-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2013\/07\/12\/the-friday-five-5q-w-dan-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Five: 5Q w\/ Dan Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dan<\/a>
Dan Love, via Mother Earth’s Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dan Love is co-owner of Mother Earth Brew Co.<\/a> in Vista.<\/p>\n

Mother Earth and Pizza Port Solana Beach head brewer Devon Randall are\u00a0introducing a collaboration IPA today at Pizza Port Bressi Ranch. What\u00a0brought you together?
\n<\/strong>We were at the Bressi Ranch soft launch and (Mother Earth co-owner) Kamron\u00a0(Khannakhjavani) mentioned to Vince (Marsaglia) that we\u2019d love to do a\u00a0collaboration to help them produce beer as they get up and running. It\u2019s\u00a0called The Cru — named for the two crews who brewed it and Pizza Port\u2019s\u00a0yeast, which is called La Cruda. We used a combination of Columbus,\u00a0Cascade, Amarillo and Chinook. On the nose it\u2019s like a punch in the mouth\u00a0full of grapefruit, but it\u2019s very refined. It doesn\u2019t have a harsh bite to\u00a0it. It\u2019s smooth. And the wheat malt gives it body and nice lacing on the\u00a0glass.<\/p>\n

Vista is now the largest beer city per capita in the U.S. What is it about\u00a0this North County city that is so appealing to brewers?<\/strong>
\nWe have a great relationship with the city and its willingness to reach out\u00a0to brewery business and say, \u201cYou\u2019re welcome here.\u201d They support us in\u00a0their planning department, in their permitting department, they do it in a\u00a0lot of different ways. Now, if we could just eliminate some of the red tape\u00a0from the ABC (California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control), we would\u00a0be able to do a lot more creative things to introduce people to craft beer.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t much love lost between many breweries and the ABC? What\u2019s your\u00a0beef?
\n<\/strong>The ABC is so antiquated in dealing with laws that are so old that they just\u00a0can\u2019t get out of their own way. When you get your license to open a brewery,\u00a0the ABC doesn\u2019t tell you anything that\u2019s related to the law. When you ask\u00a0for a manual of do\u2019s and don\u2019ts, they say they will never provide one\u00a0because they\u2019re worried that someone will interpret it differently than the\u00a0way it should be interpreted and they might get sued. It\u2019s ridiculous. They\u00a0should be getting on board with this great industry that has generated $22\u00a0billion in revenue for California and 20,000 employees. Stop slowing it\u00a0down.<\/p>\n

Mother Earth is known for its hop-forward beers such as Kismet IPA and Hop\u00a0<\/strong>Diggity DIPA, but Cali\u2019 Creamin\u2019, a vanilla cream ale, is your second-best\u00a0<\/strong>selling beer. What do your customers love about it?
\n<\/strong>It\u2019s very approachable. It\u2019s light, refreshing and low in alcohol. Plus it\u00a0has a friendly name and the bottle has a classic surf logo. You won\u2019t taste\u00a0this beer and make a face.<\/p>\n

\"Love,<\/a>
Love, on a brew day with Urge Gastropub<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You are planning to produce 5,000 barrels this year, a far cry from when\u00a0Mother Earth first started back in 2010. What\u2019s in your future?
\n<\/strong>I remember when my wife, Errin, asked what my vision was when we first\u00a0started, and I couldn\u2019t answer her because I didn\u2019t know where we were\u00a0going. But the help we received from Lee Chase, Tomme Arthur and so many\u00a0other people made us realize where we fit in in this industry. And once we\u00a0started bottling and the great feedback we received, the light bulb went\u00a0off and we realized this wasn\u2019t just a hobby anymore. We have a 20-barrel\u00a0system now and we\u2019ll do 5,000 barrels this year and next year will be at\u00a011,000. In 2015 we\u2019re planning on 16,000. We\u2019re also considering a canning\u00a0line to go along with our bottling line. All of this was unfathomable when\u00a0we first started. But the bus is moving fast right now and we have everyone\u00a0in the right seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Love is co-owner of Mother Earth Brew Co. in Vista. Mother Earth and Pizza Port Solana Beach head brewer Devon Randall are\u00a0introducing a collaboration IPA today at Pizza Port Bressi Ranch. What\u00a0brought you together? We were at the Bressi Ranch soft launch and (Mother Earth co-owner) Kamron\u00a0(Khannakhjavani) mentioned to Vince (Marsaglia) that we\u2019d love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[1111,1019,1110,259,1109,484,425],"class_list":{"0":"post-8301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","7":"tag-dan-love","8":"tag-devon-randall","9":"tag-kamron-khannakhjavani","10":"tag-mother-earth-brew-co","11":"tag-pizza-port-bressi-ranch","12":"tag-pizza-port-solana-beach","13":"tag-vince-marsaglia","14":"entry","15":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-29T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}