Toolbox Brewing Co. - Vista, CA

I think you will really like the next wave of distributed stuff! Stay tuned!!

 

Briar? cant wait.

 

I was there on vacation two weeks ago and this was my favorite brewery out of the 6 I visited. Came home with the saison chene rustique and some purple drink. But the apricot saison was fantastic. The guy working told me it was bottle conditioning and that it would be out soon. Can't wait for it to be released and have a friend send me a few.

 

Apricot foeder saison goes on sale online Saturday, I figure in house bottles at some point as well.

Saison Chêne Rustique d' Abricot

Foeder Aged Saison w/ Apricots
ABV: 7.8%
BARRELS: Oak Foeder
AGED: 4 Months
MICRO-FLORA: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Brettanomyces bruxellenis, Lacotbacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus brevis and Pediococcus damnosus
ADDITIONS: Fresh California Apricots
TITRATABLE ACIDITY: 14.1 g/L
~ This variant of our Rustic Saison has Apricots added to accentuate the already complex characteristics of hay, citrus and oak with deep stonefruit flavor and aroma.

 

I really like what Toolbox continues to produce, but price point is the only thing turning me off these days. Hard to pull the trigger at $24 a bottle. Pretty high up there in comparison to other options. I know they aren't far from Lost Abbey, but damn...

 

Agreed, wish the pricing was more in line with Monkish.

 

Abricot is a ridiculously jammy beer. Fantastic job with that one Toolbox! Definitely pulling the trigger on some bottles!

 

Cheers man! Hope you can join us Friday night for be pre release party at Toronado. We will have a keg of Abricot on (as well as 3 other previews of upcoming releases) and will be taking pre orders for pickup or shipping. Oh, and Toronado is roasting a whole hog for the event!

 

@ToolBoxBrewer the Abricot saison is a HR. Well done. THX for option to ship north. Keep doing what yer doing.

 

Will do man, thanks! Glad the shipping option is working out for you. Cheers!

 

BA Purple Drink should be going on sale this week.

Barrel Aged American Wild Ale aged in Chardonnay Barrels with Marion berries.

 

BA purple drink was really good at GABF.

 

Would you mind describing the taste?

I found the standard drank to be a simple, one note brew but the barrel treatment and fruit addition has me intrigued. Cheers!

 

Very jammy and sweet berry. Very upfront with fruit much like the saison chene de abricot. The flavors of the barrel are subtle but present, it comes just before the taste of the berries and the tartness which is nice. The barrel smell is also present and subtle but is slightly over shadowed by the berries. If you liked chene abricot this beer is right up your ally. Overall I will buy a couple bottles because I think with a little time the berries will mellow out to my liking and it will be a very good sour.

 

BA Drank all sold out.

 

Missed it, forgot the release was at noon.
Going to head up there to try and get bottles.

 

Hope to see/meet some of you at our next release on Thursday 1-12-17: Truth From Heart. If you liked Mackinaw, then you will love this beer. Truth From Heart is our Milk the Funk Collaboration # 2 saison which was barrel fermented & aged for 6 months in French Oak Pinot Noir barrels with 4 pounds of fresh CA White Nectarines per gallon added. Refermented in the bottle for 4 months. Cheers!

https://www.beeradvocate.com/events/info/82122/

 

Very much loved Mackinaw, so I'm stoked to check this one out.

 

That new bottle release sounds fantastic.

I was up at the brewery over the weekend and both the raspberry and cherry aged sours on tap were lovely. I didn't much care for the plum though.

 

I'm a little surprised these sold out so fast. Stone fruit FTW, I guess.