This month we have added five new beers to our inventory that we are sure you will love.

• Great White - Lost Coast Brewing Co. - An unfiltered Belgian style ale. A mysterious cloudy white color, slightly sweet in flavor.
• Indica India Pale Ale - Lost Coast Brewing Co. - A great IPA brewed with several different hops for a unique hoppy flavor!
• Downtown Brown - Lost Coast Brewing Co. - A smooth, full-bodied nut brown ale - very tasty!
• Imperial Russian Stout - Stone Brewing Co. - A sinfully thick beer! Limited quantity available! According to Stone, this beer will never again be brewed!
• Pozo Pale Ale - Bonnema Brewing Co. - An old favorite now in 12 oz bottles.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your beer. - - Lady Astor to Winston Churchill

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it! --His Reply

The SLO Brewing Company's main brewery is located in Paso Robles, about 30 minutes north of San Luis Obispo, the home of the original brewpub (still alive). See last month's newsletter for more exciting information about SLO Brewing Company.

A new brewmaster, Matthew Brynildson, has taken over the brewing reigns and even tweaked a few of the original SLO recipes since his arrival in February. Mat, the former brewer at Goose Island Brewing Co. in Chicago, brings yet another awesome brewer to California, which is fast becoming known as the "Microbrew State" of North America!

SLO Extra Pale Ale was originally named "Brickhouse Pale Ale" and is one of the beers that was recently tweaked a bit, bringing it ever closer to perfection. It is a light bodied ale brewed with pale malted barley, Munich malts, and several different hops to give it more depth. The array of aromatic hops produces an easy drinking beer with a clean and crisp finish that sets it apart from other pale beers out there.

It has won numerous awards including a Silver Medal at the 1997 World Beer Championships, Bronze Medals at both the Great American Beer Festival and The World Beer Championships in 1996, and a Wine Journal Silver Medal in 1996.

In 1994 the Palm Springs Brewing Co. was created as a brewpub in downtown Palm Springs to cater to local residents and the huge tourist industry of the area. Two years later, the demand for their beer was so great that they built an 11,000 sf brewery complete with twelve 50bbl fermentation tanks.

The brewmaster is a really nice guy, a master around the brew kettle and goes by the name of Graydon Brown. He started homebrewing in 1986, graduated from the Siebel Institute for Brewing Studies in 1993 and is also an accomplished electrical engineer. His brewing experience includes Head Brewery at Ybor City Brewery in Florida, several years overseas setting up and running the "Brewhouse" in Bangkok, Thailand and another brewery in Japan. He has been brewing at Palm Springs for about a year now and is also the brewer at the London Arms Pub in Lake Havasu.

He tells me that his favorite beer is the Octoberfest Beer that will be released again this September. If they bottle it, we will definitely feature it in October!

In the meanwhile, Red Feather Ale is a very good red-colored beer with a slightly sweet flavor and no sharp bitter tones. The famous Palm Springs well water which they use to brew their beer adds to Red Feather Ale's excellent balance and full body. You try it & tell us what you think!

Just a dream in 1998, the Hook & Ladder Brewing Company served its first beer in December of 1999!

A former volunteer firefighter in Maryland, Rich Fleischer, the owner and master brewer, moved out to California 7 years ago and was amazed at the thriving microbrew industry he found. Soon after tasting his first California microbrew, he started homebrewing his own beer, one thing led to another and the rest is history... With firefighting in his blood, Rich wanted to pay tribute to all the men and women who risk their lives daily, so when he started up his own brewery, he decided to follow a fireman's theme and The Hook & Ladder Brewing Company was born!

All of Hook & Ladder's brews follow the theme, with Backdraft Brown being the first release and Grassfire Wheat soon to follow. Because Rich really liked the fast fermentation process of brown ales - it got the beer into his belly faster - this style quickly became his favorite, and he perfected an outstanding recipe for the beer he calls Backdraft Brown!

Backdraft Brown is a hand-crafted, savory, medium-bodied, dark brown ale sure to extinguish your fiery thirst! It is brewed with 2-row malted barley, caramel and black patent specialty malts, and cascade hops, making it a smooth, easy drinking beer with a slight roasty flavor.

The perfect gift for people who love beer!

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