Due to limited supply and box-taping manpower, bottled beer sales through our on-line Gift Shop are now officially CLOSED!  You can still visit our pub (for a very short time) in Santa Rosa, as well as several accounts in the Bay Area and So. Cal, to purchase some of these beers.   Thanks to those of you who helped deplete the remaining supply of bottled beer in order to make room for more!   Your orders will ship next week and you will receive a tracking number via email.  Have a safe and Happy 4th of July!

Cheers!  Natalie

Well, it took less than 24 hours to run out of Supplication and Beatification since my post Tuesday night at 11:30pm!  We do have a little Temptation left, which will probably be out by tonight.  At that time we will close the Gift Shop bottle sales.  We are planning to ship all orders on Monday and Tuesday, July 7th and 8th.  That will ensure your bottles don’t sit in a warm warehouse, in a truck, or on a loading dock over the Holiday weekend.  Remember to provide a California shipping address.  And we don’t have time to return phone calls and emails with special requests right now.  It’s pretty straight forward- order the beer, ship it in California!  We have a couple of merchandise items on sale, too.  Women’s Red Tank Top and Blind Pig Girlie T-Shirt are each on sale for $12.  We need some new clothes for the girls at the brewery! 

We are bottling Blind Pig for the first time in 14 years next week!  Look for it in stores and restaurants in our area, the Bay Area, San Diego/LA/Orange County/Riverside, and Portland later this month.  Then off to Denver/Boulder in August, where our official launch will of course be at the fabulous Falling Rock Tap House!  Planning to ship up to Seattle sometime later this summer.  And with gas prices sky high, we will still not ship back East for quite some time.  So if you can’t get OUR beer, support your local brewery!  Chances are pretty good they are friends of ours anyway! 

Russian River Revival Beerfest tickets and bus tickets now available at RRBC!  This year’s fest takes place August 16th at Stumptown Brewery in Guerneville right on the Russian River!  Visit www.stumptown.com for more information on the fest.  This is one of our favorites, one that my employees request to attend months ahead of time!  Tickets are $40 in advance, and the bus is a mere $10, cash only for both, please.  There are 2 buses, holding a total of 100 passengers.  Stop by our brewpub on 4th Street to get tickets before they sell out!  If you are coming from out of the area, we have lodging recommendations on our website.

I had better get going!  Writing you from home, so now I am off to check in at the pub, then to the production brewery.   And it looks like a nice day to walk to work!

Cheers!

Natalie

This has been a long, stressful, and exciting week!  On Thursday,  May 8th, we finally brewed our first batch of beer at the new production brewery in Santa Rosa!  Of course, it was far from the perfect brew day.  Vinnie arrived at 6am and left at 4:30am… ouch.  This after only several months of working 14 hours a day, but at least he is smiling!  However, the 15 hour brew did not break the record: his first batch at Blind Pig in 1994 was a double IPA which took 19 hours!  We had friends visiting on Thursday, in town for the Boonville Beer Fest, whom we invited to stay with us not knowing we would be brewing the very first batch that day.  Good thing they are brewers because they were immediately put to work!  Melissa and David- thank you for staying up until 2:30am helping out with our first brew! 

The first beer brewed on the new/used 50 barrel Dogfish Head brewhouse was Consecration- a sour beer which will age for a year in Cabernet barrels with black currents and the usual bugs and critters.  Today, Saturday, I decided to forego Boonville to help Vinnie brew the first batch of Pliny the Elder!  We don’t brew together anymore, now that we are business partners.  So today was a very special day for me!  Thank you so much to Todd and Mike for helping with today’s brew.  And thank you to the 15 or so staff members who represented us in Boonville and had the privelege of answering the “Where’s Vinnie?” question all day!  For the record, Vinnie was with me brewing more Pliny!

Enough about us, already!  Congratulations to Steve, our sound engineer/band booker, and his lovely wife, Eiko.  They were married April 27th at Furlong Gulch on a beautiful Sonoma Coast day!  We are honored to welcome Eiko to our Brewery family!

So I am sitting in Vinnie’s office at the new brewery writing to you while Vinnie and Todd are cleaning up from today’s brew!  Sometimes it does not suck to be me!  Happy Mother’s Day to our mothers, Audrey and Patti, and all beer drinking mothers out there!

Cheers!

Natalie